Gender also predicted the number of relationships adolescents had with unrelated adults in Blyth et al.'s (1982) exploratory study. When asked to list all of those individuals significant in the subject's life, males listed an average of 1.89 other adults; females listed 2.31. In both of these cases, females appear to participate in closer and more social relationships with nonparental adults than do males. This is a pattern that has been discovered and discussed by other researchers as well (Rhodes & Davis, 1996).