"Low mating effort, low self-perceived mate value, and poor flirting capacity were all associated with more years being single."
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Immy Harrison
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Immy Harrison
@immyyharrison
Singlehood researcher ⭐️ PhD student: @swanseapsych MSc: Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology @oxford_anthro BA: Anthropology & Archaeology @AnthDurham1
Joined August 2023
- "being single, compared to being in a committed relationship, was associated with lower psychological well-being or higher levels of depressive symptoms only among men" doi.org/10.1080/194198…
- “Divorce was the marital status associated with the greatest increased risk of suicide in this study.” link.springer.com/article/10.100…
- Relationship dissolution has a “greater effect on childless women than mothers” “childless women who were divorced, separated, or widowed experienced worse general health and social functioning than mothers” sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
- "People who are single are targets of singlism: negative stereotypes and discrimination." journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…
- “people living in relationships had a higher level of well-being than singles” “being in an intimate relationship is also associated with higher sense of meaning in life” hpr.termedia.pl/Intimate-relat…
- "low mating performance" findings raise the possibility that "those who indicated that they preferred to be single were actually single because they faced difficulties in attracting a partner" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…
- “The largest proportion of suicide attempters was never married”. “About three-quarters (74.4%) were single” sciencedirect.com/science/articl….
- "single people experienced more troubled childhood relationships with parents compared to coupled people" "relationships with parents might be partially responsible for long-term singlehood." adultattachment.faculty.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/upl…
- “being single was a risk factor for depressive symptoms at almost every age” sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
- “It is not [frequency of] sexual activity, but the subjective feeling of control over this sphere of life which enables satisfaction with singlehood to be predicted.” openpsychologyjournal.com/VOLUME/13/PAGE…
- Anxious singles reported the "greatest desire for a romantic relationship", "greater fears of being single and tended to fixate on their single identity more" Secure and avoidant singles view "singlehood as a personal choice." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…
- “single individuals reported lower level of status satisfaction than partnered individuals” link.springer.com/article/10.100…
- “women and men who had chosen singlehood associated this status with independence, self-fulfilment and autonomy” “older adults who had been constrained in their choice of marital status … expressed regret and dissatisfaction with their single status” cambridge.org/core/journals/…
