This study investigates the
role of romantic desolation on life satisfaction in young adulthood.
Using data
from a Polish sample of 330 (205 females and 125 males) young adults aged
20–30, who completed Polish versions of the Satisfaction With Life Scale,
Dating Anxiety Scale, Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire-Revised, and
Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults-Short Form, romantic
desolation (romantic loneliness and lack of a romantic partner) and dating
anxiety were tested as mediators of the association between interpersonal
competence and life satisfaction.
Results revealed that single individuals
reported lower life satisfaction and higher romantic loneliness than did
partnered individuals. At the same time, no differences emerged between single
and partnered individuals in dating anxiety or interpersonal competence. Structural
equation modeling results showed that low interpersonal competence has an
indirect effect on romantic desolation through higher levels of dating anxiety.
Also, dating anxiety had an indirect effect on lower life satisfaction through
increased romantic desolation.
These results highlight the important role of
dating anxiety and romantic desolation for explaining why low interpersonal
competence is associated with diminished life satisfaction in young adults.
Below: Structural model of interpersonal competence, dating anxiety, romantic desolation, and life satisfication. Note For ease of presentation, error terms have omitted from the model. *p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001
Full article at: http://goo.gl/1VcHhg
By: Katarzyna Adamczyk and Chris Segrin
Institute of
Psychology, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. A. Szamarzewskiego 89/AB, 60-568
Poznan, Poland
Department of
Communication, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
Katarzyna Adamczyk, Phone: 48 61 829 23 11, Email: lp.ude.uma@kyzcmadA.anyzrataK.
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