Breakup Adjustment in Young Adulthood

Date

2015-01-01

Author

Barutçu Yıldırım, Kadriye Funda
Demir, Ayhan Gürbüz

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

368
views

0
downloads

The purpose of this study was to assess the ability of young adults to adjust to the breakup of a romantic relationship by examining the possible predictors. The sample comprised 140 women and 143 men. Simultaneous regression analysis indicated that initiator status, existence of a new partner, certainty of the reasons for the breakup, and perceived social support were significant predictors and accounted for 18% of the variance in the measure of adjustment to breakup.

Subject Keywords

Romantic relationship, Breakup, Adjustment

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40241

Journal

JOURNAL OF COUNSELING AND DEVELOPMENT

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1556-6676.2015.00179.x

Collections

Department of Educational Sciences, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Romantic relationship satisfaction in emerging adulthood Barutçu Yıldırım, Kadriye Funda; Sancak-Aydın, Gökçe (2021-10-01) The aim of the study was to explore the extent to which the length, status and importance of current romantic relationship, the number of previous romantic relationship, as well as individual factors, such as levels of self-compassion, and anxiety about social appearance, are predictors of the romantic relationship satisfaction of young adults. The study included 284 university students but 34 of them were removed for several reasons and analysis was carried out with 250 participants (59.6% female, 40.4% ma...
The Relationship between Cognitive Distortions and Forgiveness in Romantic Relationships Aksu, Meral (2015-01-01) The purpose of the present study was to find out the relationship between cognitive distortions and forgiveness in romantic relationships of college students. The sample of the study was 340 college students who have a romantic relationship at a state university in Turkey. The purposeful sampling method was carried out in this correlational study. In order to collect data, three instruments were utilized: Interpersonal Cognitive Distortions Scale (ICDS), Hea...
Romantic relationship satisfaction in emerging adulthood : tje role of self concept clarity and personal agency Çürükvelioğlu, Eda; Sümer, Zeynep; Department of Educational Sciences (2012) The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of gender, age, duration of relationship, self concept clarity and personal agency in predicting romantic relationship satisfaction of emerging adults. Participants were consisted of 344 (70.3% female, 29.7% male) volunteered undergraduate students from one of the state universities in Central Anatolia. Age of the participants ranged from 18 to 25 with the mean of 20. 85 (SD = 1.65). The data was gathered using four instruments namely, Relationship Assess...
Romantik İlişkilerde Problem Çözme Becerilerinin Empati ve Mental İyi Oluş Açısından İncelenmesi Kaya, Özgür Salih (2018-04-01) The purpose of this study was to investigate the university students’ problem solving skills that they face in their romantic relationships in terms of on empathy and mental well-being levels of these individuals and some demographic variables. Data were collected from 284 female and 226 male, a total of 510 students studying at Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University in 2016-2017 academic year autumn semester. The personal information form designed by the researcher, Problem Solving in Romantic Relationship Scale ...
Understanding Change in Romantic Relationship Expectations of International Female Students from Turkey Delevi, Raquel; Bugay, Aslı (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2010-7-27) In the light of grounded theory, the authors explored change in romantic relationship expectations of international students. Twelve female graduate students from Turkey were interviewed and several themes were identified explaining the presence and absence of change in participants' attitudes toward romantic relationships. The findings are discussed in relation to acculturation and direction for future research is presented.

Citation Formats

K. F. Barutçu Yıldırım and A. G. Demir, “Breakup Adjustment in Young Adulthood,” JOURNAL OF COUNSELING AND DEVELOPMENT, pp. 38–44, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40241.