Apostolou Menelaos, Tekeş Burcu, Kagialis Antonios, Lajunen Timo Juhani
Department of Social Sciences, University of Nicosia, 46 Makedonitissas Ave, Nicosia 1700, Cyprus.
Department of Psychology, Başkent University, Bağlıca Kampüsü, 06790 Ankara, Turkey.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2024 Oct 16;14(10):954. doi: 10.3390/bs14100954.
Not having an intimate partner constitutes a common state in contemporary post-industrial societies. The current research aimed to address the question of whether single people score higher than mated people in various dimensions of quality of life. For this purpose, we employed quantitative research methods, measuring different aspects of quality of life that we treated as the dependent variables, with relationship status as the independent variable. In a sample of 1929 participants from Greece and Turkey, we found that relationship status was not significantly associated with physical health, relationships with friends and family, self-development, independence, recreation, or participation in social and communal activities. On the other hand, it was significantly associated with material goods, disposable income, social support, sexual satisfaction, and having children, with mated people scoring higher than single people. Despite using different methodologies for data collection, similar results were obtained in the two cultural contexts.
在当代后工业社会中，没有亲密伴侣是一种常见的状态。当前的研究旨在探讨单身人士在生活质量的各个维度上得分是否高于有伴侣的人这一问题。为此，我们采用了定量研究方法，将生活质量的不同方面作为因变量进行测量，而将恋爱状况作为自变量。在一个由1929名来自希腊和土耳其的参与者组成的样本中，我们发现恋爱状况与身体健康、与朋友和家人的关系、自我发展、独立性、娱乐或参与社会和社区活动并无显著关联。另一方面，它与物质财富、可支配收入、社会支持、性满意度以及生育显著相关，有伴侣的人得分高于单身人士。尽管在数据收集方面使用了不同的方法，但在两种文化背景下都得到了相似的结果。
