Plenty of Fish in the Ocean: How do Traits Reflecting Resiliency Moderate Adjustment After Experiencing a Romantic Breakup in Emerging Adulthood?

O’Sullivan, Lucia F.; Hughes, Kathleen; Fuller, Rice

doi:10.1007/s10964-019-00985-5

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“…Additionally, given recent U.S. nationally representative survey findings from the NSHRC demonstrating greater depressive symptoms and loneliness among adults with less in-person affection and sexual expression during the pandemic, it would be beneficial for mental health counselors and college health educators to work together to direct students to counseling resources if needed, or to otherwise offer support. This may be particularly important given the proportion of participants who experienced at a breakup, and breakups can be associated with feelings of sadness, loss, loneliness, and depression—even when not in a global pandemic (e.g., Bronfman et al, 2016 ; O’Sullivan et al, 2019 ).…”

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Sex and Relationships Pre- and Early- COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from a Probability Sample of U.S. Undergraduate Students

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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, most U.S. colleges closed their campuses—including residence halls—causing significant disruption to students’ lives. Two waves of data were collected from undergraduate students enrolled at a large U.S. Midwestern university: Wave 1 was a confidential online survey of 4989 randomly sampled undergraduate students collected in January/February 2020; Wave 2 was collected in April/May 2020 following campus closure. Our research aimed to: (1) assess how the COVID-19 related campus closure affected college students’ romantic/sexual relationships, (2) examine students’ past month sexual behaviors prior to the pandemic in comparison with their sexual behaviors during campus closure, and (3) compare participants’ pre-pandemic event-level sexual behaviors with those occurring during campus closure. Of 2137 participants who completed both waves (49.8% women, mean age = 20.9), 2.6% were living at home in Wave 1 compared to 71.0% at Wave 2. Of those in relationships, 14.5% experienced a breakup and 25.3% stayed in their relationship but returned home to different cities. There were no statistically significant differences in participants’ prior month reports of solo masturbation or sending/receiving nude/sexy images between Waves 1 and 2; however, participation in oral, vaginal, and anal sex significantly decreased across waves. Examining participants’ most recent sexual events, Wave 2 sex more often occurred with a cohabiting or relationship partner and was rated as more wanted, emotionally intimate, and orgasmic. Implications for sexual health professionals are discussed.

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“…It is important to note, of course, that longer enduring relationships are not necessarily a positive index of development for all. Breakups are common experiences among young people, moving them away or helping them to avoid entrenchment in unhealthy relationships (O’Sullivan et al, 2019). However, relationships skills are necessary for positive relationships to persist.…”

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“…In our view, breakups themselves provide opportunities to refine skills relating to difficult communication and emotion regulation, while promoting support-seeking skills that also are essential for navigating adult relationships (Palacio-González et al, 2017). Breakups bring with them important skills in ending partnerships that could be negative or otherwise are unwanted by the adolescent (O’Sullivan et al, 2019).…”

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“…Relationship duration is linked to higher intimate relationship quality and satisfaction (Amato et al, 2007), more frequent general and sexual interactions (Grøntvedt et al, 2020), quality of sex communication (Yoo et al, 2014), sexual autonomy (Uysal et al, 2012), sexual satisfaction (Fallis et al, 2016), less consistent condom use (Agnew et al, 2017), and lower levels of coercive or exchange sex (Manning et al, 2018). Although relationship length is not synonymous with relationship well-being, and breakups often help young people move away from unhealthy and/or unwanted relationships (O’Sullivan et al, 2019), healthy relationships can only endure if the individuals involved have sufficient skills to maintain them given that all relationships, even good ones, require work (Madsen & Collins, 2011). Beyond the factors capturing accrued relationship experience (number of past relationships, more time spent in past relationships), Manlove’s conceptualization of three primary relationship dimensions of young people captured our choice of current relationship attributes and behavior: relationship structure (relationship status, total number of status changes), quality (frequency of couple interactions, relationship quality, sexual satisfaction, communication, and sexual autonomy), and exchanges, including conflict (frequency of sex, consistency of condom use, substance use, sexual coercion or exchange).…”

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What makes them last? Predicting time to relationship dissolution in adolescent women’s intimate relationships with male partners

Hensel

O’Sullivan

2022

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Adolescents acquire important intimacy and communication skills in their relationships that contribute to relationship longevity. Yet we know relatively little about which factors help relationships endure. Objective: This study tracked adolescent women’s ( N = 387; 14–17 years) relationships from onset to dissolution to assess factors that contribute to relationship length. Prior relationship experience, relationship characteristics, and current relationship behaviors were assessed as contributors. Method: A sample of 387 female adolescents (89% African American) were recruited from three primary care adolescent health clinics serving lower- to middle-income families in a large Midwestern city. All were interviewed every 3 months about ongoing relationships. The main outcome measure was time to dissolution. Results: The average relationship lasted 5.87 months ( SD = 11.76). Greater numbers and more time spent in prior relationships were associated with longer duration of the current relationship. Being older, having more status changes during the relationship (promotions and demotions), and reporting greater relationship quality, sexual communication, and sexual autonomy were associated with significantly longer time to breakup. Conclusions: Research to date has not tracked specific relationship timelines. In line with a developmental tasks perspective, this study provides new insights into the value of adolescent women’s past relationship experiences, measures of aging and accrued experience, as well as current relationship characteristics and behaviors to the development of relationship maintenance skills. These findings have educational and clinical implications as they inform programming initiatives designed to help young people establish healthy, consensual intimate relationships.

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“…Overall, 18 (58%) of the included studies presented moderate methodological quality, while 8 (26%) and 5 (16%) showed low and high qualities, respectively. All the studies with moderate methodological quality included the validation instruments and analyzed two or more confounding factors relevant to the analysis of the results (Chang et al, 2018;Cobb et al, 2020;Finch et al, 2020;Guassi & Telzer, 2015;Heinen et al, 2017;Kapıkıran & Acun-Kapıkıran, 2016;Kwok & Gu, 2017;Kwok & Gu, 2019;Liu & Lau, 2013;Liu et al, 2017;Niu et al, 2018;O'Sullivan et al, 2019;Pinquart & Pfeiffer, 2014;Pu et al, 2017;Shi et al, 2016;Tyser et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2018;Wu et al, 2015). However, 10 studies did not include representative samples in relation to the target population (Chang et al, 2018;Cobb et al, 2020;Finch et al, 2020;Heinen et al, 2017;Kapıkıran & Acun-Kapıkıran, 2016;Kwok & Gu, 2017;Kwok & Gu, 2019;Tyser et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2018;Wu et al, 2015).…”

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Association between the dispositional optimism and depression in young people: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Uribe

Oliveira

Gouvêia

et al. 2021

Psicol. Refl. Crít.

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The objective of this study was to perform a meta-analysis of publications that reported the association between dispositional optimism and depression during youth, analyzing if the strength of this relationship varied according to potential factors. Systematic searches were carried out in APA PsycNet, Virtual Health Library, Embase, Web of Science, PubMed Central, and Scopus to collect English, Portuguese, or Spanish studies from 2009 onwards. Two reviewers selected the eligible articles, assessed the quality of each study, and extracted the data. For the synthesis of the results, a meta-analytic approach was used. We identified 4077 publications in the initial searches and 22 in the supplementary searches, from which 31 studies remained for analysis once the eligibility criteria were applied. The results showed a statistically significant negative association between dispositional optimism and depression in the young population, age being a factor that modifies the effect measure between these variables. This meta-analysis provides a consistent and robust synthesis on the interaction effect between dispositional optimism and depression in the young population. Based on these findings, early clinical admissions may effectively improve optimistic tendencies in young people, which could help them prevent depressive symptoms or episodes.

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Plenty of Fish in the Ocean: How do Traits Reflecting Resiliency Moderate Adjustment After Experiencing a Romantic Breakup in Emerging Adulthood?

Cited by 15 publications

References 63 publications

Sex and Relationships Pre- and Early- COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from a Probability Sample of U.S. Undergraduate Students

Sex and Relationships Pre- and Early- COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from a Probability Sample of U.S. Undergraduate Students

What makes them last? Predicting time to relationship dissolution in adolescent women’s intimate relationships with male partners

Association between the dispositional optimism and depression in young people: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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