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What do you get when you fall in love? Some health status effects
Author(s) -
Kemper Theodore D.,
Bologh Roslyn Wallach
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
sociology of health and illness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1467-9566
pISSN - 0141-9889
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9566.ep11343666
Subject(s) - respondent , psychology , romance , social psychology , demography , population , sample (material) , developmental psychology , sociology , psychoanalysis , chemistry , chromatography , political science , law
Students of the effects of life change events on health have asked for studies in which single, desirable , life events that are appropriate to the life stage of the population sampled are examined in relation to health status. We do this with a single event — romantic involvement — that moves through a number of phases. We found in our college student sample that adverse health reactions are more likely to occur among those who have never been in love or who have been in love more than three times; among those involved in a relationship of two to six months duration as opposed to a shorter or longer period; among those who have just broken up a relationship; among those who attribute the break‐up mainly to the other person; and among those who, having broken up, have not found a new romantic interest, or have plunged deeply into a new relationship. Some of the results are moderated by interaction effects with sex of respondent.