Relationship status and the level of anxiety, emotional lability and mistrust

Abstract

Purpose of the research: The aim of this analysis was to check whether there are differences between the traits of people who are not in a romantic relationship and those who have a partner, in terms of the following traits - anxiety, emotional lability and mistrust.

 Methodology: A study was conducted involving 242 people (192 women and 50 men) with an average age of 21 years. The CAT-PD-SF inventory scales were used: Mistrust, Anxiety and Affective Lability (Simms, Goldberg, Roberts, Watson, Welte & Rotterman, 2011).

 Results: Studies have shown that there is a difference between the sexes in terms of anxiety - women received higher scores than men on this scale. The results obtained indicate that there are no significant differences between people in a romantic relationship and those who do not have a partner in terms of anxiety, emotional lability and mistrust, and therefore those were not factors which differentiated people living alone from those in a relationship.

 Conclusions: The results obtained are not consistent with the theory gathered from the literature. The groups studied do not differ in terms of anxiety, emotional lability, and mistrust. This may be due to changes in a modern society. Although these results do not confirm the hypothesis, they are optimistic, because they undermine the negative stereotype of singles.