A recent study published in the journal Singles reveals that individuals who remain single throughout their lives tend to report lower levels of life satisfaction compared to those in long-term relationships. The study also highlights differences in personality traits between lifelong singles and partnered individuals.
Single folks might seem like they're free to have more fun, but a new study says they may pay the piper in their later years. Lifelong single folks have lower scores on life satisfaction measures than those in long-term relationships, according to a study published recently in the journal Singles also score differently on measures of personality like extroversion, conscientiousness and adventurousness, results show.
“There are differences between people who stay single their entire lives and people who get partnered, and for me this means that we have to take extra care of these people,” lead investigator Julia Stern, a senior researcher at the University of Bremen in Germany, said in a news release from the American Psychological Society. For the study, researchers surveyed more than 77,000 Europeans older than 50 hailing from 27 different countries. Of these participants, more than 4,900 had never been married, more than 2,900 had never lived with a partner, and nearly 2,400 had never been in a serious long-term relationship. Researchers figured that people who had been in a serious relationship in the past might have different personality traits than those who've never been in a committed partnership. And they were right -- lifelong singles scored lower on extraversion, openness to new experiences, conscientiousness and life satisfaction, results show.Researchers said it's more likely that people with certain personality traits enter into long-term relationships, rather than those relationships changing a person's personality. “It's more likely you have these selection effects: For example, people who are more extroverted are more likely to enter a relationship,” Stern said.Stern gave the example of an extroverted person who stays in to be with a new partner. They likely will grow restless over time and start going out again.They also found that living in a society where marriage is expected results in lower life satisfaction score
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