Benefits of Relationships
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- Benefits of relationships on psychological wellbeing
- There is a link between Happiness and marriage
- Bradburn found that 35% of married people were happier compared to those who had never married (18%) and those separated, divorced and widowed were less happy (7%)
- Wilson
and Oswald suggested a number of reasons why marriage may be linked to
happiness
- Financial gain
- Emotional support
- Are people happy because they're married or do they marry because they're happy?
- The majority of research has been carried out in western societies
- May not apply to non-western
- Tend to have more social support
- Permanent relationships
- May not apply to non-western
- Kamark et al (1990) assessed physiological response to stressful tasks
- Those completing the task with a fried showed lower physical responses
- A relationship must be good in order to have a buffering effect
- Those completing the task with a fried showed lower physical responses
- People who are divorced are more likely to suffer from mental illness or commit suicide (Argyle, 1985)
- Backed up by statistics by Cochrane (1988) who looked at mental health admission and marital status
- Single - 0.77%
- Married - 0.26%
- Widowed - 0.98%
- Direction of effect is again difficult to establish
- Backed up by statistics by Cochrane (1988) who looked at mental health admission and marital status
- Breakdown has a negative effect on relationships
- Veroff et al (1981) found married men (35%) and women (41%) whereas divorced women (15.5%) were most unhappy and single and divorced men (18.5%)
- Harding (1985) found women with children reported negative feelings such as boredom and loneliness
- Newcomb
(1987) conducted a review and found that there was almost nothing published on
relationships and cohabitation
- It is argued it is more important to make a distinction between these two relationship types
- Any differences are currently unknown
- It is argued it is more important to make a distinction between these two relationship types
- There is a link between Happiness and marriage
- Wilson
and Oswald suggested a number of reasons why marriage may be linked to
happiness
- Financial gain
- Emotional support
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