Breakup Distress and Loss of Intimacy in University Students英文文献资料.docVIP

Psychology, 2010, 1: 173-177 173 doi:10.4236/psych.2010.13023 Published Online August 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/psych) Breakup Distress and Loss of Intimacy in University Students Tiffany Field , Miguel Diego , Martha Pelaez , Osvelia Deeds , Jeannette Delgado 1,2 1 3 3 1 1 3 Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami Medical School, Miami, USA; Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, USA; 2 Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, USA. Email: tfield@ Received May 26 , 2010; revised July 3 , 2010; accepted July 6 , 2010. th rd th ABSTRACT Breakup distress and reasons for breakup including affiliation, intimacy, sexuality and autonomy reasons were studied in 119 university students who had experienced a recent breakup of a romantic relationship. The sample was divided into high and low breakup distress groups based on a median score on the Breakup Distress Scale. The groups were then compared on their responses on the Breakup Reasons Scale. Only the intimacy subscale differentiated the high versus low breakup distress groups. These data highlight the importance of intimacy for romantic relationships and the loss of intimacy as a reason for breakups. Keywords: Intimacy, University Students, Breakup Distress 1. Introduction suggesting that these factors are important contributors to relationship breakup distress, but also suggesting that a large part of the outcome variance was not yet explained. In another study on college students, the closeness and the duration of the broken relationship predicted the in- tensity and the duration of emotional distress following the breakup [4]. At least one other investigator reported that greater levels of love