Singles are healthier: better social relationships and more time for yourself

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Dear singles, listen up! You can live just as well – if not better – without a relationship. If you haven’t figured this out yet and are still desperately trying to find the right person for a relationship, you can now get help. According to current reports, it is said that being alone has a positive impact on a person’s environment and health in many ways.

Bella DePaulo, a psychologist at the University of California Santa Barbara, sees herself as an ambassador for the single life. She faithfully travels the United States and presents scientific studies that challenge commonly accepted concepts of relationships and marriage. For him, it’s not about “free love” but rather showing that committed relationships can limit social life. His lectures can also be watched on YouTube.

Singles see family, friends and acquaintances more often

DePaulo bases this finding on several studies. For example; B. research by social scientists Natalia Sarkisian and Naomi Gerstel. As part of the project, they examined how married and single people behave socially, using family and household statistics as well as general statistics on relationships between family members, neighbors, siblings and friends.

They found exciting results: Researchers found that single people in the United States are more likely to maintain close relationships and see relatives, neighbors, and friends more often than married people. These differences are more evident in never-married people than in divorced people. This confirms the assumption that marriage continues to have social impact even after divorce. Researchers always emphasize that there are no significant differences between genders.

More connected to a broader community

Informed by the results, the researchers feel that politics has a duty to address social constraints such as: B. marriage – should be eased and more emphasis should be given to single people instead. This is especially important because single people are more connected to the broader community.

In another study of nearly 280,000 participants, researchers led by William Chopik of Michigan State University found that friendships become more important as people get older because they have a positive impact on mental and physical health. Another study showed that people who have never been married pay more attention to their fitness and are more productive.

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Bella DePaulo thinks it’s necessary to catch up: In evaluating 814 studies on singles, she found that nearly all singles were used only as a comparison group with married people, and the results were used primarily to learn more about married people.

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