TY - JOUR
T1 - Reasons of Singles for Being Single
T2 - Evidence from Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan and the UK
AU - Apostolou, Menelaos
AU - Birkás, Béla
AU - da Silva, Caio Santos A.
AU - Esposito, Gianluca
AU - Hsu, Rafael Ming Chi S.
AU - Jonason, Peter Karl
AU - Karamanidis, Konstantinos
AU - O, Jiaqing
AU - Ohtsubo, Yohsuke
AU - Putz, Ádám
AU - Sznycer, Daniel
AU - Thomas, Andrew G.
AU - Valentova, Jaroslava Varella
AU - Varella, Marco Antonio Correa
AU - Kleisner, Karel
AU - Flegr, Jaroslav
AU - Wang, Yan
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Dr. Peter Karl Jonason’s research was supported by a grant from the National Science Centre of Poland (2019/34/B/HS6/00682).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 SAGE Publications.
PY - 2021/10/1
Y1 - 2021/10/1
N2 - The current research aimed to examine the reasons people are single, that is, not in an intimate relationship, across eight different countries—Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan, and the UK. We asked a large cross-cultural sample of single participants (N = 6,822) to rate 92 different possible reasons for being single. These reasons were classified into 12 factors, including one’s perceived inability to find the right partner, the perception that one is not good at flirting, and the desire to focus on one’s career. Significant sex and age effects were found for most factors. The extracted factors were further classified into three separate domains: Perceived poor capacity to attract mates, desiring the freedom of choice, and currently being in between relationships. The domain structure, the relative importance of each factor and domain, as well as sex and age effects were relatively consistent across countries. There were also important differences however, including the differing effect sizes of sex and age effects between countries.
AB - The current research aimed to examine the reasons people are single, that is, not in an intimate relationship, across eight different countries—Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan, and the UK. We asked a large cross-cultural sample of single participants (N = 6,822) to rate 92 different possible reasons for being single. These reasons were classified into 12 factors, including one’s perceived inability to find the right partner, the perception that one is not good at flirting, and the desire to focus on one’s career. Significant sex and age effects were found for most factors. The extracted factors were further classified into three separate domains: Perceived poor capacity to attract mates, desiring the freedom of choice, and currently being in between relationships. The domain structure, the relative importance of each factor and domain, as well as sex and age effects were relatively consistent across countries. There were also important differences however, including the differing effect sizes of sex and age effects between countries.
KW - cross-cultural research
KW - evolutionary mismatch
KW - mating
KW - singlehood
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107961488&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/10693971211021816
DO - 10.1177/10693971211021816
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85107961488
SN - 1069-3971
VL - 55
SP - 319
EP - 350
JO - Cross-Cultural Research
JF - Cross-Cultural Research
IS - 4
ER -