Reasons of Singles for Being Single: Evidence from Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India, Japan and the UK

IF 2.3 3区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Cross-Cultural Research Pub Date : 2021-06-15 DOI:10.1177/10693971211021816

Menelaos Apostolou, Béla Birkás, C. S. D. da Silva, G. Esposito, R. Hsu, P. Jonason, Konstantinos O Karamanidis, J. O, Y. Ohtsubo, Á. Putz, Daniel Sznycer, Andrew G. Thomas, J. Valentova, M. A. Varella, Karel Kleisner, J. Flegr, Yan Wang

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Abstract

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.

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单身者单身的原因：来自巴西、中国、捷克、希腊、匈牙利、印度、日本和英国的证据

目前的研究旨在调查人们单身的原因，即没有亲密关系，研究对象包括巴西、中国、捷克共和国、希腊、匈牙利、印度、日本和英国等八个不同国家。我们询问了一个大型的跨文化单身参与者样本(N = 6822)，让他们为92种可能的单身原因打分。这些原因被分为12个因素，包括找不到合适的伴侣，不擅长调情，以及希望专注于自己的事业。大多数因素都有显著的性别和年龄影响。提取出来的因素被进一步分为三个不同的领域:被认为吸引配偶的能力较差，渴望自由选择，以及目前处于恋爱之间。领域结构、每个因素和领域的相对重要性以及性别和年龄的影响在各国之间相对一致。然而，也有重要的差异，包括不同国家之间性别和年龄影响的影响大小不同。

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期刊介绍： Cross-Cultural Research, formerly Behavior Science Research, is sponsored by the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) and is the official journal of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research. The mission of the journal is to publish peer-reviewed articles describing cross-cultural or comparative studies in all the social/behavioral sciences and other sciences dealing with humans, including anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science, economics, human ecology, and evolutionary biology. Worldwide cross-cultural studies are particularly welcomed, but all kinds of systematic comparisons are acceptable so long as they deal explicity with cross-cultural issues pertaining to the constraints and variables of human behavior.