Granice (nie)trwałości związku. Rozstanie jako kategoria analizy w badaniach nad współczesną parą intymną
The Limits of (Im)permanence in a Relationship. Breaking up as a Category of Analysis in Studies on the Contemporary Intimate Couple

Author(s): Emilia Paprzycka
Subject(s): Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: intimate relationships; intimate couples; experiences in a relationship; break-ups; causes for relationship impermanence
Summary/Abstract: The article fits into the sociology of family and easily finds its place among studies on the contemporary intimate couple and on alterations in intimacy. The research presented in the article is conceptualized from the perspective of changes in family and marriage life, taking into consideration three models of intimacy, i.e., traditional, liberal, and mixed. The authors adopted a dynamic approach to a couple (i.e., couple as a process) and the assumption that the main problem of contemporary couples lies in continual decisions whether to be together or to break up. The aim of the research was to recognize conditions for (im)permanence in relationships and to explain the interdependence between experiences in a relationship and the causes considered important for the decision to break up or stay together despite dissatisfaction with a relationship. The study was conducted in 2018 on a representative sample of 951 adult Poles, using the technique of CAPI direct interviews. On the basis the studies, it was established that experiences in a relationship (form and duration of a relationship) diversify the frequency with which some reasons to break up are indicated, within such spheres of relationship as being faithful, relations between partners, attractiveness, partner’s problems. Experiences in a relationship decide about reasons to maintain an unsatisfactory relationship to a lesser degree.

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