Characterization of a breakup in couples of university students: Differences in cognitive assessment of the event

• Barajas Márquez, Miriam Wendolyn ^[1] ; Cruz del Castillo, Cinthia ^[1] ; Fuentes Balderrama, Jaime ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico.
• Localización: Journal of Behavior, Health & Social Issues, ISSN 2007-0780, ISSN-e 2007-0772, Vol. 9, Nº. 2, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Nov-2017 Abr-2018), págs. 28-33
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The aim of this investigation was to analyze differences between young people who had a positive assessment of breakups and those who hada negative assessment, divided in turn by gender, in relation to the following variables: level of importance, level of commitment, duration ofrelationship, ways of loving, reasons for breaking up, coping styles, and level of depression resulting from the breakup. To that end, we conductedStudent t tests with each of the variables involved. 326 university students age 17–26 (122 men and 204 women) who had recently gone through abreakup in their sentimental relationships participated in the study. Differences were found between women who assessed their breakups positivelyand those who assessed them negatively in relation to level of importance, level of commitment, duration of relationship, lack of sex drive, lackof commitment, rational incompatibility, in evasive coping styles, cognitive-reflexive analysis, ludic loving style, and total level of depression. Inthe case of men, differences were also found for level of importance, level of commitment, and coping styles: evasive, cognitive-reflexive analysis,and denial.© 2018 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Asociación Mexicana de Comportamiento y Salud. This is an open access article under theCC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).