Single people are not more prone to psychological problems than people in pairs

It is believed that single people who have reached the fortieth, and not tying the knot, many more health problems than their family counterparts.

Scientists in the new study failed to demonstrate that single people under the age of forty years can be as vigorous in psychological terms, as well as their married peers. In the study, U.S. researchers analyzed the results of the survey more than one thousand five hundred U.S. residents aged 40 to 74 years. They answered the question about their marital status. Married was 1486, and single - 105. This survey was conducted in a nationwide monitoring of the average age of residents in the USA.

The researchers were pleasantly surprised that within the framework of the monitoring of people living alone rendered in a separate category. Experts have found that, in general, single people show the worst emotional well-being as compared to marrieds. But with regard to their psychological resources, ie, a set of characteristics that help a person cope with the difficulties of life, then there indicators of people living alone are comparable with rates of family.

The researchers measured three indicators of psychological resources of the person - his own situation (the extent to which, as people think they control their lives - an important factor in preventing depression), self-sufficiency (the feeling of independence - is also associated with mental health), activity (the ability to focus on the most itself).

I found out that in general a single people with these resources have been worse, but the more they recruited scores under "resources", the better was their overall emotional well-being. Even better than that of married people with similar indicators for the resources. Thus, the results of this study debunks the myth that to be alone - not normal.