"Mamma mia, here I go again": Predicting romantic partner accumulation in emerging adulthood

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Authors

Carson Dover¹ , Jocelyn Wikle¹

1. Brigham Young University

Conference / event

BYU Fulton Conference, April 2023 (Provo, United States)

Poster summary

Relationship dynamics are unique in emerging adulthood because many during this time of life feel the need to test out romantic relationships with many individuals before fully committing. Using predictors from other studies, this analysis used a succinct model and analyzed which predictors may be more important to consider than others. Sexual behaviors, alcohol use, and the number of children one has seem to be the most important factors to consider when it comes to romantic partner accumulation in emerging adulthood.

Keywords

Romantic relationships, Emerging adulthood, OLS regression

Research areas

Humanities and Social Sciences, Statistics

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Creative Commons license

Copyright © 2023 Dover et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.