The Dissolution Of Sexual Relationships

Purpose of the study The purpose of the study was finding differences between advancement or dissolution of the sexual relationship. This is newly formed and what kind of transition of sexual relationship before age of 25.
Subjects
The experiment of the study was examining the associations between age, race and society, and social class and the progress of sexual relationships from beginning to sharing or breakup. So they used data written from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to analyze how sexual relationships progress between men and women aged 18-39, who began the sexual relationship with an opposite sex partner in the 12 months before the survey. Also, this can evaluate the backgrounds of young adults who were related to varies by race and social class to produce different purposes.
Procedure
So the recent wave of data come from the 2006-2010 NSFG, contains information about 22,682 men and women.
This date was interviewing from men and women who were relating to the sexual relationship with opposite sex partner within 12 months’ period. And the experiment focused on a section of women and man: age 18-39 who had a least one sexual partner in the 12 months before the interview. To reduce amount of people, they formed several categories to manage: (a) dating but not living with their most recent sexual partner at the time of the interview, (b) living with or married to their most recent sexual partner at the time of the interview, (c) no longer dating or living with their most recent sex partner. And the final contain 2,774 men and women (1,311 men, 1,463 women) and 77 men and 67 women were having multiple current
partners.
Treatment of data They displayed age as a categorical variable divided into four group: 18-20 years old, 21-24 years old, 25-29 years old (reference), and 30-39 years old. Also divided into those who are non-Hispanic White, Black, Hispanic, or other. These group related in evaluating how relationship progression varies by age, race/ethnicity, and social class background. And the table said Male relation for more than half of those in a recently formed sexual relationship, Blacks, and Hispanics are also overrepresented among this list. A lot of their respondents were in the early years of transitioning to adulthood, as the mean age was slightly younger than 25.
Results
About 11% of those who recently formed sexual relationships had begun cohabiting with their partner in three months. However, 17% of respondents had ended that relationship. Among those involved for 12 months, half of all newly formed sexual relationships ended, and 27% of respondents moved into a cohabiting union with that partner. Only 23% of those who had begun their sexual relationship within the prior year remained in a sexually involved nonresidential relationship. Of note is that breakups are particularly common within the first 6 months of sexual relationships.
Discussion of results Most of these sexual relations were found complete in a short time. Others are living together in a few months. Modern young adults are experiencing a range of sexual relationships apart from a young age. The deterioration in the very early stages of the sexual relationship in a way that could affect the health and welfare of the American adult were negatively related to social inequality.