Annabel_1_DQ3
Using college students for romantic relationship research is not necessarily bad because a lot of people marry someone out of college. However, just using college age students will not be very realistic for the research to relate to a majority of people. Most people who are in college are at a young age and still growing mentally as a person. If you take romantic research on a student who is 19 years old, it does not mean those statistics will be the same or accurate when that person turns 25. Its more than college students are not as mature; it’s the fact that they don’t have experience in a relationship when having a job, living on their own, and paying all the bills. When people are taking care of themselves then romantic research can be more meaningful to more people. Also, when people are young relationships are not really for the long haul. More people in college have relationships that don’t last, so I would not assume that most people in college are a good model of a romantic relationship.
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posted by Anonymous @ 7:17 PM
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I agree very much so with the second half of your first sentence. I think that just because a sample population are easy to interview/question, they shouldn't be the main or even the only people you use for research.
Most of the blogs I have seen fail to acknowledge what you state at the very beginning of yours: a lot of people DO in fact find their significant other in college. And a general rule of thumb is that college students are less mature than their elders, but with the rate of adultery in marriages, that's not necessarily true if you are taking a standpoint regarding relationships. Adults are more mature in pragmatism, but on an emotional level, they can fail just as much as college students (who are still closer to innocence than most adults).
There can't be generalization in a question like this. Relationships could and could not last. Just because someone hasn't fully developed doesn't necessarily mean that they don't know what they want. On the other side, a life is a long time. And hormones still rage. Give and take. Overall, I enjoy what you wrote.
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