1. Conceptualization and assessment of disengagement in romantic relationships. -- by BARRY, ROBIN A., LAWRENCE, ERIKA, LANGER, AMIE (found in CNM database)
1.1. Cites "disengagement" from romantic relationships as a reason people break up (such as lack of love, lack of interest in conversations with partner, lack of sexual interest, etc)
1.1.1. Disengagement is mainly* defined as "emotional indifference toward one's partner and one's relationship" (*many researchers cannot agree on the concepts past this point.
2. Psychology Today: Top 10 Reasons for Relationship Breakups (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/emotional-fitness/201808/top-10-reasons-relationship-break-ups)
2.1. 1. Bad Behavior (such as drug or alcohol abuse, gambling, etc) 2. Cheating 3. Misdirected anger 4. Being unsupportive 5. Toxic people (for example, your partner has friends who make up rumors about you or talk smack about you behind your back) 6. Withholding affection and attention (disengagement) 7. Lying 8. Stealing 9. Giving up 10. Not communicating
3. National Library of Medicine: “Stay or Leave”: Predictors of Relationship Dissolution in Emerging Adulthood (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6329602/)
3.1. In the study they did, they found that multiple different stressors on a relationship mostly had effects in the long term as the behavior continued, as opposed to the short-term when the behavior's just started.
3.1.1. "At the relationship level, lower levels of support and higher levels of negative interaction were predictive of relationships dissolving sooner. At the individual level, individuals with lower romantic appeal had relationships that dissolved sooner. Higher levels of externalizing symptoms and higher levels of substance use were predictive of relationships dissolving sooner. Younger individuals’ relationships also dissolved sooner."
4. ‘‘I’ll never be in a relationship like that again’’: Personal growth following romantic relationship breakups -- by TY TASHIRO AND PATRICIA FRAZIER (found in CNM database)
4.1. Talks about breakups as a "personal growth moment" that can either be positive or negative -- answers the question with "attributions" of other individual in relationship cause people to break up.
4.1.1. 5 types of attributions: Person Other Relational Environmental
4.1.1.1. Person refers to the your physical, emotional, mental attributes, or your beliefs
4.1.1.2. Other refers to the other's emotional, mental, physical attributes, or their beliefs
4.1.1.3. Relational refers to the interaction of you and the other (for example, you didn't have similar interests)
4.1.1.4. Environmental refers to the social environment surrounding the relationship (for example, disapproving families, cheating, disapproving friends, etc)
4.1.2. Talks about "relationship dissolution" which is defined as "the process of the breaking up of relationships (friendship, romantic, or marital relationships) by the voluntary activity of at least one partner"