Person's Self-concept Breaks After a Romantic Break-up

A romantic break-up does make an individual's self-concept vulnerable to change, according to a study.

Self-concept is defined as a person's sense of "me."

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Romantic partners develop shared friends, activities and even overlapping self-concepts.

The researchers used three studies to examine self-concept changes that can occur after a break-up.

They found that individuals have reduced self-concept clarity after a break-up and this reduced clarity can contribute to emotional distress.

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The loss of the relationship has multiple psychological consequences, including the tendency for individuals to change the content of their selves and the feeling that their selves are subjectively less clear and even smaller.

The finding that there is a prevalence of self-change experienced when a romantic relationship ends provides a testament to the power of loss that impacts one's sense of self.

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"Not only may couples come to complete each others' sentences, they may actually come to complete each others' selves. When the relationship ends, individuals experience not only pain over the loss of the partner, but also changes in their selves. This research is the first to demonstrate the unique contribution of reduced self-concept clarity to the emotional distress that individuals experience post-breakup," wrote authors Erica B. Slotter, Wendi L. Gardner, and Eli J. Finkel.

The study has been published in the latest issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. (ANI)

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