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Area of Science:

  • Social psychology
  • Generational value change
  • Sociology of relationships

Background:

  • Ronald Inglehart's theory posits a generational shift from materialism to postmaterialism.
  • This study examines if value changes extend to the perceived necessity of a partner for happiness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether millennials perceive a decreased need for a partner for personal happiness.
  • To test the applicability of Inglehart's value change theory to romantic relationships.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
  • Analyzed 4540 adolescents (aged 17) across 16 birth cohorts.
  • Employed a pre-registered study design.

Main Results:

  • Adolescents' perceived importance of a romantic partner for happiness significantly decreased with each subsequent birth cohort.
  • Parental socialization, parental relationship status, father's birth year, adolescent's education, and sex were significant predictors.
  • Parental socioeconomic status, parental education, and mother's birth year were not significant predictors.

Conclusions:

  • Findings suggest increasing societal individualization leads to viewing personal happiness as independent of significant others.
  • Inglehart's theory of value change demonstrates limited explanatory power for this specific trend in relationship values.