Fear of being single and its Relation to Rejection Sensitivity

Abstract

Most young people expect to get married, and the majority of young people do. Essentially, it's a world of couples, and living single can be difficult. People's experiences with singlehood can create a sense of missing out on an important life transition, causing many to struggle personally. To deal with this problem procedurally and To accomplish the research objectives of identifying the level of fear of being single, identifying the level of Rejection Sensitivity, finding statistical differences according to the gender variable (male-female) for both scales, and then finding the correlation, the researcher adopted the Fear of Being Single Scale by Stephanie Spielmann (2013), which consisted of (17) items. He also adopted the Rejection Sensitivity (RS) Scale by Downey & Feldman (1996), which included (18) items. The psychometric conditions of the above scales were verified, including face validity, construct validity, and reliability using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, and item analysis using the discriminating power of each item and the correlation coefficient of each item with its scale. After applying the scales to a sample of (200) male and female students randomly selected from the student community of Al-Mustansiriya University, the results were reached: There was a high level of fear of remaining single in the future, and it appeared that the sample members suffer from a low level of Rejection Sensitivity. The results also showed differences between males and females for both scales in favor of females, in addition to the presence of a strong correlation between (fear of being single) and Rejection Sensitivity.