Romantic Relationship Satisfaction Levels of Female University Students in Turkey: Examining through Attachment Dimensions, Perceived Abuse in Relationship and Future Time Orientation of Relationship

Abstract

The study mainly aimed to identify an important task of adolescence, i.e. romantic relationships by investigating possible roles of socio-economic status of families, attachment dimensions, future orientation and perceived abuse in relations on relationship satisfaction of female university students. Moreover, it is aimed to understand the role of being a student of state or private universities, as well as grades, relationship durations, family income, mothers’ and fathers’ education level and marital status of parents’ among perceived abuse in relationship and satisfaction in relationship. To that end, we carried out the research in two different universities whose students have different socio-economic background with the assumption that it has an important role in perceiving abuse as well as in determining the value of romantic relationship.According to findings, students of the private university have more satisfaction in their romantic relationships than students of the state university. Females who are at higher-grades and have relatively longer relationship also have more relationship satisfaction. Besides, according to findings of regression analysis, predictive factors of romantic relationship satisfaction are avoidance attachment, perceived abuse in romantic relationship, anxiety attachment and future time orientation in romantic relationship.