ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
Resilience to ghosting? A randomized controlled trial examining the consequences of ghosting on sleep quality in potential romantic relationships.
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Introduction: Grounded in belongingness theory, the goal of this study is to understand the consequences of ghosting (an approach to ending relationships that involves ending all forms of communication with someone without explanation) on objective and subjective sleep quality in young adults seeking romantic relationships. Methods: Data for this experimental study comes from emerging adults recruited from a university in the Southern Central United States ( Results: Contrary to our hypothesis, we did not observe any influence of acute experimental ghosting on objective or subjective sleep measures. Discussion: This study is unique in that it aimed to experimentally elicit relationship stress using a novel low-investment ghosting protocol to assess the influence of relationship stress on objective and subjective sleep parameters. In addition, the study demonstrates the feasibility and limitations of a controlled experimental protocol for modeling ghosting in early-stage romantic contexts, providing a foundation for future experimental research on relational disengagement.
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