A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN MALES AND FEMALES ON THE EFFECT OF DISSOLUTION OF ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS ON THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING DURING LATE ADOLESCENCE

Dissolution of romantic relationships is a predominant and challenging phenomenon that has mostly been studied in
the domain of academic behavior. This research aims at studying the comparison of the success of romantic
relationships, and the impact created by the dissolution of romantic relationships on the social and emotional wellbeing
of males and females during late adolescence. Simple random sampling and convenient sampling techniques
were used to select 100 samples (50 males and 50 females) of late adolescents (17-19 years) from the state of Delhi.
The data collected was analyzed using statistical measures such as mean scores, T-test, and standard deviation. The
major findings of the study were that there is a difference in the success of romantic relationships between males and
females, i.e. females have more successfully completed romantic relationships than males during late adolescence,
social well-being of males and females is somewhere equally affected by the dissolution of romantic relationships
during late adolescence, and emotional well-being is also somewhere equally affected by the dissolution of romantic
relationships during late adolescence with a minor difference in the mean scores. Based on these findings, it can be
concluded that the effect of dissolution of romantic relationships on the social and emotional well-being of males and
females during late adolescence is equivalent but the success of romantic relationships is more among females during
late adolescence.