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Abstract
Emerging adult students often experience romantic relationship dissolutions, which is a normative yet distressing experience for them. The present study examines perceived academic performance and psychosocial functioning among university students who have had a broken romantic relationship in Indian context. The study employed a mixed-method explanatory sequential design including quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Researchers administered questionnaire to 104 students who are studying in Universities and had breakup incidence. Questionnaire included items on breakup distress scale, perceived academic performance, concentration, and quality of life focusing mental wellbeing and social relationship. Researchers selected survey and interview participants through word-of-mouth approach. Findings revealed that girls had high positive correlation between break distress and academic performance than boys. The narrative thematic analysis of qualitative data revealed three main themes and five sub-themes explaining the nuances of breakup and listed coping mechanisms used by the Indian youths to spring back from breakup distress. Future research may focus on how the early breakup incidents affect their post marriage relationship and life satisfaction.
Keywords: Breakup, romantic-relationship, dissolutions, quality of life, youths
