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Abstract：
Adult individuals frequently face difficulties in attracting and keeping mates, which is an important driver of singlehood. In the current research, we investigated the mating performance (i.e., how well people do in attracting and retaining intimate partners) and singlehood status in 14 different countries, namely Austria, Brazil, China, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Peru, Poland, Russia, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and Ukraine (N = 7,181). We found that poor mating performance was in high occurrence, with about one in four participants scoring low in this dimension, and more than 57% facing difficulties in starting and/or keeping a relationship. Men and women did not differ in their mating performance scores, but there was a small yet significant effect of age, with older participants indicating higher mating performance. Moreover, nearly 13% of the participants indicated that they were involuntarily single, which accounted for about one-third of the singles in the sample. In addition, more than 15% of the participants indicated that they were voluntarily single, and 10% were between-relationships single. We also found that poor mating performance was associated with an increased likelihood of voluntary, involuntary, and between-relationships singlehood. All types of singlehood were in higher occurrence in younger participants. Although there was some cross-cultural variation, the results were generally consistent across samples.
摘要：
成年个体在吸引和保持伴侣方面经常遇到困难，这是单身的重要驱动力。在目前的研究中,我们调查了交配性能(即，在14个不同的国家，人们在吸引和留住亲密伴侣)和单身身份方面做得有多好，即奥地利，巴西,中国,希腊,匈牙利,意大利,Japan,秘鲁,波兰,俄罗斯,西班牙,土耳其,英国,和乌克兰（N=7,181）。我们发现不良的交配性能很高，大约四分之一的参与者在这个维度上得分较低，超过57%的人在开始和/或保持一段关系时面临困难。男性和女性的交配表现得分没有差异，但是年龄的影响很小但很大，年龄较大的参与者表现出更高的交配性能。此外，近13%的参与者表示他们不由自主地单身，约占样本中单身人士的三分之一。此外,超过15%的参与者表示他们自愿单身，10%是单身关系。我们还发现，不良的交配表现与自愿的可能性增加有关，非自愿,和单身之间的关系。所有类型的单身在年轻参与者中的发生率都较高。虽然有一些跨文化的差异，样本间的结果基本一致.
