WHEN PARTNERS GET BORED IN THEIR RELATIONSHIPS? A MIXED METHOD AND CROSSCULTURAL APPROACH OF ROMANTIC RELATIONAL BOREDOM

The present study extends the research by proposing a typology of events which elicit romantic relational boredom from the perspective of the receptor, and the source of the emotion. Firstly, we examined the events reported by participants for each condition (receptor and source of boredom). Secondly, we organized the situations in categories. Thirdly, we analyzed and presented the similarities and differences between conditions and across countries and the categories which are specific for each condition and country. One hundred and thirty-five Romanians (n=87) and Spaniards (n=48) responded to a questionnaire in which they described situations which provoke boredom in romantic relationships using a receptor-source model of eliciting emotions. The results suggest more similarities across conditions and samples than differences. In the receptor condition, lack of novelty elicits the most romantic relational boredom across the Romanian and Spanish samples, while in the source condition, insistence and obligations together with lack of novelty categories elicit the highest level of romantic relational boredom within the both samples.