Love on Empty: The Development and Validation of a Comprehensive Scale to Measure Burnout in Modern Relationships
Ashley Elizabeth Thompson, Ryn Theis, Rachel Willhite, Julitta Dębska · 2025
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Ashley Elizabeth Thompson and co-authors built in 2025 a scale for measuring burnout inside romantic relationships. Modern couples face heavy internal and external pressures, yet tools for this kind of exhaustion were scarce and often assumed one relationship form. The team grounded their measure in the job demands-resources model from work psychology. Demands and missing resources, they argue, are what drain a partnership.
A first study shaped fifty-one draft items with 175 partnered adults. Two factors emerged: depletion and exhaustion on one side, overload on the other. A second study with 288 adults confirmed a tight thirty-six-item version. Scores behaved as theory predicts against satisfaction and therapy use, and held steady across genders. The authors offer the scale for research and counseling alike. It names the warning signs before a relationship runs dry.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ashley Elizabeth Thompson, Ryn Theis, Rachel Willhite, Julitta Dębska |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |