Life outcomes and relationship dispositions: The unique role of Emophilia

• Emophilia (EP) is an understudied variable with respect to relationship outcomes.
• EP was appropriately correlated with other individual differences in relationship research.
• Both EP and sociosexuality uniquely predicted number of previous relationships.
• EP was the only predictor of number of previous marriage engagements.
• EP, sociosexuality, and anxious attachment all predict unique variance in relationship outcomes.

Emophilia (EP) predicts forming indiscriminate romantic bonds, and is associated with falling in love faster and with more people. Retrospective data examined life outcomes and relationship orientations in a large adult sample. Among both men and women, results indicated that both sociosexuality and EP were unique predictors of number of previous romantic relationships. However, among both men and women, EP was the only unique predictor of number of times being engaged to be married. Further, among women, EP was a unique predictor of younger age of first marriage engagement. Finally, high levels of both EP and unrestricted sociosexuality were associated with more pregnancies by different men. In sum, sociosexuality, anxious attachment, and EP all uniquely associated different relationship life outcomes, especially among women. Overall, the findings support and extend previous research showing that Emophilia is a critical variable in the realm of relationships.