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Poor Communication Main Cause of Marriage, Cohabitation Breakdown

posted by n1 on Tuesday March 28 2017, @01:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the xkcd-523 dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The most common reasons given for the breakdown of marriages or live-in partnerships in Britain are communication problems and growing apart, according to analysis by UCL researchers of the latest National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3).

[...] Natsal is the largest scientific study of sexual health lifestyles in Britain. It is carried out by UCL, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and NatCen Social Research [sic]

Natsal is run every 10 years, and includes a representative sample of men and women resident in Britain aged between 16 and 74. Natsal-3 was carried out between 2010 and 2012.

The study focused on the responses of 706 men and 1254 women to questions about their reasons for breakdown of a marriage or cohabiting relationship in the past 5 years.

[UCL is, of course, University College London. It has as part of one of its faculties the above-mentioned school.]

I would have guessed footie.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @06:19PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @06:19PM (#485369)

    [UCL is, of course, University College London. It has as part of one of its faculties the above-mentioned school.]

    The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine isn't part of UCL. The name is slightly strange, I know, but it's a separate university that specialises in postgraduate education and research on public health. It won the Times HE UK university of the year award a few months ago for its ebola work http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2016/university_of_year_2016.html [lshtm.ac.uk]

    Disclaimer: I work at LSHTM.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @01:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @01:15AM (#485596)

    Both LSHTM and UCL are constituent colleges of the University of London, correct?

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday March 29 2017, @07:44AM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday March 29 2017, @07:44AM (#485748) Homepage
    So the reference to "UCL" is completely bogus then? I post-edited the story, and recognised that clearly "UCL" isn't "LSHTM", and presumed that there was a is-a-part-of relationship, as there is with many of the London faculties. I know London University has devolved and budded off a few things in recent decades, was LSHTM one of them? Their website makes no mention of their history at all as far as I can see.
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @11:46PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @11:46PM (#486248)

      So the reference to "UCL" is completely bogus then? I post-edited the story, and recognised that clearly "UCL" isn't "LSHTM", and presumed that there was a is-a-part-of relationship, as there is with many of the London faculties. I know London University has devolved and budded off a few things in recent decades, was LSHTM one of them?

      The reference to LSHTM being a faculty in UCL is incorrect. In the context of this article, UCL & LSHTM are simply two distinct universities that have collaborated on the research. They're both 'colleges' within the broader University of London group, as mentioned by the other Anonymous Coward, though.

      I can't claim any understand of the London University development beyond that in the Wikipedia description. However, it's important to distinguish the London University development and the current University of London. The current University of London operates in a similar way to the European Union. Universities pay to join (LSHTM was setup in 1899, but only joined in the 1920s), use the shared infrastructure, steer its development, and leave if they wish. Each UoL member maintains its own identity, infrastructure and competes for students, staff & research funding, but there's a significant amount of shared development. The main benefit in being a UoL member is that it's much cheaper to award student degrees through UoL than becoming a degree-awarding institution in your own right (or so I've heard, I have no idea how much this costs in practice).