Trust, Intimacy and Relationship Satisfaction among Young Adults

Every individual wants to love and be loved. This feeling of connection with someone is called a relationship. For any relationship to thrive and sustain, there must be communication, love, trust, intimacy and respect. The present study examines ‘Trust, Intimacy and Relationship Satisfaction among Young Adults’. The study aimed at finding the relationship between trust and relationship satisfaction, intimacy and relationship satisfaction, and trust and intimacy; and whether there are any differences with respect to trust, intimacy and relationship satisfaction respectively between males and females. The data was collected from the age group 18-24 young adults via Google form. The sample size of this study consists of 186 young adults who are currently dating/in a serious relationship/in a live-in relationship/engaged or married. The tools used in this research were Trust in Close Relationships Scale (Rempel, Holmes and Zanna, 1985), Personal Assessment of Intimacy in Relationships (Schaefer and Olson, 1981), and Relationship Assessment Scale (Hendrik, 1988). In data analysis, Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation method and t-test was carried forward in SPSS 26.0. Results suggested that a significant positive correlation exists between trust and relationship satisfaction (r = .644), intimacy and relationship satisfaction (r = .671), and trust and intimacy (r = .661) significant at 0.01 level of significance. The t-test revealed that there are no differences between males and females with regards to trust (t = -.312), intimacy (t = -.783) and relationship satisfaction (t = .329) which shows (p > 0.05).