While high-quality relationships are associated with better physical and mental health for young people, faster they get out of low-quality relationships, the better their health, says a new study.

"Low-quality relationships are detrimental to health. The findings suggest that it's better for health to be single than to be in a low-quality relationship," said one of the researchers Ashley Barr, Assistant Professor at University at Buffalo in New York.

"It's not being in a relationship that matters; it's being in a long-term, high-quality relationship that's beneficial," she said.

The findings were published in the Journal of Family Psychology.Younger people today are waiting longer to get married than those in previous generations, and they're waiting longer to finish school. During this period, they are moving in and out of relationships”.