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Showing 1 to 20 of 152 for “"Close relationships"”.
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Anxiety-related cognitions in close relationships
… might be acquired from significant others in close relationships (i.e., parents, friends and romantic partners). It also considers a range of developmental stages to identify potential sources of influence that may play a role in the acquisition and/or maintenance of information processing …
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Acts of kindness in close relationships reduce depression
… the benefits of performing kind acts within close relationships. Practicing kindness has been shown to strengthen relationships and increase social support. It was expected to be particularly relevant for needy people who are driven by a need for closeness and are vulnerable to depression in …
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Implicit partner evaluations: How they form and affect close relationships
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Effect of Priming Attachment Styles on Gratitude in Close Relationships
<p>Individuals with enhanced gratitude have higher well-being, a greater capacity to trust, and more appreciation of others. Studies have found that people who show secure attachment also tend to be high in trait gratitude, however, a direct causal relationship has yet to be established. It was …
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Seeking interdependence: Commitment desirability and the initiation and maintenance of close relationships
… commitment for individuals currently involved in relationships, showing that commitment desirability was associated with greater expectations of relationship stability and certainty, especially when partners were perceived to be high in commitment. Study 6 was an experiment exploring relationship …
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Women's Experiences Disclosing and Dealing With a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse in Close Relationships
… a history of childhood sexual abuse in their relationships with relatives, romantic partners, and friends. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 42 women, all community volunteers, who had experienced sexual abuse in childhood. The most and least helpful responses encountered by the …
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A Spanish Version of the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale - Short Form (ECR-S) Adult Attachment Questionnaire
… validate a Spanish version of the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale - Short Form (ECR-S; Wei, Russell, Mallinckrodt, & Vogel, 2007). Hypotheses centered upon the assessment of the reliability, validity, and underlying factor structure of the Spanish ECR-S. Participants (N = 85) were …
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Structural and functional differences in support in close relationships between the East Asian and the Western cultural contexts
… in times of need, and what does the support from close others convey? The answers to these questions provided by social psychologists have largely been based on the Western ideals of being a person and relating to others; it has been taken for granted that the romantic partner is the person from …
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Love me true : deception, affection, and evolutionary strategies of human mating
… part of the human experience, particularly in close relationships. Affectionate messages may take on many forms, both those that are genuine and those that are deceptive in nature. A deceptive affectionate message is defined in this study as the intentional communication of a …
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Social support in parent-child relationships during emerging adulthood: examining the effects of mundane support and the support gap phenomenon
… on the conceptualization of social support in close relationships by proposing and explicating a new type of support – mundane support, which is defined as social support delivered through relational partners’ everyday, mundane interactions without targeting at specific stressors. Based on …
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Lived Experiences of First Nations Girls: Exploring the Developmental Processes of Identity Formation Through Narrative Interviews
… In all these processes, the girls commented close relationships that were vital in supporting their emerging understanding of themselves. The results point to a wholistic and integrated model of Anishinaabe girls’ processes of identity development in which their personal and relational selves …
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Validation Study of the Workplace Relationships Inventory: A Workplace Self-Report Measure of Adult Attachment Style
… assessing adult attachment style in regard to close working relationships. The Workplace Relationships Inventory was modeled on the Experiences in Close Relationships scale and designed to be utilized in workplace environments. It was hypothesized that the Workplace Relationships Inventory has …
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Does Attachment Predict Coping Strategies? An In-Depth Look At Millennials During COVID-19
… that examined coping strategies and close relationships. The data was collected online and included: Shortened Ways of Coping-Revised (SWC-R), the Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised (ECR-R), and the Bird's Nest Drawing art directive. The results suggest secure attachments are …
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Perceptions of Leader Development Programming by College Students with Introverted Personalities
… from the study highlighted the importance of close relationships as a source of vicarious learning, verbal encouragement, and as a steadying influence on emotional well-being for introverted students developing as leaders. Students value teaching as an optimal model for leadership. As they …
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Keeping up with the Queers: White gay and bisexual men's experiences of relationship intimacy and conflict in Cape Town, 1966-2008
… experiences of intimacies and conflict in their close relationships during the latter half of apartheid and early democratisation. Interviews and correspondence with eleven men that probed their personal developmental histories, their interactions with social institutions like education and the …
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Working models of attachment and health threats: Distress, appraisal, coping and health-related behaviours in colorectal cancer.
… has evolved from early work on infant-caregiver relationships to exploring the role of attachment processes in close relationships in adults. Most recently, it has been investigated under conditions of threat or stress. Bowlby (1973, 1988) proposed that attachment processes should be most …
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Security priming in everyday life: how do symbols of close others support attachment in adulthood?
… In Study 2 (N = 306), participants in romantic relationships were randomly assigned to add photos of their partners to their lock screens. We found that, although there was evidence of selection effects (i.e., secure people having those images on their screens already), there were no security …
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“Can you just put your phone away?”: The effects of cell phone use on face-to-face conflict in romantic relationships
… conflict management is critical for satisfying close relationships, and communication technology is now a fundamental part of conflict management. One way that communication technology may be central to face-to-face (FtF) conflict interactions is by the presence or use of cell phones during …
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Self-Disclosure and Relational Outcomes: The Context-Dependent Disclosure Intimacy Satisfaction (CDDIS) Model
… the understanding of disclosure’s role in close relationships I conducted five studies guided by a new theoretical model—the Context-Dependent Disclosure, Intimacy, Satisfaction (CDDIS) model. According to the CDDIS model, disclosure, intimacy, and satisfaction are all connected, and the …
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