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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Committed Relationships"”.
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Do you have to say it? : reflection versus expression in committed relationships
… despite evidence that gratitude may benefit relationships, a limited number of studies have examined how gratitude could be used as a couple intervention. The current experimental couples study compared outcomes of a reflective, intrapersonal journaling gratitude intervention, an expressed, …
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“A fun experience...but bad for the soul...”: Perceptions and impacts of hookup culture among young adults in Iceland
Abstract Relationships and dating are often common factors in young adults’ lives, but some claim that, in recent years, the dating culture of young adults has taken a drastic turn and is now more focused on quick, casual relationships and hookups rather than long-term, committed relationships. …
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No strings attached: adult attachment styles in friends with benefits relationship
… do not define their relationship as romantic or committed (Bisson & Levine, 2009; Epstein, Calzo, Smiler, & Ward, 2009; Lehmiller, VanderDrift, & Kelly, 2011 ; Puentes, Knox, & Zusman, 2008). When examining intimate and interpersonal relationships, attachment theory is considered a key component …
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Parental Communications and Young Women's Struggle for Sexual Agency
… are not to have sex, or only in the context of committed relationships. Implications for parenting practices and the importance of developing sexual agency are discussed.
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Impact of Relationship Context on Evaluations of the Sexual Behavior of Men and Women
… university. Both men and women having sex within committed relationships were vieas more likeable, but men having sex in committed and women having sex in uncommitted relationships were vieas higher on diplomacy, potentially being vieas having greater integrity for not following gender norms. …
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Who Stays and Why? Principal Retention in a Large Urban School District: Analysis and Implications
… in the organization. The results indicated committed relationships with other people, seeing their work as a calling, and job satisfaction were the primary reasons for remaining on the job. Michaels, Handfield-Jones, and Axelrod (2001) reported the war for talent will intensify in all …
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Dyslexic Hearts: Links between Couples' Interpersonal Sensitivity, Emotional Arousal, Situational Intentions and Emotional Expression
… procedure, participants (N = 156 couples in committed relationships) reported on their own emotions, intentions and their perceptions of partners’ emotions during moments of high affect in laboratory-based discussions of upsetting events. The ability to accurately rate a partner’s emotions, …
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Internet boundaries for social networking: impact of trust and satisfaction
… Findings suggest that couples in long-term committed relationships have boundaries or rules for social networking. Furthermore, trusting one’s partner, but not relationship satisfaction, contributes to behaviors that reflect sharing online social networking information, and curb online …
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Organizational commitment among NCAA Division III athletic directors.
… NCAA Division III athletic directors who are in committed relationships feel the necessity to remain at their institution.'
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Problematic Alcohol Use and Marital Adjustment: An Interdependence Theory Perspective
… alcohol use disorders during marriage and other committed relationships. When one person is affected by problem drinking, it both affects and is affected by their close relationships, particularly the one with their partner or spouse. The causal connections between problematic drinking and …
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Men's experience of infidelity in hetrosexual commited relationships : an interpretative phonomenological analysis
… who were the injured partner in the context of committed relationships. The researcher was particularly interested in the ways these men experienced their partner’s infidelity and the ways they coped with the disclosure of infidelity. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis method was …
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Who's Doing the Dirty Work? Development and Preliminary Validation of a Measure of Housework
… one consisted of 199 individual participants in committed relationships who were working at least 20 hours per week and shared a single home address with their partner. Participants answered questions related to housework through an online survey. An exploratory factors analysis (EFA) revealed …
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Marriage in the 21st Century: From a State of Confusion to a State of Being
… of some individuals who viewed their long-term committed relationships as a marriage. This was done in order to begin to reveal the underlying meaning of marriage for some people in 21st century America. This hermeneutic phenomenological study used Bowlby’s (1969, 1982) Attachment Theory and …
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Living with a transvestite : A phenomenological study of wives and committed partners of transvestites
… behaviours such as dress, mannerisms and relationships. Transvestism, or the practice of wearing the clothes of the other gender, challenges societal values and guidelines for behaviour. The attitude of society to this practice has varied from veneration to vilification depending on the …
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Rivals and Relationships: A Comparison of Queer and Straight Women's Mating Competition
Rivals and Relationships: A Comparison of Queer and Straight Women's Mating Competition Karla Kenny, Western University, London, ON Maryanne L. Fisher, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS Considerable research on dating competition has focused on heterosexual (“straight”) women and the strategies …