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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Emotional intimacy"”.
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Emotional Intimacy in Transition: Interpersonal Processes in Transgender-Cisgender Romantic Relationships
… how transgender-cisgender couples experience emotional intimacy, it is theorized that this process may be critical for relationship health during gender transition. This study explored how transgender-cisgender couples experience emotional intimacy during their transition process. Symbolic …
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Spirituality in American Muslim Marriages: An Investigation of Marital Sanctification, Spiritual Intimacy and Emotional Intimacy
The current study investigated how spiritual intimacy and emotional intimacy potentially mediated the impact of marital sanctification on positive and negative marital quality. Moreover, the present study examined if gender differences were present in participants endorsement of positive marital …
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The male therapists’ experience of emotional intimacy in the male-male therapeutic dyad – an autoethnographic study
What are the male therapist’s experiences of emotional intimacy in the male-male dyad? And why does it matter? This study explores the male therapists’ experience of emotional intimacy in the male-male dyad. It identifies a number of themes at play that impact male therapists, but also at play in …
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Intimacy, marital satisfaction, and sexuality in mature couples
… study investigated the relationship between intimacy and marital satisfaction, as well as between intimacy and sexuality. Participants were 30 couples, with a mean age of 49. Participants had been involved in a romantic relationship for an average of 20 years. Couples were asked to complete a …
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Latent profiles of psychological well being among cancer survivors: Associations with individual and sexual health characteristics
… sexual pleasure, sexual discomfort, level of intimacy) among a sample of cancer survivors grouped by individual patterns of psychological well-being (i.e., Autonomy, Environmental Mastery, Personal Growth, Positive Relations with Others, Purpose in Life, Self-Acceptance) and examined …
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The Sexual Agency of Adolescent Girls: A Case Study of Trinidad and Tobago
… adolescent girls as they navigate physical and emotional intimacy, their capacity to conceptualize and/or enact sexual desire to develop their own sense of agency. Using Trinidad and Tobago (TandT) as a case study, it examines whether attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors pertaining to sexual agency …
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A Person-Centered Approach to Understanding Women's Decision to Fake Orgasm
… of sexual experience, emotion regulation, intimacy, relationship status, and sexual functioning. To date, research into this phenomenon has relied solely on variable-centered analyses (e.g., exploratory factor analysis, correlation, and regression). This study used a person-centered …
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Psychotherapeutic interventions for clients seeking long-term romantic relationships, yet displaying intimacy avoidance patterns: a thematic analysis of clinicians' experiences
… formation. This is often due to a fear of emotional intimacy expressed as avoidance of emotional and physical closeness, explained in part by attachment theory. The present study is a qualitative investigation into what therapeutic interventions psychological practitioners employ when they …
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The Sexual Communication of Socially Anxious Individuals in Intimate Relationships: Exploring the Connection Between Social Anxiety and Relationship Satisfaction
… (e.g., Sparrevohn & Rapee, 2009), and less emotional expression (e.g., Spokas et al., 2009) than non-anxious individuals. In comparison to non-anxious individuals, socially anxious individuals also report lower satisfaction with various aspects of their intimate relationships including lower …
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Social Anxiety and Communication in Intimate Relationships: Identifying Core Challenges while Navigating Conflict and Seeking Support
… may be characterized by lower levels of emotional intimacy and difficulties managing and resolving conflict. The current study aimed to detect specific problems socially anxious individuals have communicating with their partners during conflict and support-seeking conversations. Male (n = …
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Insecure Adult Attachment Predicts Engagement with Narrative Fiction
… in autonomy. Finally, in Study 6, we manipulated emotional intimacy and found that attachment and parasocial relationships were positively related after participants were given an opportunity to experience emotional closeness with another person, whereas the two were unrelated when this …
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Faith, Fatherhood, and the Ethics of Care: Exploring Father–Daughter Relationships in South Africa
… Africa experience and express care, faith, and emotional intimacy in everyday life. Drawing on qualitative research, it explores the moral and affective dimensions of fatherhood within Christian households, focusing on how love, guidance, discipline, and tenderness coexist in relationships …
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Queering the body: cross-dressing performance and identity politics in Cantonese opera of post-1950s Hong Kong
… demonstrates that it is commodified homoerotic emotional intimacy that ties female wenwusheng and their fans together. This homoerotic emotional intimacy is also manifest in media (re)presentations of an iconic female wenwusheng, Yam Kim-fai (1913–1989). By examining her appearance on different …
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Alcohol Dependence and Avoidant Attachment – Implications for Therapy
… and rejection, namely mistrust/abuse, emotional deprivation, abandonment, social isolation/alienation and defectiveness/shame. IPA revealed common themes of negative parent-child interaction: physical and psychological abuse, neglect and explicit maternal rejection and emotional …
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Influences Of Early Child Characteristics And Health On Later Parent And Parent-Child Relationship Factors
… mothers, and increased romantic relationship emotional intimacy at 15 months. Maternal sensitivity was not related to role satisfaction for working mothers at 15 months. Decreased maternal sensitivity at 15 months predicted a more rapid increase (steeper slope) in maternal employment from 15 …
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Writing intermale sexuality history plays
… playwriting. The thematic focus is on sexual and emotional intimacy between men, a topic which has, in terms of archival records, often been ignored, deliberately left coded, or even destroyed. Subsequent historicisations of the materials have frequently compounded this, mis/interpreting the few …
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The Correlation Between Childhood Sexual Abuse, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Revictimization on North America Emerging Adult Females' romantic Relationship Satisfaction with Spiritual Well-Being and Post-Traumatic Growth as Mediators
… relationships can involve sexual as well as emotional intimacy (Fisher, 2006). When there has been sexual abuse in childhood, the perception of self and others is maladaptive and damaging, increasing one's chance of experiencing sexual revictimization and intimate partner violence (Williams …