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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Relational uncertainty"”.
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Relational Uncertainty in Romantic Relationships: The Influence of Attachment and Relational Maintenance Behaviors
… study examined the influence of attachment and relational maintenance behaviors on relational uncertainty. Ninety individuals currently involved in romantic relationships completed measures assessing their attachment (i.e., secure, preoccupied, dismissive, fearful), relational uncertainties …
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Message processing in romantic dyads: how attachment and relational uncertainty impact relational outcomes
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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Communication, Gender Identity, Stigma, and Relational Uncertainty Among Male and Female Victims of Intimate Partner Violence
… communication, gender identity, stigma, and relational uncertainty for victims of IPV. Former victims ( N = 345, n = 106 males, n = 239 females) of IPV in heterosexual, romantic relationships participated in a quantitative, online, retrospective, self-report study. Results indicated that men …
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Assertiveness during condom negotiation among high risk late adolescent/emerging adult couples: The role of relational uncertainty
… with inconsistent condom use. Guided by Uncertainty Management Theory, the current study hypothesized that high-risk youth with high relational uncertainty would demonstrate low levels of assertiveness during a laboratory-based condom negotiation task with their current romantic partner. …
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Transition into Marriage: A Test of the Relational Turbulence Theory
… explores the relationships between cohabitation, relational uncertainty variables, turbulence, construal levels, and dyadic synchrony among participants who have been married for one year or less. Research questions were posed to explore the relationships between cohabitation, relational …
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Examining the role of uncertainty and goals in the threat of relationship talk and associations with avoidance, indirectness, and communication satisfaction
… is associated with both dyadic benefits and relational risks. My dissertation project proposes a model to explain romantic partners’ perceptions of threat, indirect enactment, and avoidance of relationship talk and the association these factors share with communication satisfaction. I …
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Examining individual differences as predictors of reinforcement and punishment behaviors within romantic couples dealing with substance use : an application of inconsistent nurturing as control theory
… the extent to which communication competence, relational uncertainty, perceived network helpfulness, and perceived network hindrance predict the reinforcement and/or punishment of a partner’s smoking or drinking. Results from cross-sectional survey data (N = 270) revealed that a significant, …
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Patients' self-concept, desire for information and uncertainty reduction
… is a post-test only experimental design using an uncertainty reduction video to alleviate patient uncertainty, desire for information and increase self-concept to improve overall patient satisfaction with health care experience. The subjects were 80 cardiac consultation patients in a cardiology …
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Why Can't We Be Friends? Examining the Influence of Social Network Profiles on Initial Interactions
… the primary purpose of this study was to extend Uncertainty Reduction Theory (URT) into the Information age by examining the effect that the type of information available on social network sites may have on initial interactions. Thirty strangers were matched with one another to create fifteen …
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Men's friendships as social justice: negotiating masculinities and certainty
… inclusive behaviors. Inclusive masculinity and relational uncertainty emerged as useful frames for exploring men’s friendships as sites of social justice where uncertainties resulting from hegemonic understandings of masculinity were better challenged.
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Mechanisms of turbulence, sexual intimacy challenges, and sexual communication in depressed couples
… Sandeen, & O’Leary, 1990) with the logic of the relational turbulence model (Solomon & Knobloch, 2004) to hypothesize a model that positioned depressive symptoms as a predictor of mechanisms of turbulence (H1), mechanisms of turbulence as predictors of sexual intimacy challenges (H2), and sexual …
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The transition to extended family: examining the links between turbulence and children-in-laws' goals, topic avoidance, and relational outcomes
… examine the direct links between in-law uncertainty, communication, and relational outcomes or the process through which these questions were linked to communication behaviors and subsequent relational consequences. By integrating two robust theoretical perspective—the relational …