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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Relationship Maintenance Behaviors"”.
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Examining Romantic Relationship Maintenance Behaviors: A Prime Time Television Content Analysis and Audience Perceptions of Mediated Portrayals
Maintenance behaviors play an important role in sustaining relational states, especially within committed romantic relationships. Limited research, however, has considered media portrayals and audience interpretation of these behaviors. From the framework of social cognitive theory, the content …
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A study of cultural variability and relational maintenance behaviors for international and domestic proximal and long distance interpersonal relationships.
… 228 college students' reported use of relational maintenance behaviors and strategies and their reported perception of the degree of relational satisfaction and solidarity with the relational partners they chose to identify. The study gathered extensive data with the intention of primarily …
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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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THE CONTRIBUTION OF PARTNER INVESTMENTS TO ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP COMMITMENT
… used theories in the literature on interpersonal relationships, posits that both partners in a romantic relationships play integral roles in maintaining their relationship. Based in interdependence theory, research on the investment model of commitment (Rusbult, 1980) has revealed that …
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Seeking interdependence: Commitment desirability and the initiation and maintenance of close relationships
… extent to which they believe that a committed relationship is desirable for them. The current research offers and examines the concept of commitment desirability, defined as the subjective desire to be involved in a committed romantic relationship. In six studies, the present research developed …
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Communication Among Emerging Adult Siblings
<p>The study sought to explore the emerging adult sibling dyad through qualitative<br />inquiry. By doing so, the collected data bring new meaning to why and how emerging adult siblings communicate. Also, by including both siblings, this study sought to highlight a different perspective of sibling …