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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Relationship closeness"”.
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Adolescents' Perceptions of the Relationships with their Parents in the Context of Parental Military Deployment: A Systems Theory Perspective
This study sought to explore how adolescents' relationships with both of their parents changed over the course of parental military deployment. Participants were 9 adolescents, 12-13 years old, that participated in a focus group. Family systems theory was the guiding lens for qualitative data …
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"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference" : further exploration of attitude alignment in the context of close relationship dyads /
… their romantic partners, and the hypotheses that relationship closeness, affect, attachment, social desirability, and centrality are each related to attitude alignment for individuals in close couples. The couples filled out an attitude questionnaire consisting of 50 issues in which they were …
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Interpersonal Emotion Dynamics in Mother-Daughter Dyads during Adolescence
… their associations with psychosocial adjustment—relationship quality and internalizing symptoms. This dissertation was informed by theoretical approaches that assert that humans are a fundamentally social species (Beckes & Coan, 2011), and that momentary features of interpersonal dynamics …
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Supplier relationship management best practices applied to the manufacture of a helicopter airframe in China
… in China is examined as a case study of supplier relationship management. Best practices and key principles from the literature and other industry case studies are identified. Key concepts covered include: importance of product architecture and supplier strategic role on the appropriate type of …
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Examining Engagement in a Self-In-Relationship Observation Exercise by Couples Coping with Breast Cancer: A Mixed-Methods Integrative Study
… and how, may becoming more aware of potentially relationship-enhancing and -eroding behaviours, through a daily self-in-relationship observation exercise, relate to positive relationship adjustment in the context of an online couple-based intervention for young women living with BC and their male …
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Three Essays on Brand Management in the Business-to-Business Context: Brand Identity, Brand Culture, and Brand Essence
… and brand essence influences buyer-seller relationships in three independent essays. In Essay 1, I address the structure, capabilities, and outcomes of brand identity from a supplier perspective. Through qualitative interviews with suppliers, I examine how widespread the concept of brand …
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Anxiety-related cognitions in close relationships
… 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 biases …
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A bioecological approach to empathy, altruism, and intent to help: developmental, dispositional and contextual factors influence prosocial motivations and intentions
… empathy is found to predict helping. For close relationships, however, empathy predicts helping, particularly in high need situations. Antipathy has been presented as a possible confound as well (Batson et al., 1997), but has not been tested. The present study took a bioecological systems …
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Relational structures among worldview, self-view, moral inclusiveness, and moral orientation : a holistic and complementary perspective
… Moral inclusiveness was operationalized as relationship closeness to different social groups at expanding levels of moral inclusiveness: (1) self only, (2) family, (3) peers, (4) society, (5) humanity, (6) nature, and (7) God. Survey data were gathered from 640 Grades 8-12 students and 472 …
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Uncovering Messages of Intimacy in Urban, Educated, and Middle-income Married Indian Couples: A Phenomenological Study Using Pictures as Metaphors
… experiences in six dimensions: emotional closeness and self-disclosure, shared ideas and support, sexual intimacy, relationship skills, commitment and social intimacy. The Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET), an innovative method of data collection was used to collect pictures as …