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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Relationship maintenance"”.
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Relationship Satisfaction and Responsibility Attributions for Relationship Maintenance
This study examined relationship satisfaction and responsibility attributions for relationship maintenance, following up on couples who have been married for 2--3 years, in order to explore how individuals change during the first few years of a marital relationship, with respect to positive and …
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Relationship maintenance differences in close and casual friendships on Facebook
… that a primary use of this technology is the maintenance of relationships with friends and family. The extent to which relationships can be maintained, and the type of relationships that can be maintained, in America, by using social media is an unresolved question. Using the reciprocity …
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The use of TikTok for relationship maintenance: An exploratory study
… more opportunities for users in a committed relationship to express their love to their partner through features such as video sharing, tagging, or creating content together. The purpose of this study is to learn how romantic partners use TikTok to support relationship maintenance; in …
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The role of multi-level relationship maintenance on married couples' commitment
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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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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Means-to-goals affective transference
… a target goal (self-reported importance of close relationship maintenance) when a salient attainment means for this goal (writing a personal email to a loved one) had been associated with positive affect. Because this goal-adoption effect could not be explained by elevated mood, we concluded that …
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When Saints Speak: Stories of Spirituality From Senior Southern Baptists
… the definition of spirituality, themes of relationship maintenance and two-way versus one-way relationship were discussed. Themes that emerged pertaining to the role of spirituality included internal versus external spirituality and altruism. Other themes included conversion and the …
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Too Much Growth: The Role of Self-Expansion Perceptions on Date Planning
… experiencing too much self-expansion in their relationship, they selected dates for the couple that were more exciting and less familiar (Study 1). However, these findings did not extend to people's own relationships (Study 2). The findings in this thesis provide insight on how self-expansion …
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Commitment in long term cohabiting couples
Researchers on close relationships presupposed marriage as a central measure of successful commitment and identified a mix of structural and personal motives underlying commitment. Debate on how to measure and predict commitment has been prompted by its conceptual complexity and the importance of …
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Instagram and relationships: An analysis using focus groups
… relational model, which conceptualized romantic relationships as occurring in stages. In particular, the purpose of this thesis was to gain insight on the ways that young adults (18–25) utilized Instagram’s affordances during the stages of romantic relationships. The focus groups elicited eight …
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Stress spillover in early marriage : the role of self-regulatory depletion
… stress, finances) are often associated with poor relationship functioning and lowered marital satisfaction, a phenomenon called stress spillover. To date, however, little attention has been devoted to understanding the specific mechanisms through which stress may lead to maladaptive relationship …
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Maintaining Adult Student-Parent Distal Relationships: An Explorartion of Mediated Communication Among Thai Students in the U.S.
… a growing amount of research in relational maintenance has began to focus intensively on long-distance relationships (LDRs), especially marital, dating, and friendship relationships, little attention has focus on the process of maintaining LDRs in non-Western families. The objective of this …
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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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Crafting Culture: Scrapbooking and the Lives of Women
… the process of consumption and how women's relationships with business owners, with other women and with the products that they purchase, enhance commercial activity. Specifically I observe the scrapbooking industry (currently the fastest growing hobby and cottage industry in the United …
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The impact of cross-cultural transition on intercultural relationships using a strengths-based approach
… study explored the ways in which intercultural relationships are affected by cross-cultural transition through the lens of the female experience. Specifically, this research examined (1) in what ways women felt that cross-cultural transition impacted their relationship, especially with regards …
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IN THE WEB WE CONNECT: USES OF SOCIAL MEDIA AMONG THE SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA IN THE U.S.
… use social media for building and maintaining relationships. Social media have taken an important step by allowing the users to communicate in their native languages online. Because of this new step, communication through social media has become easier for the diasporic people who lack language …
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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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The Structure of Trouble -Talk in Conversations Among Close Relational Partners
… their attitudes, thinking, feelings, behavior, relationship and attraction towards partner when (a) they expressed a high number of independent thoughts, (b) more than 50% of the conversation was focused on their troubles, and (c) the trouble-recipients frequently provided vocal back-channel …
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