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Showing 1 to 20 of 405 for “"closeness"”.
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More action, less closeness: Number of actions and feelings of closeness in interpersonal relationships
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Adult Childrens' Communication and Closeness With Parents
… questions pertaining to their communication and closeness with their parents, and one fourth of the Keirsey Temperament Sorter regarding decision making preferences. The study found Feelers communicate significantly more with, and feel significantly closer to, parents than do Thinkers. Feeling …
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Turning points of closeness in the sibling relationship.
… moments in sibling relationships where levels of closeness changed. An increasingly popular research method used by many family scholars to study relationships called "Turning Point Analysis" (Baxter & Bullis, 1986) was used to capture the critical moments that impacted closeness within the …
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Influence of social closeness on children’s trust in testimony
… interpersonal similarity, an indicator of social closeness, influenced children’s epistemic trust in others’ testimony. Three- to 5-year-olds met two puppet informants, one of whom matched their preferences and physical attributes. Children were encouraged to request novel objects’ names from …
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Meanings made, attachment, perceived closeness and complicated grief in military service members
… that insecure attachment and perceived closeness would be positively associated with complicated grief, meanings made would be negatively associated with complicated grief, meanings made would mediate the relationship between insecure attachment and complicated grief, and that meanings …
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Autonomy in Asian-American Adolescents: Its Development, Relation to Parent-Child Closeness, and Associations With Adjustment
Achieving autonomy, or self-governance, has long been considered an important developmental task for adolescents. The developmental task of gaining autonomy often runs in parallel with changes in adolescents' relationships with their parents. For example, for some adolescents, relationships with …
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My Enemy’s Enemy is My Friend: Why Holding the Same Negative Attitudes of Others Promotes Closeness
… partner, their own state self-esteem, and the closeness they felt to their future interaction partner. It was predicted that holding the same negative attitude about a third party, as compared to a positive attitude, would facilitate closeness to a future partner more effectively because it …
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The Influence of Dad: An Investigation of Adolescent Females' Perceived Closeness with Fathers and Risky Behaviors
… separation from their fathers or lack relational closeness with him exhibit higher rates of substance use and accelerated reproductive development. This study examines whether female adolescents’ models of father psychological presence (a component of the attachment working model) also predict …
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The Influence of Dad: An Investigation of Adolescent Females' Perceived Closeness with Fathers and Risky Behaviors
… separation from their fathers or lack relational closeness with him exhibit higher rates of substance use and accelerated reproductive development. This study examines whether female adolescents’ models of father psychological presence (a component of the attachment working model) also predict …
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Assessing Associations Among Interpersonal Closeness, Fear Of Intimacy, Secure Attachment, And A Maternally Warm Rearing Style
Decades of evidence suggest that maternal warmth contributes to prosocial outcomes later in life. This survey study examined specific social outcomes in 241 college students and found that, while their perceived maternal warmth was correlated with a number of social outcomes, the relationships were …
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The impact of nocturnal CPAP-treatment on sexuality and closeness in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
… wondered how the patients managed sexuality and closeness when suffering from OSA and in particular how the Continuous Positive Airways Pressure (CPAP) treatment affected their sexuality and closeness. A review of the literature showed there was little published information concerning the impact …
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Exploring the Relationship of the Closeness of a Genetic Algorithm's Chromosome Encoding to Its Problem Space
… as part of the relationship between the closeness of an encoding to the problem instead of assuming they should always be held constant. Closeness to the problem includes leveraging structures that are intended to model a specific aspect of the environment. I will show that diploid …
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Closeness in the same-sex friendships of men in long-distance and geographically close platonic relationships.
… present study sought to find how men negotiate closeness in their same-sex long-distance friendships. Findings from Fehr (2004) were used to guide the hypotheses. Men were believed to prefer the use of shared activity to build closeness even though they regard self-disclosure as the primary …
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The Influence of Religious Beliefs and Practices on Marital Commitment, Parent-Child Closeness, and Family Involvement
… practices, marital commitment, parent-child closeness, and family involvement. Results suggest that religious beliefs and practices are equivocal and are associated with higher and lower marital commitment, parent-child closeness, and family involvement for both husbands and wives. …
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Student-teacher relationships : linking relational constructs of closeness, conflict and dependency to student achievement : a quantitative study
… female students perceive they share more closeness with their teacher than do male students. Additionally, there was a statistically significant difference in how teachers perceived their relationship with students of different racial groups. Teachers perceived higher conflict with Black …
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Student perceptions of parent-adolescent closeness and communication about sexuality : relations with sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors
… interest in this study was parent-adolescent closeness and communication about sexuality. Past research has found parental communication about sexuality and parent-adolescent closeness individually to have a positive impact on adolescent sexuality. However, other studies have found no relation …
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Promoting Relationship Stability Among African American Couples: Examining the Role of Emotional Closeness, Commitment, and Relationship Structure
… Americans define and experience emotional closeness and commitment as these processes have been shown to be directly linked to relationship stability. 31 married and 30 cohabitating low-income African American couples participated. Couples were between the ages of 21 to 45 years and been in …
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