Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Social and Personal Relationships is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Enhancing constructive communication in the digital age through “textual healing,” a mindfulness app84
Age differences in emotional support buffering on the relationship between physical disability and psychological distress75
Actor and partner effects of positive affect on communal coping65
Perceptions of interest and agency explain disagreements about sexual violations61
Impoverished ascriptions: Investigating stereotypes of single parents from a social role perspective49
Factors influencing peer referencing behavior during an online learning activity48
Associations between distress tolerance and posttraumatic stress symptoms among combat veterans and their parents: The mediating role of parents’ accommodation44
The role of mutually responsive orientation in promoting relationship satisfaction for first-time and experienced parents: An investigation from pregnancy to toddlerhood43
Multiracial identity and social support: Navigating the monoracial paradigm of race36
Attachment anxiety in daily experiences of romantic relationships: An expansion of the mutual cyclical growth model32
Enhanced Mood After a Getting-Acquainted Interaction with a Stranger: Do Shy People Benefit Too?28
The role of exteroceptive and interoceptive awareness in executing socially relevant bodily actions: A naturalistic investigation of greeting behaviour in the UK and Spain25
Spanish adaptation of the perceived responsiveness and insensitivity scale22
Loneliness in the Maltese population: A comparison of data from 2019 and 202222
A dyadic assessment of the association between sexual communication and daily sexual satisfaction22
The COVID-19 pandemic and internet searches for divorce with stay-at-home behavior as a mediator: A multinational longitudinal study21
Spatial proximity as a behavioral marker of relationship dynamics in older adult couples21
Editorial Synthesis for 2 in 2023: A Collaboration Between IARR’s Two Journals: Recognizing the Need for Greater Inclusivity in Relationship Science20
The protective role of siblings in sexual diverse emerging adult well-being20
Trait mindfulness and relationship mindfulness are indirectly related to sexual quality over time in dating relationships among emerging adults20
Raising siblings is stressful: Measuring parental emotion regulation in the sibling context20
Money to Marriage, or Marriage to Money? Examining the Directionality Between Financial Processes and Marital Processes Among Newlywed Couples20
The relationship between LGBT older adults’ social network structure and function19
Risk factors of loneliness across the life span19
Similarity as a safe haven: Similarity leads to satisfaction in prevention focus18
Gratitude and sexual satisfaction: Benefits of gratitude for couples and insecure attachment18
The complicated connection between closeness and the quality of romantic relationships18
Family communication patterns, mediated communication, and well-being: A communication interdependence perspective on parent–adult child relationships18
External stressors and trajectories of marital quality during the early years of Chinese marriage: Buffering effects of resources at multiple ecological levels17
Assessing dynamical associations in dyadic interactions across multiple time scales via a Bayesian hierarchical vector autoregressive model17
Time-trajectories of depression, social anxiety, and social functioning throughout college16
Comprehensive scoping review of research on intercultural love and romantic relationships15
Justify my love: Cognitive dissonance reduction among perpetrators of online and offline infidelity15
The mediating role of empathy in the links between relationships with three socialisation agents and adolescents’ prosocial behaviours15
Estrangement between older parents and adult children: Associations with mental health15
Corrigendum to “Changing the blame game: Associations between relationship mindfulness, loneliness, negative partner attributions, and subsequent conflict”15
Exploring loneliness across widowhood and other marital statuses: A systematic review integrating insights from grief research14
Affectionate touch in satisfying and dissatisfying romantic relationships14
Relational turbulence during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal analysis of the reciprocal effects between relationship characteristics and outcomes of relational turbulence14
Forging one’s identity as a twin: Balancing sibling cohesion and deidentification14
The role of relational mobility in relationship quality and well-being14
Perceiving and responding to another’s interest in initiating friendship: The role of attachment insecurity14
All in the family: A collective case study of family influence on siblings’ experiences and outcomes in organized youth sport14
How perceived parenting qualities link to the reciprocal relationship between adolescents’ self-concept and life satisfaction13
Trajectories of coparenting quality across ethnically diverse and interethnic parents13
Greater average levels of relatedness need fulfilment across daily and monthly life predict lower attachment insecurities across time12
Using Sequence Analysis to Identify Conversational Motifs in Supportive Interactions12
The influence of perspective-taking on stress during discrimination in interracial relationships12
Happily ever after for coupled and single adults: A comparative study using latent profile analysis12
The days add up: Daily marital discord and depressive reactivity linked to past-month depressed mood and marital risk across 10 years12
Now for the Good News: Self-Perceived Positive Effects of the First Pandemic Wave on Romantic Relationships Outweigh the Negative12
Daily social interactions and well-being in older adults: The role of interaction modality12
Acknowledging dementia as an actor in the relationship: A facilitating mechanism promoting dementia family caregiver resilience12
Social support and perceived partner responsiveness have complex associations with salivary cortisol in married couples12
“We’ll deal with it as it comes”: A qualitative analysis of romantic partners’ dyadic coping in cystic fibrosis12
Examining and understanding patterns of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral jealousy: Dispositional Mindfulness as a protective factor in romantic relationships12
Maternal Attitudes Toward Child Interethnic Relations in the Netherlands: Facilitating Intergroup Contact Effects?11
Couple Classes of Depressive Symptom Trajectories and Associations with Relationship Satisfaction11
Parental stress among Norwegian fathers and mothers: Similarities and differences11
Risk factors of paternal postpartum depression among Latino fathers: Treatment implications11
The relationship between insecure attachment and social anxiety in adult people: A three-level Meta-analysis11
Wuhan residents perceptions of prejudice and discrimination and the social categorization processes during and after the COVID-19 lockdown: A qualitative study11
Attachment to parental figures in emerging adults from Brazil, India, and Nigeria: Associations with anxiety and depressive symptoms11
The association between financial strain and volatility in daily relationship uncertainty: A dyadic investigation11
Negative ties, social support buffering, and loneliness: Findings from a cross-national survey11
Mother-father and parent-grandmother coparenting conflict and caregiver involvement in adolescent parent families11
Examining the role of speaker familiarity and statement practice on deception detection11
Marital dissatisfaction, psychological control and parent-child conflict in Chinese families - An actor–partner interdependence model analysis11
A threat-complexity hypothesis of conspiracy thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-national and longitudinal evidence of a three-way interaction effect of financial strain, disempowerment and p11
Preferences for social support and perceived support gaps among attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) adults10
Communication in interfaith and multiethnic-racial families: Navigating identity and difference in family relationships10
Social media use, perceived social support, and well-being: Evidence from two waves of surveys peri- and post-COVID-19 lockdown10
Deletion, departure, death: Experiences of AI companion loss10
Longitudinal trajectories of romantic relational victimization and associations with mastery across adolescence to young adulthood10
Longitudinal pathways from harsh parenting to adolescent depression via internal working models: The moderating role of adolescent trait mindfulness10
Examining the effects of reciprocal emoji use on interpersonal and communication outcomes10
“But you don’t look sick:” Memorable messages of emerging adulthood autoimmune disease10
Connecting Feelings of School Belonging to High School Students’ Friendship Quality Profiles10
Clarifying labels, constructs, and definitions: Sibling aggression and abuse are family violence10
Information communication technologies and intimate partner violence among women in sub-Saharan African countries9
Mindfulness and individual, relational, and parental outcomes during the transition to parenthood9
Adult attachment as a predictor of savoring quality in mothers of toddlers: Results from a 4-week randomized trial9
Tired, angry, and unhappy with us: Poor sleep quality predicts increased anger and worsened perceptions of relationship quality9
Emotion suppression on relationship and life satisfaction: Taking culture and emotional valence into account9
Bias, accuracy and assumed similarity in judging intimate partners’ sexist attitudes9
Women’s experience with religion and spirituality when perceiving their husband’s pornography use as problematic: A qualitative study9
The current state of relationship science: A cross-disciplines review of key themes, theories, researchers and journals9
Developmental trajectories of children’s sibling jealousy after the birth of a sibling: Strict parental control, parenting stress and parental depression as pre-birth predictors9
Talk is (still) cheap: A multi-informant analysis of parent financial socialization during adolescence9
Person-situation interactions as predictors of variations in attachment9
Conjoint trajectories of couples’ marital and parental conflictual behaviors and later-life mental, physical, and relational health9
Couple healing from infidelity: A grounded theory study9
Dissonant relationships to biological parents and stepparents and the well-being of adult children9
Singlehood–mental health associations in sexual and gender minority youth assigned female at birth: A longitudinal study9
Emerging adults’ preferred surnames: Reasons and social cognitive dispositions9
Elder abuse: The roles of communication neglect, caregiver expressed anger, and a positive pre-morbid relational history9
Effects of information and communication technology on the quality of family relationships: A systematic review9
Positive illusions about dyadic perspective-taking as a moderator of the association between attachment insecurity and marital satisfaction8
Modeling social interaction dynamics measured with smartphone sensors: An ambulatory assessment study on social interactions and loneliness8
“I hate all the children, especially mine”: Applying relational dialectics theory to examine the experiences of formerly childfree regretful parents8
Changes in well-being and relationship satisfaction in the years before and after marriage in a sample of New Zealand adults8
On guard: Public versus private affection-sharing experiences in same-sex, gender-diverse, and mixed-sex relationships8
Exploring the factors associated with well-being and ill-being among single adults: A network analysis8
How gender role stereotypes affect attraction in an online dating scenario: A replication and extension8
Timing to a first relationship among youth: Variability by sexual orientation development8
Relational turbulence and social network engagement during the summer of COVID-19: A repeated measures, dyadic analysis8
Subjective orgasm experience in different-sex and same-sex couples: A dyadic approach8
Smiling won’t make you feel better, but it might make people like you more: Interpersonal and intrapersonal consequences of response-focused emotion regulation strategies8
How remembering positive and negative events affects intimacy in romantic relationships8
In-person and cyber dating abuse: A longitudinal investigation8
Deceptive Affection is Strategically Expressed Under Relational Threat—But Not Towards Partners with Low Mate Value8
The multidimensional evaluation of enacted social support: Best practices for use based on issues of factor structure, study design, and scale instructions8
Affection deprivation during the COVID-19 pandemic: A panel study8
Couples’ perceptions of each other’s depressive symptoms: Empathic accuracy and assumed similarity bias8
Brazilian portuguese version of twin relationship questionnaire (TRQ-BR): Evidence of validity8
Positively in-sync: Convergent validity across three distinct assessments of the affective quality of social interaction8
Walking a tightrope: Social support in early adulthood in resource-constrained South Africa8
Beyond reciprocity: Relational sacrifices in romantic partners7
Cheering my friends up: The unique role of Interpersonal emotion regulation strategies in social competence7
“I one-hundred thousand percent blame it on QAnon”: The impact of QAnon belief on interpersonal relationships7
Parenting a child with a disability: Fathers’ perceptions of the couple relationship7
Understanding the link between anxious parental overprotection and academic confidence in emerging adults: Mediation through interpersonal and intrapersonal processes7
Need to belong, daily social engagement, and transient loneliness in late life7
Remembering for Relationships: Brief Cognitive-Reminiscence Therapy Improves Young Adults’ Perceptions About Self and Others in Social Relationships7
A systemic, multiple socialization approach to the study of prosocial development7
An actor-partner model of partner phubbing, mobile phone conflict, and relationship satisfaction between romantic partners in Liberia7
When couples fight about money, what do they fight about?7
Diversity of network communication mode and interpersonal interactions: Relationship with social support and well-being7
“Just be here”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of couples’ experiences of dyadic coping in multiple sclerosis7
Stability of distinct relational profiles of adolescent sibling relationships and friendships: A latent transition analysis7
Need for closure is linked with traumatic bonding among victims of intimate partner violence: A mediation approach7
Positive affect as mediator: The socioemotional selectivity theory applied to the association between bonding social capital and wellbeing in later life7
Traumatic bonding in victims of intimate partner violence is intensified via empathy7
When We’re Asked to Change: The Role of Suppression and Reappraisal in Partner Change Outcomes7
Parent-child relationship quality and older parents’ cognitive trajectories7
Directly-measured smartphone screen time predicts well-being and feelings of social connectedness7
Social media and mental health: The role of interpersonal relationships and social media use motivations, in a nationally representative, longitudinal sample of Spanish emerging adults7
Ethnic identity commitment and socioemotional well-being among Latinx-origin college students: The influence of maternal and peer relationships7
Social Bandwidth: When and Why Are Social Interactions Energy Intensive?7
The role of equity in partner contributions to sexual self-esteem for sexual health in romantic couples7
Romantic partners’ weight criticism and Latina/o/x young adults’ relationship instability7
Tradeoffs, Constraints, and Strategies in Transgender and Nonbinary Young Adults’ Romantic Relationships: The Identity Needs in Relationships Framework7
Adolescent sense of personal agency: Exploring gendered perspectives on parental and peers attachments7
Mexican-origin siblings’ unique and shared perspectives of sibling conflict: Links with adjustment7
Families navigating two languages in a country built for one: Shared language erosion among Hispanic parents and youth6
The role of identity uncertainty in predicting relational turbulence and perceived partner communication for women coping with infertility6
Kinship and friendship: The association between different sources of social contact and self-rated health in Turkey6
Couple, parent, and infant characteristics and perceptions of conflictual coparenting over the transition to parenthood6
Longitudinal associations between mindfulness and change in attachment orientations in couples: The role of relationship preoccupation and empathy6
Romantic conflict narratives and associations with psychological relationship aggression in emerging adult couples6
Dating disagreements in adolescents: The role of daily romantic attachment and stress6
Let’s Talk, Honey: An Analysis of Associations Between Communication Patterns and Dyadic Adjustment in Married Couples6
Walking hand in hand: The role of affection-sharing in understanding the social network effect in same-sex, mixed-sex, and gender-diverse relationships6
Longitudinal associations of social support, everyday social interactions, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic6
The Role of Relationship Conflict for Momentary Loneliness and Affect in the Daily Lives of Older Couples6
Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and sexting motivations among Italian young adults: Investigating the impact of age, gender, and sexual orientation6
Psychosocial adjustment in adolescent victims of peer and dating violence: A gender analysis6
Explicating a comprehensive model of post-dissolution distress6
It’s a match: Exploring joint emotion regulation profiles among mixed-sex couples6
Shared family identity and communicatively managing the adaptation of family gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic6
The effects of gratitude and affection journaling interventions on relationship quality and gratitude for Chinese adolescent – mother dyads6
The Development and Preliminary Validation of a Measure of Victimization within the Friendships of Emerging Adults6
Parental warmth may not always be beneficial: High parental warmth impairs victimized adolescents’ academic achievement via elevated school burnout6
Intergenerational effects of posttraumatic stress symptoms in family: The roles of parenting behavior, feelings of safety, and self-disclosure6
Are you happy for me?: Responses to sharing good news in North America and East Asia6
Thanks to reviewers6
Stress, Dyadic Coping, and Relationship Instability During the COVID-19 Pandemic6
Coping with global uncertainty: Perceptions of COVID-19 psychological distress, relationship quality, and dyadic coping for romantic partners across 27 countries6
Online construction of romantic relationships on social media6
Negative speaks louder than positive: Negative implicit partner evaluations forecast destructive daily interactions and relationship decline6
How do you build the perfect friend? Evidence from two forced-choice decision-making experiments6
Parental and partner attachment working models in romantic relationships of nonbinary adults6
Operationalizing relational construal level to test relational turbulence theory: Linking relational turbulence in romantic relationships to interpersonal processes5
Exploring shared identity theory as an expanded conceptualization of Alzheimer’s caregiving5
Direct and indirect effects of maternal and sibling intimacy on adolescents’ volunteering via social responsibility values: A longitudinal study5
The roles of parental and partner attachment working models in romantic relationships5
Narrative identity and positive youth development in Turkish emerging adults: The moderating role of cultural self-construals5
Latinas’ internalization of U.S. beauty ideals as a moderator of the relations between appearance-related messages from family members and Latinas’ depressive symptoms5
How college students in the United States make sense of examples of gender and intersectional microaggressions in classroom settings5
Memorable messages regarding adoption and religion: Perspectives of adult adoptees5
Support gaps during the COVID-19 pandemic: Sex differences and effects on well-being5
A longitudinal analysis of how romantic and friendship involvement are associated with depressive symptoms5
Community connectedness and depression in transgender populations: The role of self-focused attention5
Communicating allyship according to college students with deferred action for childhood arrivals5
Predictors of collaborative coping in couples managing type 2 diabetes: Illness factors, relationship factors, and interdependent personality traits5
Purpose as a predictor of satisfaction across relationship domains during the first semester of university5
Perceptions of oneself and one’s spouse following a stressor discussion predicting attachment insecurity over one year5
COVID-19 distress and interdependence of daily emotional intimacy, physical intimacy, and loneliness in cohabiting couples5
Romance matters: The role of dating in adolescents’ friendship beginnings and endings5
Affective Reactions to daily interpersonal stressors: Moderation by family involvement and gender5
The story of us: How online daters narrate their courtship5
Enduring COVID-19 lockdowns: Risk versus resilience in parents’ health and family functioning across the pandemic5
Developmental Trajectories of Adult Romantic Attachment: Assessing the Influence of Observed Interactions With Family of Origin5
Tailoring dyadic coping strategies to attachment style: Emotion-focused and problem-focused dyadic coping differentially buffer anxiously and avoidantly attached partners5
Functional inferences of mating orientations through body fat and sex-typical body features5
Social support and positive future expectations, hope, and achievement among Latinx students: Implications by gender and special education5
Why do you have sex and does it make you feel better? Integrating attachment theory, sexual motives, and sexual well-being in long-term couples5
A primer on studying effects of relationship duration in dyadic research: Contrasting cross-sectional and longitudinal approaches5
Sibling Relationships in Adolescence and Young Adulthood in Multiple Contexts: A Critical Review5
“That’s how the trust began”: Forming trusting friendships from adolescence to adulthood5
Linking mean level and variability in affect to changes in perceived regard: A dyadic longitudinal burst study of African American couples5
Attachment in the time of COVID-19: Insecure attachment orientations are associated with defiance of authorities’ guidelines during the pandemic5
Romantic nostalgia as a resource for healthy relationships5
Daily dyadic coping: Associations with postpartum sexual desire and sexual and relationship satisfaction4
Promoting attachment security during the transition to college: A pilot study of emotionally focused mentoring4
Reconsider the triangle: Effects of birth parents’ communicative practices on Chinese hidden children’s identification with family of origin4
Power in friendships: How experienced and desired power are associated with relationship functioning4
Balancing friends and romance: Associations between men’s investment in peer relationships and romantic relationship quality4
Sibling estrangement in adulthood4
Examining short-term and long-term effects of self-esteem on relationship satisfaction using a dyadic response surface analysis4
Interdependency of relationships in stepfamilies – Variation across residence arrangements4
Advancing understanding of overparenting and child adjustment: Mechanisms, methodology, context, and development4
Parental Internet practices in the family system: Restrictive mediation, problematic Internet use, and adolescents’ age-related variations in perceptions of parent-child relationship quality4
Positive peripheral social partners: Relationship and social interaction evaluations across adulthood4
Young adults’ experiences of ageism in the United Kingdom: Forms, sources, and associations with intergenerational attitudes4
Sexual exchanges explain the association between attachment insecurities and sexual satisfaction in long-term couples4
Together–A couples’ program integrating relationship and financial education: A randomized controlled trial4
“Hero,” a virtual program for promoting prosocial behaviors toward strangers and empathy among adolescents: A cluster randomized trial4
Providing emotional support and daily emotional well-being among undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Do different sources of sexuality education contribute differently to sexual health and well-being outcomes? Examining sexuality education in Spain and Portugal4
The longitudinal correlates of breakup distress in early young adulthood: Future distress and future benefits4
Connectedness and independence of young adults and parents in the digital world: Observing smartphone interactions at multiple timescales using Screenomics4
Of race and romance: A qualitative investigation of queer Asian American men’s romantic relationships with queer Asian American men4
Emotional approach coping and daily support behavior in romantic relationships4
Adolescent dating and relationship quality: The role of exposure to intimate partner violence in early childhood4
Relationship closeness as a protective factor against the sensitizing effect of adversity history4
Sibling and best friend conflict resolution strategies among Mexican-origin youth4
Interpersonal dynamics of traumatic brain injury within romantic relationships described in online forums4
What’s in a label? Exploring the intersection of relationships with best friends and romantic partners with well-being4
Latinx adolescents’ perspectives on romantic relationships and sexuality: Exploring the roles of parents and siblings4
Integrating multiple time-scales to advance relationship science4
Separating the effect of attachment figure-domain units in IPPA-R using the correlated trait and correlated method minus one model4
Romantic and parental attachment, psychosocial risk, and personal agency in emerging adulthood4
Is unit cohesion a double-edged sword? A moderated mediation model of combat exposure, work stressors, and marital satisfaction4
The relationship between insecure attachment and Machiavellianism: A meta-analysis4
Dyadic coping and marital quality in same-sex and different-sex marriages4
Is cohabitation a prerequisite for marriage?: Exploring Ghanaian emerging adults’ attitudes and intentions4
Self-expansion motivation and inclusion of others in self: An updated review4
The moderating role of neighborhood social cohesion on the relationship between early mother-child attachment security and adolescent social skills: Brief report4
Friendship dynamics of young men with non-exclusive sexual orientations: Group diversity, physical intimacy and emotionality4
Perceived partner responsiveness across the transition to parenthood: The role of attachment insecurity4
“I’m so worried about my whole family”: Modeling r/QAnonCasualties to better understand the effects of (QAnon) conspiracy beliefs on families4
Technically in love: Individual differences relating to sexual and platonic relationships with robots4
Parent empathy and adolescent disclosure in the context of type 1 diabetes management4
Being kicked out of a WhatsApp group: Frequency and association with adolescents’ psychosocial well-being and School Achievement4
Prosociality as a means to buffer loneliness and strengthen well-being4
Erratum to Relationship maintenance among military couples4
Voices of (m)otherhood: Listening to the experiences of single and childless women4
Intergenerational Model of Financial Satisfaction and Parent-Child Financial Relationship4
Understanding parents’ motivations for giving their children smartphones: A qualitative study4
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