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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Perceptions of interest and agency explain disagreements about sexual violations105
Impoverished ascriptions: Investigating stereotypes of single parents from a social role perspective88
The role of mutually responsive orientation in promoting relationship satisfaction for first-time and experienced parents: An investigation from pregnancy to toddlerhood59
Factors influencing peer referencing behavior during an online learning activity51
Enhancing constructive communication in the digital age through “textual healing,” a mindfulness app41
Multiracial identity and social support: Navigating the monoracial paradigm of race35
Enhanced Mood After a Getting-Acquainted Interaction with a Stranger: Do Shy People Benefit Too?30
The COVID-19 pandemic and internet searches for divorce with stay-at-home behavior as a mediator: A multinational longitudinal study28
The role of exteroceptive and interoceptive awareness in executing socially relevant bodily actions: A naturalistic investigation of greeting behaviour in the UK and Spain25
The relationship between LGBT older adults’ social network structure and function25
Raising siblings is stressful: Measuring parental emotion regulation in the sibling context24
Loneliness in the Maltese population: A comparison of data from 2019 and 202223
The protective role of siblings in sexual diverse emerging adult well-being23
Money to Marriage, or Marriage to Money? Examining the Directionality Between Financial Processes and Marital Processes Among Newlywed Couples22
Spanish adaptation of the perceived responsiveness and insensitivity scale22
Attachment anxiety in daily experiences of romantic relationships: An expansion of the mutual cyclical growth model22
Editorial Synthesis for 2 in 2023: A Collaboration Between IARR’s Two Journals: Recognizing the Need for Greater Inclusivity in Relationship Science21
Trait mindfulness and relationship mindfulness are indirectly related to sexual quality over time in dating relationships among emerging adults20
Actor and partner effects of positive affect on communal coping19
Age differences in emotional support buffering on the relationship between physical disability and psychological distress19
Gratitude and sexual satisfaction: Benefits of gratitude for couples and insecure attachment19
Associations between distress tolerance and posttraumatic stress symptoms among combat veterans and their parents: The mediating role of parents’ accommodation19
How the timing of texting triggers romantic interest after the first date: A curvilinear U-shaped effect and its underlying mechanisms19
A dyadic assessment of the association between sexual communication and daily sexual satisfaction19
Corrigendum to “Changing the blame game: Associations between relationship mindfulness, loneliness, negative partner attributions, and subsequent conflict”19
Affectionate touch frequency is not always associated with well-being: A comparison of Latin American and Swiss samples18
Forging one’s identity as a twin: Balancing sibling cohesion and deidentification18
All in the family: A collective case study of family influence on siblings’ experiences and outcomes in organized youth sport18
Family communication patterns, mediated communication, and well-being: A communication interdependence perspective on parent–adult child relationships17
Estrangement between older parents and adult children: Associations with mental health16
Affectionate touch in satisfying and dissatisfying romantic relationships16
Exploring loneliness across widowhood and other marital statuses: A systematic review integrating insights from grief research16
The role of relational mobility in relationship quality and well-being15
Similarity as a safe haven: Similarity leads to satisfaction in prevention focus15
The mediating role of empathy in the links between relationships with three socialisation agents and adolescents’ prosocial behaviours15
Comprehensive scoping review of research on intercultural love and romantic relationships15
Assessing dynamical associations in dyadic interactions across multiple time scales via a Bayesian hierarchical vector autoregressive model15
From loss to closer bonds: Pregnancy loss and the emotional bonds with children in later life15
The relationship between insecure attachment and social anxiety in adult people: A three-level Meta-analysis14
Perceiving and responding to another’s interest in initiating friendship: The role of attachment insecurity14
The power of words: Exploring the impacts of derogatory discourse on cognition and social relationships of intersex individuals14
Time-trajectories of depression, social anxiety, and social functioning throughout college14
“We’ll deal with it as it comes”: A qualitative analysis of romantic partners’ dyadic coping in cystic fibrosis14
Not such fast friends? The effect of intimate conversation on social connection in text-based getting acquainted interactions14
Social support and perceived partner responsiveness have complex associations with salivary cortisol in married couples14
Happily ever after for coupled and single adults: A comparative study using latent profile analysis13
Examining and understanding patterns of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral jealousy: Dispositional Mindfulness as a protective factor in romantic relationships13
How perceived parenting qualities link to the reciprocal relationship between adolescents’ self-concept and life satisfaction13
Acknowledging dementia as an actor in the relationship: A facilitating mechanism promoting dementia family caregiver resilience13
Trajectories of coparenting quality across ethnically diverse and interethnic parents13
Using Sequence Analysis to Identify Conversational Motifs in Supportive Interactions12
Greater average levels of relatedness need fulfilment across daily and monthly life predict lower attachment insecurities across time12
Risk factors of paternal postpartum depression among Latino fathers: Treatment implications12
The days add up: Daily marital discord and depressive reactivity linked to past-month depressed mood and marital risk across 10 years12
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 p12
Maternal Attitudes Toward Child Interethnic Relations in the Netherlands: Facilitating Intergroup Contact Effects?12
Longitudinal trajectories of romantic relational victimization and associations with mastery across adolescence to young adulthood12
Preferences for social support and perceived support gaps among attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) adults11
Clarifying labels, constructs, and definitions: Sibling aggression and abuse are family violence11
Connecting Feelings of School Belonging to High School Students’ Friendship Quality Profiles11
Negative ties, social support buffering, and loneliness: Findings from a cross-national survey11
“But you don’t look sick:” Memorable messages of emerging adulthood autoimmune disease11
An introduction to the special issue on sibling relationship processes across the lifespan11
Longitudinal pathways from harsh parenting to adolescent depression via internal working models: The moderating role of adolescent trait mindfulness11
The association between financial strain and volatility in daily relationship uncertainty: A dyadic investigation11
Examining the effects of reciprocal emoji use on interpersonal and communication outcomes11
Couple Classes of Depressive Symptom Trajectories and Associations with Relationship Satisfaction11
Wuhan residents perceptions of prejudice and discrimination and the social categorization processes during and after the COVID-19 lockdown: A qualitative study11
Mother-father and parent-grandmother coparenting conflict and caregiver involvement in adolescent parent families11
Marital dissatisfaction, psychological control and parent-child conflict in Chinese families - An actor–partner interdependence model analysis11
Attachment to parental figures in emerging adults from Brazil, India, and Nigeria: Associations with anxiety and depressive symptoms10
Social media use, perceived social support, and well-being: Evidence from two waves of surveys peri- and post-COVID-19 lockdown10
Developmental trajectories of children’s sibling jealousy after the birth of a sibling: Strict parental control, parenting stress and parental depression as pre-birth predictors10
Elder abuse: The roles of communication neglect, caregiver expressed anger, and a positive pre-morbid relational history10
Women’s experience with religion and spirituality when perceiving their husband’s pornography use as problematic: A qualitative study10
Communication in interfaith and multiethnic-racial families: Navigating identity and difference in family relationships10
Deletion, departure, death: Experiences of AI companion loss10
Information communication technologies and intimate partner violence among women in sub-Saharan African countries10
Adult attachment as a predictor of savoring quality in mothers of toddlers: Results from a 4-week randomized trial10
Singlehood–mental health associations in sexual and gender minority youth assigned female at birth: A longitudinal study10
Examining the role of speaker familiarity and statement practice on deception detection10
Person-situation interactions as predictors of variations in attachment10
Mindfulness and individual, relational, and parental outcomes during the transition to parenthood10
Subjective orgasm experience in different-sex and same-sex couples: A dyadic approach10
Deceptive Affection is Strategically Expressed Under Relational Threat—But Not Towards Partners with Low Mate Value9
Changes in well-being and relationship satisfaction in the years before and after marriage in a sample of New Zealand adults9
Positively in-sync: Convergent validity across three distinct assessments of the affective quality of social interaction9
Associations between interactions with support providers and depression during times of isolation: Integrating perceived support and media multiplexity9
Positive illusions about dyadic perspective-taking as a moderator of the association between attachment insecurity and marital satisfaction9
Conjoint trajectories of couples’ marital and parental conflictual behaviors and later-life mental, physical, and relational health9
Tired, angry, and unhappy with us: Poor sleep quality predicts increased anger and worsened perceptions of relationship quality9
Modeling social interaction dynamics measured with smartphone sensors: An ambulatory assessment study on social interactions and loneliness9
The role of equity in partner contributions to sexual self-esteem for sexual health in romantic couples9
“I hate all the children, especially mine”: Applying relational dialectics theory to examine the experiences of formerly childfree regretful parents9
Walking a tightrope: Social support in early adulthood in resource-constrained South Africa9
Bias, accuracy and assumed similarity in judging intimate partners’ sexist attitudes9
Emotion suppression on relationship and life satisfaction: Taking culture and emotional valence into account9
Couple healing from infidelity: A grounded theory study9
How remembering positive and negative events affects intimacy in romantic relationships9
Exploring the factors associated with well-being and ill-being among single adults: A network analysis9
How gender role stereotypes affect attraction in an online dating scenario: A replication and extension9
The multidimensional evaluation of enacted social support: Best practices for use based on issues of factor structure, study design, and scale instructions9
Effects of information and communication technology on the quality of family relationships: A systematic review9
Talk is (still) cheap: A multi-informant analysis of parent financial socialization during adolescence9
Need for closure is linked with traumatic bonding among victims of intimate partner violence: A mediation approach8
Relational turbulence and social network engagement during the summer of COVID-19: A repeated measures, dyadic analysis8
The object of my intoxication: Examining the role of dehumanization, objectification, and alcohol consumption in intimate partner aggression perpetration8
Beyond reciprocity: Relational sacrifices in romantic partners8
Diversity of network communication mode and interpersonal interactions: Relationship with social support and well-being8
“Just be here”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of couples’ experiences of dyadic coping in multiple sclerosis8
An actor-partner model of partner phubbing, mobile phone conflict, and relationship satisfaction between romantic partners in Liberia8
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
Social Bandwidth: When and Why Are Social Interactions Energy Intensive?8
Timing to a first relationship among youth: Variability by sexual orientation development8
Experiences of married couples working in the same workplace8
Public Perceptions of Gaslighting: Understanding Definitions, Recognition, and Responses8
Need to belong, daily social engagement, and transient loneliness in late life8
Remembering for Relationships: Brief Cognitive-Reminiscence Therapy Improves Young Adults’ Perceptions About Self and Others in Social Relationships8
On guard: Public versus private affection-sharing experiences in same-sex, gender-diverse, and mixed-sex relationships8
Stability of distinct relational profiles of adolescent sibling relationships and friendships: A latent transition analysis8
Brazilian portuguese version of twin relationship questionnaire (TRQ-BR): Evidence of validity8
When couples fight about money, what do they fight about?8
Victims’ justification of violence, support need, and help-seeking: A longitudinal study8
Positive affect as mediator: The socioemotional selectivity theory applied to the association between bonding social capital and wellbeing in later life8
Explicating a comprehensive model of post-dissolution distress7
Psychosocial adjustment in adolescent victims of peer and dating violence: A gender analysis7
Understanding the link between anxious parental overprotection and academic confidence in emerging adults: Mediation through interpersonal and intrapersonal processes7
“I one-hundred thousand percent blame it on QAnon”: The impact of QAnon belief on interpersonal relationships7
It’s a match: Exploring joint emotion regulation profiles among mixed-sex couples7
Different strategies, different outcomes: Emotion regulation and discipline in parents of young children7
Negative speaks louder than positive: Negative implicit partner evaluations forecast destructive daily interactions and relationship decline7
Virtual Relational Curation: The Role of Attachment and Virtual Possession Management on Post-Breakup Adjustment7
Romantic conflict narratives and associations with psychological relationship aggression in emerging adult couples7
Parent-child relationship quality and older parents’ cognitive trajectories7
Parenting a child with a disability: Fathers’ perceptions of the couple relationship7
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
Traumatic bonding in victims of intimate partner violence is intensified via empathy7
Parents vs. partners: Whom do individuals prioritize in decision making?7
Dating disagreements in adolescents: The role of daily romantic attachment and stress7
When We’re Asked to Change: The Role of Suppression and Reappraisal in Partner Change Outcomes7
Longitudinal associations between mindfulness and change in attachment orientations in couples: The role of relationship preoccupation and empathy7
Adolescent sense of personal agency: Exploring gendered perspectives on parental and peers attachments7
Directly-measured smartphone screen time predicts well-being and feelings of social connectedness7
Left or right? The link between political orientation and partner preferences in a multinational sample of single women7
Mexican-origin siblings’ unique and shared perspectives of sibling conflict: Links with adjustment7
Tradeoffs, Constraints, and Strategies in Transgender and Nonbinary Young Adults’ Romantic Relationships: The Identity Needs in Relationships Framework7
A systemic, multiple socialization approach to the study of prosocial development7
Narrative identity and positive youth development in Turkish emerging adults: The moderating role of cultural self-construals6
Latinas’ internalization of U.S. beauty ideals as a moderator of the relations between appearance-related messages from family members and Latinas’ depressive symptoms6
How do you build the perfect friend? Evidence from two forced-choice decision-making experiments6
The effects of pets and human-pet interactions on humans’ romantic relationships and friendships6
Are you happy for me?: Responses to sharing good news in North America and East Asia6
Intergenerational effects of posttraumatic stress symptoms in family: The roles of parenting behavior, feelings of safety, and self-disclosure6
The Role of Relationship Conflict for Momentary Loneliness and Affect in the Daily Lives of Older Couples6
Sibling Relationships in Adolescence and Young Adulthood in Multiple Contexts: A Critical Review6
Shared family identity and communicatively managing the adaptation of family gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Walking hand in hand: The role of affection-sharing in understanding the social network effect in same-sex, mixed-sex, and gender-diverse relationships6
Kinship and friendship: The association between different sources of social contact and self-rated health in Turkey6
“That’s how the trust began”: Forming trusting friendships from adolescence to adulthood6
COVID-19 distress and interdependence of daily emotional intimacy, physical intimacy, and loneliness in cohabiting couples6
The Development and Preliminary Validation of a Measure of Victimization within the Friendships of Emerging Adults6
Families navigating two languages in a country built for one: Shared language erosion among Hispanic parents and youth6
The effects of gratitude and affection journaling interventions on relationship quality and gratitude for Chinese adolescent – mother dyads6
Social support and positive future expectations, hope, and achievement among Latinx students: Implications by gender and special education6
Learning through romantic experiences: Development and validation of a new measure6
Parental and partner attachment working models in romantic relationships of nonbinary adults6
Online construction of romantic relationships on social media6
Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and sexting motivations among Italian young adults: Investigating the impact of age, gender, and sexual orientation6
A longitudinal analysis of how romantic and friendship involvement are associated with depressive symptoms6
Linking mean level and variability in affect to changes in perceived regard: A dyadic longitudinal burst study of African American couples6
Perceptions of oneself and one’s spouse following a stressor discussion predicting attachment insecurity over one year6
Longitudinal associations of social support, everyday social interactions, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Affective Reactions to daily interpersonal stressors: Moderation by family involvement and gender6
Why do you have sex and does it make you feel better? Integrating attachment theory, sexual motives, and sexual well-being in long-term couples6
Direct and indirect effects of maternal and sibling intimacy on adolescents’ volunteering via social responsibility values: A longitudinal study6
Let’s Talk, Honey: An Analysis of Associations Between Communication Patterns and Dyadic Adjustment in Married Couples6
Parental warmth may not always be beneficial: High parental warmth impairs victimized adolescents’ academic achievement via elevated school burnout6
The roles of parental and partner attachment working models in romantic relationships6
Sibling and best friend conflict resolution strategies among Mexican-origin youth5
Adult friendship and suicidality: A scoping review5
Being kicked out of a WhatsApp group: Frequency and association with adolescents’ psychosocial well-being and School Achievement5
Tailoring dyadic coping strategies to attachment style: Emotion-focused and problem-focused dyadic coping differentially buffer anxiously and avoidantly attached partners5
How college students in the United States make sense of examples of gender and intersectional microaggressions in classroom settings5
Providing emotional support and daily emotional well-being among undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic5
“Marry a normal woman”: Vietnamese women with physical disabilities’ experiences of marriage opposition5
The story of us: How online daters narrate their courtship5
Exploring shared identity theory as an expanded conceptualization of Alzheimer’s caregiving5
What’s in a label? Exploring the intersection of relationships with best friends and romantic partners with well-being5
Adolescent dating and relationship quality: The role of exposure to intimate partner violence in early childhood5
Integrating multiple time-scales to advance relationship science5
Social support in the urban safety net: Assessing tie activation among individuals with complex care needs5
Parental Internet practices in the family system: Restrictive mediation, problematic Internet use, and adolescents’ age-related variations in perceptions of parent-child relationship quality5
Erratum to Relationship maintenance among military couples5
Memorable messages regarding adoption and religion: Perspectives of adult adoptees5
Romantic nostalgia as a resource for healthy relationships5
Attachment in the time of COVID-19: Insecure attachment orientations are associated with defiance of authorities’ guidelines during the pandemic5
Enduring COVID-19 lockdowns: Risk versus resilience in parents’ health and family functioning across the pandemic5
Romance matters: The role of dating in adolescents’ friendship beginnings and endings5
Operationalizing relational construal level to test relational turbulence theory: Linking relational turbulence in romantic relationships to interpersonal processes5
Together–A couples’ program integrating relationship and financial education: A randomized controlled trial5
Making meaning from the “yo no se:” Agency and truth-telling in Salvadoran women5
Do different sources of sexuality education contribute differently to sexual health and well-being outcomes? Examining sexuality education in Spain and Portugal5
Technically in love: Individual differences relating to sexual and platonic relationships with robots5
Using pictureless dating apps: Affordance, self-presentation, and relationship development5
Community connectedness and depression in transgender populations: The role of self-focused attention5
Sibling estrangement in adulthood5
Daily dyadic coping: Associations with postpartum sexual desire and sexual and relationship satisfaction5
Predictors of collaborative coping in couples managing type 2 diabetes: Illness factors, relationship factors, and interdependent personality traits5
Functional inferences of mating orientations through body fat and sex-typical body features5
A primer on studying effects of relationship duration in dyadic research: Contrasting cross-sectional and longitudinal approaches5
Intergenerational Model of Financial Satisfaction and Parent-Child Financial Relationship5
The impact of social-emotional competence on social support in Chinese college students: The mediating effects of interaction culture and conflictual relationships5
Young adults’ experiences of ageism in the United Kingdom: Forms, sources, and associations with intergenerational attitudes5
The moderating role of neighborhood social cohesion on the relationship between early mother-child attachment security and adolescent social skills: Brief report4
The longitudinal correlates of breakup distress in early young adulthood: Future distress and future benefits4
Relationship closeness as a protective factor against the sensitizing effect of adversity history4
Technology, relationships, and well-being: An overview of critical research issues and an introduction to the special issue4
Prosociality as a means to buffer loneliness and strengthen well-being4
Non-relative foster caregivers’ changes in mindfulness and couple relationship skills following relationship education4
The relationship between insecure attachment and Machiavellianism: A meta-analysis4
Ideal-perception consistency and regulation of best friends: Associations With attachment anxiety and avoidance4
Power in friendships: How experienced and desired power are associated with relationship functioning4
The association between sibling ambivalence and well-being in older adulthood: The role of sibling gender composition4
The reciprocal relationships between teacher-student relationship, peer attachment, and internalizing problem behaviors of left-behind children4
Fighting the good fight: Relating warmth and dominance across romantic conflict to resolution4
Latinx adolescents’ perspectives on romantic relationships and sexuality: Exploring the roles of parents and siblings4
Balancing friends and romance: Associations between men’s investment in peer relationships and romantic relationship quality4
Associations between sexual assault and romantic relationship functioning: A mixed-methods analysis4
Friendship dynamics of young men with non-exclusive sexual orientations: Group diversity, physical intimacy and emotionality4
Sexual exchanges explain the association between attachment insecurities and sexual satisfaction in long-term couples4
Interpersonal dynamics of traumatic brain injury within romantic relationships described in online forums4
Interdependency of relationships in stepfamilies – Variation across residence arrangements4
Dyadic coping and marital quality in same-sex and different-sex marriages4
Examining short-term and long-term effects of self-esteem on relationship satisfaction using a dyadic response surface analysis4
“I’m so worried about my whole family”: Modeling r/QAnonCasualties to better understand the effects of (QAnon) conspiracy beliefs on families4
Reconsider the triangle: Effects of birth parents’ communicative practices on Chinese hidden children’s identification with family of origin4
Promoting attachment security during the transition to college: A pilot study of emotionally focused mentoring4
“Hero,” a virtual program for promoting prosocial behaviors toward strangers and empathy among adolescents: A cluster randomized trial4
Voices of (m)otherhood: Listening to the experiences of single and childless women4
Advancing understanding of overparenting and child adjustment: Mechanisms, methodology, context, and development4
Understanding parents’ motivations for giving their children smartphones: A qualitative study4
Invisible costs of care: Health consequences for women supporting survivors of intimate partner violence in South America4
Is unit cohesion a double-edged sword? A moderated mediation model of combat exposure, work stressors, and marital satisfaction4
Positive peripheral social partners: Relationship and social interaction evaluations across adulthood4
Perceived partner responsiveness across the transition to parenthood: The role of attachment insecurity4
Parent empathy and adolescent disclosure in the context of type 1 diabetes management4
Is cohabitation a prerequisite for marriage?: Exploring Ghanaian emerging adults’ attitudes and intentions4
A communication and identity process that mediates parents’ nonaccommodation and sexual minorities’ mental well-being4
Self-expansion motivation and inclusion of others in self: An updated review4
Of race and romance: A qualitative investigation of queer Asian American men’s romantic relationships with queer Asian American men4
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