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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Between friends: Forgiveness, unforgiveness, and wrongdoing in same-sex friendships64
Effects of regulating emotional expression on authenticity and likeability in stranger dyads64
Promoting attachment security during the transition to college: A pilot study of emotionally focused mentoring53
“Hero,” a virtual program for promoting prosocial behaviors toward strangers and empathy among adolescents: A cluster randomized trial50
Impoverished ascriptions: Investigating stereotypes of single parents from a social role perspective43
Daily stress, family functioning and mental health among Palestinian couples in Israel during COVID-19: A moderated mediation model41
A dyadic assessment of the association between sexual communication and daily sexual satisfaction37
“Side by side”: Development of twin relationship dimensions from early to middle childhood and the role of zygosity and parenting35
Longitudinal associations among adult attachment orientations, emotion regulation tendencies, and transdiagnostic anxiety and depression symptoms in young adults35
The meaning of misinformation and those who correct it: An extension of relational dialectics theory35
Remembering for Relationships: Brief Cognitive-Reminiscence Therapy Improves Young Adults’ Perceptions About Self and Others in Social Relationships33
Joint trajectories of self-esteem and neuroticism among newlywed couples: Associations with marital quality31
The perceived quality of social interactions differs by modality and purpose: An event-contingent experience sampling study with older adults30
Spanish adaptation of the perceived responsiveness and insensitivity scale28
Linking maternal involvement in child online learning to child adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic: The moderating role of maternal mindfulness28
Examining short-term and long-term effects of self-esteem on relationship satisfaction using a dyadic response surface analysis26
An examination of visually impaired individuals’ communicative negotiation of face threats24
Voices of (m)otherhood: Listening to the experiences of single and childless women24
Making sense of changes in military partners’ post-deployment adjustment concern: Turning points, trajectories, and accounts22
Communal coping manifested in daily Life: A focus on gender22
Actor and partner effects of positive affect on communal coping20
Parent-emerging adult text interactions and emerging adult perceived parental support of autonomy20
The trajectory and determinants of loneliness during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States19
Age differences in emotional support buffering on the relationship between physical disability and psychological distress19
First impression sexual scripts of romantic encounters: Effect of gender on verbal and non verbal immediacy behaviors in American media dating culture19
Directly-measured smartphone screen time predicts well-being and feelings of social connectedness19
Raising siblings is stressful: Measuring parental emotion regulation in the sibling context18
Enhancing constructive communication in the digital age through “textual healing,” a mindfulness app18
Settling down without settling: Perceived changes in partner preferences in response to COVID-1918
Friendship dynamics of young men with non-exclusive sexual orientations: Group diversity, physical intimacy and emotionality18
Beyond reciprocity: Relational sacrifices in romantic partners18
Spanish-speaking family members and non-Spanish speakers’ supportive and unsupportive communication for Latina/o/x language brokers17
Actor and partner effects of prenatal coparenting behavior on postpartum depression in first-time parents17
Understanding the link between anxious parental overprotection and academic confidence in emerging adults: Mediation through interpersonal and intrapersonal processes17
Moving from “balancing” to “blending”: The role of identity integration for working parents16
Positive affect as mediator: The socioemotional selectivity theory applied to the association between bonding social capital and wellbeing in later life16
Need to belong, daily social engagement, and transient loneliness in late life16
Associations between distress tolerance and posttraumatic stress symptoms among combat veterans and their parents: The mediating role of parents’ accommodation16
The role of exteroceptive and interoceptive awareness in executing socially relevant bodily actions: A naturalistic investigation of greeting behaviour in the UK and Spain15
The great reconnection: Examining motives for relational reconnection and investigating social penetration as a predictor of well-being15
Perceived quality of peer relationships and position in peer network from late childhood to early adolescence: A three-wave longitudinal study with cross-lagged panel model15
Factors influencing peer referencing behavior during an online learning activity14
An actor-partner model of partner phubbing, mobile phone conflict, and relationship satisfaction between romantic partners in Liberia14
Balancing friends and romance: Associations between men’s investment in peer relationships and romantic relationship quality14
Mental contrasting and conflict management in satisfied and unsatisfied romantic relationships14
A scoping review on couples’ stress and coping literature: Recognizing the need for inclusivity13
The associated effects of parent, peer and teacher attachment and self-regulation on prosocial behaviors: A person-and variable-centered investigation13
Teacher–student relationship and adolescents’ bullying perpetration: A moderated mediation model of deviant peer affiliation and peer pressure13
Advancing understanding of overparenting and child adjustment: Mechanisms, methodology, context, and development13
Learning and teaching care within the family: Experiential learning reflecting informal teaching13
The role of mutually responsive orientation in promoting relationship satisfaction for first-time and experienced parents: An investigation from pregnancy to toddlerhood13
Parent empathy and adolescent disclosure in the context of type 1 diabetes management13
Editorial Synthesis for 2 in 2023: A Collaboration Between IARR’s Two Journals: Recognizing the Need for Greater Inclusivity in Relationship Science12
Perceived partner support and post-traumatic symptoms after an acute cardiac event:A longitudinal study12
(Re)discovering interpersonal relationships and self-authorship in STEM Graduate school through mindfulness12
The power to gaslight12
Romantic partners’ weight criticism and Latina/o/x young adults’ relationship instability12
Adolescent Aspirations, Compromise, and Conflict-Resolution12
Multiracial identity and social support: Navigating the monoracial paradigm of race12
Parental separation and children’s well-being: Does the quality of parent-child relationships moderate the effect?12
Cheering my friends up: The unique role of Interpersonal emotion regulation strategies in social competence12
Attachment anxiety in daily experiences of romantic relationships: An expansion of the mutual cyclical growth model12
Relationship closeness as a protective factor against the sensitizing effect of adversity history11
Individual healing from infidelity and breakup for emerging adults: a grounded theory11
Ethnic identity commitment and socioemotional well-being among Latinx-origin college students: The influence of maternal and peer relationships11
Weathering racism and colorism: Exploring concurrent and short-term longitudinal associations between discrimination, colorism, psychosocial health, and Black and Latinx emerging adults’ relationship 11
Parenting a child with a disability: Fathers’ perceptions of the couple relationship11
Need for closure is linked with traumatic bonding among victims of intimate partner violence: A mediation approach11
The Role of Counter-narratives in Resisting the Deficit Model of Families for BIPOC Families11
Diversity of network communication mode and interpersonal interactions: Relationship with social support and well-being11
Risk factors of loneliness across the life span10
Social media and mental health: The role of interpersonal relationships and social media use motivations, in a nationally representative, longitudinal sample of Spanish emerging adults10
Separating the effect of attachment figure-domain units in IPPA-R using the correlated trait and correlated method minus one model10
Predicting emotion regulation strategies from aspects of the social context in everyday life10
Traumatic bonding in victims of intimate partner violence is intensified via empathy10
Perceptions of interest and agency explain disagreements about sexual violations9
Adaptive communication and perceptions in long-distance dating: Evidence from self-reported and behavioral data9
Confidants for life: Examining sibling relationship positivity and disclosure in U.S. Latinx college students while considering the role of familism9
Trait mindfulness and relationship mindfulness are indirectly related to sexual quality over time in dating relationships among emerging adults9
Relationship stress, arguments, and sleep quality: A causal process analysis9
The protective role of siblings in sexual diverse emerging adult well-being9
Is unit cohesion a double-edged sword? A moderated mediation model of combat exposure, work stressors, and marital satisfaction9
The impact of attachment threat on mental state identification: The mediating role of negative emotion and the moderating role of attachment styles9
What makes them last? Predicting time to relationship dissolution in adolescent women’s intimate relationships with male partners9
Social and parasocial relationships during COVID-19 social distancing9
Daily and longitudinal associations between relationship catastrophizing and sexual well-being in the postpartum period9
“Just be here”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of couples’ experiences of dyadic coping in multiple sclerosis8
Bidirectional longitudinal relationships between parents’ positive co-parenting, marital satisfaction, and parental involvement8
“I’m so worried about my whole family”: Modeling r/QAnonCasualties to better understand the effects of (QAnon) conspiracy beliefs on families8
When couples fight about money, what do they fight about?8
Revenge via social media and relationship contexts: Prevalence and measurement8
The moderating role of neighborhood social cohesion on the relationship between early mother-child attachment security and adolescent social skills: Brief report8
Money to Marriage, or Marriage to Money? Examining the Directionality Between Financial Processes and Marital Processes Among Newlywed Couples8
“Look at them… wasting that good, White skin”: Exploring messages of White privilege in Black Americans’ family discourse8
“Guys don’t see me as beautiful... I’m too much, too different, not normal”: Romantic relationships through the lens of Black women with experience of anorexia8
Relationship dissolution in the friendships of emerging adults: How, when, and why?8
Corrigendum to “Technically in love: Individual differences relating to sexual and platonic relationships with robots”8
Enhanced Mood After a Getting-Acquainted Interaction with a Stranger: Do Shy People Benefit Too?8
Actions for solutions: Financial behaviors, power (im)balance, and economic abuse among Chinese young adults in non-marital cohabitation8
Social relationships in later life: Does marital status matter?8
Loneliness in the Maltese population: A comparison of data from 2019 and 20228
From Close to Ghost: Examining the Relationship Between the Need for Closure, Intentions to Ghost, and Reactions to Being Ghosted8
Friendship Network Satisfaction: A multifaceted construct scored as a unidimensional scale8
“I one-hundred thousand percent blame it on QAnon”: The impact of QAnon belief on interpersonal relationships8
The relationship between LGBT older adults’ social network structure and function8
Self-expansion motivation and inclusion of others in self: An updated review8
Effects of mediated communication on conflict behavior, resolution, and affect in romantic couples8
A boost to relational value: Examining the link between partner expressions of gratitude and self-esteem in close relationships8
I feel loved when other people feel loved: Cultural congruence in beliefs on love is related to well-being7
Spatial proximity as a behavioral marker of relationship dynamics in older adult couples7
Similarity as a safe haven: Similarity leads to satisfaction in prevention focus7
Characteristics of parent-child separation related to bullying involvement among left-behind children in China7
Longitudinal associations between childhood maltreatment and sexual motivations in couples: The role of basic psychological needs7
Parent-child relationship quality and older parents’ cognitive trajectories7
Negative speaks louder than positive: Negative implicit partner evaluations forecast destructive daily interactions and relationship decline7
PowerLAPIM: An application to conduct power analysis for linear and quadratic longitudinal actor–partner interdependence models in intensive longitudinal dyadic designs7
Self-disclosure in social media and psychological well-being: A meta-analysis7
Romantic partner communication, familism values, and Latine young adults’ relationship maintenance7
Cumulative childhood interpersonal trauma and parental stress: The role of partner support7
Gratitude and sexual satisfaction: Benefits of gratitude for couples and insecure attachment7
Genetic causal beliefs and developmental context: Parents’ beliefs predict psychologically controlling approaches to parenting7
Relationship satisfaction in the time of COVID-19: The role of shared reality in perceiving partner support for frontline health-care workers7
The effect of social interaction quantity and quality on depressed mood and loneliness: A daily diary study7
Social Bandwidth: When and Why Are Social Interactions Energy Intensive?7
The mediating role of empathy in the links between relationships with three socialisation agents and adolescents’ prosocial behaviours7
The more useful, the more close: Instrumental deliberation boosts closeness with non-close others7
Living through the pandemic together: Exploring the associations among couples’ communal orientation, self-disclosure, and thriving7
“Making do with things we cannot change”: An interpretive phenomenological analysis of relationship resilience among gay men in Singapore7
Romantic relationship initiation and escalation through mobile dating apps: Affordances, modality weaving, and paradoxical beliefs6
Relational mindfulness themes in descriptions of intimate encounters across six interpersonal contexts6
Transitions and transformations in sibling relationships: Characteristics of Turkish and US young adults’ sibling-related turning-point memories6
Affectionate touch in satisfying and dissatisfying romantic relationships6
Reconsider the triangle: Effects of birth parents’ communicative practices on Chinese hidden children’s identification with family of origin6
A communication and identity process that mediates parents’ nonaccommodation and sexual minorities’ mental well-being6
The role of relational mobility in relationship quality and well-being6
I blame you, I hear you: Couples’ pronoun use in conflict and dyadic coping6
A systemic, multiple socialization approach to the study of prosocial development6
Emotional recovery following divorce: Will the real self-compassion please stand up?6
All in the family: A collective case study of family influence on siblings’ experiences and outcomes in organized youth sport6
Fighting the good fight: Relating warmth and dominance across romantic conflict to resolution6
Buttered Nostalgia: Feeding My Parents During #COVID196
Intimacy, attachment to the partner, and daily well-being in romantic relationships6
The association between partner evaluations and accommodation in romantic relationships: The moderating role of commitment6
Preliminary evidence for an aversion to atheists in long-term mating domains in the Southern United States6
Responding to threatening online alternatives: Perceiving the partner’s commitment through their social media behaviors6
The social process linking neighborhood social fragmentation and individual psychological distress6
“Be free together rather than confined together”: A qualitative exploration of how relationships changed in the early COVID-19 pandemic6
The effects of relationship history on social support perceived from friendships6
Arguing about social distancing and family relationships6
Body dissatisfaction and romantic relationship quality: A meta-analysis6
External stressors and trajectories of marital quality during the early years of Chinese marriage: Buffering effects of resources at multiple ecological levels6
Emotion differentiation during the transition to parenthood—Concurrent and prospective positive effects6
A systematic review of the benefits and mechanisms of family-based mind-body therapy programs targeting families of children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder6
The complicated connection between closeness and the quality of romantic relationships6
Give yourself a break: Self-compassion mediates insecure attachment and divorce maladjustment among Iranian women6
Explicating a comprehensive model of post-dissolution distress6
The association between sibling ambivalence and well-being in older adulthood: The role of sibling gender composition6
Sibling transmission of relationship breakup: Does partnership type matter?6
Family communication patterns, mediated communication, and well-being: A communication interdependence perspective on parent–adult child relationships6
Race talk: How racial worldview impacts discussions in interracial relationships6
Why now? Late-life divorce timing process: Dyadic and individual perspectives6
Responsiveness processes and daily experiences of shared reality among romantic couples5
Refusal versus massive investment: Qualitative study of parenthood among adopted adults in France5
Romantic conflict narratives and associations with psychological relationship aggression in emerging adult couples5
Abusers are Using COVID to Enhance Abuse”: Domestic Abuse Helpline Workers’ Perspectives on the Impact of COVID-19 Restrictions on those Living with Domestic Abuse5
The gaslighting relationship exposure inventory: Reliability and validity in two cultures5
Prepandemic relationship satisfaction is related to postpandemic COVID-19 anxiety: A four-wave study in China5
Intimacy despite distance: The dark triad and romantic parasocial interactions5
The consequences of spousal infidelity for long-term chronic health: A two-wave longitudinal analysis5
Longitudinal associations between mindfulness and change in attachment orientations in couples: The role of relationship preoccupation and empathy5
Perfectionism shapes the way adolescents perceive family acceptance over time5
The role of social context in the association between leisure activities and romantic relationship quality5
Daily sibling interactions among latino children in middle childhood: An examination of familism values and sibling roles5
Childhood maltreatment amplifies the association between relationship functioning and depressive symptoms among rural African American couples5
Discrepancies in parent-adolescent educational and career expectations and overparenting5
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia moderates the interpersonal consequences of brooding rumination5
The impact of COVID-19-related anti-Asian discrimination on sexual communication and relationships among Asian individuals in the United States5
Adult attachment and engagement with fictional characters5
Evidence of assortative mating for theory of mind via facial expressions but not language5
Ambivalent sexism and relationship adjustment among young adult couples: An actor-partner interdependence model5
Adolescent sense of personal agency: Exploring gendered perspectives on parental and peers attachments5
Connectedness and independence of young adults and parents in the digital world: Observing smartphone interactions at multiple timescales using Screenomics5
Peer social support moderates the impact of ethnoracial discrimination on mental health among young sexual minority men of color5
The correlation between sibling relationships and psychosocial adaptation among left-behind children in China: A latent profile analysis5
Do personality and attachment predict marital beliefs? Investigating young adults in Iran5
A Space of Our Own: Exploring the Relationship Initiation Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Dating App Users5
You need to take turns! Sibling sharing and the emergence of conscience in early childhood5
Collective and collaborative actions among peers in school as a form of cultural resistance of Mapuche children in La Araucanía, Chile5
Dating disagreements in adolescents: The role of daily romantic attachment and stress5
Is cohabitation a prerequisite for marriage?: Exploring Ghanaian emerging adults’ attitudes and intentions5
Sibling relationship qualities and prosocial behaviors in Asian Indian college students: Intervening roles of family respect values and empathy5
Coping with global uncertainty: Perceptions of COVID-19 psychological distress, relationship quality, and dyadic coping for romantic partners across 27 countries5
Couple relationship satisfaction: The role of recollection of parental acceptance, self-differentiation, and spousal caregiving5
Successful negotiation of goal conflict between romantic partners predicts better goal outcomes during COVID-19: A mixed methods study5
It’s a match: Exploring joint emotion regulation profiles among mixed-sex couples5
Parenting with a smile: Display rules, regulatory effort, and parental burnout5
Family relationship quality and psychological and cognitive health among grandparent caregivers: The moderating role of co-residence with adult children5
Mindfulness, perceived partner responsiveness, and relationship quality: A dyadic longitudinal mediation model5
“Personal relationship is really the backbone of everything”: Exploring professionals’ perceptions on the relationships of transition-age youth in foster care4
Communication technology use in post-divorce coparenting relationships: A typology and associations with post-divorce adjustment4
Cognitive and personality variables as predictors of sexism against women in Spanish adolescents4
Comprehensive scoping review of research on intercultural love and romantic relationships4
Online construction of romantic relationships on social media4
Loving you from afar: Attraction to others (“crushes”) among adults in exclusive relationships, communication, perceived outcomes, and expectations of future intimate involvement4
Parent emotion regulation and parenting self-efficacy: The moderating role of coparenting4
Exploring loneliness across widowhood and other marital statuses: A systematic review integrating insights from grief research4
The associations between self-compassion and adult attachment: A meta-analysis4
Social ties and social identification: Influences on well-being in young adults4
The dual lens of objectification: Perceived objectification, male partners’ reported objectification, and women’s detrimental sexual outcomes4
Drawing the line at infidelity: Negotiating relationship morality in a Swedish context of consensual non-monogamy4
“We’ll deal with it as it comes”: A qualitative analysis of romantic partners’ dyadic coping in cystic fibrosis4
Using Sequence Analysis to Identify Conversational Motifs in Supportive Interactions4
Korean parents’ intergenerational solidarity with adult children and their psychological outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Repartnering and trajectories of life satisfaction after separation and divorce in middle and later life4
Jealousy in interracial and same-race relationships4
Corrigendum to “Changing the blame game: Associations between relationship mindfulness, loneliness, negative partner attributions, and subsequent conflict”4
Relational turbulence during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal analysis of the reciprocal effects between relationship characteristics and outcomes of relational turbulence4
Kinship and friendship: The association between different sources of social contact and self-rated health in Turkey4
Why do you have sex and does it make you feel better? Integrating attachment theory, sexual motives, and sexual well-being in long-term couples4
The longitudinal influence of cumulative risk: Is relationship education a resource?4
Mexican-origin siblings’ unique and shared perspectives of sibling conflict: Links with adjustment4
Different path to happiness: The role of basic psychological need satisfaction in benefiting close and distant others4
Tradeoffs, Constraints, and Strategies in Transgender and Nonbinary Young Adults’ Romantic Relationships: The Identity Needs in Relationships Framework4
Corrigendum to adolescents’ social support networks and long-term psychosocial outcomes4
Fluctuations in children’s self-regulation and parent-child interaction in everyday life: An ambulatory assessment study4
Caregiving spouses’ experiences of relational uncertainty and partner influence in the prolonged relational transition of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias4
Assessing dynamical associations in dyadic interactions across multiple time scales via a Bayesian hierarchical vector autoregressive model4
Justify my love: Cognitive dissonance reduction among perpetrators of online and offline infidelity4
Forging one’s identity as a twin: Balancing sibling cohesion and deidentification4
Time-trajectories of depression, social anxiety, and social functioning throughout college4
When We’re Asked to Change: The Role of Suppression and Reappraisal in Partner Change Outcomes4
Social Support is a Balancing Act: Mitigating Attachment Anxiety by Supporting Independence and Dependence4
Resisting and reifying meaning in everyday life: Using relational dialectics theory to understand the meaning of heterosexual dating4
Parental warmth may not always be beneficial: High parental warmth impairs victimized adolescents’ academic achievement via elevated school burnout4
Stress, Dyadic Coping, and Relationship Instability During the COVID-19 Pandemic4
Navigating intimate relationships of Iranians in the context of immigration: Insights from a qualitative systematic review and empirical investigation4
Parent–child cohesion, loneliness, and prosocial behavior: Longitudinal relations in children4
Changing for the worse: The effects of attachment anxiety on perceived self-adulteration4
Estrangement between older parents and adult children: Associations with mental health4
Using technology to unobtrusively observe relationship development4
Love under lockdown: How changes in time with partner impacted stress and relationship outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Casual sexual relationships and their increase over time among Israeli emerging adults: Do these associate with the quality of future relationships?3
Thanks to reviewers3
Loneliness in social relationships: Mapping the nomological network of loneliness with key conceptual domains and theoretical constructs3
Erratum to Coping with global uncertainty: Perceptions of COVID-19 psychological distress, relationship quality, and dyadic coping for romantic partners across 27 countries3
Shared family identity and communicatively managing the adaptation of family gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Couple, parent, and infant characteristics and perceptions of conflictual coparenting over the transition to parenthood3
Important relationships in a multilevel world: The role of network structure in explaining closeness of relationships and access to resources in later life3
Purpose as a predictor of satisfaction across relationship domains during the first semester of university3
Overprotective parenting and social anxiety in adolescents: The role of emotion regulation3
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