Personal Relationships

Papers
(The median citation count of Personal Relationships is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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I just need a little support: Marital support and strain link to A1C for people with diabetes34
Does Positivity Resonance Signify Love? Markers of Positivity Resonance in Long‐Term Married Couples Relate to Trait and State Love34
“She Was My Egg Donor, Not My Mom”: Using Attribution Theory to Understand How Adult Daughters Manage Their Low‐Quality Daughter‐Mother Relationship34
Mate value discrepancies and mate retention behaviors: A cubic response surface analysis33
Examining trajectories of marital satisfaction to represent the resilience process among Indonesian married individuals23
Relationship sustainability: Exploring the idea of sustainable marriages among Indian married couples21
Parenting typologies in Georgian and Belgian adolescents: Associations with self‐esteem19
Deceptive Hearts: Insecure Attachment and Motives Underlying Deception in Romantic Relationships19
But I said I'm sorry: Helpfulness of romantic couples' efforts to reconcile after conflict18
Loneliness and relationship dispositions in emerging adults: Gender and culture as moderators14
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All you fear is love: The roles of rejection by intimate others13
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People who help people: A needs assessment of those who provide interpersonal support to individuals with chronic illnesses13
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The development and psychometric properties of the grudge aspect measure11
Won't You Come Home? Women's Linguistic Strategies in Negotiating Sexual Engagements in a Rural Context in Nigeria11
Psychologists' representations of gender identity between Spain and Greece: A qualitative cross‐cultural study11
Partners' internal stress and well‐being: The role of dyadic coping and problem resolution10
Affectionate communication, health, and relationships10
Temptation at your door: Receiving mate poaching attempts and perceived Partners' desirability9
Pursuing Relationships or Avoiding Singlehood? Differentiating Singles' Fear of Being Single, Desire for a Relationship, and Satisfaction With Relationship Status9
Heterosexual men's reactions to infidelity revisited: Comparing the sex role presentation of extradyadic female partners9
Editorial synthesis for counseling psychology and relationship science: Making connections and expanding disciplinary diversity9
Is caring for oneself relevant to happy relationship functioning? Exploring associations between self‐compassion and romantic relationship satisfaction in actors and partners9
“An Alpha Wouldn't Spare an Emotion on a Woman”: A directed qualitative analysis of dark triad outcomes in women's relationships with Red Pill men8
Who's Waiting Ever After? An Exploration of Relationship Desire and Satisfaction Among Long‐Term Singles8
Who Is “Doing It”? Casual Sex and WellBeing in Singlehood8
When worlds collide: The romantic relationship experiences of bisexual‐identifying Asian American men8
A qualitative analysis of gaslighting in romantic relationships8
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Individuals' favorite songs' lyrics reflect their attachment style7
Positive crossover: Parent perceived partner responsiveness and health of youth with asthma7
Investigating the Association Between Companionship and Behavior Concordance: A Dyadic Panel Study7
Loneliness andHbA1camong older Irish couples: Retirement as life stage context7
Are we there for each other? Longitudinal associations between parenting stress and coparenting in parents of preschool and school‐aged children7
Breaking‐up is hard to study: A review of two decades of dissolution research7
Strategies for becoming a more desirable mate: Evidence from 14 countries7
Self‐concept clarity and the evaluation and selection of incompatible dating partners7
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Minority stress and intimate partner aggression among male same‐sex couples6
Dishonesty in Romantic Relationships: A Framework of Forms, Content, Dominant Motives, and Consequences6
Adapting the Dyadic Trust Scale for the Chinese Context: Psychometric Evidence From Two Independent Samples6
Interrelated psychological predictors of mate preferences among Iranian male and female emerging adults6
Relational boredom as an obstacle for engaging in exciting shared activities6
Do Conflict Structures of Family Networks Matter for Loneliness in Later Life? The Case of a Cohort of Swiss Older Adults6
Evaluation of the 14‐h together relationship and financial education program for couples6
The Progression of College Student Romantic Relationship Development: Stability and Change Over 10 Years6
Where Is Social Connection Most Needed in Daily Life?6
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Acquaintanceships (weak ties): Their role in people's web of relationships and their formation6
Tactics of investment in couple relationship and their impact on relationship satisfaction6
Development and empirical test of the research‐informed South African Relationship Functioning Assessment (SARFA)6
Forgiveness among Ghanaian children and early adolescents in the context of peer‐to‐peer dyads5
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Do Crushes Pose a Problem for Exclusive Relationships? Trajectories of Attraction Intensity to Extradyadic Others and Links to Primary Relationship Commitment and Satisfaction5
Putting responsiveness in context: How a partner's responsiveness baseline shapes perceived responsiveness5
Narcissism and romantic relationship functioning: The mediating role of the desire for power5
Maintaining social trust: Family cohesion and enhancing mindset in the face of COVID‐19 stress5
Virtual speed dating: Utilizing online‐meeting platforms to study initial attraction and relationship formation5
“What matters to us”: The portrait values questionnaire to measure couple values5
Latent class analysis of college women's motivations for engaging in same‐sex performativity5
Promoting healthy sexual relationships: The benefits of perspective‐taking and self‐expansion in interracial relationships5
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Who Lives a Good Single Life? From Basic Need Satisfaction to Attachment, Sociosexuality, and Reasons for Being Single4
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Dialecticism in romantic relationships: An examination in Chinese and American cultural contexts4
Chinese intimacy: Filial piety, autonomy, and romantic relationship quality4
Adult attachment as a predictor of maternal gatekeeping among new parents4
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Placing a child's or partner's needs above my own: Impacts on a couple's sexual relationship4
Taking stock of the longitudinal study of romantic couple relationships: The last 20 years4
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Qualitative analysis of naturalistically observed conversations among same‐ and different‐gender couples coping with breast cancer4
‘Worlds Apart’: Examining the Experiences of Intercultural Couples Co‐Creating a Third Culture3
How couples think about money: Types of money motives and relationship satisfaction3
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Knowing What You Want: The Role of Relationship Clarity in Single Young Adults' Loneliness and Well‐Being3
Correction to “Association Between Masculine Contest Culture and Turnover Intentions for Women STEM Faculty: The Moderating Role of Positive Dyadic C3
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Challenges and stressors in intimate intercultural relationships: A systematic research synthesis3
Examining the Predictors and Outcomes of Support Seeking Following Spousal Death3
The current state of affairs in infidelity research: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of romantic infidelity prevalence and its moderators3
When Love and Money Collide: The Role of Financially Focused Self‐Concept in Relationships3
Understanding relationship satisfaction during COVID‐19: Assessing unstable work experiences and negative communication3
Ratings of the physical attractiveness of an interaction partner after a getting‐acquainted interaction3
Relationship maintenance strategies of rotational workers and their partners3
Desperate or desirable? Perceptions of individuals seeking dates online and offline3
Variations on the Common Fate Model for Dyadic Analysis: Recommendations for Model Selection3
Emerging adult siblings' relational entitlement and conflict: The moderating effects of financial dependence on parents3
Wired for Cognitive Jealousy? Unveiling the Stability Within and Fluctuations Between Relationships3
The secrets that you keep: Secrets and relationship quality3
When and how do people share? Attachment anxiety predicts support‐seeking strategies3
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Unveiling “Toxic” Love: Conceptualizing Toxic Romantic Relationships Within the Indian Context3
The polite abuser: Using politeness theory to examine emotional abuse3
Self‐compassion reduces parental burnout: Mediation roles of parental psychological control and support2
A longitudinal study of “we‐talk” as a predictor of marital satisfaction2
An examination of specialness meaning framework threat in reactive and retroactive romantic jealousy experiences2
Processes in international relationships: A critical review2
Sibling Relationship Quality and Its Link to Flourishing Among Emerging Adults in the Context of Chronic Illness and Disability2
Intergenerational connections: Skipped generation family contact during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
People act extremely toward their amorous partner when they feel insignificant2
Contextual desirability of strong men employing affiliative and aggressive humor2
Editorial synthesis for 2 in 2023 a collaboration between IARR's two journals: Recognizing the need for greater inclusivity in relationship science2
Relationship Maintenance Knowledge and Self‐Efficacy Among Single Young Adults Desiring a Committed Romantic Relationship2
A Latent Profile Analysis of Reasons for Cohabitation2
Lacking family ties during COVID‐19: A longitudinal, small‐scale qualitative analysis of fictive kin in older adulthood2
Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Partner Version of the Psychological Distance Scaling Task2
Ignorance is not always bliss: A qualitative study of young adults' experiences with being ghosted2
Are We Still Friends If You Are No Longer Single? The Impacts of a Friend Entering a New Romantic Relationship2
Making the Case for Heirlooms: Heritage Stories, Family Treasures, and Intergenerational Relationships2
Does covenant marriage predict latent trajectory groups of newlywed couples?2
The Influence of Interparental Conflict and Violence on Parenting and Parent–Child Relationships2
Dyadic processes of relational turbulence theory2
A Multi‐Level Meta‐Analysis Comparing Relationship Norm Strength of LGB and Heterosexual Relationships2
Psychological distress with relationship satisfaction is moderated by anticipatory relational savoring among non‐deployed military partners2
Family communication patterns and young adults' trait autonomy over time2
The relative importance of contextual factors in judging mundane extradyadic behaviors as infidelity: A policy‐capturing study2
The effects of sexual and gender minority stress on relationship functioning: A meta‐analysis1
Acculturative stress while online dating: An exploration of the experiences of second generation Indian and Pakistani immigrants in the United Kingdom1
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Commonalities and differences between schemas of five types of love1
Linking stress to the emergence of relational turbulence in marriage1
Morality in romantic relationships: The role of moral disengagement in relationship satisfaction, definitions of infidelity, and committed cheating1
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Parenting stress, general distress, and coparenting quality: An Actor–Partner Interdependence Moderation Model1
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Marital strain and emotional intimacy in midlife couples: The moderating role of empathy1
Same‐race bias in romantic attraction among young adults: Daters' race, gender, and racial ideologies1
Associations between self‐disclosure, secrecy, and adolescent well‐being in China: A person‐centered approach1
Perceptions of inferred parental ability through sexually dimorphic facial features1
Mindfulness networks: Analyzing associations with self‐compassion, other‐compassion, need fulfillment, and satisfaction in midlife married Canadians1
Couple affection exchange profiles and marital quality in Chinese couples1
Resilience communication mitigates the negative relational effects of topic avoidance: Evidence from parental caregiving and COVID‐19 pandemic contexts1
Longitudinal dyadic interplay between marital conflict and psychological well‐being in couples: The moderating roles of wives' employment1
Couples age discrepancies in a large‐scale European sample: Evolutionary and sociocultural perspectives1
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Intergroup friendship: A reflective spotlight1
“I'd Like Something Better for Them”: Using Thematic Analysis to Explore Views Among Latino Migrant Farmworker Adolescents on Their Siblings and Future Children Following in Their Occupational Footste1
The influence of ecocultural contexts on Grandmaternal caregiving and Grandmother–Grandchild relationships1
Exploring the Psychological Process of Suifenzi in the Context of the Interdependent Self Among Chinese Workplace Newcomers1
In Sync? Assessing Partners' Similarities in Comfort With Physical Affection–Sharing as a Predictor of Relationship Well‐Being1
The Transformative power of friendships: Examining the relationships among friendship quality, self‐change, and well‐being1
A Latent Profile Analysis of Need Fulfillment in Romantic Relationships1
Work‐Related Migration and Couples in Long‐Distance Marriages: Mindfulness, Marital Quality, Satisfaction, and Happiness1
Comparing Premaritally Pregnant Couples and Demographically Matched Nonpregnant Controls on Recalled Relationship Progression and Marital Outcomes1
Shedding Light on Dark Romance: Light Personalities' Reduced Rejection of Machiavellian and Sadistic Partners1
Teaching relationship science: Continuity and change in the craft1
Is teasing meant to be mean or nice? Retrospective reports of adolescent social experiences and teasing attitudes1
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Age moderates the link between relationship desire and life satisfaction among singles1
A Model for Dynamics in Caregivers' Personal Support Networks During the Pandemic1
Exploring linguistic markers, threat appraisals, and genetic variation during mixed‐sex couples' conflict conversations1
Forgiveness, its factors, and unforgivable acts in romantic relationships: A mixed‐methods study1
Back off: Disapproval of romantic relationships predicts closeness to disapproving network members1
Exploring the Interplay of Cognition and Emotion in Trust Relationships With Cognitive‐Affective Maps1
Mother–child relationship quality from preschool to adolescence: Variation by maternal education1
Attachment avoidance predicts limited and selective sharing of personal events in close relationships1
Corrigendum—Romantic relationship distress, gender, socioeconomic status, and inflammation: A preregistered report1
Chinese young adults' emotion regulation and conflict resolution response profiles, and their associations with perceived partner responsiveness and romantic relationship satisfaction1
Correction to “‘She Was My Egg Donor, Not My Mom’: Using Attribution Theory to Understand How Adult Daughters Manage Their Low‐Quality Daughter‐Mother Relationship”1
Never walk alone on the way: Friendships of emerging adults1
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