OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
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Parenting typologies in Georgian and Belgian adolescents: Associations with self‐esteem	36
Examining trajectories of marital satisfaction to represent the resilience process among Indonesian married individuals	26
Does Positivity Resonance Signify Love? Markers of Positivity Resonance in Long‐Term Married Couples Relate to Trait and State Love	22
I just need a little support: Marital support and strain link to A1C for people with diabetes	21
Mate value discrepancies and mate retention behaviors: A cubic response surface analysis	19
Relationship sustainability: Exploring the idea of sustainable marriages among Indian married couples	15
Support seeking and support transactions with college students' romantic partners	14
But I said I'm sorry: Helpfulness of romantic couples' efforts to reconcile after conflict	13
Loneliness and relationship dispositions in emerging adults: Gender and culture as moderators	13
Deceptive Hearts: Insecure Attachment and Motives Underlying Deception in Romantic Relationships	13
Issue Information	12
The development and psychometric properties of the grudge aspect measure	11
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Is caring for oneself relevant to happy relationship functioning? Exploring associations between self‐compassion and romantic relationship satisfaction in actors and partners	10
Partners' internal stress and well‐being: The role of dyadic coping and problem resolution	10
People who help people: A needs assessment of those who provide interpersonal support to individuals with chronic illnesses	9
Psychologists' representations of gender identity between Spain and Greece: A qualitative cross‐cultural study	9
Won't You Come Home? Women's Linguistic Strategies in Negotiating Sexual Engagements in a Rural Context in Nigeria	8
All you fear is love: The roles of rejection by intimate others	8
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Mutual enjoyment in older couples' conversations and its links to marital satisfaction	8
Temptation at your door: Receiving mate poaching attempts and perceived Partners' desirability	8
Affectionate communication, health, and relationships	8

Heterosexual men's reactions to infidelity revisited: Comparing the sex role presentation of extradyadic female partners	8
A qualitative analysis of gaslighting in romantic relationships	7
“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 men	7
Editorial synthesis for counseling psychology and relationship science: Making connections and expanding disciplinary diversity	7
Loneliness andHbA1camong older Irish couples: Retirement as life stage context	7
Are we there for each other? Longitudinal associations between parenting stress and coparenting in parents of preschool and school‐aged children	6
Strategies for becoming a more desirable mate: Evidence from 14 countries	6
Investigating the Association Between Companionship and Behavior Concordance: A Dyadic Panel Study	6
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Individuals' favorite songs' lyrics reflect their attachment style	6
When worlds collide: The romantic relationship experiences of bisexual‐identifying Asian American men	6
Positive crossover: Parent perceived partner responsiveness and health of youth with asthma	6
Breaking‐up is hard to study: A review of two decades of dissolution research	5
Dyadic relationships between personality, social support, conflict resolution, and marital quality	5
Self‐concept clarity and the evaluation and selection of incompatible dating partners	5
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Do Conflict Structures of Family Networks Matter for Loneliness in Later Life? The Case of a Cohort of Swiss Older Adults	4
Tactics of investment in couple relationship and their impact on relationship satisfaction	4
Forgiveness among Ghanaian children and early adolescents in the context of peer‐to‐peer dyads	4
Development and empirical test of the research‐informed South African Relationship Functioning Assessment (SARFA)	4
Where Is Social Connection Most Needed in Daily Life?	4
Interrelated psychological predictors of mate preferences among Iranian male and female emerging adults	4
Dishonesty in Romantic Relationships: A Framework of Forms, Content, Dominant Motives, and Consequences	4
Minority stress and intimate partner aggression among male same‐sex couples	4
The Progression of College Student Romantic Relationship Development: Stability and Change Over 10 Years	4
Relational boredom as an obstacle for engaging in exciting shared activities	4
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Acquaintanceships (weak ties): Their role in people's web of relationships and their formation	4
Evaluation of the 14‐h together relationship and financial education program for couples	4
Narcissism and romantic relationship functioning: The mediating role of the desire for power	4
“What matters to us”: The portrait values questionnaire to measure couple values	4
Putting responsiveness in context: How a partner's responsiveness baseline shapes perceived responsiveness	4
Chinese intimacy: Filial piety, autonomy, and romantic relationship quality	4
How couples think about money: Types of money motives and relationship satisfaction	3
Qualitative analysis of naturalistically observed conversations among same‐ and different‐gender couples coping with breast cancer	3
Adult attachment as a predictor of maternal gatekeeping among new parents	3
Perceived changes in social contact during COVID‐19 pandemic in the United States	3
Promoting healthy sexual relationships: The benefits of perspective‐taking and self‐expansion in interracial relationships	3
Latent class analysis of college women's motivations for engaging in same‐sex performativity	3
Ratings of the physical attractiveness of an interaction partner after a getting‐acquainted interaction	3
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The current state of affairs in infidelity research: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of romantic infidelity prevalence and its moderators	3
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Maintaining social trust: Family cohesion and enhancing mindset in the face of COVID‐19 stress	3
Placing a child's or partner's needs above my own: Impacts on a couple's sexual relationship	3
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The secrets that you keep: Secrets and relationship quality	3
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Dialecticism in romantic relationships: An examination in Chinese and American cultural contexts	3
Taking stock of the longitudinal study of romantic couple relationships: The last 20 years	3

Virtual speed dating: Utilizing online‐meeting platforms to study initial attraction and relationship formation	3
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Knowing What You Want: The Role of Relationship Clarity in Single Young Adults' Loneliness and Well‐Being	3
Parenting and person correlates of prosocial behaviors in Asian Indian young adults	2
Psychological distress with relationship satisfaction is moderated by anticipatory relational savoring among non‐deployed military partners	2
Editorial synthesis for 2 in 2023 a collaboration between IARR's two journals: Recognizing the need for greater inclusivity in relationship science	2
The relative importance of contextual factors in judging mundane extradyadic behaviors as infidelity: A policy‐capturing study	2
Desperate or desirable? Perceptions of individuals seeking dates online and offline	2
People act extremely toward their amorous partner when they feel insignificant	2
Emerging adult siblings' relational entitlement and conflict: The moderating effects of financial dependence on parents	2
Understanding relationship satisfaction during COVID‐19: Assessing unstable work experiences and negative communication	2
When Love and Money Collide: The Role of Financially Focused Self‐Concept in Relationships	2
Making the Case for Heirlooms: Heritage Stories, Family Treasures, and Intergenerational Relationships	2
Ignorance is not always bliss: A qualitative study of young adults' experiences with being ghosted	2
Are We Still Friends If You Are No Longer Single? The Impacts of a Friend Entering a New Romantic Relationship	2
Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Partner Version of the Psychological Distance Scaling Task	2
Does covenant marriage predict latent trajectory groups of newlywed couples?	2
Relationship maintenance strategies of rotational workers and their partners	2
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Examining the Predictors and Outcomes of Support Seeking Following Spousal Death	2
The polite abuser: Using politeness theory to examine emotional abuse	2
Unaffirmed and color‐blind: Racial worldview and stigma experienced in interracial relationships	2
Family communication patterns and young adults' trait autonomy over time	2
Self‐compassion reduces parental burnout: Mediation roles of parental psychological control and support	2
Cultural diversity within couples: Risk or chance? A meta‐analytic review of relationship satisfaction	2
The Influence of Interparental Conflict and Violence on Parenting and Parent–Child Relationships	2
Challenges and stressors in intimate intercultural relationships: A systematic research synthesis	2
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When and how do people share? Attachment anxiety predicts support‐seeking strategies	2
Contextual desirability of strong men employing affiliative and aggressive humor	2
“That's when the relationship shifted”: Relational and communicative turning points in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias	1
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The influence of ecocultural contexts on Grandmaternal caregiving and Grandmother–Grandchild relationships	1
Back off: Disapproval of romantic relationships predicts closeness to disapproving network members	1
Work‐Related Migration and Couples in Long‐Distance Marriages: Mindfulness, Marital Quality, Satisfaction, and Happiness	1
Same‐race bias in romantic attraction among young adults: Daters' race, gender, and racial ideologies	1
Mindfulness networks: Analyzing associations with self‐compassion, other‐compassion, need fulfillment, and satisfaction in midlife married Canadians	1
Autonomy support in disclosure and privacy maintenance regulation within romantic relationships	1
The effects of sexual and gender minority stress on relationship functioning: A meta‐analysis	1
Intergenerational connections: Skipped generation family contact during the COVID‐19 pandemic	1
Teaching relationship science: Continuity and change in the craft	1
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Morality in romantic relationships: The role of moral disengagement in relationship satisfaction, definitions of infidelity, and committed cheating	1
Is teasing meant to be mean or nice? Retrospective reports of adolescent social experiences and teasing attitudes	1
Intergroup friendship: A reflective spotlight	1
The Transformative power of friendships: Examining the relationships among friendship quality, self‐change, and well‐being	1
Attachment avoidance predicts limited and selective sharing of personal events in close relationships	1
Lacking family ties during COVID‐19: A longitudinal, small‐scale qualitative analysis of fictive kin in older adulthood	1
An examination of specialness meaning framework threat in reactive and retroactive romantic jealousy experiences	1
Perceptions of inferred parental ability through sexually dimorphic facial features	1
A longitudinal study of “we‐talk” as a predictor of marital satisfaction	1
Couple affection exchange profiles and marital quality in Chinese couples	1
Parenting stress, general distress, and coparenting quality: An Actor–Partner Interdependence Moderation Model	1
Exploring linguistic markers, threat appraisals, and genetic variation during mixed‐sex couples' conflict conversations	1
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Chinese young adults' emotion regulation and conflict resolution response profiles, and their associations with perceived partner responsiveness and romantic relationship satisfaction	1
Mother–child relationship quality from preschool to adolescence: Variation by maternal education	1
A Multi‐Level Meta‐Analysis Comparing Relationship Norm Strength of LGB and Heterosexual Relationships	1
Processes in international relationships: A critical review	1
A Latent Profile Analysis of Reasons for Cohabitation	1
Dyadic processes of relational turbulence theory	1