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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of mutually responsive orientation in promoting relationship satisfaction for first-time and experienced parents: An investigation from pregnancy to toddlerhood109
Factors influencing peer referencing behavior during an online learning activity63
Enhancing constructive communication in the digital age through “textual healing,” a mindfulness app50
Multiracial identity and social support: Navigating the monoracial paradigm of race41
The role of exteroceptive and interoceptive awareness in executing socially relevant bodily actions: A naturalistic investigation of greeting behaviour in the UK and Spain40
Spanish adaptation of the perceived responsiveness and insensitivity scale39
Actor and partner effects of positive affect on communal coping31
Age differences in emotional support buffering on the relationship between physical disability and psychological distress30
Attachment anxiety in daily experiences of romantic relationships: An expansion of the mutual cyclical growth model27
The protective role of siblings in sexual diverse emerging adult well-being27
The COVID-19 pandemic and internet searches for divorce with stay-at-home behavior as a mediator: A multinational longitudinal study26
Loneliness in the Maltese population: A comparison of data from 2019 and 202226
Money to Marriage, or Marriage to Money? Examining the Directionality Between Financial Processes and Marital Processes Among Newlywed Couples25
The relationship between LGBT older adults’ social network structure and function25
Editorial Synthesis for 2 in 2023: A Collaboration Between IARR’s Two Journals: Recognizing the Need for Greater Inclusivity in Relationship Science24
Enhanced Mood After a Getting-Acquainted Interaction with a Stranger: Do Shy People Benefit Too?22
Raising siblings is stressful: Measuring parental emotion regulation in the sibling context21
A dyadic assessment of the association between sexual communication and daily sexual satisfaction21
Impoverished ascriptions: Investigating stereotypes of single parents from a social role perspective20
Gratitude and sexual satisfaction: Benefits of gratitude for couples and insecure attachment19
Similarity as a safe haven: Similarity leads to satisfaction in prevention focus19
Estrangement between older parents and adult children: Associations with mental health18
Time-trajectories of depression, social anxiety, and social functioning throughout college17
Exploring loneliness across widowhood and other marital statuses: A systematic review integrating insights from grief research16
Comprehensive scoping review of research on intercultural love and romantic relationships16
Family communication patterns, mediated communication, and well-being: A communication interdependence perspective on parent–adult child relationships16
Affectionate touch frequency is not always associated with well-being: A comparison of Latin American and Swiss samples16
The role of relational mobility in relationship quality and well-being16
Forging one’s identity as a twin: Balancing sibling cohesion and deidentification15
Assessing dynamical associations in dyadic interactions across multiple time scales via a Bayesian hierarchical vector autoregressive model15
How the timing of texting triggers romantic interest after the first date: A curvilinear U-shaped effect and its underlying mechanisms15
All in the family: A collective case study of family influence on siblings’ experiences and outcomes in organized youth sport15
Corrigendum to “Changing the blame game: Associations between relationship mindfulness, loneliness, negative partner attributions, and subsequent conflict”14
Perceiving and responding to another’s interest in initiating friendship: The role of attachment insecurity14
Happily ever after for coupled and single adults: A comparative study using latent profile analysis14
From loss to closer bonds: Pregnancy loss and the emotional bonds with children in later life14
The mediating role of empathy in the links between relationships with three socialisation agents and adolescents’ prosocial behaviours14
The relationship between insecure attachment and social anxiety in adult people: A three-level Meta-analysis14
Development and evaluation of the psychometric properties of the perceived social position among peers questionnaire (PSPPQ)14
The power of words: Exploring the impacts of derogatory discourse on cognition and social relationships of intersex individuals14
Acknowledging dementia as an actor in the relationship: A facilitating mechanism promoting dementia family caregiver resilience13
Examining and understanding patterns of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral jealousy: Dispositional Mindfulness as a protective factor in romantic relationships13
Social support and perceived partner responsiveness have complex associations with salivary cortisol in married couples13
“We’ll deal with it as it comes”: A qualitative analysis of romantic partners’ dyadic coping in cystic fibrosis13
Trajectories of coparenting quality across ethnically diverse and interethnic parents13
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 p13
Not such fast friends? The effect of intimate conversation on social connection in text-based getting acquainted interactions13
How perceived parenting qualities link to the reciprocal relationship between adolescents’ self-concept and life satisfaction13
Greater average levels of relatedness need fulfilment across daily and monthly life predict lower attachment insecurities across time13
The days add up: Daily marital discord and depressive reactivity linked to past-month depressed mood and marital risk across 10 years13
Longitudinal trajectories of romantic relational victimization and associations with mastery across adolescence to young adulthood12
Connecting Feelings of School Belonging to High School Students’ Friendship Quality Profiles12
Wuhan residents perceptions of prejudice and discrimination and the social categorization processes during and after the COVID-19 lockdown: A qualitative study12
Longitudinal pathways from harsh parenting to adolescent depression via internal working models: The moderating role of adolescent trait mindfulness12
An introduction to the special issue on sibling relationship processes across the lifespan12
Preferences for social support and perceived support gaps among attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) adults12
Risk factors of paternal postpartum depression among Latino fathers: Treatment implications12
Attachment to parental figures in emerging adults from Brazil, India, and Nigeria: Associations with anxiety and depressive symptoms12
Singlehood–mental health associations in sexual and gender minority youth assigned female at birth: A longitudinal study11
“But you don’t look sick:” Memorable messages of emerging adulthood autoimmune disease11
Social media use, perceived social support, and well-being: Evidence from two waves of surveys peri- and post-COVID-19 lockdown11
Communication in interfaith and multiethnic-racial families: Navigating identity and difference in family relationships11
Mother-father and parent-grandmother coparenting conflict and caregiver involvement in adolescent parent families11
Adult attachment as a predictor of savoring quality in mothers of toddlers: Results from a 4-week randomized trial11
Clarifying labels, constructs, and definitions: Sibling aggression and abuse are family violence11
Deletion, departure, death: Experiences of AI companion loss11
Examining the effects of reciprocal emoji use on interpersonal and communication outcomes11
Women’s experience with religion and spirituality when perceiving their husband’s pornography use as problematic: A qualitative study11
Couple Classes of Depressive Symptom Trajectories and Associations with Relationship Satisfaction11
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
Negative ties, social support buffering, and loneliness: Findings from a cross-national survey11
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
Bias, accuracy and assumed similarity in judging intimate partners’ sexist attitudes10
“Double Trouble”: Menopausal Relationship Complications Experienced by Women in Same-Sex Couples10
The role of equity in partner contributions to sexual self-esteem for sexual health in romantic couples10
“I hate all the children, especially mine”: Applying relational dialectics theory to examine the experiences of formerly childfree regretful parents10
Talk is (still) cheap: A multi-informant analysis of parent financial socialization during adolescence10
Relational Savoring as an Approach to Improve Marital Relationship Outcomes: A Pilot Study Among Iranian Wives10
Tired, angry, and unhappy with us: Poor sleep quality predicts increased anger and worsened perceptions of relationship quality10
The multidimensional evaluation of enacted social support: Best practices for use based on issues of factor structure, study design, and scale instructions10
Positively in-sync: Convergent validity across three distinct assessments of the affective quality of social interaction10
Exploring the factors associated with well-being and ill-being among single adults: A network analysis10
Effects of information and communication technology on the quality of family relationships: A systematic review10
Elder abuse: The roles of communication neglect, caregiver expressed anger, and a positive pre-morbid relational history10
Mindfulness and individual, relational, and parental outcomes during the transition to parenthood10
Couple healing from infidelity: A grounded theory study10
Person-situation interactions as predictors of variations in attachment10
Walking a tightrope: Social support in early adulthood in resource-constrained South Africa10
How remembering positive and negative events affects intimacy in romantic relationships10
Subjective orgasm experience in different-sex and same-sex couples: A dyadic approach10
Information communication technologies and intimate partner violence among women in sub-Saharan African countries10
Stability of distinct relational profiles of adolescent sibling relationships and friendships: A latent transition analysis9
Timing to a first relationship among youth: Variability by sexual orientation development9
Modeling social interaction dynamics measured with smartphone sensors: An ambulatory assessment study on social interactions and loneliness9
“Fear of Missing out (FoMO) and Sexting Motivations Among Italian Young Adults: Investigating the Impact of Age, Gender, and Sexual Orientation”9
Deceptive Affection is Strategically Expressed Under Relational Threat—But Not Towards Partners with Low Mate Value9
Associations between interactions with support providers and depression during times of isolation: Integrating perceived support and media multiplexity9
Changes in well-being and relationship satisfaction in the years before and after marriage in a sample of New Zealand adults9
The object of my intoxication: Examining the role of dehumanization, objectification, and alcohol consumption in intimate partner aggression perpetration9
Positive illusions about dyadic perspective-taking as a moderator of the association between attachment insecurity and marital satisfaction9
Brazilian portuguese version of twin relationship questionnaire (TRQ-BR): Evidence of validity9
When couples fight about money, what do they fight about?8
Public Perceptions of Gaslighting: Understanding Definitions, Recognition, and Responses8
Parent-child relationship quality and older parents’ cognitive trajectories8
Traumatic bonding in victims of intimate partner violence is intensified via empathy8
Social Bandwidth: When and Why Are Social Interactions Energy Intensive?8
Social media and mental health: The role of interpersonal relationships and social media use motivations, in a nationally representative, longitudinal sample of Spanish emerging adults8
Experiences of married couples working in the same workplace8
An actor-partner model of partner phubbing, mobile phone conflict, and relationship satisfaction between romantic partners in Liberia8
Directly-measured smartphone screen time predicts well-being and feelings of social connectedness8
Parents vs. partners: Whom do individuals prioritize in decision making?8
“Just be here”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of couples’ experiences of dyadic coping in multiple sclerosis8
“I one-hundred thousand percent blame it on QAnon”: The impact of QAnon belief on interpersonal relationships8
Need to belong, daily social engagement, and transient loneliness in late life8
Positive affect as mediator: The socioemotional selectivity theory applied to the association between bonding social capital and wellbeing in later life8
Diversity of network communication mode and interpersonal interactions: Relationship with social support and well-being8
Understanding the link between anxious parental overprotection and academic confidence in emerging adults: Mediation through interpersonal and intrapersonal processes8
Parenting a child with a disability: Fathers’ perceptions of the couple relationship8
Left or right? The link between political orientation and partner preferences in a multinational sample of single women8
Remembering for Relationships: Brief Cognitive-Reminiscence Therapy Improves Young Adults’ Perceptions About Self and Others in Social Relationships8
Between- and within-person effects of divine forgiveness: A dyadic, longitudinal examination in romantic relationship conflicts8
Victims’ justification of violence, support need, and help-seeking: A longitudinal study8
Need for closure is linked with traumatic bonding among victims of intimate partner violence: A mediation approach8
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
Psychosocial adjustment in adolescent victims of peer and dating violence: A gender analysis7
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
Stabilizing the measurement of relationship instability: Identifying optimal number of response options and a single-item assessment7
A systemic, multiple socialization approach to the study of prosocial development7
Different strategies, different outcomes: Emotion regulation and discipline in parents of young children7
Dating disagreements in adolescents: The role of daily romantic attachment and stress7
Longitudinal associations between mindfulness and change in attachment orientations in couples: The role of relationship preoccupation and empathy7
It’s a match: Exploring joint emotion regulation profiles among mixed-sex couples7
Explicating a comprehensive model of post-dissolution distress7
Parents’ Attitudes Towards Their Children’s Multi-Language Learning7
Families navigating two languages in a country built for one: Shared language erosion among Hispanic parents and youth6
Can humans feel connected to AI? Perceived responsiveness drives social connection with AI chatbots6
Kinship and friendship: The association between different sources of social contact and self-rated health in Turkey6
Shared family identity and communicatively managing the adaptation of family gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Let’s Talk, Honey: An Analysis of Associations Between Communication Patterns and Dyadic Adjustment in Married Couples6
Affective Reactions to daily interpersonal stressors: Moderation by family involvement and gender6
How do you build the perfect friend? Evidence from two forced-choice decision-making experiments6
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
Sibling Relationships in Adolescence and Young Adulthood in Multiple Contexts: A Critical Review6
Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and sexting motivations among Italian young adults: Investigating the impact of age, gender, and sexual orientation6
Social support and positive future expectations, hope, and achievement among Latinx students: Implications by gender and special education6
The effects of pets and human-pet interactions on humans’ romantic relationships and friendships6
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
Learning through romantic experiences: Development and validation of a new measure6
Narrative identity and positive youth development in Turkish emerging adults: The moderating role of cultural self-construals6
Perceptions of oneself and one’s spouse following a stressor discussion predicting attachment insecurity over one year6
The Role of Relationship Conflict for Momentary Loneliness and Affect in the Daily Lives of Older Couples6
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
Longitudinal associations of social support, everyday social interactions, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Parental and partner attachment working models in romantic relationships of nonbinary adults6
Walking hand in hand: The role of affection-sharing in understanding the social network effect in same-sex, mixed-sex, and gender-diverse relationships6
Exploring the Association Between Rejection Sensitivity and Reactive Aggression: A Multi-Method Research6
Are you happy for me?: Responses to sharing good news in North America and East Asia6
“That’s how the trust began”: Forming trusting friendships from adolescence to adulthood6
Tailoring dyadic coping strategies to attachment style: Emotion-focused and problem-focused dyadic coping differentially buffer anxiously and avoidantly attached partners5
Using pictureless dating apps: Affordance, self-presentation, and relationship development5
Sibling and best friend conflict resolution strategies among Mexican-origin youth5
Being kicked out of a WhatsApp group: Frequency and association with adolescents’ psychosocial well-being and School Achievement5
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
Predictors of collaborative coping in couples managing type 2 diabetes: Illness factors, relationship factors, and interdependent personality traits5
Young adults’ experiences of ageism in the United Kingdom: Forms, sources, and associations with intergenerational attitudes5
Do different sources of sexuality education contribute differently to sexual health and well-being outcomes? Examining sexuality education in Spain and Portugal5
Adult friendship and suicidality: A scoping review5
Technically in love: Individual differences relating to sexual and platonic relationships with robots5
Integrating multiple time-scales to advance relationship science5
Operationalizing relational construal level to test relational turbulence theory: Linking relational turbulence in romantic relationships to interpersonal processes5
Romance matters: The role of dating in adolescents’ friendship beginnings and endings5
Exploring shared identity theory as an expanded conceptualization of Alzheimer’s caregiving5
“Marry a normal woman”: Vietnamese women with physical disabilities’ experiences of marriage opposition5
Erratum to Relationship maintenance among military couples5
Intergenerational Model of Financial Satisfaction and Parent-Child Financial Relationship5
Is my partner watching thirst traps? Associations between perceptions of a partner’s TikTok alternatives and relationship quality5
What’s in a label? Exploring the intersection of relationships with best friends and romantic partners with well-being5
Providing emotional support and daily emotional well-being among undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Daily dyadic coping: Associations with postpartum sexual desire and sexual and relationship satisfaction5
The story of us: How online daters narrate their courtship5
COVID-19 distress and interdependence of daily emotional intimacy, physical intimacy, and loneliness in cohabiting couples5
Community connectedness and depression in transgender populations: The role of self-focused attention5
Friendship dynamics of young men with non-exclusive sexual orientations: Group diversity, physical intimacy and emotionality4
The motivational leveraging of impostor phenomenon to manage cognitive dissonance in graduate school: Individual behaviors, familial support, and empty support4
Technology, relationships, and well-being: An overview of critical research issues and an introduction to the special issue4
Interpersonal dynamics of traumatic brain injury within romantic relationships described in online forums4
Interdependency of relationships in stepfamilies – Variation across residence arrangements4
Non-relative foster caregivers’ changes in mindfulness and couple relationship skills following relationship education4
Making meaning from the “yo no se:” Agency and truth-telling in Salvadoran women4
Sibling estrangement in adulthood4
Positive peripheral social partners: Relationship and social interaction evaluations across adulthood4
Perceived partner responsiveness across the transition to parenthood: The role of attachment insecurity4
Of race and romance: A qualitative investigation of queer Asian American men’s romantic relationships with queer Asian American men4
Examining short-term and long-term effects of self-esteem on relationship satisfaction using a dyadic response surface analysis4
Ideal-perception consistency and regulation of best friends: Associations With attachment anxiety and avoidance4
Dyadic coping and marital quality in same-sex and different-sex marriages4
Understanding parents’ motivations for giving their children smartphones: A qualitative study4
Is unit cohesion a double-edged sword? A moderated mediation model of combat exposure, work stressors, and marital satisfaction4
Overparenting and social media addiction in emerging adults: The roles of autonomy control and self-efficacy4
Latinx adolescents’ perspectives on romantic relationships and sexuality: Exploring the roles of parents and siblings4
Social support in the urban safety net: Assessing tie activation among individuals with complex care needs4
Tangled threads of romantic conflict: The intersection of generation, culture, and socio-demographics in shaping Chinese women’s romantic conflict styles4
The impact of social-emotional competence on social support in Chinese college students: The mediating effects of interaction culture and conflictual relationships4
Prosociality as a means to buffer loneliness and strengthen well-being4
Advancing understanding of overparenting and child adjustment: Mechanisms, methodology, context, and development4
Parent empathy and adolescent disclosure in the context of type 1 diabetes management4
Sexual exchanges explain the association between attachment insecurities and sexual satisfaction in long-term couples4
Beyond the Individual: A 25-year Systematic Review of the Actor–Partner Interdependence Model in Longitudinal Dyadic Research Across Disciplines and Contexts4
Associations between sexual assault and romantic relationship functioning: A mixed-methods analysis4
The relationship between insecure attachment and Machiavellianism: A meta-analysis4
Parental Internet practices in the family system: Restrictive mediation, problematic Internet use, and adolescents’ age-related variations in perceptions of parent-child relationship quality4
Together–A couples’ program integrating relationship and financial education: A randomized controlled trial4
Maintain the relationship or protect it from threat? Jealousy shapes distinct types of goal striving in romantic relationships4
The longitudinal correlates of breakup distress in early young adulthood: Future distress and future benefits4
Power in friendships: How experienced and desired power are associated with relationship functioning4
Parents’ views on facilitating and inhibiting factors in the development of attachment relationships with their children with severe disabilities3
Adolescents’ Individual Characteristics and Intentions to Seek Help from Types of Peers and Parents3
Does sibling differentiation promote relational harmony or discord? Evidence from a longitudinal dyadic study3
One-size-fits-all or friend-specific? A social relations model approach to social support in friendships3
More friends or good friends? The moderation effect of friendship on the relations between victimization, emotional resilience, and depression in early adolescence3
Do personal relationships boost academic performance more for women than for men?3
Happily ever affluence: Dyadic analysis of money scripts, financial communication, and relationship satisfaction3
Dyadic links between adverse childhood experiences, mindfulness, and relationship quality in a diverse sample of couples3
Early relational exclusion and present-day minority stress, social anxiety, and coping responses among sexual minority men3
Towards successful intercultural relationships: The initial development and validation of a relational cultural intelligence scale3
Developmental changes in best friendship quality during emerging adulthood3
Trust in close relationships revisited3
Reading between the ties: Solitary and social activities, network satisfaction, and loneliness in later life3
Balancing friends and romance: Associations between men’s investment in peer relationships and romantic relationship quality3
Reciprocal self-disclosure: Although respondents are reluctant to steal the spotlight, self-disclosers feel validated, understood, and cared for when respondents share comparable experiences3
The associations between mothers’ and grandmothers’ self-control, mother-grandmother coparenting relationships and caregiver-child attachment: An actor-partner interdependence mediation model3
Coparenting perceptions of (Grand)parents and associations with demographic characteristics and early adolescent problem behavior in China3
Introduction to the special issue: Nonlinear effects and dynamics in close relationships3
Parent emotion regulation and parenting self-efficacy: The moderating role of coparenting3
Greater social network complexity mitigates pandemic-related negativity3
Social support among emerging adult friends: Dyadic and longitudinal associations between support gaps and relational quality3
“Children don’t think about these things”: Qualitative research on the relationship views and experiences of former unaccompanied refugee children3
Social support and social strain from children and subsequent health and well-being among older U.S. adults3
The protective effects of perceived gratitude and expressed gratitude for relationship quality among African American couples3
Accurately detecting happy facial expressions associates with perceptions of flirtatiousness3
The longitudinal influence of cumulative risk: Is relationship education a resource?3
Casual sexual relationships and their increase over time among Israeli emerging adults: Do these associate with the quality of future relationships?3
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