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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
What makes them last? Predicting time to relationship dissolution in adolescent women’s intimate relationships with male partners71
First impression sexual scripts of romantic encounters: Effect of gender on verbal and non verbal immediacy behaviors in American media dating culture59
When couples fight about money, what do they fight about?53
The relationship between LGBT older adults’ social network structure and function49
Confidants for life: Examining sibling relationship positivity and disclosure in U.S. Latinx college students while considering the role of familism47
Weathering racism and colorism: Exploring concurrent and short-term longitudinal associations between discrimination, colorism, psychosocial health, and Black and Latinx emerging adults’ relationship 45
Self-disclosure in social media and psychological well-being: A meta-analysis42
Advancing understanding of overparenting and child adjustment: Mechanisms, methodology, context, and development39
Dyadic effects of attachment and relationship functioning39
Parental separation and children’s well-being: Does the quality of parent-child relationships moderate the effect?37
Loneliness in the Maltese population: A comparison of data from 2019 and 202236
Effects of mediated communication on conflict behavior, resolution, and affect in romantic couples35
Daily stress, family functioning and mental health among Palestinian couples in Israel during COVID-19: A moderated mediation model34
Moving from “balancing” to “blending”: The role of identity integration for working parents33
Resolving the cultural loneliness paradox of choice: The role of cultural norms about individual choice regarding relationships in explaining loneliness in four European countries33
Bidirectional longitudinal relationships between parents’ positive co-parenting, marital satisfaction, and parental involvement32
Attachment anxiety in daily experiences of romantic relationships: An expansion of the mutual cyclical growth model29
Directly-measured smartphone screen time predicts well-being and feelings of social connectedness29
Friendship dynamics of young men with non-exclusive sexual orientations: Group diversity, physical intimacy and emotionality28
Parenting a child with a disability: Fathers’ perceptions of the couple relationship28
Linking maternal involvement in child online learning to child adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic: The moderating role of maternal mindfulness27
Daily and longitudinal associations between relationship catastrophizing and sexual well-being in the postpartum period26
Concrete and symbolic continuing bonds with a deceased person: The psychometric properties of the continuing bonds scale in bereaved surviving family members26
An actor-partner model of partner phubbing, mobile phone conflict, and relationship satisfaction between romantic partners in Liberia24
The impact of attachment threat on mental state identification: The mediating role of negative emotion and the moderating role of attachment styles24
Understanding the link between anxious parental overprotection and academic confidence in emerging adults: Mediation through interpersonal and intrapersonal processes23
Connecting electronically with friends to cope with isolation during COVID-19 pandemic22
Does living together or apart matter? A longitudinal analysis of relationship formation in later life in association with health, well-being, and life satisfaction22
Is unit cohesion a double-edged sword? A moderated mediation model of combat exposure, work stressors, and marital satisfaction20
Need to belong, daily social engagement, and transient loneliness in late life20
Social media and mental health: The role of interpersonal relationships and social media use motivations, in a nationally representative, longitudinal sample of Spanish emerging adults19
Social Bandwidth: When and Why Are Social Interactions Energy Intensive?19
Parent-emerging adult text interactions and emerging adult perceived parental support of autonomy19
Making sense of changes in military partners’ post-deployment adjustment concern: Turning points, trajectories, and accounts19
Ethnic identity commitment and socioemotional well-being among Latinx-origin college students: The influence of maternal and peer relationships18
Predicting emotion regulation strategies from aspects of the social context in everyday life18
Actor and partner effects of positive affect on communal coping18
The role of mutually responsive orientation in promoting relationship satisfaction for first-time and experienced parents: An investigation from pregnancy to toddlerhood18
The role of exteroceptive and interoceptive awareness in executing socially relevant bodily actions: A naturalistic investigation of greeting behaviour in the UK and Spain18
Romantic partners’ weight criticism and Latina/o/x young adults’ relationship instability17
I feel loved when other people feel loved: Cultural congruence in beliefs on love is related to well-being17
Perceived partner support and post-traumatic symptoms after an acute cardiac event:A longitudinal study17
Cheering my friends up: The unique role of Interpersonal emotion regulation strategies in social competence17
The great reconnection: Examining motives for relational reconnection and investigating social penetration as a predictor of well-being16
Learning and teaching care within the family: Experiential learning reflecting informal teaching16
Factors influencing peer referencing behavior during an online learning activity16
Multiracial identity and social support: Navigating the monoracial paradigm of race16
Personal network, recruitment pattern and network characteristics of female sex workers in a high HIV prevalent state of India15
Diversity of network communication mode and interpersonal interactions: Relationship with social support and well-being15
The effect of social interaction quantity and quality on depressed mood and loneliness: A daily diary study15
Editorial Synthesis for 2 in 2023: A Collaboration Between IARR’s Two Journals: Recognizing the Need for Greater Inclusivity in Relationship Science15
The trajectory and determinants of loneliness during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States14
Adolescent Aspirations, Compromise, and Conflict-Resolution14
Settling down without settling: Perceived changes in partner preferences in response to COVID-1914
“Look at them… wasting that good, White skin”: Exploring messages of White privilege in Black Americans’ family discourse14
From Close to Ghost: Examining the Relationship Between the Need for Closure, Intentions to Ghost, and Reactions to Being Ghosted14
Actor and partner effects of prenatal coparenting behavior on postpartum depression in first-time parents14
“Side by side”: Development of twin relationship dimensions from early to middle childhood and the role of zygosity and parenting14
Age differences in emotional support buffering on the relationship between physical disability and psychological distress13
The moderating role of neighborhood social cohesion on the relationship between early mother-child attachment security and adolescent social skills: Brief report13
Need for closure is linked with traumatic bonding among victims of intimate partner violence: A mediation approach13
Relationship stress, arguments, and sleep quality: A causal process analysis13
Corrigendum to “Technically in love: Individual differences relating to sexual and platonic relationships with robots”13
The power to gaslight12
Teacher–student relationship and adolescents’ bullying perpetration: A moderated mediation model of deviant peer affiliation and peer pressure12
The associated effects of parent, peer and teacher attachment and self-regulation on prosocial behaviors: A person-and variable-centered investigation12
Separating the effect of attachment figure-domain units in IPPA-R using the correlated trait and correlated method minus one model12
A dyadic assessment of the association between sexual communication and daily sexual satisfaction12
Revenge via social media and relationship contexts: Prevalence and measurement12
Parent empathy and adolescent disclosure in the context of type 1 diabetes management12
Remembering for Relationships: Brief Cognitive-Reminiscence Therapy Improves Young Adults’ Perceptions About Self and Others in Social Relationships12
Positive affect as mediator: The socioemotional selectivity theory applied to the association between bonding social capital and wellbeing in later life11
The protective role of siblings in sexual diverse emerging adult well-being11
Relationship dissolution in the friendships of emerging adults: How, when, and why?11
Communal coping manifested in daily Life: A focus on gender11
Enhancing constructive communication in the digital age through “textual healing,” a mindfulness app11
“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 anorexia11
Individual healing from infidelity and breakup for emerging adults: a grounded theory11
“Hero,” a virtual program for promoting prosocial behaviors toward strangers and empathy among adolescents: A cluster randomized trial11
A scoping review on couples’ stress and coping literature: Recognizing the need for inclusivity11
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 model10
Mental contrasting and conflict management in satisfied and unsatisfied romantic relationships10
The perceived quality of social interactions differs by modality and purpose: An event-contingent experience sampling study with older adults10
Effects of regulating emotional expression on authenticity and likeability in stranger dyads10
Impoverished ascriptions: Investigating stereotypes of single parents from a social role perspective10
Self-expansion motivation and inclusion of others in self: An updated review9
Actions for solutions: Financial behaviors, power (im)balance, and economic abuse among Chinese young adults in non-marital cohabitation9
Friendship Network Satisfaction: A multifaceted construct scored as a unidimensional scale9
Enhanced Mood After a Getting-Acquainted Interaction with a Stranger: Do Shy People Benefit Too?9
Risk factors of loneliness across the life span9
Relationship closeness as a protective factor against the sensitizing effect of adversity history9
Social and parasocial relationships during COVID-19 social distancing9
Traumatic bonding in victims of intimate partner violence is intensified via empathy8
The Role of Counter-narratives in Resisting the Deficit Model of Families for BIPOC Families8
Associations between distress tolerance and posttraumatic stress symptoms among combat veterans and their parents: The mediating role of parents’ accommodation8
Examining short-term and long-term effects of self-esteem on relationship satisfaction using a dyadic response surface analysis8
Trait mindfulness and relationship mindfulness are indirectly related to sexual quality over time in dating relationships among emerging adults8
Longitudinal associations among adult attachment orientations, emotion regulation tendencies, and transdiagnostic anxiety and depression symptoms in young adults8
Social relationships in later life: Does marital status matter?8
An examination of visually impaired individuals’ communicative negotiation of face threats8
Adaptive communication and perceptions in long-distance dating: Evidence from self-reported and behavioral data8
Voices of (m)otherhood: Listening to the experiences of single and childless women8
Spanish-speaking family members and non-Spanish speakers’ supportive and unsupportive communication for Latina/o/x language brokers8
“Just be here”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of couples’ experiences of dyadic coping in multiple sclerosis8
Perceptions of interest and agency explain disagreements about sexual violations8
(Re)discovering interpersonal relationships and self-authorship in STEM Graduate school through mindfulness8
Joint trajectories of self-esteem and neuroticism among newlywed couples: Associations with marital quality8
The meaning of misinformation and those who correct it: An extension of relational dialectics theory8
Latino/a young adults’ experiences of acculturative stress, depressive symptoms, and romantic relationship commitment: Ethnic identity as protective8
Beyond reciprocity: Relational sacrifices in romantic partners8
Raising siblings is stressful: Measuring parental emotion regulation in the sibling context8
“I one-hundred thousand percent blame it on QAnon”: The impact of QAnon belief on interpersonal relationships8
Balancing friends and romance: Associations between men’s investment in peer relationships and romantic relationship quality7
A systemic, multiple socialization approach to the study of prosocial development7
Between friends: Forgiveness, unforgiveness, and wrongdoing in same-sex friendships7
Money to Marriage, or Marriage to Money? Examining the Directionality Between Financial Processes and Marital Processes Among Newlywed Couples7
Relational mindfulness themes in descriptions of intimate encounters across six interpersonal contexts7
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 disorder7
Using technology to unobtrusively observe relationship development7
Prepandemic relationship satisfaction is related to postpandemic COVID-19 anxiety: A four-wave study in China7
Fluctuations in children’s self-regulation and parent-child interaction in everyday life: An ambulatory assessment study7
Transitions and transformations in sibling relationships: Characteristics of Turkish and US young adults’ sibling-related turning-point memories7
Forging one’s identity as a twin: Balancing sibling cohesion and deidentification7
Alone, together: Fear of missing out mediates the link between peer exclusion in WhatsApp classmate groups and psychological adjustment in early-adolescent teens7
Coping with global uncertainty: Perceptions of COVID-19 psychological distress, relationship quality, and dyadic coping for romantic partners across 27 countries7
Collective and collaborative actions among peers in school as a form of cultural resistance of Mapuche children in La Araucanía, Chile7
PowerLAPIM: An application to conduct power analysis for linear and quadratic longitudinal actor–partner interdependence models in intensive longitudinal dyadic designs7
The association between sibling ambivalence and well-being in older adulthood: The role of sibling gender composition7
Is cohabitation a prerequisite for marriage?: Exploring Ghanaian emerging adults’ attitudes and intentions7
The more useful, the more close: Instrumental deliberation boosts closeness with non-close others7
To sext or not to sext. The role of social-cognitive processes in the decision to engage in sexting7
Spatial proximity as a behavioral marker of relationship dynamics in older adult couples7
Promoting attachment security during the transition to college: A pilot study of emotionally focused mentoring7
Dating disagreements in adolescents: The role of daily romantic attachment and stress7
Successful negotiation of goal conflict between romantic partners predicts better goal outcomes during COVID-19: A mixed methods study7
Longitudinal associations between mindfulness and change in attachment orientations in couples: The role of relationship preoccupation and empathy7
Parenting with a smile: Display rules, regulatory effort, and parental burnout7
When We’re Asked to Change: The Role of Suppression and Reappraisal in Partner Change Outcomes6
Race talk: How racial worldview impacts discussions in interracial relationships6
Repartnering and trajectories of life satisfaction after separation and divorce in middle and later life6
Living through the pandemic together: Exploring the associations among couples’ communal orientation, self-disclosure, and thriving6
The role of social context in the association between leisure activities and romantic relationship quality6
Intimacy, attachment to the partner, and daily well-being in romantic relationships6
Peer social support moderates the impact of ethnoracial discrimination on mental health among young sexual minority men of color6
Stress, Dyadic Coping, and Relationship Instability During the COVID-19 Pandemic6
Daily sibling interactions among latino children in middle childhood: An examination of familism values and sibling roles6
Do personality and attachment predict marital beliefs? Investigating young adults in Iran6
Cognitive and personality variables as predictors of sexism against women in Spanish adolescents6
The effects of relationship history on social support perceived from friendships6
Body dissatisfaction and romantic relationship quality: A meta-analysis6
Responsiveness processes and daily experiences of shared reality among romantic couples6
Mindfulness, perceived partner responsiveness, and relationship quality: A dyadic longitudinal mediation model6
Connectedness and independence of young adults and parents in the digital world: Observing smartphone interactions at multiple timescales using Screenomics6
The gaslighting relationship exposure inventory: Reliability and validity in two cultures6
Refusal versus massive investment: Qualitative study of parenthood among adopted adults in France6
Childhood maltreatment amplifies the association between relationship functioning and depressive symptoms among rural African American couples6
Abusers are Using COVID to Enhance Abuse”: Domestic Abuse Helpline Workers’ Perspectives on the Impact of COVID-19 Restrictions on those Living with Domestic Abuse6
Drawing the line at infidelity: Negotiating relationship morality in a Swedish context of consensual non-monogamy6
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia moderates the interpersonal consequences of brooding rumination6
Negative speaks louder than positive: Negative implicit partner evaluations forecast destructive daily interactions and relationship decline6
Conditional regard, stress, and dyadic adjustment in primiparous couples: A dyadic analysis perspective6
Characteristics of parent-child separation related to bullying involvement among left-behind children in China6
Family relationship quality and psychological and cognitive health among grandparent caregivers: The moderating role of co-residence with adult children6
Perfectionism shapes the way adolescents perceive family acceptance over time6
Romantic relationship initiation and escalation through mobile dating apps: Affordances, modality weaving, and paradoxical beliefs6
Communication technology use in post-divorce coparenting relationships: A typology and associations with post-divorce adjustment6
Similarity as a safe haven: Similarity leads to satisfaction in prevention focus6
Social ties and social identification: Influences on well-being in young adults5
Investigating the impact of partner phubbing on romantic jealousy and relationship satisfaction: The moderating role of attachment anxiety5
Buttered Nostalgia: Feeding My Parents During #COVID195
“Be free together rather than confined together”: A qualitative exploration of how relationships changed in the early COVID-19 pandemic5
Assessing dynamical associations in dyadic interactions across multiple time scales via a Bayesian hierarchical vector autoregressive model5
Family communication patterns, mediated communication, and well-being: A communication interdependence perspective on parent–adult child relationships5
Exploring loneliness across widowhood and other marital statuses: A systematic review integrating insights from grief research5
The social process linking neighborhood social fragmentation and individual psychological distress5
Intimacy despite distance: The dark triad and romantic parasocial interactions5
Corrigendum to “Changing the blame game: Associations between relationship mindfulness, loneliness, negative partner attributions, and subsequent conflict”5
Fighting the good fight: Relating warmth and dominance across romantic conflict to resolution5
Sibling relationship qualities and prosocial behaviors in Asian Indian college students: Intervening roles of family respect values and empathy5
Comprehensive scoping review of research on intercultural love and romantic relationships5
Preliminary evidence for an aversion to atheists in long-term mating domains in the Southern United States5
A communication and identity process that mediates parents’ nonaccommodation and sexual minorities’ mental well-being5
The role of relational mobility in relationship quality and well-being5
Explicating a comprehensive model of post-dissolution distress5
Parent–child cohesion, loneliness, and prosocial behavior: Longitudinal relations in children5
Justify my love: Cognitive dissonance reduction among perpetrators of online and offline infidelity5
Evidence of assortative mating for theory of mind via facial expressions but not language5
External stressors and trajectories of marital quality during the early years of Chinese marriage: Buffering effects of resources at multiple ecological levels5
Sibling transmission of relationship breakup: Does partnership type matter?5
A Space of Our Own: Exploring the Relationship Initiation Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Dating App Users5
Mexican-origin siblings’ unique and shared perspectives of sibling conflict: Links with adjustment5
Genetic causal beliefs and developmental context: Parents’ beliefs predict psychologically controlling approaches to parenting5
Gratitude and sexual satisfaction: Benefits of gratitude for couples and insecure attachment5
Support in response to a spouse’s distress: Comparing women and men in same-sex and different-sex marriages5
Parent-child relationship quality and older parents’ cognitive trajectories5
Romantic partner communication, familism values, and Latine young adults’ relationship maintenance5
Unpacking young adults’ experiences of race- and gender-based microaggressions5
I blame you, I hear you: Couples’ pronoun use in conflict and dyadic coping5
The impact of COVID-19-related anti-Asian discrimination on sexual communication and relationships among Asian individuals in the United States5
Couple relationship satisfaction: The role of recollection of parental acceptance, self-differentiation, and spousal caregiving5
Adult attachment and engagement with fictional characters5
The association between partner evaluations and accommodation in romantic relationships: The moderating role of commitment5
Arguing about social distancing and family relationships5
Emotion differentiation during the transition to parenthood—Concurrent and prospective positive effects5
Reconsider the triangle: Effects of birth parents’ communicative practices on Chinese hidden children’s identification with family of origin5
Relationship satisfaction in the time of COVID-19: The role of shared reality in perceiving partner support for frontline health-care workers5
Ambivalent sexism and relationship adjustment among young adult couples: An actor-partner interdependence model5
Caregiving spouses’ experiences of relational uncertainty and partner influence in the prolonged relational transition of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias5
The complicated connection between closeness and the quality of romantic relationships5
“Making do with things we cannot change”: An interpretive phenomenological analysis of relationship resilience among gay men in Singapore5
Social support and positive future expectations, hope, and achievement among Latinx students: Implications by gender and special education4
Greater average levels of relatedness need fulfilment across daily and monthly life predict lower attachment insecurities across time4
Are you tired of “us?” Accuracy and bias in couples’ perceptions of relational boredom4
Longitudinal associations of social support, everyday social interactions, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic4
The mediating role of empathy in the links between relationships with three socialisation agents and adolescents’ prosocial behaviours4
Sibling Relationships in Adolescence and Young Adulthood in Multiple Contexts: A Critical Review4
Emotional recovery following divorce: Will the real self-compassion please stand up?4
Resisting and reifying meaning in everyday life: Using relational dialectics theory to understand the meaning of heterosexual dating4
The consequences of spousal infidelity for long-term chronic health: A two-wave longitudinal analysis4
Early relational exclusion and present-day minority stress, social anxiety, and coping responses among sexual minority men4
Why now? Late-life divorce timing process: Dyadic and individual perspectives4
Give yourself a break: Self-compassion mediates insecure attachment and divorce maladjustment among Iranian women4
Optimism, relationship quality, and problem solving discussions: A daily diary study4
Parental warmth may not always be beneficial: High parental warmth impairs victimized adolescents’ academic achievement via elevated school burnout4
Maternal experiences of childhood psychological maltreatment: Relations with toddler emotional regulation4
Translating mindfulness into relationships: Own and partner’s mental well-being moderate the link between trait mindfulness and relationship mindfulness4
Planning date nights that promote closeness: The roles of relationship goals and self-expansion4
The intergenerational similarity of social value orientations in adolescents and emerging adults: Variable-centered and person-centered approaches4
“I don’t even know who I am”: Identity reconstruction after the loss of a spouse4
Loneliness in Malta: Findings from the first National Prevalence Study4
You need to take turns! Sibling sharing and the emergence of conscience in early childhood4
Gendered division of labor during a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown: Implications for relationship problems and satisfaction4
Longitudinal associations between childhood maltreatment and sexual motivations in couples: The role of basic psychological needs4
Tradeoffs, Constraints, and Strategies in Transgender and Nonbinary Young Adults’ Romantic Relationships: The Identity Needs in Relationships Framework4
Online construction of romantic relationships on social media4
Responding to threatening online alternatives: Perceiving the partner’s commitment through their social media behaviors4
Associations of sibling relationship quality and emotion regulation with child functioning in families with parental cancer4
A model of personal relationships and cyberbullying perpetration among adolescents: A person*environment model4
Now for the Good News: Self-Perceived Positive Effects of the First Pandemic Wave on Romantic Relationships Outweigh the Negative4
Greater social network complexity mitigates pandemic-related negativity4
Important relationships in a multilevel world: The role of network structure in explaining closeness of relationships and access to resources in later life4
Trajectories of coparenting quality across ethnically diverse and interethnic parents4
Changing for the worse: The effects of attachment anxiety on perceived self-adulteration4
Identifying the strongest self-report predictors of sexual satisfaction using machine learning4
Romantic conflict narratives and associations with psychological relationship aggression in emerging adult couples4
Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and sexting motivations among Italian young adults: Investigating the impact of age, gender, and sexual orientation4
Cumulative childhood interpersonal trauma and parental stress: The role of partner support4
Adolescent sense of personal agency: Exploring gendered perspectives on parental and peers attachments4
Discrepancies in parent-adolescent educational and career expectations and overparenting4
Affectionate touch in satisfying and dissatisfying romantic relationships4
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