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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Parenting typologies in Georgian and Belgian adolescents: Associations with self‐esteem37
Examining trajectories of marital satisfaction to represent the resilience process among Indonesian married individuals26
Does Positivity Resonance Signify Love? Markers of Positivity Resonance in Long‐Term Married Couples Relate to Trait and State Love22
Mate value discrepancies and mate retention behaviors: A cubic response surface analysis21
I just need a little support: Marital support and strain link to A1C for people with diabetes21
Relationship sustainability: Exploring the idea of sustainable marriages among Indian married couples18
Deceptive Hearts: Insecure Attachment and Motives Underlying Deception in Romantic Relationships14
Support seeking and support transactions with college students' romantic partners13
But I said I'm sorry: Helpfulness of romantic couples' efforts to reconcile after conflict13
Loneliness and relationship dispositions in emerging adults: Gender and culture as moderators13
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The development and psychometric properties of the grudge aspect measure11
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People who help people: A needs assessment of those who provide interpersonal support to individuals with chronic illnesses10
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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 partners10
Psychologists' representations of gender identity between Spain and Greece: A qualitative cross‐cultural study9
All you fear is love: The roles of rejection by intimate others9
Mutual enjoyment in older couples' conversations and its links to marital satisfaction9
Won't You Come Home? Women's Linguistic Strategies in Negotiating Sexual Engagements in a Rural Context in Nigeria8
Partners' internal stress and well‐being: The role of dyadic coping and problem resolution8
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Who's Waiting Ever After? An Exploration of Relationship Desire and Satisfaction Among Long‐Term Singles8
Affectionate communication, health, and relationships8
Heterosexual men's reactions to infidelity revisited: Comparing the sex role presentation of extradyadic female partners8
Temptation at your door: Receiving mate poaching attempts and perceived Partners' desirability7
A qualitative analysis of gaslighting in romantic relationships7
Editorial synthesis for counseling psychology and relationship science: Making connections and expanding disciplinary diversity7
Positive crossover: Parent perceived partner responsiveness and health of youth with asthma6
“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 men6
Investigating the Association Between Companionship and Behavior Concordance: A Dyadic Panel Study6
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When worlds collide: The romantic relationship experiences of bisexual‐identifying Asian American men6
Are we there for each other? Longitudinal associations between parenting stress and coparenting in parents of preschool and school‐aged children6
Strategies for becoming a more desirable mate: Evidence from 14 countries6
Loneliness andHbA1camong older Irish couples: Retirement as life stage context6
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Dyadic relationships between personality, social support, conflict resolution, and marital quality5
Self‐concept clarity and the evaluation and selection of incompatible dating partners5
Individuals' favorite songs' lyrics reflect their attachment style5
Breaking‐up is hard to study: A review of two decades of dissolution research5
Acquaintanceships (weak ties): Their role in people's web of relationships and their formation5
Evaluation of the 14‐h together relationship and financial education program for couples4
Tactics of investment in couple relationship and their impact on relationship satisfaction4
Interrelated psychological predictors of mate preferences among Iranian male and female emerging adults4
Forgiveness among Ghanaian children and early adolescents in the context of peer‐to‐peer dyads4
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“What matters to us”: The portrait values questionnaire to measure couple values4
Narcissism and romantic relationship functioning: The mediating role of the desire for power4
Do Conflict Structures of Family Networks Matter for Loneliness in Later Life? The Case of a Cohort of Swiss Older Adults4
The Progression of College Student Romantic Relationship Development: Stability and Change Over 10 Years4
Chinese intimacy: Filial piety, autonomy, and romantic relationship quality4
Relational boredom as an obstacle for engaging in exciting shared activities4
Do Crushes Pose a Problem for Exclusive Relationships? Trajectories of Attraction Intensity to Extradyadic Others and Links to Primary Relationship Commitment and Satisfaction4
Dishonesty in Romantic Relationships: A Framework of Forms, Content, Dominant Motives, and Consequences4
Minority stress and intimate partner aggression among male same‐sex couples4
Where Is Social Connection Most Needed in Daily Life?4
Development and empirical test of the research‐informed South African Relationship Functioning Assessment (SARFA)4
Putting responsiveness in context: How a partner's responsiveness baseline shapes perceived responsiveness4
Promoting healthy sexual relationships: The benefits of perspective‐taking and self‐expansion in interracial relationships4
Virtual speed dating: Utilizing online‐meeting platforms to study initial attraction and relationship formation3
Dialecticism in romantic relationships: An examination in Chinese and American cultural contexts3
Perceived changes in social contact during COVID‐19 pandemic in the United States3
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How couples think about money: Types of money motives and relationship satisfaction3
Maintaining social trust: Family cohesion and enhancing mindset in the face of COVID‐19 stress3
Taking stock of the longitudinal study of romantic couple relationships: The last 20 years3
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Qualitative analysis of naturalistically observed conversations among same‐ and different‐gender couples coping with breast cancer3
The current state of affairs in infidelity research: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of romantic infidelity prevalence and its moderators3
Latent class analysis of college women's motivations for engaging in same‐sex performativity3
Placing a child's or partner's needs above my own: Impacts on a couple's sexual relationship3
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Adult attachment as a predictor of maternal gatekeeping among new parents3
The Influence of Interparental Conflict and Violence on Parenting and Parent–Child Relationships2
Self‐compassion reduces parental burnout: Mediation roles of parental psychological control and support2
‘Worlds Apart’: Examining the Experiences of Intercultural Couples Co‐Creating a Third Culture2
Editorial synthesis for 2 in 2023 a collaboration between IARR's two journals: Recognizing the need for greater inclusivity in relationship science2
Understanding relationship satisfaction during COVID‐19: Assessing unstable work experiences and negative communication2
Contextual desirability of strong men employing affiliative and aggressive humor2
Ratings of the physical attractiveness of an interaction partner after a getting‐acquainted interaction2
The polite abuser: Using politeness theory to examine emotional abuse2
Desperate or desirable? Perceptions of individuals seeking dates online and offline2
Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Partner Version of the Psychological Distance Scaling Task2
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Are We Still Friends If You Are No Longer Single? The Impacts of a Friend Entering a New Romantic Relationship2
When and how do people share? Attachment anxiety predicts support‐seeking strategies2
Family communication patterns and young adults' trait autonomy over time2
When Love and Money Collide: The Role of Financially Focused Self‐Concept in Relationships2
Ignorance is not always bliss: A qualitative study of young adults' experiences with being ghosted2
The secrets that you keep: Secrets and relationship quality2
Challenges and stressors in intimate intercultural relationships: A systematic research synthesis2
Relationship maintenance strategies of rotational workers and their partners2
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Psychological distress with relationship satisfaction is moderated by anticipatory relational savoring among non‐deployed military partners2
Emerging adult siblings' relational entitlement and conflict: The moderating effects of financial dependence on parents2
The relative importance of contextual factors in judging mundane extradyadic behaviors as infidelity: A policy‐capturing study2
Knowing What You Want: The Role of Relationship Clarity in Single Young Adults' Loneliness and Well‐Being2
People act extremely toward their amorous partner when they feel insignificant2
Examining the Predictors and Outcomes of Support Seeking Following Spousal Death2
Mindfulness networks: Analyzing associations with self‐compassion, other‐compassion, need fulfillment, and satisfaction in midlife married Canadians1
Work‐Related Migration and Couples in Long‐Distance Marriages: Mindfulness, Marital Quality, Satisfaction, and Happiness1
The effects of sexual and gender minority stress on relationship functioning: A meta‐analysis1
Teaching relationship science: Continuity and change in the craft1
A Multi‐Level Meta‐Analysis Comparing Relationship Norm Strength of LGB and Heterosexual Relationships1
Does covenant marriage predict latent trajectory groups of newlywed couples?1
Making the Case for Heirlooms: Heritage Stories, Family Treasures, and Intergenerational Relationships1
Couple affection exchange profiles and marital quality in Chinese couples1
Intergroup friendship: A reflective spotlight1
The Transformative power of friendships: Examining the relationships among friendship quality, self‐change, and well‐being1
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Autonomy support in disclosure and privacy maintenance regulation within romantic relationships1
Attachment avoidance predicts limited and selective sharing of personal events in close relationships1
Perceptions of inferred parental ability through sexually dimorphic facial features1
Processes in international relationships: A critical review1
Intergenerational connections: Skipped generation family contact during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
A Latent Profile Analysis of Reasons for Cohabitation1
Sibling Relationship Quality and Its Link to Flourishing Among Emerging Adults in the Context of Chronic Illness and Disability1
Chinese young adults' emotion regulation and conflict resolution response profiles, and their associations with perceived partner responsiveness and romantic relationship satisfaction1
Mother–child relationship quality from preschool to adolescence: Variation by maternal education1
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“That's when the relationship shifted”: Relational and communicative turning points in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias1
An examination of specialness meaning framework threat in reactive and retroactive romantic jealousy experiences1
Dyadic processes of relational turbulence theory1
Relationship Maintenance Knowledge and Self‐Efficacy Among Single Young Adults Desiring a Committed Romantic Relationship1
A longitudinal study of “we‐talk” as a predictor of marital satisfaction1
Lacking family ties during COVID‐19: A longitudinal, small‐scale qualitative analysis of fictive kin in older adulthood1
Is teasing meant to be mean or nice? Retrospective reports of adolescent social experiences and teasing attitudes1
Same‐race bias in romantic attraction among young adults: Daters' race, gender, and racial ideologies1
Exploring linguistic markers, threat appraisals, and genetic variation during mixed‐sex couples' conflict conversations1
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