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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Loneliness across cultures with different levels of social embeddedness: A qualitative study	28
Associations of attachment avoidance and anxiety with life satisfaction, satisfaction with singlehood, and desire for a romantic partner	24
Relationship form and function: Exploring meaning‐making in young adults' romantic histories	23
Dyadic measurement invariance and its importance for replicability in romantic relationship science	21
A review of two decades of LGBTQ‐inclusive research in JSPR and PR	20
Perceived changes in social contact during COVID‐19 pandemic in the United States	17
A systematic review of romantic relationship initiation and maintenance factors in autism	15
Power dynamics in families affected by parental alienation	14
An empirical, accessible definition of “ghosting” as a relationship dissolution method	14
A systematic review of relationship maintenance: Reflecting back and looking to the future	12
Exploring the links between psychological flexibility, individual well‐being, and relationship quality	12
Corumination, diet culture, intuitive eating, and body dissatisfaction among young adult women	12
Why people make friends: The nature of friendship	12
Teaching romantic competence skills to emerging adults: A relationship education workshop	10
Within‐person effects of inclusion and exclusion on well‐being in daily life	8
Relational turbulence and health‐compromising behaviors: Integrating relational turbulence and stress theories	8
A qualitative analysis of gaslighting in romantic relationships	8
Fear of being single priming predicts maladaptive relationship pursuits	8
“I don't let everyone see my struggles”: Mothers' social support and privacy management	7
Breaking‐up is hard to study: A review of two decades of dissolution research	7
Taking stock of the longitudinal study of romantic couple relationships: The last 20 years	7
Desire for power mediates associations between narcissism and mate retention behaviors	7
Associations between early life harshness, parents' parenting style, and relationship quality in China	7
Is it sexy to be sexist? How stereotyped humor affects romantic attraction	7
Looking for politically like‐minded partners: Self‐presentation and partner‐vetting strategies on dating apps	7

Rejection sensitivity and mental well‐being: The positive role of friendship quality	7
Quality of alternatives positively associated with interest in opening up a relationship	7
Temptation at your door: Receiving mate poaching attempts and perceived Partners' desirability	7
Development of the Polish‐Language Relationship Disillusionment Scale and its validation	6
Cultural diversity within couples: Risk or chance? A meta‐analytic review of relationship satisfaction	6
Editorial synthesis for 2 in 2023 a collaboration between IARR's two journals: Recognizing the need for greater inclusivity in relationship science	6
The secrets that you keep: Secrets and relationship quality	6
Motivational underpinnings of successful support giving: Compassionate goals promote matching support provision	6
What you don't know might hurt me: Keeping secrets in interpersonal relationships	6
Does attachment style moderate the effect of computer‐mediated versus face‐to‐face conflict discussions?	6
Interpersonal Resilience Inventory: Assessing positive and negative interactions during hardships and COVID‐19	5
Typicality and volition as fundamental features of everyday relational communication	5
Conceptions and the experience of friendship in underrepresented groups	5
Associations between satisfaction with one's own and partner's body and relationship outcomes	5
Contextual desirability of strong men employing affiliative and aggressive humor	5
A theoretical model for understanding relationship functioning in intercultural romantic couples	4
Strategies for becoming a more desirable mate: Evidence from 14 countries	4
Can I trust you? Children's perceptions of friends and classmates who gossip	4
Affectionate communication, health, and relationships	4
Individuals' favorite songs' lyrics reflect their attachment style	4
A systematic review of relationship sacrifices from 2002 to 2021: Moving toward inclusivity	4
Self‐regulation in close relationships	4
Putting responsiveness in context: How a partner's responsiveness baseline shapes perceived responsiveness	4
Dyadic longitudinal models: A critical review	4
Making meaning of parenting from the perspective of alienated parents	4
Psychological factors related to self‐disclosure and relationship formation in the online environment	4
The Influence of Interparental Conflict and Violence on Parenting and Parent–Child Relationships	4
Applying the theory of motivated information management to family health history	4
Acquaintanceships (weak ties): Their role in people's web of relationships and their formation	4
Psychometric validation and cross‐cultural comparison of the Romantic Inclination Scale	4
Linking stress to the emergence of relational turbulence in marriage	3
A dyadic power theory explanation of the demand‐withdraw interaction pattern	3
Self‐compassion reduces parental burnout: Mediation roles of parental psychological control and support	3
Seeing you, seeing me: Links between perceived commitment, metaperceptions, and relationship well‐being	3
Worn out relationship? The role of expectations in judgments of relational boredom	3
How partner‐satisfying decisions benefit relationships: An experience sampling study	3
Age moderates the link between relationship desire and life satisfaction among singles	3
Attachment anxiety, tracking accuracy, and biased memory of prior relationship evaluations	3
Young adults' romantic investment behaviors on social media	3
Back off: Disapproval of romantic relationships predicts closeness to disapproving network members	3
Autonomy support in disclosure and privacy maintenance regulation within romantic relationships	3
“That's when the relationship shifted”: Relational and communicative turning points in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias	3
The qualitative exploration of social competencies and incompetencies on mobile dating applications	3
Both sides of the story: Narratives of romantic infidelity	3
People who help people: A needs assessment of those who provide interpersonal support to individuals with chronic illnesses	3
Beliefs about sexuality and their associations with sexual passion	3
Correlated change in sense of purpose and romantic relationship quality	3
Resilience communication mitigates the negative relational effects of topic avoidance: Evidence from parental caregiving and COVID‐19 pandemic contexts	2
The longitudinal relations between disciplinary practices and emotion regulation in early years	2
Psychological distress with relationship satisfaction is moderated by anticipatory relational savoring among non‐deployed military partners	2

People act extremely toward their amorous partner when they feel insignificant	2
Romantic relationship and pregnancy dynamics among adolescent African Americans and refugees living in the United States	2
Perceptions of romantic partners' responses to disclosures of suicidality	2
Loneliness andHbA1camong older Irish couples: Retirement as life stage context	2
Perceptions of inferred parental ability through sexually dimorphic facial features	2
Caregiving in academia: Examining educator well‐being and burnout during prolonged stressors	2
Latent class analysis of college women's motivations for engaging in same‐sex performativity	2
Factor structure and validity of the dyadic coping inventory–Bahasa Indonesia	2
Partners' internal stress and well‐being: The role of dyadic coping and problem resolution	2
Unaffirmed and color‐blind: Racial worldview and stigma experienced in interracial relationships	2
The influence of ecocultural contexts on Grandmaternal caregiving and Grandmother–Grandchild relationships	2
Mother–child relationship quality from preschool to adolescence: Variation by maternal education	2
Romantic heartbreak: Prevalence, personality traits, and personal stories	2
Father–daughter relationships and autonomy development during college	2
The role of perceived resolvability in serial arguments across the lifespan	2
The effects of sexual and gender minority stress on relationship functioning: A meta‐analysis	2
A longitudinal study of “we‐talk” as a predictor of marital satisfaction	2
Forgiveness among Ghanaian children and early adolescents in the context of peer‐to‐peer dyads	2
Family communication patterns and young adults' trait autonomy over time	2
Shake it off: The role of optimistic expectations for conflict recovery	2
Toward a theory of ability‐based friendship competence: Agentic and communal substrates	2
The development and psychometric properties of the grudge aspect measure	2
Loneliness and relationship dispositions in emerging adults: Gender and culture as moderators	2
Emerging adult romantic relationship narratives during COVID‐19: Understanding relational challenges and opportunities	2
Dyadic relationships between personality, social support, conflict resolution, and marital quality	2
Positive crossover: Parent perceived partner responsiveness and health of youth with asthma	2
Dialecticism in romantic relationships: An examination in Chinese and American cultural contexts	2
Perceiving couples as discrete units: The existence of couple‐level identities	2
Diversity and inclusion in relationship science: Reflections as an International Section Peer Mentor for Personal Relationships	2
All you fear is love: The roles of rejection by intimate others	2
Minority stress and intimate partner aggression among male same‐sex couples	1
Parenting stress, general distress, and coparenting quality: An Actor–Partner Interdependence Moderation Model	1
Ratings of the physical attractiveness of an interaction partner after a getting‐acquainted interaction	1
Attachment avoidance predicts limited and selective sharing of personal events in close relationships	1
Examining trajectories of marital satisfaction to represent the resilience process among Indonesian married individuals	1
Intergenerational relationships and marriage in China: Within‐family longitudinal associations and between‐family differences	1
Reflections on a registered report replicating a body of dyadic cross‐sectional research	1
Commonalities and differences between schemas of five types of love	1
Longitudinal dyadic interplay between marital conflict and psychological well‐being in couples: The moderating roles of wives' employment	1
Forgiveness, its factors, and unforgivable acts in romantic relationships: A mixed‐methods study	1
Interrelated psychological predictors of mate preferences among Iranian male and female emerging adults	1
Mutual enjoyment in older couples' conversations and its links to marital satisfaction	1
Testing the predictive and theoretical validity of the network uncertainty measure	1
Couple disagreement: Inevitable and healthy? Belgian and Japanese conceptions	1
Seeing invisible support: Understanding provider motivation, intent, and enactment of support	1
Initial goals, goal trajectories, and changes in perceived resolvability during serial arguments	1
Ready to change? Predicting adolescents'help‐seekingfor relationship concerns	1
Affection deprivation is more aversive than excessive affection: A test of affection exchange theory	1
Adult attachment as a predictor of maternal gatekeeping among new parents	1
The Transformative power of friendships: Examining the relationships among friendship quality, self‐change, and well‐being	1
When silence speaks louder than words: Exploring the experiences and attitudes of ghosters	1
Acculturative stress while online dating: An exploration of the experiences of second generation Indian and Pakistani immigrants in the United Kingdom	1
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Financial stress and financial management roles: Trajectories of couples' financial disagreements	1
Development and empirical test of the research‐informed South African Relationship Functioning Assessment (SARFA)	1
Parenting and person correlates of prosocial behaviors in Asian Indian young adults	1
Recognizing the blurred boundary between health‐related support and control in close relationships	1
Implicit self‐esteem following a romantic partner's success: Three replications and a meta‐analysis	1
Never walk alone on the way: Friendships of emerging adults	1
Bi+ adults' daily wellbeing: The roles of relationship status and partner gender	1
Association between attachment insecurity and couple adjustment: Moderation by couple memory networks	1
How people react to their Partners' infidelity: An explorative study	1
The impact of friendship structures on marital quality of heterosexual couples	1
When worlds collide: The romantic relationship experiences of bisexual‐identifying Asian American men	1
The polite abuser: Using politeness theory to examine emotional abuse	1
Dyadic processes of relational turbulence theory	1
Unwanted and unfollowed: Defining ghosting and the role of social media unfollowing	1
Does covenant marriage predict latent trajectory groups of newlywed couples?	1
Relationships, health, and stress: Validation of a relationship sense of coherence measure	1
Similar minds in the family: COVID‐19 centrality and relationship quality	1
Online daters' reactions to sexually explicit initiation messages	1
“What matters to us”: The portrait values questionnaire to measure couple values	1
Psychologists' representations of gender identity between Spain and Greece: A qualitative cross‐cultural study	1
Desperate or desirable? Perceptions of individuals seeking dates online and offline	1