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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Relationship sustainability: Exploring the idea of sustainable marriages among Indian married couples	27
Parenting typologies in Georgian and Belgian adolescents: Associations with self‐esteem	26
I just need a little support: Marital support and strain link to A1C for people with diabetes	22
Mate value discrepancies and mate retention behaviors: A cubic response surface analysis	20
Examining trajectories of marital satisfaction to represent the resilience process among Indonesian married individuals	18
Does Positivity Resonance Signify Love? Markers of Positivity Resonance in Long‐Term Married Couples Relate to Trait and State Love	17
Support seeking and support transactions with college students' romantic partners	16
Loneliness and relationship dispositions in emerging adults: Gender and culture as moderators	12
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But I said I'm sorry: Helpfulness of romantic couples' efforts to reconcile after conflict	12
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The development and psychometric properties of the grudge aspect measure	10
People who help people: A needs assessment of those who provide interpersonal support to individuals with chronic illnesses	10
Affectionate communication, health, and relationships	9
Psychologists' representations of gender identity between Spain and Greece: A qualitative cross‐cultural study	9
Heterosexual men's reactions to infidelity revisited: Comparing the sex role presentation of extradyadic female partners	8
Partners' internal stress and well‐being: The role of dyadic coping and problem resolution	8
Temptation at your door: Receiving mate poaching attempts and perceived Partners' desirability	8
Is caring for oneself relevant to happy relationship functioning? Exploring associations between self‐compassion and romantic relationship satisfaction in actors and partners	8
Mutual enjoyment in older couples' conversations and its links to marital satisfaction	8
Editorial synthesis for counseling psychology and relationship science: Making connections and expanding disciplinary diversity	8

All you fear is love: The roles of rejection by intimate others	8
A qualitative analysis of gaslighting in romantic relationships	7
Loneliness andHbA1camong older Irish couples: Retirement as life stage context	7
Strategies for becoming a more desirable mate: Evidence from 14 countries	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
When worlds collide: The romantic relationship experiences of bisexual‐identifying Asian American men	7
Positive crossover: Parent perceived partner responsiveness and health of youth with asthma	6
Self‐concept clarity and the evaluation and selection of incompatible dating partners	6
Individuals' favorite songs' lyrics reflect their attachment style	6
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Investigating the Association Between Companionship and Behavior Concordance: A Dyadic Panel Study	6
Breaking‐up is hard to study: A review of two decades of dissolution research	5
Are we there for each other? Longitudinal associations between parenting stress and coparenting in parents of preschool and school‐aged children	5
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Evaluation of the 14‐h together relationship and financial education program for couples	5
Dyadic relationships between personality, social support, conflict resolution, and marital quality	5
Acquaintanceships (weak ties): Their role in people's web of relationships and their formation	5
Minority stress and intimate partner aggression among male same‐sex couples	4
Forgiveness among Ghanaian children and early adolescents in the context of peer‐to‐peer dyads	4
Tactics of investment in couple relationship and their impact on relationship satisfaction	4
Relational boredom as an obstacle for engaging in exciting shared activities	4
The longitudinal relations between disciplinary practices and emotion regulation in early years	4
Associations between early life harshness, parents' parenting style, and relationship quality in China	4
The Progression of College Student Romantic Relationship Development: Stability and Change Over 10 Years	4
Putting responsiveness in context: How a partner's responsiveness baseline shapes perceived responsiveness	4
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Chinese intimacy: Filial piety, autonomy, and romantic relationship quality	3
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Narcissism and romantic relationship functioning: The mediating role of the desire for power	3
Development and empirical test of the research‐informed South African Relationship Functioning Assessment (SARFA)	3
Dialecticism in romantic relationships: An examination in Chinese and American cultural contexts	3
Placing a child's or partner's needs above my own: Impacts on a couple's sexual relationship	3
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Virtual speed dating: Utilizing online‐meeting platforms to study initial attraction and relationship formation	3
Relationship form and function: Exploring meaning‐making in young adults' romantic histories	3
Interrelated psychological predictors of mate preferences among Iranian male and female emerging adults	3
Development of the Polish‐Language Relationship Disillusionment Scale and its validation	3
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Adult attachment as a predictor of maternal gatekeeping among new parents	3
The current state of affairs in infidelity research: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of romantic infidelity prevalence and its moderators	3
Promoting healthy sexual relationships: The benefits of perspective‐taking and self‐expansion in interracial relationships	3
“What matters to us”: The portrait values questionnaire to measure couple values	3
Maintaining social trust: Family cohesion and enhancing mindset in the face of COVID‐19 stress	3
Latent class analysis of college women's motivations for engaging in same‐sex performativity	3
Perceived changes in social contact during COVID‐19 pandemic in the United States	3
Taking stock of the longitudinal study of romantic couple relationships: The last 20 years	3
A longitudinal study of “we‐talk” as a predictor of marital satisfaction	2
Understanding relationship satisfaction during COVID‐19: Assessing unstable work experiences and negative communication	2
The Influence of Interparental Conflict and Violence on Parenting and Parent–Child Relationships	2
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The polite abuser: Using politeness theory to examine emotional abuse	2
Parenting and person correlates of prosocial behaviors in Asian Indian young adults	2
How couples think about money: Types of money motives and relationship satisfaction	2
Ignorance is not always bliss: A qualitative study of young adults' experiences with being ghosted	2
Qualitative analysis of naturalistically observed conversations among same‐ and different‐gender couples coping with breast cancer	2
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Contextual desirability of strong men employing affiliative and aggressive humor	2
Teaching relationship science: Continuity and change in the craft	2
Editorial synthesis for 2 in 2023 a collaboration between IARR's two journals: Recognizing the need for greater inclusivity in relationship science	2
Does covenant marriage predict latent trajectory groups of newlywed couples?	2
Typicality and volition as fundamental features of everyday relational communication	2
Cultural diversity within couples: Risk or chance? A meta‐analytic review of relationship satisfaction	2
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Ratings of the physical attractiveness of an interaction partner after a getting‐acquainted interaction	2
Unaffirmed and color‐blind: Racial worldview and stigma experienced in interracial relationships	2
Examining the Predictors and Outcomes of Support Seeking Following Spousal Death	2
Psychological distress with relationship satisfaction is moderated by anticipatory relational savoring among non‐deployed military partners	2
Challenges and stressors in intimate intercultural relationships: A systematic research synthesis	2
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Desperate or desirable? Perceptions of individuals seeking dates online and offline	2
A Latent Profile Analysis of Reasons for Cohabitation	2
Intergenerational connections: Skipped generation family contact during the COVID‐19 pandemic	2
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Relationship maintenance strategies of rotational workers and their partners	2
Emerging adult siblings' relational entitlement and conflict: The moderating effects of financial dependence on parents	2
Family communication patterns and young adults' trait autonomy over time	2
The secrets that you keep: Secrets and relationship quality	2
The relative importance of contextual factors in judging mundane extradyadic behaviors as infidelity: A policy‐capturing study	2
Perceptions of romantic partners' responses to disclosures of suicidality	2
Self‐compassion reduces parental burnout: Mediation roles of parental psychological control and support	2
Psychometric validation and cross‐cultural comparison of the Romantic Inclination Scale	2
When and how do people share? Attachment anxiety predicts support‐seeking strategies	2
People act extremely toward their amorous partner when they feel insignificant	2
Dyadic processes of relational turbulence theory	2
The effects of sexual and gender minority stress on relationship functioning: A meta‐analysis	1
Autonomy support in disclosure and privacy maintenance regulation within romantic relationships	1
An examination of specialness meaning framework threat in reactive and retroactive romantic jealousy experiences	1
Attachment avoidance predicts limited and selective sharing of personal events in close relationships	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
Mother–child relationship quality from preschool to adolescence: Variation by maternal education	1
Work‐Related Migration and Couples in Long‐Distance Marriages: Mindfulness, Marital Quality, Satisfaction, and Happiness	1
Frustrated or engaged? Regulatory focus predicts experiences with online dating	1
Couple affection exchange profiles and marital quality in Chinese couples	1
Perceptions of inferred parental ability through sexually dimorphic facial features	1
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Same‐race bias in romantic attraction among young adults: Daters' race, gender, and racial ideologies	1
The influence of ecocultural contexts on Grandmaternal caregiving and Grandmother–Grandchild relationships	1
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The Transformative power of friendships: Examining the relationships among friendship quality, self‐change, and well‐being	1
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“That's when the relationship shifted”: Relational and communicative turning points in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias	1
Mindfulness networks: Analyzing associations with self‐compassion, other‐compassion, need fulfillment, and satisfaction in midlife married Canadians	1
Processes in international relationships: A critical review	1
Lacking family ties during COVID‐19: A longitudinal, small‐scale qualitative analysis of fictive kin in older adulthood	1
Intergroup friendship: A reflective spotlight	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
Chinese young adults' emotion regulation and conflict resolution response profiles, and their associations with perceived partner responsiveness and romantic relationship satisfaction	1