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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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Relationship sustainability: Exploring the idea of sustainable marriages among Indian married couples	26
Parenting typologies in Georgian and Belgian adolescents: Associations with self‐esteem	25
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Examining trajectories of marital satisfaction to represent the resilience process among Indonesian married individuals	20
Mate value discrepancies and mate retention behaviors: A cubic response surface analysis	18
Support seeking and support transactions with college students' romantic partners	17
I just need a little support: Marital support and strain link to A1C for people with diabetes	17
Loneliness and relationship dispositions in emerging adults: Gender and culture as moderators	16
But I said I'm sorry: Helpfulness of romantic couples' efforts to reconcile after conflict	12
Affectionate communication, health, and relationships	11
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Psychologists' representations of gender identity between Spain and Greece: A qualitative cross‐cultural study	9
Desire for power mediates associations between narcissism and mate retention behaviors	9
Partners' internal stress and well‐being: The role of dyadic coping and problem resolution	8
All you fear is love: The roles of rejection by intimate others	8
Is caring for oneself relevant to happy relationship functioning? Exploring associations between self‐compassion and romantic relationship satisfaction in actors and partners	7
The development and psychometric properties of the grudge aspect measure	7
Temptation at your door: Receiving mate poaching attempts and perceived Partners' desirability	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
Mutual enjoyment in older couples' conversations and its links to marital satisfaction	7
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Heterosexual men's reactions to infidelity revisited: Comparing the sex role presentation of extradyadic female partners	7
Editorial synthesis for counseling psychology and relationship science: Making connections and expanding disciplinary diversity	7

People who help people: A needs assessment of those who provide interpersonal support to individuals with chronic illnesses	7
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A qualitative analysis of gaslighting in romantic relationships	7
Strategies for becoming a more desirable mate: Evidence from 14 countries	7
Loneliness andHbA1camong older Irish couples: Retirement as life stage context	6
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When worlds collide: The romantic relationship experiences of bisexual‐identifying Asian American men	6
Self‐concept clarity and the evaluation and selection of incompatible dating partners	5
Positive crossover: Parent perceived partner responsiveness and health of youth with asthma	5
Are we there for each other? Longitudinal associations between parenting stress and coparenting in parents of preschool and school‐aged children	5
Breaking‐up is hard to study: A review of two decades of dissolution research	5
Investigating the Association Between Companionship and Behavior Concordance: A Dyadic Panel Study	4
Dyadic relationships between personality, social support, conflict resolution, and marital quality	4
Associations between early life harshness, parents' parenting style, and relationship quality in China	4
Minority stress and intimate partner aggression among male same‐sex couples	4
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Evaluation of the 14‐h together relationship and financial education program for couples	4
Tactics of investment in couple relationship and their impact on relationship satisfaction	4
Acquaintanceships (weak ties): Their role in people's web of relationships and their formation	4
Individuals' favorite songs' lyrics reflect their attachment style	4
The Progression of College Student Romantic Relationship Development: Stability and Change Over 10 Years	4
Virtual speed dating: Utilizing online‐meeting platforms to study initial attraction and relationship formation	3
Development and empirical test of the research‐informed South African Relationship Functioning Assessment (SARFA)	3
The longitudinal relations between disciplinary practices and emotion regulation in early years	3
Relationship form and function: Exploring meaning‐making in young adults' romantic histories	3
Development of the Polish‐Language Relationship Disillusionment Scale and its validation	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
Putting responsiveness in context: How a partner's responsiveness baseline shapes perceived responsiveness	3
Forgiveness among Ghanaian children and early adolescents in the context of peer‐to‐peer dyads	3
Maintaining social trust: Family cohesion and enhancing mindset in the face of COVID‐19 stress	3
Chinese intimacy: Filial piety, autonomy, and romantic relationship quality	3
Interrelated psychological predictors of mate preferences among Iranian male and female emerging adults	3
Relational boredom as an obstacle for engaging in exciting shared activities	3
Narcissism and romantic relationship functioning: The mediating role of the desire for power	3
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Dialecticism in romantic relationships: An examination in Chinese and American cultural contexts	2
The secrets that you keep: Secrets and relationship quality	2
Unaffirmed and color‐blind: Racial worldview and stigma experienced in interracial relationships	2
Desperate or desirable? Perceptions of individuals seeking dates online and offline	2
Contextual desirability of strong men employing affiliative and aggressive humor	2
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The polite abuser: Using politeness theory to examine emotional abuse	2
Taking stock of the longitudinal study of romantic couple relationships: The last 20 years	2
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Latent class analysis of college women's motivations for engaging in same‐sex performativity	2
Emerging adult siblings' relational entitlement and conflict: The moderating effects of financial dependence on parents	2

Self, partner, and observers' humor perceptions: Relative validity of ratings across sources	2
Challenges and stressors in intimate intercultural relationships: A systematic research synthesis	2
Relationship maintenance strategies of rotational workers and their partners	2
Examining the Predictors and Outcomes of Support Seeking Following Spousal Death	2
Typicality and volition as fundamental features of everyday relational communication	2
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Adult attachment as a predictor of maternal gatekeeping among new parents	2
The current state of affairs in infidelity research: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of romantic infidelity prevalence and its moderators	2
How couples think about money: Types of money motives and relationship satisfaction	2
Qualitative analysis of naturalistically observed conversations among same‐ and different‐gender couples coping with breast cancer	2
Psychometric validation and cross‐cultural comparison of the Romantic Inclination Scale	2
Understanding relationship satisfaction during COVID‐19: Assessing unstable work experiences and negative communication	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
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Ratings of the physical attractiveness of an interaction partner after a getting‐acquainted interaction	2
Placing a child's or partner's needs above my own: Impacts on a couple's sexual relationship	2
Perceived changes in social contact during COVID‐19 pandemic in the United States	2
Perceptions of romantic partners' responses to disclosures of suicidality	2
Intergenerational connections: Skipped generation family contact during the COVID‐19 pandemic	1
Teaching relationship science: Continuity and change in the craft	1
Cultural diversity within couples: Risk or chance? A meta‐analytic review of relationship satisfaction	1
Ignorance is not always bliss: A qualitative study of young adults' experiences with being ghosted	1
Couple affection exchange profiles and marital quality in Chinese couples	1
Intergroup friendship: A reflective spotlight	1
Autonomy support in disclosure and privacy maintenance regulation within romantic relationships	1
A Latent Profile Analysis of Reasons for Cohabitation	1
Dyadic processes of relational turbulence theory	1
The Influence of Interparental Conflict and Violence on Parenting and Parent–Child Relationships	1
Does covenant marriage predict latent trajectory groups of newlywed couples?	1
Family communication patterns and young adults' trait autonomy over time	1
Psychological distress with relationship satisfaction is moderated by anticipatory relational savoring among non‐deployed military partners	1
Self‐compassion reduces parental burnout: Mediation roles of parental psychological control and support	1
Lacking family ties during COVID‐19: A longitudinal, small‐scale qualitative analysis of fictive kin in older adulthood	1
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“That's when the relationship shifted”: Relational and communicative turning points in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias	1
The effects of sexual and gender minority stress on relationship functioning: A meta‐analysis	1
Perceptions of inferred parental ability through sexually dimorphic facial features	1
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Editorial synthesis for 2 in 2023 a collaboration between IARR's two journals: Recognizing the need for greater inclusivity in relationship science	1
A longitudinal study of “we‐talk” as a predictor of marital satisfaction	1
Parenting and person correlates of prosocial behaviors in Asian Indian young adults	1
The relative importance of contextual factors in judging mundane extradyadic behaviors as infidelity: A policy‐capturing study	1
Mindfulness networks: Analyzing associations with self‐compassion, other‐compassion, need fulfillment, and satisfaction in midlife married Canadians	1
An examination of specialness meaning framework threat in reactive and retroactive romantic jealousy experiences	1
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Same‐race bias in romantic attraction among young adults: Daters' race, gender, and racial ideologies	1
Attachment avoidance predicts limited and selective sharing of personal events in close relationships	1
Frustrated or engaged? Regulatory focus predicts experiences with online dating	1
Processes in international relationships: A critical review	1