Personal Relationships

Papers
(The median citation count of 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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“She Was My Egg Donor, Not My Mom”: Using Attribution Theory to Understand How Adult Daughters Manage Their Low‐Quality Daughter‐Mother Relationship39
Does Positivity Resonance Signify Love? Markers of Positivity Resonance in Long‐Term Married Couples Relate to Trait and State Love30
Mate value discrepancies and mate retention behaviors: A cubic response surface analysis29
Parenting typologies in Georgian and Belgian adolescents: Associations with self‐esteem21
Examining trajectories of marital satisfaction to represent the resilience process among Indonesian married individuals17
Relationship sustainability: Exploring the idea of sustainable marriages among Indian married couples16
Loneliness and relationship dispositions in emerging adults: Gender and culture as moderators14
I just need a little support: Marital support and strain link to A1C for people with diabetes14
But I said I'm sorry: Helpfulness of romantic couples' efforts to reconcile after conflict14
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Depressive Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Interpersonal Capitalization and Relationship Closeness14
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Deceptive Hearts: Insecure Attachment and Motives Underlying Deception in Romantic Relationships13
People who help people: A needs assessment of those who provide interpersonal support to individuals with chronic illnesses12
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All you fear is love: The roles of rejection by intimate others11
Won't You Come Home? Women's Linguistic Strategies in Negotiating Sexual Engagements in a Rural Context in Nigeria11
Is caring for oneself relevant to happy relationship functioning? Exploring associations between self‐compassion and romantic relationship satisfaction in actors and partners10
Affectionate communication, health, and relationships10
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Partners' internal stress and well‐being: The role of dyadic coping and problem resolution10
Heterosexual men's reactions to infidelity revisited: Comparing the sex role presentation of extradyadic female partners10
Psychologists' representations of gender identity between Spain and Greece: A qualitative cross‐cultural study10
Pursuing Relationships or Avoiding Singlehood? Differentiating Singles' Fear of Being Single, Desire for a Relationship, and Satisfaction With Relationship Status9
Editorial synthesis for counseling psychology and relationship science: Making connections and expanding disciplinary diversity9
Who's Waiting Ever After? An Exploration of Relationship Desire and Satisfaction Among Long‐Term Singles9
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A qualitative analysis of gaslighting in romantic relationships8
Who Is “Doing It”? Casual Sex and WellBeing in Singlehood8
Strategies for becoming a more desirable mate: Evidence from 14 countries8
When worlds collide: The romantic relationship experiences of bisexual‐identifying Asian American men8
Loneliness andHbA1camong older Irish couples: Retirement as life stage context8
“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 men8
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Positive crossover: Parent perceived partner responsiveness and health of youth with asthma7
Self‐concept clarity and the evaluation and selection of incompatible dating partners7
Investigating the Association Between Companionship and Behavior Concordance: A Dyadic Panel Study7
Breaking‐up is hard to study: A review of two decades of dissolution research7
Are we there for each other? Longitudinal associations between parenting stress and coparenting in parents of preschool and school‐aged children7
Individuals' favorite songs' lyrics reflect their attachment style7
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Minority stress and intimate partner aggression among male same‐sex couples6
The Progression of College Student Romantic Relationship Development: Stability and Change Over 10 Years6
Putting responsiveness in context: How a partner's responsiveness baseline shapes perceived responsiveness6
Forgiveness among Ghanaian children and early adolescents in the context of peer‐to‐peer dyads6
Do Conflict Structures of Family Networks Matter for Loneliness in Later Life? The Case of a Cohort of Swiss Older Adults6
Tactics of investment in couple relationship and their impact on relationship satisfaction6
Adapting the Dyadic Trust Scale for the Chinese Context: Psychometric Evidence From Two Independent Samples6
“What matters to us”: The portrait values questionnaire to measure couple values6
Development and empirical test of the research‐informed South African Relationship Functioning Assessment (SARFA)6
Dishonesty in Romantic Relationships: A Framework of Forms, Content, Dominant Motives, and Consequences6
Evaluation of the 14‐h together relationship and financial education program for couples6
Interrelated psychological predictors of mate preferences among Iranian male and female emerging adults6
Where Is Social Connection Most Needed in Daily Life?6
Virtual speed dating: Utilizing online‐meeting platforms to study initial attraction and relationship formation5
Chinese intimacy: Filial piety, autonomy, and romantic relationship quality5
Maintaining social trust: Family cohesion and enhancing mindset in the face of COVID‐19 stress5
Promoting healthy sexual relationships: The benefits of perspective‐taking and self‐expansion in interracial relationships5
Latent class analysis of college women's motivations for engaging in same‐sex performativity5
Narcissism and romantic relationship functioning: The mediating role of the desire for power5
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Do Crushes Pose a Problem for Exclusive Relationships? Trajectories of Attraction Intensity to Extradyadic Others and Links to Primary Relationship Commitment and Satisfaction5
Adult attachment as a predictor of maternal gatekeeping among new parents4
Measurement Invariance of the Spanish Brief Experiences in Close Relationships Scale ( SB ‐ ECR ) 4
Dialecticism in romantic relationships: An examination in Chinese and American cultural contexts4
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Qualitative analysis of naturalistically observed conversations among same‐ and different‐gender couples coping with breast cancer4
Wired for Cognitive Jealousy? Unveiling the Stability Within and Fluctuations Between Relationships4
Placing a child's or partner's needs above my own: Impacts on a couple's sexual relationship4
Taking stock of the longitudinal study of romantic couple relationships: The last 20 years4
Who Lives a Good Single Life? From Basic Need Satisfaction to Attachment, Sociosexuality, and Reasons for Being Single4
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How couples think about money: Types of money motives and relationship satisfaction4
The current state of affairs in infidelity research: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of romantic infidelity prevalence and its moderators4
Family Functioning and Stress Among Palestinian Parents in Israel During the COVID ‐19 Pandemic4
How Happy Are You With Your Relationship? Validation of the German Couple Satisfaction Index‐44
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The secrets that you keep: Secrets and relationship quality3
Emerging adult siblings' relational entitlement and conflict: The moderating effects of financial dependence on parents3
Relationship maintenance strategies of rotational workers and their partners3
Correction to “Association Between Masculine Contest Culture and Turnover Intentions for Women STEM Faculty: The Moderating Role of Positive Dyadic C3
When and how do people share? Attachment anxiety predicts support‐seeking strategies3
Understanding relationship satisfaction during COVID‐19: Assessing unstable work experiences and negative communication3
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Examining the Predictors and Outcomes of Support Seeking Following Spousal Death3
Unveiling “Toxic” Love: Conceptualizing Toxic Romantic Relationships Within the Indian Context3
Knowing What You Want: The Role of Relationship Clarity in Single Young Adults' Loneliness and Well‐Being3
The polite abuser: Using politeness theory to examine emotional abuse3
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Variations on the Common Fate Model for Dyadic Analysis: Recommendations for Model Selection3
‘Worlds Apart’: Examining the Experiences of Intercultural Couples Co‐Creating a Third Culture3
When Love and Money Collide: The Role of Financially Focused Self‐Concept in Relationships3
Teaching relationship science: Continuity and change in the craft2
Correction to “‘She Was My Egg Donor, Not My Mom’: Using Attribution Theory to Understand How Adult Daughters Manage Their Low‐Quality Daughter‐Mother Relationship”2
A longitudinal study of “we‐talk” as a predictor of marital satisfaction2
Does covenant marriage predict latent trajectory groups of newlywed couples?2
Making the Case for Heirlooms: Heritage Stories, Family Treasures, and Intergenerational Relationships2
The relative importance of contextual factors in judging mundane extradyadic behaviors as infidelity: A policy‐capturing study2
People act extremely toward their amorous partner when they feel insignificant2
Intergenerational connections: Skipped generation family contact during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Couple affection exchange profiles and marital quality in Chinese couples2
Mindfulness networks: Analyzing associations with self‐compassion, other‐compassion, need fulfillment, and satisfaction in midlife married Canadians2
A Multi‐Level Meta‐Analysis Comparing Relationship Norm Strength of LGB and Heterosexual Relationships2
Perceptions of inferred parental ability through sexually dimorphic facial features2
Lacking family ties during COVID‐19: A longitudinal, small‐scale qualitative analysis of fictive kin in older adulthood2
Ignorance is not always bliss: A qualitative study of young adults' experiences with being ghosted2
Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Partner Version of the Psychological Distance Scaling Task2
Relationship Maintenance Knowledge and Self‐Efficacy Among Single Young Adults Desiring a Committed Romantic Relationship2
Self‐compassion reduces parental burnout: Mediation roles of parental psychological control and support2
Contextual desirability of strong men employing affiliative and aggressive humor2
Challenges and stressors in intimate intercultural relationships: A systematic research synthesis2
Dyadic processes of relational turbulence theory2
Intergroup friendship: A reflective spotlight2
Attachment avoidance predicts limited and selective sharing of personal events in close relationships2
An examination of specialness meaning framework threat in reactive and retroactive romantic jealousy experiences2
Sibling Relationship Quality and Its Link to Flourishing Among Emerging Adults in the Context of Chronic Illness and Disability2
Processes in international relationships: A critical review2
The Influence of Interparental Conflict and Violence on Parenting and Parent–Child Relationships2
Editorial synthesis for 2 in 2023 a collaboration between IARR's two journals: Recognizing the need for greater inclusivity in relationship science2
Psychological distress with relationship satisfaction is moderated by anticipatory relational savoring among non‐deployed military partners2
A Dyadic Score Analysis of How Romantic Partners' Self‐Control Relates to Personal and Relational Well‐Being in Daily Life2
Desperate or desirable? Perceptions of individuals seeking dates online and offline2
Are We Still Friends If You Are No Longer Single? The Impacts of a Friend Entering a New Romantic Relationship2
A Latent Profile Analysis of Reasons for Cohabitation2
Same‐race bias in romantic attraction among young adults: Daters' race, gender, and racial ideologies2
The effects of sexual and gender minority stress on relationship functioning: A meta‐analysis2
Shedding Light on Dark Romance: Light Personalities' Reduced Rejection of Machiavellian and Sadistic Partners2
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