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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Loneliness across cultures with different levels of social embeddedness: A qualitative study	26
Ghosted?: Navigating strategies for reducing uncertainty and implications surrounding ambiguous loss	21
Associations of attachment avoidance and anxiety with life satisfaction, satisfaction with singlehood, and desire for a romantic partner	20
Dyadic measurement invariance and its importance for replicability in romantic relationship science	20
Relationship form and function: Exploring meaning‐making in young adults' romantic histories	18
Loneliness, eating, and body mass index in parent–adolescent dyads from the Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health, and Eating study	14
A review of two decades of LGBTQ‐inclusive research in JSPR and PR	13
Perceived changes in social contact during COVID‐19 pandemic in the United States	13
Attachment style, partner communication, and physical well‐being among couples coping with cancer	12
A systematic review of romantic relationship initiation and maintenance factors in autism	11
An empirical, accessible definition of “ghosting” as a relationship dissolution method	11
Power dynamics in families affected by parental alienation	9
Social support, strain, and glycemic control: A path analysis	9
Family emotional climate and health: Testing conveyance of effects via psychobiological mediators	9
Individual and dyadic associations among relational self‐expansion potential, affect, and perceived health	9
Corumination, diet culture, intuitive eating, and body dissatisfaction among young adult women	8
Why people make friends: The nature of friendship	8
Relational turbulence and health‐compromising behaviors: Integrating relational turbulence and stress theories	8
Exploring the links between psychological flexibility, individual well‐being, and relationship quality	7
Teaching romantic competence skills to emerging adults: A relationship education workshop	7
“I don't let everyone see my struggles”: Mothers' social support and privacy management	7
Associations between early life harshness, parents' parenting style, and relationship quality in China	7
Motivational underpinnings of successful support giving: Compassionate goals promote matching support provision	6
Romantic relationship distress, gender, socioeconomic status, and inflammation: A preregistered report	6
Navigating relational turbulence in the wake of weight loss transitions: A support marshaling analysis	6

Desire for power mediates associations between narcissism and mate retention behaviors	6
A systematic review of relationship maintenance: Reflecting back and looking to the future	6
Is it sexy to be sexist? How stereotyped humor affects romantic attraction	6
Between the sheets: Investigating young adults' communication during sexual activity	6
Childhood parental warmth and heart rate variability in midlife: Implications for health	6
Does attachment style moderate the effect of computer‐mediated versus face‐to‐face conflict discussions?	6
Spouses' responses to the dietary nonadherence of their partners managing diabetes	6
Interpersonal Resilience Inventory: Assessing positive and negative interactions during hardships and COVID‐19	5
Looking for politically like‐minded partners: Self‐presentation and partner‐vetting strategies on dating apps	5
Cultural diversity within couples: Risk or chance? A meta‐analytic review of relationship satisfaction	5
Associations between satisfaction with one's own and partner's body and relationship outcomes	5
Taking stock of the longitudinal study of romantic couple relationships: The last 20 years	5
Temptation at your door: Receiving mate poaching attempts and perceived Partners' desirability	5
The secrets that you keep: Secrets and relationship quality	5
What you don't know might hurt me: Keeping secrets in interpersonal relationships	5
Development of the Polish‐Language Relationship Disillusionment Scale and its validation	5
Fear of being single priming predicts maladaptive relationship pursuits	5
Editorial synthesis for 2 in 2023 a collaboration between IARR's two journals: Recognizing the need for greater inclusivity in relationship science	4
Typicality and volition as fundamental features of everyday relational communication	4
Can I trust you? Children's perceptions of friends and classmates who gossip	4
Quality of alternatives positively associated with interest in opening up a relationship	4
Within‐person effects of inclusion and exclusion on well‐being in daily life	4
Breaking‐up is hard to study: A review of two decades of dissolution research	4
Both sides of the story: Narratives of romantic infidelity	3
A dyadic power theory explanation of the demand‐withdraw interaction pattern	3
Applying the theory of motivated information management to family health history	3
Seeing you, seeing me: Links between perceived commitment, metaperceptions, and relationship well‐being	3
Relational and psychological mediators of change in low‐income couples' perceived health	3
A systematic review of relationship sacrifices from 2002 to 2021: Moving toward inclusivity	3
A theoretical model for understanding relationship functioning in intercultural romantic couples	3
Attachment anxiety, tracking accuracy, and biased memory of prior relationship evaluations	3
Rejection sensitivity and mental well‐being: The positive role of friendship quality	3
Women are not swayed by sugar‐coated acts of verbal sexual coercion	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
The qualitative exploration of social competencies and incompetencies on mobile dating applications	3
A qualitative analysis of gaslighting in romantic relationships	3
The Influence of Interparental Conflict and Violence on Parenting and Parent–Child Relationships	3
Putting responsiveness in context: How a partner's responsiveness baseline shapes perceived responsiveness	3
Contextual desirability of strong men employing affiliative and aggressive humor	3
Exploring the role of sexual experiences in on‐again/off‐again dating relationships	3
Making meaning of parenting from the perspective of alienated parents	3
Conceptions and the experience of friendship in underrepresented groups	3
Self‐reported Big Five personality traits of individuals who have experienced partner infidelity	2
Psychological distress with relationship satisfaction is moderated by anticipatory relational savoring among non‐deployed military partners	2
Affectionate communication, health, and relationships	2
Unaffirmed and color‐blind: Racial worldview and stigma experienced in interracial relationships	2
Romantic heartbreak: Prevalence, personality traits, and personal stories	2
Committed to succeed: Commitment determines reactions to upward relationship comparisons	2
Correlated change in sense of purpose and romantic relationship quality	2

Psychological factors related to self‐disclosure and relationship formation in the online environment	2
Loneliness and HbA1c among older Irish couples: Retirement as life stage context	2
People who help people: A needs assessment of those who provide interpersonal support to individuals with chronic illnesses	2
The longitudinal relations between disciplinary practices and emotion regulation in early years	2
Toward a theory of ability‐based friendship competence: Agentic and communal substrates	2
Collaborative communication efficiency is linked to relationship satisfaction in dating couples	2
Perceptions of romantic partners' responses to disclosures of suicidality	2
Get healthy to marry or marry to get healthy?	2
Age moderates the link between relationship desire and life satisfaction among singles	2
Diversity and inclusion in relationship science: Reflections as an International Section Peer Mentor for Personal Relationships	2
Self‐compassion reduces parental burnout: Mediation roles of parental psychological control and support	2
Family communication patterns and young adults' trait autonomy over time	2
Back off: Disapproval of romantic relationships predicts closeness to disapproving network members	2
Acquaintanceships (weak ties): Their role in people's web of relationships and their formation	2
Positive crossover: Parent perceived partner responsiveness and health of youth with asthma	2
Father–daughter relationships and autonomy development during college	2
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Financial stress and financial management roles: Trajectories of couples' financial disagreements	1
Young adults' romantic investment behaviors on social media	1
The development and psychometric properties of the grudge aspect measure	1
Shake it off: The role of optimistic expectations for conflict recovery	1
Minority stress and intimate partner aggression among male same‐sex couples	1
People act extremely toward their amorous partner when they feel insignificant	1
No need for pedestals: Idealization does not predict better relationships among Asians	1
Linking stress to the emergence of relational turbulence in marriage	1
Association between attachment insecurity and couple adjustment: Moderation by couple memory networks	1
The role of perceived resolvability in serial arguments across the lifespan	1
Ready to change? Predicting adolescents' help‐seeking for relationship concerns	1
Commonalities and differences between schemas of five types of love	1
Beliefs about sexuality and their associations with sexual passion	1
Perceived mattering in stepfamilies: A social relations model analysis	1
Autonomy support in disclosure and privacy maintenance regulation within romantic relationships	1
Self‐regulation in close relationships	1
Relationships, health, and stress: Validation of a relationship sense of coherence measure	1
Implicit self‐esteem following a romantic partner's success: Three replications and a meta‐analysis	1
Testing the predictive and theoretical validity of the network uncertainty measure	1
Parenting and person correlates of prosocial behaviors in Asian Indian young adults	1
Seeing invisible support: Understanding provider motivation, intent, and enactment of support	1
Bi+ adults' daily wellbeing: The roles of relationship status and partner gender	1
Dyadic longitudinal models: A critical review	1
When worlds collide: The romantic relationship experiences of bisexual‐identifying Asian American men	1
The impact of friendship structures on marital quality of heterosexual couples	1
Perceiving couples as discrete units: The existence of couple‐level identities	1
Dyadic relationships between personality, social support, conflict resolution, and marital quality	1
The effects of sexual and gender minority stress on relationship functioning: A meta‐analysis	1
Emerging adult romantic relationship narratives during COVID‐19: Understanding relational challenges and opportunities	1
Attachment and resource sharing	1
Psychometric validation and cross‐cultural comparison of the Romantic Inclination Scale	1
Resilience communication mitigates the negative relational effects of topic avoidance: Evidence from parental caregiving and COVID‐19 pandemic contexts	1
Partners' internal stress and well‐being: The role of dyadic coping and problem resolution	1
Mutual enjoyment in older couples' conversations and its links to marital satisfaction	1
Desperate or desirable? Perceptions of individuals seeking dates online and offline	1
Parenting stress, general distress, and coparenting quality: An Actor–Partner Interdependence Moderation Model	1
Relationship satisfaction determines the association between Epstein–Barr virus latency and somatic symptoms after the loss of a spouse	1
Initial goals, goal trajectories, and changes in perceived resolvability during serial arguments	1
Intergenerational relationships and marriage in China: Within‐family longitudinal associations and between‐family differences	1
Romantic relationship and pregnancy dynamics among adolescent African Americans and refugees living in the United States	1
Dialecticism in romantic relationships: An examination in Chinese and American cultural contexts	1
The polite abuser: Using politeness theory to examine emotional abuse	1
Does covenant marriage predict latent trajectory groups of newlywed couples?	1
Reflections on a registered report replicating a body of dyadic cross‐sectional research	1