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Development and Preliminary Validation of the Lovebird Scale

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences
The term “lovebirds” is often used to describe the loving behaviors and interactions between two romantic partners, but what specific processes distinguish these flourishing lovebird relationships from other committed but “numbed” relationships?
Sara Cloonan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

'They Lived Happily Ever After': Ending Contemporary Romantic Comedy

open access: yesMiscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 1998
The ideology of romantic comedies has often been located in their attitude to the traditional happy ending: an unproblematic happy ending makes for a film that supports dominant discourses; a problematised one suggests attempts to transgress narrative ...
Celestino Deleyto Alcalá
doaj   +1 more source

Complex Dynamics in Romantic Relationships [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Minimal models composed of two ordinary differential equations are considered in this paper to mimic the dynamics of the feelings between two persons. In accordance with attachment theory, individuals are divided into secure and non-secure individuals ...
Feichtinger, G.   +2 more
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Examining Romantic Relationships [PDF]

open access: yesPersonal Relationships, 2009
All of the articles included in this issue examine romantic relationships. Although it was not intended, these articles therefore comprise a de facto special issue on this topic. Let me be perfectly clear: I did not hold back related articles in order to publish them together.
openaire   +1 more source

Adult Advisor Efficacy to Support LGBTQ+ Youth as a Predictor of LGBTQ+ Youth's Experiences in Gender‐Sexuality Alliances (GSAs) and at School

open access: yesJournal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Many LGBTQ+ youth seek support from adults at school, which can include advisors of Gender‐Sexuality Alliances (GSAs; clubs affirming LGBTQ+ youth). Little research has considered how efficacious advisors feel to support LGBTQ+ GSA members, or how advisors' efficacy contributes to LGBTQ+ youth's school experiences.
V. Paul Poteat   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turning Down Mum's Cooking: The Ethics of Dietary Difference within Families

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although food ethicists have called for greater attention to the relational context of eating for over a decade, the context of ‘eating with family’ remains largely ignored. But the family is both a morally specific relational context and one within which many people do most of their eating.
Megan A. Dean
wiley   +1 more source

Self-Perceived Attractiveness, Romantic Desirability and Self-Esteem: A Mating Sociometer Perspective

open access: yesEvolutionary Psychology, 2013
Sociometer theory proposes that self-esteem is an adaptation which evolved to monitor and regulate interpersonal relationships. It is therefore sensitive to self-assessments in domains relevant to relational desirability.
Christopher Bale, John Archer
doaj   +1 more source

What do psychologists have to say about self-sabotage in romantic relationships? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The term self-sabotage is not well explained in current relationship literature. Self-sabotage is thus far explained mainly as a physical barrier (i.e., derived from the effects of alcohol consumption or high level of stress; Jones & Berglas, 1978 ...
Buckby, Beryl   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Relational Healing: Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Their Experiences of Connection, Disconnection, and Growth

open access: yesJournal of Counseling &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this interpretive phenomenological analysis, we interviewed 10 women to make meaning of their lived experiences of sex trafficking and mental health challenges and how relational dynamics influenced their healing and sense of self. Our analysis revealed four themes: (a) central relational paradox, which described internalized shame and ...
Claudia G. Interiano‐Shiverdecker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sex Differences in the Influence of Relationships on Adolescent Offending

open access: yesSocial Sciences
The impact of romantic relationships during the adolescent period has received significantly less attention in the literature compared to the influence of romantic relationships during adulthood.
Sara Zedaker   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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