Bouwman, Tamara E Aartsen, Marja J van Tilburg, Theo G Stevens, Nan L
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Journal of social and personal relationships
Loneliness stems from a mismatch between the social relationships one has and those one desires. Loneliness often has severe consequences for individuals and society. Recently, an online adaptation of the friendship enrichment program (FEP) was developed and tested to gain insight in its contribution to the alleviation of loneliness. Three loneline...
Bellani, Daniela Andersen, Gøsta Esping Pessin, Léa
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Journal of social and personal relationships
Comparing West Germany and the United States, we analyze the association between equity - in terms of the relative gender division of paid and unpaid work hours – and the risk of marriage dissolution. Our aim is to identify under what conditions equity influences couple stability. We apply event-history analysis to marriage histories using data fro...
Thorsen, Maggie L King, Valarie
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Journal of social and personal relationships
Adolescents in stepfamilies use different labels when describing their stepfather, such as "stepfather" or "mother's husband." These labels may reflect youths' sense of family identity or dynamics. The current study uses nationally representative data (Add Health) on a sample of adolescents living with their mothers and a married stepfather (n = 11...
Reblin, Maija Donaldson, Gary Ellington, Lee Mooney, Kathi Caserta, Michael Lund, Dale
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Journal of social and personal relationships
High-quality relationships may be protective for family caregivers. This study focuses on relationship quality categories (supportive and ambivalent) in spouse caregivers in cancer home hospice. The goals of this article are to, first, describe relationship quality categories among end-of-life caregivers and, second, test the effects of relationshi...
Ferenczi, Nelli Marshall, Tara C
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Journal of social and personal relationships
Do insecurely attached individuals perceive greater rejection from their heritage culture? Few studies have examined the antecedents and outcomes of this perceived rejection - termed intragroup marginalization - in spite of its implications for the adjustment of cultural migrants to the mainstream culture. This study investigated whether anxious an...
Lowe, Sarah R
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Journal of social and personal relationships
The purpose of this study was to explore trajectories of perceived social support among low-income women who survived Hurricane Katrina, and were surveyed prior to the hurricane and approximately one and four years thereafter (N = 562). Latent class growth analysis provided evidence of four trajectories of perceived support: High Increasing (35.9%)...
Williamson, Hannah C. Bradbury, Thomas N. Nguyen, Teresa P. Karney, Benjamin R.
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Journal of social and personal relationships
Divorced individuals offer explanations for why their relationship ended, yet little is known about the development of these problems during the relationship. Problems that lead to divorce may exist at the beginning of the marriage (enduring dynamics model) or may develop over time (emergent distress model). We asked 40 divorced individuals about t...
Birditt, Kira S Nevitt, Michael R Almeida, David M
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Journal of social and personal relationships
An important pathway by which relationships influence health may involve how people cope with interpersonal tensions. This study examined whether same day and prior day avoidance and engagement in arguments are differentially associated with self-reported well-being (emotional, physical) and diurnal cortisol patterns. Participants from Wave 2 of th...
Shadur, Julia Hussong, Andrea
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Journal of social and personal relationships
The current study examined between- and within-person processes related to friendship intimacy, close-friend substance use, negative affect, and self-medication. We tested between-person hypotheses that global negative affect, friendship intimacy, and close-friend drug use predict increased substance use, and the within-person hypothesis that frien...
Manne, Sharon L Siegel, Scott Kashy, Deborah Heckman, Carolyn J
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Journal of social and personal relationships
If couples can maintain normalcy and quality in their relationship during the cancer experience, they may experience greater relational intimacy. Cancer-specific relationship awareness, which is an attitude defined as partners focusing on the relationship and thinking about how they might maintain normalcy and cope with cancer as a couple or "team"...
