Encarnación Soriano-Ayala, V. Cala, M. Ferrer, Herenia García-Serrán
Love and relationships are sociocultural constructions that, in recent times, have experienced great changes in terms of type of relationship, type of love and happiness of the couple. Few studies have analysed the love relationships immigrant population in Europe. This study aims to explore the differences and similarities in love styles between Spaniards and Moroccan immigrants, the country’s largest foreign population, and analyse the relationship between these styles and level of couple happiness. This cross-sectional study disseminated a survey to young adults between the ages of 18 and 40 in southern Spain. Of those who received the survey, 574 young adults responded, of which 182 were of Moroccan origin and 392 were Spanish. The results indicated that there are sociocultural and gender differences in the types of relationships young adults maintain and in the agents that facilitate romantic socialisation. The Spaniards describe less stable relationships, more influenced by several agents, while the Moroccans demonstrated more stability in relationships, more influenced by family and religion. In accordance with Sternberg love components, different types of love were recognised. Spanish women are the group most value love in their lives, rated higher in couple happiness, and gave special importance to intimacy (but not to commitment and passion). Moroccan women followed models of love closer to Sternberg's romantic love, giving importance to commitment, intimacy and passion. Spanish men were similar to Moroccan men regarding their type of love, although they were the only ones that included commitment as a predictor of happiness. This study reveals that the importance of an intersectional approach to analyse love and couples.
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Letícia Dal Picolo Dal. Secco-Oliveira, Maria Lúcia Teixeira Machado, M. Zanin
As researches in the social psychology of work field indicate, workers are exposed to the subjective influences of their work environment, with the possibility of interinstitutional and systemic influences due to intersubjectivity. Economic-solidarity enterprises, having an organization and nature different from the capitalist companies and being considered as Social Technologies, from the perspective of the Science, Technology and Society research field, contribute to these influences, which include techniques, methods and products. As the family is one of the main belonging institutions to the persons, this study aimed to investigate the influences of economic-solidarity work relationships on the family dynamics of these cooperatives workers. The research field was the Cooperativa de Trabalho dos Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de São Carlos [São Carlos Work Cooperative of Waste Pickers], São Paulo, Brazil, and the method used was thematic oral history. Fieldwork was carried out using participant observation techniques and semi-structured interviews with waste pickers and family members, which were transcribed for content analysis and transcriated for feedback to the research participants and validation of the information. Three main characteristics were observed permeating the interviews: that the economic-solidarity principles, even if not theoretically understood, when experienced in the work space, are potential to change people's behavior; that the organization of cooperative work positively influenced family dynamics; and that the cooperative organization was considered as a possibility for the economic inclusion of socially excluded people. The most prominent influences of economic-solidarity work relationships on family dynamics were the increased tolerance and cooperation in carrying out daily tasks and responsibilities.
工作领域的社会心理学研究表明,员工受到工作环境的主观影响,由于主体间性,可能会产生机构间和系统间的影响。从科学、技术和社会研究领域的角度来看,经济团结型企业具有不同于资本主义公司的组织和性质,被视为社会技术,有助于这些影响,包括技术、方法和产品。由于家庭是个人的主要归属机构之一,本研究旨在调查经济团结工作关系对这些合作社工人家庭动态的影响。研究领域为巴西圣保罗的卡洛斯拾废者工作合作社Recicláveis de ss o Carlos拾废者合作社,使用的方法是主题口述历史。实地工作采用参与者观察技术和对拾取垃圾者和家庭成员的半结构化访谈进行,这些访谈被转录用于内容分析,并转录用于反馈给研究参与者和验证信息。在访谈中观察到三个主要特征:经济团结原则,即使在理论上没有被理解,当在工作空间中体验时,也有可能改变人们的行为;合作工作的组织对家庭动态有积极影响;合作组织被认为是一种经济包容被社会排斥的人的可能性。经济团结的工作关系对家庭动态的最显著影响是在执行日常任务和责任时增加了容忍和合作。
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Interpersona, 2021, Vol. 15(1), 1–2, https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.6787 Published (VoR): 2021-06-30. *Corresponding author at: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Sociais de Volta Redonda. Rua Des. Ellis Hermydio Figueira, 783, Bloco A, sala 214-A Bairro Aterrado, Volta Redonda RJ, Brazil. CEP 27213-145. E-mail: cassepp@gmail.com This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
《人与人》,2021,卷15(1),1- 2,https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.6787出版(VoR): 20121-06-30。*通讯作者:弗鲁米嫩塞联邦大学,Ciências Volta Redonda人类社会研究所。Rua Des. Ellis Hermydio Figueira, 783, Bloco A, sala 214-A Bairro Aterrado, Volta Redonda RJ,巴西。CEP 27213 - 145。这是一篇开放获取的文章,遵循知识共享署名4.0国际许可,CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)的条款,允许在任何媒介上不受限制地使用、分发和复制,只要正确引用原创作品。
{"title":"Welcome message from the new editor-in-chief","authors":"Vicente Cassepp-Borges","doi":"10.5964/ijpr.6787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.6787","url":null,"abstract":"Interpersona, 2021, Vol. 15(1), 1–2, https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.6787 Published (VoR): 2021-06-30. *Corresponding author at: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Sociais de Volta Redonda. Rua Des. Ellis Hermydio Figueira, 783, Bloco A, sala 214-A Bairro Aterrado, Volta Redonda RJ, Brazil. CEP 27213-145. E-mail: cassepp@gmail.com This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.","PeriodicalId":37776,"journal":{"name":"Interpersona","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86048923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-27DOI: 10.23668/PSYCHARCHIVES.4869
Karina Noelia Hendrie Kupczysyzn, L. Oros
The present study aims to describe social skills in the late childhood and to analyze the ways in which they influence the ability to cope with stress. Social skills are defined as specific and necessary social dexterities to adequately perform an interpersonal task. They allow the expression of feelings, desires, attitudes, opinions and rights in an appropriate way. Therefore, they are of great value when it comes to strengthening relationships, adjusting to environmental demands and selecting adaptive strategies to cope with stress. An empirical, quantitative, ex post facto study was conducted with a sample of 223 children of both sexes, between 9 and 12 years old (M = 10.61, SD = 1.10), from the provinces of Chaco and Misiones, Argentina. The measuring instruments used in this research were the Argentine Coping Questionnaire for Children and the Appropriate Social Skills Subscale of Matson, validated in Argentina. The results showed the presence of a moderately high level of social skills in children, without differences due to gender or age. Through multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) analysis, a significant influence of social skills on coping with stress was observed. Children who obtained high scores in measurements of social skills showed also high scores in logical analysis, cognitive restructuring, proactive problem-solving, a propensity to seek advice and support, and lower values of emotional release.
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Joshua R. Pederson, Leah E. LeFebvre, Darrin J. Griffin
This study presents an initial exploration and conceptualization of relational surprise experiences (RSEs) as communication phenomenon involving strategic relational maintenance behaviors with potential for positive and negative outcomes. University students in the Southeastern United States (N = 203) described a RSE that occurred with a close relational partner (romantic partner, friend, or family member), explained how deception was used to achieve the surprise, and reported relational benefits and drawbacks in an online survey. Seven types of RSEs were reported including gifts, events, visits, and destinations. Responses revealed that people considered surprises as relationally beneficial with minimal drawbacks. Although over one-third of the participants described their partner’s pants perceived the surprise as a violation of relational rules. Some participants reported both benefits and drawbacks to RSEs, thereby illuminating a nuance for traditional relational maintenance typologies. This study establishes a path to explore implications of RSEs for individual and relational satisfaction, happiness, and well-being.
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In a sample of 68 adult men and 70 adult women from Santiago, Chile, with a mean age of 29.40 years and a median age of 29, the effects of one's own infidelity and that of one's partner on different types of jealousy were examined. Of the respondents 47.1% had ever been unfaithful, and over half (56.5%) reported that their partner had been unfaithful. There were no effects of one's own infidelity and that of one's partner on reactive and anxious jealousy, but those who had been unfaithful, as well as those whose partner had been unfaithful, expressed the highest levels of possessive jealousy. These effects were not moderated by gender nor did age affect jealousy. Women were higher in all types of jealousy than men were.
{"title":"Don´t cheat like I did: Possessive jealousy and infidelity in close relationships","authors":"A. Buunk, A. Fernández","doi":"10.5964/ijpr.v14i2.4265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v14i2.4265","url":null,"abstract":"In a sample of 68 adult men and 70 adult women from Santiago, Chile, with a mean age of 29.40 years and a median age of 29, the effects of one's own infidelity and that of one's partner on different types of jealousy were examined. Of the respondents 47.1% had ever been unfaithful, and over half (56.5%) reported that their partner had been unfaithful. There were no effects of one's own infidelity and that of one's partner on reactive and anxious jealousy, but those who had been unfaithful, as well as those whose partner had been unfaithful, expressed the highest levels of possessive jealousy. These effects were not moderated by gender nor did age affect jealousy. Women were higher in all types of jealousy than men were.","PeriodicalId":37776,"journal":{"name":"Interpersona","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86517191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. M. Böhm, L. Quevedo, F. Coelho, L. Souza, Mariana Bonati de Matos, J. P. Trettim, C. Scholl, Bárbara Borges Rubin, R. Castelli, M. L. Molina, K. Pinheiro, R. Pinheiro
Given the importance that love has in individuals’ lives, and considering that more specific studies about the relationship between depression and the way people love are lacking, the aim of the current study was to evaluate the effect of major depressive disorder (MDD) on “love styles.” This study was nested in a cohort of adolescent mothers. Women were assessed for MDD at each point of assessment: during pregnancy (T1), at between 30 and 60 postpartum days (T2), and at approximately 30 postpartum months (T3), by using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI PLUS) tool. The Love Attitudes Scale (LAS) was administered to assess the six love styles at T3. Logistic regression analyses were carried out to express the strength of depression on love styles. We found that chronic major depression had the largest effect on the love styles (low Eros, high Mania, and high Agape), followed by current major depression. However, the same association was not observed in the perinatal period. Thus, the assessment of love style is relevant as it seems that an MDD-related injury in maternal life is related to their attitudes about love and there could be possible harmful consequences of these attitudes to the mother and the whole family.
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A majority of romantic pair-bonds will not remain together. Surprisingly, however, less is known about relationship dissolution compared with other stages of romantic relationships, such as initiation and maintenance. The present study addresses this gap by investigating breakup initiators’ communication strategies as outcomes for the individual’s attachment style and the emotional intimacy of a recent terminated romantic relationship. Participants (N = 174) completed a series of empirically reliable and valid Likert-scale measures to assess both predictors: (a) adult attachment and (b) emotional intimacy. Emotional intimacy was a significant predictor of each of the four breakup communication strategies, and adult attachment style – particularly attachment anxiety - was significantly related to specific communication strategies, primarily those related to openness. This researcher concluded that emotional intimacy better predictors of breakup communication strategy compared with attachment style. Limitations and a general discussion or summary of findings are provided, followed by some suggestions for future research.
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Flexible-delivery marriage education (ME) has many advantages over traditional alternatives in reaching couples during the time of COVID-19 lockdown or other national emergencies. In an effort to add to the research of flexible-delivery ME, this exploratory study evaluated an online class adapted from an empirically-validated, marriage curriculum (Four Gifts of Love Class, [FGL]) under home lockdown conditions lasting over 2 months caused by COVID-19 government restrictions. Using a concurrent multiple-baseline single-case experimental design, three distressed couples residing in the Philippines completed seven online lessons over 7 weeks while experiencing home lockdown. Visual analysis of the data suggested that all three couples responded positively to the intervention. The Tau-U and SMDall analyses for each couple ranged from a small to large effect size on measures of marital adjustment (weighted average Tau-U = .50, p < .05; BC-SMD = 0.34) and romantic love (weighted average Tau-U = .52, p < .01; BC-SMD = 0.31), with increases reaching clinical and statistical significance for one couple out of the three. In addition, there was no attrition. The promising results from this preliminary study suggested that the online adaptation of FGL as a flexible-delivery ME could mitigate marital decline, especially during times of calamity when traditional-delivery ME is unavailable and marital decline is predicted. Further study of this program and other online ME programs are recommended to expand the limited research in this area of flexible-delivery ME.
在COVID-19封锁或其他国家紧急情况期间,灵活分娩婚姻教育(ME)与传统替代方案相比,在接触夫妇方面具有许多优势。为了增加对灵活交付ME的研究,本探索性研究在COVID-19政府限制导致居家封锁超过2个月的情况下,评估了一门由经验验证的婚姻课程改编的在线课程(四份爱的礼物课程,[FGL])。使用并行多基线单例实验设计,居住在菲律宾的三对痛苦的夫妇在经历家庭封锁的7周内完成了7次在线课程。数据的可视化分析表明,所有三对夫妇都对干预反应积极。每对夫妇的Tau-U和SMDall分析对婚姻调整措施的影响大小不等(加权平均Tau-U = 0.50, p < 0.05;BC-SMD = 0.34)和浪漫爱情(加权平均Tau-U = 0.52, p < 0.01;BC-SMD = 0.31),三对夫妇中有一对的增加达到临床和统计学意义。此外,没有人员流失。这项初步研究的结果表明,FGL作为一种灵活交付的ME的在线适应可以缓解婚姻衰退,特别是在传统交付ME不可用和预测婚姻衰退的灾难时期。建议进一步研究该项目和其他在线ME项目,以扩大灵活交付ME领域的有限研究。
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S. Shujja, A. Adil, A. Randall, G. Bodenmann, F. Malik
For married individuals living in Pakistan, stress within their relationship has emerged as a major source of marital conflicts and even relationship dissolution. However, research based on the systemic transactional model of dyadic coping (DC) suggests partners’ use of coping strategies may help in buffering these devastating effects of stress. The original German version of the Dyadic Coping Inventory (DCI) is a widely used self-report measure that has been translated in various languages, however, has not been validated for use with individuals living in Pakistan who speak Urdu. The purpose of the present study was to translate and validate the DCI into Urdu for use with married individuals living in Pakistan. Data were collected from 538 Pakistani married adults. Findings supported the original factor structure of the German and English version of the DCI. As such, results supported the 33-items DCI-Urdu as a valid and reliable measure to assess DC behaviors in Pakistani married individuals. Further, convergent and discriminant validity and measurement invariance (MI) across gender for the DCI-Urdu were consistent with that of DCI-English. A validated measure of the DCI in Urdu provides new directions for researchers and clinicians working with couples in Pakistan.
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