Pub Date : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1177/02654075241262535
J. Aloni, G. Karantzas, Emma M. Marshall, Elizabeth K. Ferguson
In this paper, we investigate the association between evaluating a romantic partner as deviating from relationship ideals (i.e., ideal-partner discrepancy) and a widely studied form of self-regulatory behavior in romantic relationships—accommodation (i.e., inhibiting one’s own destructive relationship behaviors and enacting constructive behaviors). We also consider the moderating role of relationship commitment. Two studies tested these associations using self-reports (Study 1, N = 450 individuals) and by observing accommodation behaviors in couples (Study 2, N = 116 dyads). Across both studies, a negative-ideal partner discrepancy (i.e., a partner is deemed as falling below ideals) was associated with more accommodation when relationship commitment was high than for when it was low. The findings provide novel insights into understanding accommodation behavior in romantic relationships.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1177/02654075241265064
Kathryn D. Coduto, Jesse Fox
Like online dating sites, mobile dating applications are popular technologies for navigating the dating market, whether for seeking romantic relationships or sexual partners. The searching-matching-interacting (SMI) framework describes mate selection in the dating market and how mediated market intermediaries (e.g., dating apps) can aid these functions. We conducted in-depth interviews ( N = 37) to explore dating app use during relationship initiation and relationship escalation, examining the SMI framework. For searching and matching, perceptions of affordances such as visibility, searchability, and locatability governed participants’ selection and use of apps. Examining the interacting function, our findings provide some of the first empirical support for modality weaving during relationship development. Rather than a simple modality switch from app to face-to-face, participants reported integrating multiple interpersonal and masspersonal channels, including social media, texting, and video. Channel transitions were made based on goals (e.g., relationship escalation, verification, uncertainty reduction) and perceived affordances (e.g., synchronicity, editability, bandwidth, accessibility). Notably, participants’ evaluations of the advantages and disadvantages of dating apps revealed several tensions and paradoxes among beliefs and behaviors. These paradoxes indicate why many users may not satisfy interpersonal goals such as hookups or long-term romantic relationships through mobile dating apps. Our findings support the viability of the SMI framework, and we extend its theorizing for studying relationship initiation and relationship development.
{"title":"Romantic relationship initiation and escalation through mobile dating apps: Affordances, modality weaving, and paradoxical beliefs","authors":"Kathryn D. Coduto, Jesse Fox","doi":"10.1177/02654075241265064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075241265064","url":null,"abstract":"Like online dating sites, mobile dating applications are popular technologies for navigating the dating market, whether for seeking romantic relationships or sexual partners. The searching-matching-interacting (SMI) framework describes mate selection in the dating market and how mediated market intermediaries (e.g., dating apps) can aid these functions. We conducted in-depth interviews ( N = 37) to explore dating app use during relationship initiation and relationship escalation, examining the SMI framework. For searching and matching, perceptions of affordances such as visibility, searchability, and locatability governed participants’ selection and use of apps. Examining the interacting function, our findings provide some of the first empirical support for modality weaving during relationship development. Rather than a simple modality switch from app to face-to-face, participants reported integrating multiple interpersonal and masspersonal channels, including social media, texting, and video. Channel transitions were made based on goals (e.g., relationship escalation, verification, uncertainty reduction) and perceived affordances (e.g., synchronicity, editability, bandwidth, accessibility). Notably, participants’ evaluations of the advantages and disadvantages of dating apps revealed several tensions and paradoxes among beliefs and behaviors. These paradoxes indicate why many users may not satisfy interpersonal goals such as hookups or long-term romantic relationships through mobile dating apps. Our findings support the viability of the SMI framework, and we extend its theorizing for studying relationship initiation and relationship development.","PeriodicalId":508458,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social and Personal Relationships","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141812552","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 : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1177/02654075241264852
M. Shrout, Emily M. Buehler, Daeun G. Lee, Megan E. Renna
In this longitudinal study of students with concealable chronic health conditions (CCHCs), we applied components of interpersonal disclosure process models to investigate how illness disclosures and perceived partner responsiveness conferred health and social benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students with CCHCs and in relationships completed online surveys at the beginning, middle, and end of the academic year in which they returned to campus amid the COVID-19 pandemic ( nTime1 = 101, nTime2 = 52, nTime3 = 54). Mixed models showed students with greater illness disclosures and perceived partner responsiveness had better physical health, engaged in less health-compromising behaviors, felt less worried and stressed about the COVID-19 pandemic, and experienced lower illness-related stigma, discrimination, and social isolation. Over time, students’ greater illness self-disclosures predicted lower health-compromising behaviors and illness-related discrimination. Notably, perceived partner responsiveness connected greater illness self-disclosures to better health, COVID-related, and social-contextual outcomes. These findings demonstrate the health and social benefits of talking openly about concealable illnesses with partners and, in turn, feeling cared for, validated, and understood amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This study provides new evidence on relational pathways to better social and health outcomes among those with heightened health risks.
{"title":"Illness-related partner communication predicts better health, COVID, and social-contextual outcomes amid the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study of students with concealable chronic health conditions","authors":"M. Shrout, Emily M. Buehler, Daeun G. Lee, Megan E. Renna","doi":"10.1177/02654075241264852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075241264852","url":null,"abstract":"In this longitudinal study of students with concealable chronic health conditions (CCHCs), we applied components of interpersonal disclosure process models to investigate how illness disclosures and perceived partner responsiveness conferred health and social benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students with CCHCs and in relationships completed online surveys at the beginning, middle, and end of the academic year in which they returned to campus amid the COVID-19 pandemic ( nTime1 = 101, nTime2 = 52, nTime3 = 54). Mixed models showed students with greater illness disclosures and perceived partner responsiveness had better physical health, engaged in less health-compromising behaviors, felt less worried and stressed about the COVID-19 pandemic, and experienced lower illness-related stigma, discrimination, and social isolation. Over time, students’ greater illness self-disclosures predicted lower health-compromising behaviors and illness-related discrimination. Notably, perceived partner responsiveness connected greater illness self-disclosures to better health, COVID-related, and social-contextual outcomes. These findings demonstrate the health and social benefits of talking openly about concealable illnesses with partners and, in turn, feeling cared for, validated, and understood amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This study provides new evidence on relational pathways to better social and health outcomes among those with heightened health risks.","PeriodicalId":508458,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social and Personal Relationships","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141811653","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 : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1177/02654075241263225
Abigail J. Caselli, Laura V. Machia, Emily T. Beauparlant
In romantic relationships, people’s self-concepts (i.e., a person’s conceptualization of themselves) change. They expand to incorporate partners’ characteristics and contract to eliminate no longer relevant self-characteristics. This process is a sign that a couple is growing closer and is associated with positive outcomes. However, not all incorporated characteristics are positive. Some individuals are more likely to have selves that expand to incorporate negative characteristics, and as such they engage in the process of self-adulteration. As a result, they may fail to reap the positive outcomes of self-concept change. In one study and a direct replication (total N = 821), we predicted and found that people high in attachment anxiety are more likely to perceive greater self-adulteration in their relationship. In a third longitudinal study ( N = 122), we found people high in attachment anxiety at Time 1 perceived greater self-adulteration at Time 2.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1177/02654075241265474
Laurie Kramer, Cassandra M. Dean, Alexis A. Dean, Melissa S. Morgan
Little is known about how twins influence one another’s development during emerging adulthood. Although the exact mechanisms that underlie sibling influence have not been firmly established, they likely encompass processes that highlight either sibling identification (e.g., seeking similarities and imitation in the service of building cohesion) or deidentification (e.g., seeking differences that distinguish themselves to reduce competition, rivalry, and jealousy). Because past research inferred these processes rather than directly assess them, we conducted a mixed methods study in which 20 sets of monozygotic (MZ, n = 11 dyads) and dizygotic (DZ, n = 9 dyads) twins, aged 19.70 years (SD = 1.11), were interviewed individually regarding their personal identity development and sibling relationship. A grounded theory approach guided the qualitative analysis, which included coordinating twins’ interview responses at the dyadic level. Each twin also completed the Adult Sibling Relationship Questionnaire which provided a complementary quantitative assessment. 75% of the dyads prioritized differentiation and felt that college was the optimal time to pursue unique identities and goals. Those who prioritized seeking similarity were MZ twins who sought emotional closeness and support and attended the same college. Rather than pitting social learning and deidentification as opposing processes, the results suggest that deidentification is a developmental process in which twins increasingly take steps towards independence while seeking to retain the closeness, trust, and reliance they have long enjoyed in their relationship. Practical implications for helping twins balance their needs for autonomy and distinctiveness, while maintaining emotional closeness, are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1177/02654075241257457
Leanne K. Knobloch, Kirsten Pool
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can have serious consequences for people’s physical health and the quality of their romantic relationships. Less clear, however, are the interpersonal dynamics of couples navigating the aftermath of TBI. We used data scraping techniques to capture five years of posts submitted to online help-seeking forums, and we analyzed the resulting 349 single-spaced pages of data using codebook thematic analysis. Both TBI survivors and partners reported the focal themes of personality changes and relationship changes. TBI survivors emphasized a lack of understanding that led to grief and loss, relational uncertainty, and isolation. Partners reported poor treatment that culminated in negative emotions and relational uncertainty. The data showed notable similarities and differences between TBI survivors and partners. We interpret the results via four prominent theories of marriage and family relationships: ambiguous loss theory, relational turbulence theory, the theory of resilience and relational load, and family systems theory. Overall, our findings shed light on interpersonal dynamics after TBI and lay a foundation for future theoretical and clinical advances.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-21DOI: 10.1177/02654075241264720
L. Sharabi
Human matchmaking has existed for millennia and continues to be an important means of relationship initiation. Yet little is known about the matchmaking process or the role of formal intermediaries in mate selection. To begin exploring this topic, a two-part study was conducted using proprietary data from a professional matchmaking company. Study 1 surveyed matchmakers about what makes their services unique and the criteria they use to select partners for their clients. Study 2 used data from couples to understand if matchmakers’ preferences align with the characteristics their clients seek in a long-term partner. The results showed that rather than matching according to others’ preferences, part of a matchmaker’s work is helping their clients discover, and in some cases reassess, what they desire in a mate. These findings provide novel insight into the commercial dating industry at a time when online dating is beginning to automate many of the tasks traditionally associated with human matchmakers.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-18DOI: 10.1177/02654075241254503
H. C. Ratliff, Jeremy B. Kanter
Parental illicit substance use is associated with increases in both interparental conflict frequency and children’s externalizing behaviors. There is a paucity of research examining the pathways linking these constructs. Assessing parental illicit substance use and interparental conflict frequency simultaneously can illustrate a process that potentially undermines children’s behavioral adjustment. Using a sample of stable, long-term couples and their children from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study ( n = 1,011), the current study used path modeling and a multi-informant approach to examine the link between parental substance use and children’s later externalizing behaviors and if interparental conflict frequency mediated this association. Results indicated that parental substance use, assessed at the couple-level, was not associated with children’s later externalizing behavior, nor did interparental conflict frequency mediate this association. Post-hoc exploratory analyses found that mothers’ substance use was associated with children’s later externalizing behaviors, and this effect was stronger than fathers’ substance use, which was not associated with children’s later functioning. These results highlight the importance of examining how various aspects of substance use and different dimensions of interparental conflict might differentially impact children’s outcomes.
父母使用非法药物与父母间冲突频率和儿童外化行为的增加有关。目前还很少有研究探讨连接这些建构的途径。同时评估父母使用违禁药物和父母间冲突的频率，可以说明一个可能损害儿童行为适应的过程。本研究使用 "家庭未来与儿童福祉研究"（Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study）中的稳定、长期夫妻及其子女样本（n = 1,011），采用路径建模和多信息量方法来研究父母使用药物与子女日后的外化行为之间的联系，以及父母间冲突频率是否对这一联系起中介作用。结果表明，在夫妻层面评估的父母使用药物情况与儿童日后的外化行为没有关联，父母间的冲突频率也没有调解这种关联。事后探索性分析发现，母亲使用药物与儿童日后的外化行为有关，而且这种影响比父亲使用药物更强，因为父亲使用药物与儿童日后的功能不相关。这些结果凸显了研究药物使用的各个方面和父母间冲突的不同方面如何对儿童的结果产生不同影响的重要性。
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Pub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1177/02654075241244482
L. Chan, Dongsheng Chui
Online dating and dating apps are meant to help sexual minorities find romantic partners, but they have also presented challenges and obstacles. Based on 27 in-depth interviews with lesbian, gay, and bisexual dating app users living in Taiwan, this exploratory study proposes the concept of hyperpersonal failure as a holistic framework for understanding these challenges. This framework specifies four types of failure, each corresponding to one element in the original hyperpersonal communication model: the failure to present oneself (online daters as the sender), the failure to meet conversational expectations (the channel), the failure to develop positive impressions of the targets (online daters as the receiver), and the failure to obtain responses (the feedback). The study also discusses how the affordances of online environments contribute to hyperpersonal failure. Overall, the framework has the potential to shed light on online dating in general, extending beyond the experiences of sexual minorities.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-10DOI: 10.1177/02654075241260358
S. Shulman, Refael Yonatan-Leus
Objectives: Existing research on romantic breakups focused on the predictors of breakup, or on its emotional and behavioral sequelae. The current study examines the longitudinal correlates of a breakup experience over a period of eight years, and questions whether breakup experiences may also have negative and positive outcomes. Methods: Data were collected from 124 Israeli emerging adults (mean age 20.22 years; 79 females). Participants were approached again at ages 23, 25, and 28. Breakup distress was assessed at each wave. At age 28, participants’ well-being, as well as their romantic capacities, were evaluated. Results: The intensity of breakup distress at age 20 was not found to be associated with future well-being. However, increased accumulating distress explained a greater number of depressive and anxiety symptoms, and reports of feeling insecure about a partner’s availability and responsiveness, at age 28. In-depth interviews with participants about their romantic relationships at age 28 showed that breakup distress at age 20 was associated with greater romantic competence at age 28, explaining better capacity to learn from past romantic experiences and draw lessons for future behavior. In addition, earlier breakup distress was associated with more coherent accounts of romantic relationships at age 28. Conclusions: Findings suggest that young adults are likely to experience a number of breakup events during their twenties, and the accumulating breakup experiences can affect future well-being. The experience of a breakup might not necessarily associate with negative future outcomes, while an earlier breakup experience could also serve as a positive learning arena for future relationships. Social policy: Perception of romantic dissolution in a comprehensive manner could be helpful for understanding that breakups are probably part of the normative development of romantic relationships among young adults, and should not be perceived only from a deficit perspective.
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