Journal articles: 'Close intimate relationships'

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Hornstein, Gail A., and Sarah E. Truesdell. "Development of Intimate Conversation in Close Relationships." Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 7, no. 1 (March 1988): 49–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/jscp.1988.7.1.49.

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Ináncsi, Tamás, András Láng, and Tamás Bereczkei. "Machiavellianism and Adult Attachment in General Interpersonal Relationships and Close Relationships." Europe’s Journal of Psychology 11, no. 1 (February 27, 2015): 139–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v11i1.801.

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Up to the present, the relationship between Machiavellianism and adult attachment has remained a question to be answered in the psychological literature. That is why this study focused on the relationship between Machiavellianism and attachment towards significant others in general interpersonal relationships and in intimate-close relationships. Two attachment tests (Relationship Questionnaire and long-form of Experiences in Close Relationship) and the Mach-IV test were conducted on a sample consisting of 185 subjects. Results have revealed that Machiavellian subjects show a dismissing-avoidant attachment style in their general interpersonal relationships, while avoidance is further accompanied by some characteristics of attachment anxiety in their intimate-close relationships. Our findings further refine the relationship between Machiavellianism and dismissing-avoidant attachment. Machiavellian individuals not only have a negative representation of significant others, but they also tend to seek symbiotic closeness in order to exploit their partners. This ambitendency in distance regulation might be particularly important in understanding the vulnerability of Machiavellian individuals.

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Fletcher, Garth J. O., and Jeffry A. Simpson. "Ideal Standards in Close Relationships." Current Directions in Psychological Science 9, no. 3 (June 2000): 102–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8721.00070.

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This article describes the Ideals Standards Model, which deals with the content and functions of partner and relationship ideals in intimate relationships. This model proposes that there are three distinct categories of partner ideals (warmth-loyalty, vitality-attractiveness, and status-resources), and that ideals have three distinct functions (evaluation, explanation, and regulation). The model also explains how perceived discrepancies between ideals and perceptions of one's current partner or relationship can have different consequences, depending on which of two motivating forces is active (the need to see the partner or relationship positively or the need to be accurate). Recent empirical studies that support some of the main features of the model are described.

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Mejia, Caitlyn Y., John J. Donahue, and Sally D. Farley. "Mean, uncommitted, and aggressive: Divergent associations between triarchic psychopathy, elements of love, and caustic relationship behaviors." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 37, no. 4 (December 3, 2019): 1193–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407519890414.

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Two studies explored how the triarchic dimensions of psychopathy predicted relationship outcomes in nonclinical samples. In Study 1, using a predominantly student sample ( N = 100, 24% men, 76% women), results revealed significant negative associations between meanness and Sternberg’s (1997) components of love (intimacy, passion, and commitment). In Study 2, using a more gender-balanced online community sample ( N = 125, 53% men, 47% women), we replicated results from Study 1 and found additional negative associations between self-reported physical aggression, psychological aggression and love in intimate relationships. Further, multivariate analyses revealed that deficits in love explained incremental variance in intimate partner aggression, over and above the triarchic constructs of meanness and disinhibition. Implications for how dimensions of psychopathy manifest in close intimate relationships are discussed.

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Octaviani, Annisa, and Purwarno Purwarno. "INTIMATE LANGUAGE STYLE IN NICHOLAS SPARKS’ MOVIE SCRIPT THE NOTEBOOK." JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE 3, no. 1 (May 24, 2021): 54–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.30743/jol.v3i1.3715.

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This research is aimed at analyzing the intimate language style used by the characters in The Notebook movie. In this research, the characteristics of the intimate language style used by the characters and the factors that influence these figures using intimate language styles in the movie would be revealed. The researchers apply a descriptive qualitative design. The research data are in the forms of film transcripts. The main theory used in this research is the theory proposed by Martin Joos. The results show that the researchers find 22 intimate language style utterances. In detail, the 22 intimate language style utterances include Addresse with 6 data, Extraction with 4 data, Jargon 3 data, Close relationship with 5 data, and Family relationship with 4 data. In addition, it is also found that there are four social factors that influence the characters to use intimate language styles. The first factor is the participants. The film's participants have very close relationships such as Family members or Close friends. The second factor is topic. The topics discussed in this film are privacy and love. The third factor is setting. Conversations in the film are often completed in several informal and private places such as beaches, houses and so on. The fourth factor is function. The speech functions produced by these characters vary; however, most of them have the same aim; that is to convey or show their intimacy to each other.

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McCutcheon, Lynn E., Meghan M. Gillen, Blaine L. Browne, Michael P. Murtagh, and Brian Collisson. "Intimate relationships and attitudes toward celebrities." Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships 10, no. 1 (June 30, 2016): 77–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v10i1.208.

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Previous research indicates that persons who self-report a high level of preoccupation with celebrities tend to have lower levels of well-being. We administered the “Romantic Partner Conflict Scale”, the “Love Attitudes Scale”, the soulmate subscale from the “Relationship Theories Questionnaire”, and the anxiety subscale from the “Experiences in Close Relationships Scale” to 330 students from four universities to see how well scores on these measures would predict scores on each of the three subscales from the “Celebrity Attitude Scale” (CAS). We predicted that persons whose scores on these measures of intimate relationships indicated a troubled, anxious, or poor quality relationship would have higher scores on the CAS, especially on its two problematic subscales. In three multiple regressions, specific measures of behavior during conflict with a romantic partner and certain love styles significantly predicted scores on all three of the CAS subscales. We discuss the implications of being a celebrity worshiper on one’s relationship with an intimate partner.

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Hetherington, E. Mavis. "Intimate Pathways: Changing Patterns in Close Personal Relationships Across Time*." Family Relations 52, no. 4 (October 2003): 318–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3729.2003.00318.x.

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Kolodziejczak, Karolina, Denis Gerstorf, and Karen Rook. "FACETS OF CLOSE, ROMANTIC, AND INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS IN LATER LIFE." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S792. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2915.

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Abstract Research on the role of close social relationships for physical health and well-being in later life has received increased attention over the past decades. Yet, we are still only beginning to understand potentially underlying mechanisms such as joint goals and affectionate touch. Likewise, we also know little about the relevance of particular social facets such as the role of friends and the nature of sexuality. In this symposium, we have compiled four empirical projects that showcase current and future endeavors to address some of these long-standing questions. Ungar et al. use dyadic data from older couples to examine how shared goals with the partners and positive illusions about these joint goals relate to goal progress and relationship satisfaction. Zhaoyang and Martire analyze long-term longitudinal dyadic data from older couples to examine if and how the frequency of affectionate touch between partners predicts physical health, well-being, and relationship satisfaction five years later. Fiori et al. make use of three-wave longitudinal data from a large and representative US sample to examine the unique roles that close social ties and weaker social ties have independently of one another for age-related changes in two central aspects of affective experience. Kolodziejczak et al. use time-lag data from two cohorts of adults in late midlife to capture historical changes in the perceived importance of sexuality and the evaluation of one’s sex life. Karen Rook will integrate the insights gained from these four papers, discuss their potential and limitations, and consider directions for future research.

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You, Hyo Soon, and Kathleen Malley-Morrison. "Young Adult Attachment Styles and Intimate Relationships with Close Friends." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 31, no. 4 (July 2000): 528–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022022100031004006.

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Chory, Rebecca M., and Evan H. Offstein. "“Your Professor Will Know You as a Person”." Journal of Management Education 41, no. 1 (July 27, 2016): 9–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1052562916647986.

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Over the past 30 years, several management educators have urged faculty to reexamine their relationships with students. To do this, many have proposed novel metaphors to reconceptualize the faculty-to-student relationship. These include embracing students not as pupils to be taught but rather as clients, consumers, and even employees. At the heart of these metaphors, though, is a subtle and not-so-subtle pressure to build more intimate, personal, and close relationships with students. As more and more stories surface in the scholarly and practitioner press about “close relationships” that have devolved into sad and disappointing outcomes for students, faculty, and universities, it is necessary to revisit the core assumption that closer is better. In this essay, we describe the forces driving more personal relationships between faculty and students. Next, we question the assumptions along with the unintended consequences of adopting more intimate relationships with students. Finally, we conclude by challenging management educators to rethink the notion of professional calling along with the notion of pedagogical caring. To be sure, we offer some prescriptions and principles to help management educators navigate the student–faculty relationship—a relationship, we believe, more in flux now than in any other time in the history of higher education.

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Bonassi, Andrea, Ilaria Cataldo, Giulio Gabrieli, Bruno Lepri, and Gianluca Esposito. "Serotonin Transporter Gene Polymorphisms and Maternal Overprotection Regulate Adult Social Expectations on Close Relationships." Brain Sciences 11, no. 9 (August 25, 2021): 1123. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11091123.

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Humans are evolutionary-driven to adult mating and conceive social expectations on the quality of their affiliations. The genetic susceptibility to adverse environments in critical periods can alter close relationships. The current research investigates how the promoter region of the Serotonin Transporter Gene (5-HTTLPR) and perceived caregiving behavior in childhood could influence the social expectations on close adult relationships. For this purpose, 5-HTTLPR data was collected from the buccal mucosa of 65 Italian individuals (33 males). The participants filled (a) the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) to provide the levels of care and overprotection from mother and father, and (b) the Experience in Close Relationships-Revised (ECR-R) to report the social expectations on the intimate relationship assessed in terms of anxiety and avoidance from the partner. An interaction effect between 5-HTTLPR and PBI dimensions on the ECR-R scores was hypothesized. Results confirmed that the interplay between the genetic groups and history of maternal overprotection predicted avoidance experienced in romantic relationships in adulthood. Moreover, both adult anxiety and avoidance felt in an intimate relationship were found to covary as a function of maternal overprotection. The present work proposes further evidence of the genetic and parental mechanisms regulating social expectations involved in close relationships.

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Rosales-Villacrés, María de Lourdes, Cristián Oyanadel, Diana Changotasig-Loja, and Wenceslao Peñate-Castro. "Effects of a Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Program on Intimate Relationships in a Youth Sample: A Randomized Controlled Trial." Behavioral Sciences 11, no. 6 (June 9, 2021): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs11060084.

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Intimate relationship conflicts in young people are crucial experiences for change. They can lead to more or less satisfactory relationships, depending on individuals’ skills to cope with these conflicts. This may or may not lead to violence in couples. Acceptance and self-regulation processes are an effective strategy to address individual factors such as avoidance and anxiety in intimate relationships of people in these age groups, thus preventing violence. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of an eight-session mindfulness and acceptance-based program (MAP). Participants (n = 40), who were aged from 18 to 25 years old, were randomly assigned to a group receiving the MAP or an active control group. Outcome measures were anxiety about abandonment, intimacy avoidance (Experiences in Close Relationships scale), well-being (Psychological Well-being Scale), dispositional mindfulness (Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire) and flexibility (Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II). Measures were taken at pre-intervention, post-intervention and follow-up. Results showed that the MAP decreased anxiety (p = 0.025) and avoidance (p = 0.01) and increased mindfulness (p < 0.001) and flexibility (p = 0.001). In general, these improvements persisted at follow-up. Results are discussed in relation to the usefulness of mindfulness-acceptance strategies to cope with non-pathological intimate relationship conflicts.

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Thorhauge, Anne Mette, Jakob Johan Demant, and Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager. "Intimacy and visual communication in social media." MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 36, no. 67 (February 20, 2020): 001–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v36i67.118198.

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Sharing (intimate) photos has become an integral part of close relationships in the ageof social media. Most young people use social media as a way to establish and main-tain strong social ties rather than as a way of connecting to public life. This pattern ofuse includes the sharing of photos and videos with intimate and sexual content, suchas nudes, intimate situations, and other types of self-disclosure. Given that the primary public and academic interest has been related to situations where the process has gone wrong and people have been hurt, these photos and videos are often associated with risk, worries, and moral disdain. However, these cases are part of a broader range of social practices, which are for the most part unproblematic and mundane. The sharing of inti- mate photos should be acknowledged as part of a more general act of (mutual) self-dis- closure to establish trust as well as an non-patalogical exploration of sexuality and social identities. In both cases, the sharing of intimate photos becomes part of more general processes of intimacy and close relationships that we should be careful not to reject or problematize as a whole. Accordingly, in this themed issue we would like to move beyond the stories of problem youth and move instead towards a more empirically grounded and systematic analysis of the complex ways in which the sharing of intimate photos becomes part of everyday life practices, including friendship, courtship, trust, and intimacy.

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Tsai, Ming-Chang. "Sociable resources and close relationships: Intimate relatives and friends in Taiwan." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 23, no. 1 (February 2006): 151–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407506060184.

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Ketokivi, Kaisa. "The Intimate Couple, Family and the Relational Organization of Close Relationships." Sociology 46, no. 3 (March 14, 2012): 473–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038511422552.

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Knudson, Sarah. "Getting Laid and Growing Close: Constructions of Masculinity in Relationship Advice for Heterosexual Men." Qualitative Sociology Review 10, no. 3 (July 31, 2014): 116–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.10.3.06.

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Despite the growing popularity of men’s self-help products, recent debates surrounding hegemonic masculinity, and attention to the “crisis of masculinity,” research has ignored men’s advice about intimate relationships. Consequently, I examine 30 contemporary relationship advice books and conceptualize their constructions of heterosexual masculinity. Findings demonstrate authors’ overall rejection of hegemonic masculinity, alongside an overarching strategy of “masculinizing” intimacy that promotes two subsidiary gender strategies – relational heroism and tempered ambition – which reframe non-hegemonic behavior as manly. The overarching strategy appears in mild forms in books emphasizing “getting laid” and stronger variants in books that promote “growing close” through intimacy. The strategy promotes a promising departure from the constraints of hegemonic masculinity by broadening men’s acceptable range of talking about and doing masculinity, but continues to emphasize gender difference and enables a reconfiguration of heterosexual masculine intimacy within hegemonic masculinity, thereby limiting its promotion of gender equality.

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Guzmán-González, Mónica, Marie-France Lafontaine, and Christine Levesque. "Romantic Attachment and Physical Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration in a Chilean Sample: The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation Difficulties." Violence and Victims 31, no. 5 (2016): 854–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.vv-d-14-00114.

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Despite evidence that adult attachment insecurity has been linked to the perpetration of physical intimate violence, the mechanisms underlying this link need further exploration. The goal of this study was to evaluate the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties in the association between romantic attachment and the use of physical intimate partner violence. To this end, 611 students recruited from Chilean universities completed the Experiences in Close Relationships questionnaire, the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, and the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales. Structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses revealed that emotion regulation difficulties mediated the relationship between dimensions of romantic attachment (anxiety over abandonment and avoidance of intimacy) and physical violence perpetration among both male and female participants. Implications for future research and clinical practice are presented herein.

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Musiał, Maciej. "Feminism and the Cooling of Intimacy. Unintended Consequences of Women’s Movements." ETHICS IN PROGRESS 4, no. 1 (February 1, 2013): 119–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/eip.2013.1.9.

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Numerous diagnoses of contemporary transformations of love and eroticism emphasise the fact that the intimate life has become democratised and liberated. Anthony Giddens argues that personal relationships increasingly become compatible with the model of pure relationship, which means that they are more egalitarian and that both partners are free to choose and to negotiate the shape of their relations. Jeffrey Weeks claims that in “the world that we have won”, women, homosexuals and queers are increasingly considered as equal to heterosexual men. Most scholars agree that feminism(together with gays’ and lesbians’ movements) is one of most important factors that enabled the democratisation of intimacy. Yet, it is possible to distinguish some interesting approaches that examine the unintended consequences of women’s emancipation. Sociologists like Arlie Russell Hochschild and Eva Illouz recognise the importance of feminism in democratising intimacy, thus they also claim that liberation of women has entailed rationalisation and commercialisation of intimacy. One of Hochschild’s main thesis is that feminism commercialises intimacy by legitimising “the commercial spirit of intimate life”. What is more, she argues that instead of humanizing men feminism is capitalising women. On the other hand, Illouz persuades that feminism – together with therapeutic discourse – rationalises intimacy by emphasising the necessity of analysing and quantifying all aspects of intimate life. Hochschild and Illouz claim that feminism unintentionally makes intimacy “cold” – that is that it suggests focusing on personal autonomy and perceiving warm and close bonds as an endangerment for that autonomy. The cooling entails loosening of family and intimate relationships and making individuals more attached to the market. In the end, both sociologists agree that “cool” branches of feminism make women similar to men and intimacy similar to the market

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Fitzroy, Andrea, Candace Kemp, and Elisabeth Burgess. "Maybe She’ll Make Some Friends?: Family Members Cultivating Intimacy in Assisted Living." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 486–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1573.

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Abstract Intimacy continues to be important in later life, including for older adults in long-term care settings such as assisted living (AL). Our past work shows that intimacy is a multi-dimensional process and can involve a variety of partners. Drawing on data from the qualitative longitudinal “Convoys of Care” study (R01AG044368), we extend this research to examine the role family members play in cultivating intimacy and close relationships of AL residents. Using a grounded theory approach, we analyzed 2,224 hours of participant observation, and formal interviews with 28 assisted living residents (aged 58-96) and their formal and informal care partners (n=114) from four diverse AL communities. Findings show that family members can play integral roles in residents’ experiences with intimacy, directly as relationship partners, and by facilitating or impeding residents’ contacts with others. Family members cultivated residents’ intimacy opportunities and experiences by direct engagement, resident advocacy, to non-involvement and disengagement. Family members’ roles in cultivating intimacy fluctuated over time, increasing at times of health concerns and family change. Perceptive family members considered older adults’ intimacy preferences when cultivating their intimate relationships. Family members concerned for the safety of their loved one sometimes acted as “gatekeepers” to intimacy by interfering in intimate relationships. We conclude with a discussion of implications for policy and practice aimed at improving the intimacy process and opportunities for older adults receiving long-term care.

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Howe, Frank. "The Value of Intimate Relationships and the Challenge of Conflict." Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice 8 (February 24, 2022): 15–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/jitp.v8i.3830.

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The value and importance of human intimacy is examined as acomplex combination of passion, commitment, friendship, andlove. Models of healthy and unhealthy conflict in relationshipsare offered as well as suggestions for moving from unhealthyexpressions of conflict to healthy ones. Human intimacy is a complex combination of passion, commitment,friendship, and love in which two individuals experiencea compelling desire for ongoing close interaction with each other.Such interactions typically span the full range of human activity.Intimate relationships are social, physical, intellectual, and spiritual.They support work, leisure, and learning. Unfortunately,popular media (television, movies, books, magazines) often offer amodern view of the risks of intimacy, which seems to imply thatattempting to find a life-partner is fraught with such peril and lowprobability of success that one might better spend the time learninghow to be comfortably alone. There is a great sadness to such awidespread perception. We are in fact social creatures. At the verycenter of our social system is, or should be, deeply caring relationships.Intimate relationships provide mutual support, mutual fulfillment,and promote positive growth and development. These relationshipsare the bedrock of the fundamental social system: thefamily. It is important then to affirm the value of intimacy and toidentify ways to maintain a healthy intimate relationship. As a beginning,let's examine some of the benefits of such relationships.

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Regan, Pamela C., and Ramani S. Durvasula. "A Brief Review of Intimate Partner Violence in the United States: Nature, Correlates, and Proposed Preventative Measures." Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships 9, no. 2 (December 18, 2015): 127–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v9i2.186.

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Aggression and violence are themes which characterize a significant proportion of many close romantic relationships. Both women and men may find themselves caught in a web of intimate terror – controlled, manipulated, and hurt by a coercive and violent partner. In this brief review article, we summarize existing literature on the form of intimate partner violence known as coercive controlling violence (CCV), domestic abuse, or intimate terrorism. We begin by discussing the nature and consequences of CCV relationships. Personal or individual (e.g., biological sex, age, immigrant status, socioeconomic status, attitudes and beliefs, mental health and psychopathology), relational or interpersonal (e.g., relationship type, relationship satisfaction), and environmental (e.g., economic strain, social isolation) risk factors associated with the occurrence of domestic abuse are identified. Finally, potential preventative measures at the individual, interpersonal, and sociocultural level that may serve to reduce the likelihood of this pernicious interpersonal phenomenon are considered.

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Ináncsi, Tamás, Attila Pilinszki, Tünde Paál, and András Láng. "Perceptions of close relationship through the Machiavellians´ dark glasses: Negativity, distrust, self-protection against risk and dissatisfaction." Europe’s Journal of Psychology 14, no. 4 (November 30, 2018): 806–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v14i4.1550.

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It is commonly known from the literature that Machiavellian individuals have negative attitudes towards people and in general towards the world´s affairs. They are distrustful of the intentions of others, and they get cautiously involved into interpersonal interactions and take risks only if that may not have any severe negative consequence. It is also a fact that there are few ventures in life that potentially involve as much insecurity and personal vulnerability as the establishment and maintenance of close relationships. In our study, we were seeking the answer to the question: do people with high levels of Machiavellianism show a generally negative, distrustful and cautious attitude in their intimate relationships, as well? What effect their pessimistic approaches have on the other consequences of the relationship (satisfaction, commitment, investment, quality of alternatives)? This question was investigated on a dyadic sample of heterosexual couples (N = 101 pairs) with Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM). The results of the correlations and actor effects show that men with high levels of Machiavellianism perceive in a negative way not just people in general, but their romantic partners and relationships as well and they experience an increased level of distrust, risk, and dissatisfaction into their close relationships. Women with high levels of Machiavellianism are less negativistic and feel less discontent towards their intimate partner and relationship, but even they are unable to put their distrust and precaution aside. The results of partner effects have revealed that women's Machiavellianism undermines men's trust, while men's Machiavellianism has the effect of minimizing women's investment into their relationship.

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Alarcão, Violeta, Ana Virgolino, Luis Roxo, Fernando L. Machado, and Alain Giami. "Exploring Gender in Portuguese Bedrooms: Men's and Women's Narratives of Their Sexuality through a Mixed Methods Approach." Sociological Research Online 20, no. 2 (May 2015): 103–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.3619.

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The nature of intimacy and self-identity changed profoundly over the past century. The disruption between sex and procreation enabled the emergence of new forms of relationships and contributed towards the legitimacy of a sexuality focused on pleasure, as a mean of self-realization and an expression of intimacy. Despite the evidence that most individuals now approach close relations with expectations of mutual emotional support and romantic love, intimate relationships remain highly gendered, particularly in societies where traditional roles of men and women persist in the growing diversity of sexual relationships. To address this topic, an empirical research was conducted in the Greater Lisbon area using a mixed methods approach. First, a quantitative study, with 323 primary healthcare users, intended to explain how gender influences self-constructions of sexuality and intimacy. Then, a qualitative study, with a subsample of 10 heterosexual men and 15 heterosexual women, employed in-depth interviews to explore how individuals construct their etiquette of sexual behavior. Building upon Gagnon and Simon's scripting theory and Giddens’ transformations of intimacy, along with feminist criticisms concerning male dominance in hetero-relationships, we have reached an explanatory typology that focuses on Portuguese specificity in terms of the subjective experience of sexuality and intimate relationships. Sexuality and intimacy are complex and multifaceted phenomena that are affected by sexual and non-sexual factors, both in and out of the bedroom. Key findings reveal a coexistence of highly gendered sexual scripts with increasingly more egalitarian sexual roles, namely among the youngest and the most educated generations in Portuguese society.

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Buckley, P. F. "Serotonergic Activity Influences the Cognitive Appraisal of Close Intimate Relationships in Healthy Adults." Yearbook of Psychiatry and Applied Mental Health 2012 (January 2012): 402–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypsy.2011.08.065.

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FORGAS, JOSEPH P., GEORGE LEVINGER, and STEPHANIE J. MOYLAN. "Feeling good and feeling close: Affective influences on the perception of intimate relationships." Personal Relationships 1, no. 2 (June 1994): 165–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6811.1994.tb00060.x.

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Bilderbeck, Amy C., Ciara McCabe, Judi Wakeley, Francis McGlone, Tirril Harris, Phillip J. Cowen, and Robert D. Rogers. "Serotonergic Activity Influences the Cognitive Appraisal of Close Intimate Relationships in Healthy Adults." Biological Psychiatry 69, no. 8 (April 2011): 720–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.12.038.

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Layne, Linda L. "A Changing Landscape of Intimacy: The Case of a Single Mother by Choice." Sociological Research Online 20, no. 4 (November 2015): 156–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.3739.

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American women who purposely undertake motherhood without the involvement of a male partner tend to be beneficiaries of second-wave feminist achievements in the areas of expanded educational and employment opportunities. I draw on an in-depth, longitudinal case study of one such Single Mother by Choice (SMC) to explore how the opportunities she has enjoyed and professional achievements she has attained have shaped her ‘intimate landscape.’ Intimacy means ‘innermost,’ and refers to a spatial relationship, whether physical and or metaphorical. ‘Landscape’ refers to ‘all the visible features of an area’ and ‘the distinctive features of a particular situation or intellectual activity.’ Together Carmen and I engaged in topography, producing a detailed description of the arrangement of the features of this area of her life—the intimate physical and emotional relations with her children, her dog, her mother, and close emotional relationships with her siblings and their families, some friends, and members of her church.

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Clark, Tom, Jeremy Kenney-Herbert, and Martin S. Humphreys. "Community rehabilitation orders with additional requirements of psychiatric treatment." Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 8, no. 4 (July 2002): 281–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.8.4.281.

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It is not uncommon for people with mental illness to be convicted of a criminal offence. The relationship between the two is not necessarily simple. It may be diffuse and subtle, perhaps relating to the disinhibiting effect of severe mental illness or associated factors such as poor social integration, unemployment, lack of close and intimate relationships or substance misuse.

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GROCHALSKA, MONIKA. "THROUGH THE (NOT SO) PINK GLASSES: GENDER BIAS IN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS." Journal of Education Culture and Society 7, no. 2 (September 10, 2016): 158–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs20162.158.179.

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This article was written as part of the project funded by the National Science Centre allocated on the basis of the decision no DEC-2011/01/D/HS6/02470. It shows how social representations of intimate relationships are shared among women and where they are rooted. According to Serge Moscovici, social representations are systems of values, ideas and practices, which allow people in groups to understand each other. Thus women have such a system, which is created through their entire life within the process of informal learning. During this processes some gender bias is imposed. This bias becomes a part of social representations of intimate relationships and influences practices of „being-in-relationship”. Those practices often do not fit life situations, contributing to the deterioration of women’s quality of life . All these processes are analysed on the basis of data taken from focus group interviews (FGI) with women. During interviews women often referred to some shared meanings, which constitute their social representations. Finally, these interviews show, that close relationships are highly affected by gender bias, thus they are full of misunderstandings and internal conflicts. The findings highlight the role played by the social representations in women’s subjective experience of their intimate relationships.

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Zhi Hong Li, Jennifer Connolly, Depeng Jiang, Debra Pepler, and Wendy Craig. "Adolescent romantic relationships in China and Canada: A cross-national comparison." International Journal of Behavioral Development 34, no. 2 (March 2010): 113–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025409360292.

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This study compared the romantic involvements of Canadian and Chinese adolescents as well as linkages with friend and parental relationships. Participants were 496 Chinese adolescents and 395 Canadian adolescents, aged 16—17 years. Chinese adolescents were less likely to have any form of romantic involvement, including a romantic relationship, displayed lower levels of romantic experience, and had fewer close romantic relationships. Gender moderated cultural differences, with Chinese girls least involved in romantic experiences. Although friendships were more intimate in Canada and parent relationships were closer in China, the linkages of parental and friend relationships with romantic experience were quite consistent across the two cultures, with friends being positively linked to romantic experiences and parents indirectly linked through their connection to friends. Among Chinese adolescents, parents also directly connected with romantic experiences in a negative direction. Implications of the findings for understanding the interface between individual growth and cultural context are discussed.

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OVERALL, NICKOLA C., and GARTH J. O. FLETCHER. "Perceiving regulation from intimate partners: Reflected appraisal and self-regulation processes in close relationships." Personal Relationships 17, no. 3 (July 27, 2010): 433–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6811.2010.01286.x.

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Rivers, Jessica. "The intimate intensity of Evangelical fighting ministries." Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion 52, no. 2 (December 23, 2016): 215–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.33356/temenos.60305.

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The author discusses what she learned from her participation in evangelical fighting ministries, paying special attention to how these communities sought to connect with God through interacting with each other. In training with and interviewing the members of these ministries in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the author found that as evangelical Christians, many struggled to establish and maintain the primacy of their personal relationships with God over their interpersonal interests. Yet they also believed their relationships with God were meant to be witnessed and experienced by others. During moments of worship they shared emotional intimacy, granting each other opportunities to make outwardly perceivable their internally felt relationships with God. During their Brazilian jiu-jitsu training, they were encouraged to feel God’s presence as they grappled with each other at very close contact. Using the concept of compartmentalisation, the author analyses how these evangelical fighting ministries demarcated their practices into emotional and physical forms of intimacy, thereby finding different ways to achieve what they perceived as personal contact with God in their intense interactions with each other.

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Hertz, Rosanna. "Sociological Accounts of Donor Siblings’ Experiences: Their Importance for Self-Identity and New Kinship Relations." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 4 (February 11, 2022): 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042002.

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A fundamental part of the adolescent self is formed through interaction with intimates, usually family members whose roles are reasonably well-defined. However, donor siblings—children who share a sperm donor—lack social scripts for interacting with one another, particularly when they are raised in different households. Moreover, they are often challenged to figure out their relationship to newly discovered genetic relatives. This article examines how donor-conceived teens and young adults navigate relationships with their half siblings and form intimate relationships. Drawing on Garfinkel’s concept of indexing, or the use of familiar categories to make sense of new situations, these youth rely upon their personal knowledge of friends and family to figure out what kinds of relationship they can develop with donor siblings. Based on interviews with 62 youth aged 14–28, who had their own social media accounts and who had chosen to establish contact with their donor siblings, the articles discusses the three stages most donor siblings go through—“anticipation”, “first contact”, and “relationship building”—and the way those stages shape individual identity formation. In the course of the analysis, the article also explores whether interaction with donor siblings affected individual’s sense of identity and whether feelings of closeness with donor siblings differ for youth raised as solo children versus those who have siblings with whom they share a household. For those who report feeling close, youth describe how intimacy is sustained and negotiated at a distance. Finally, as much as youth pick and choose intimates from their larger network, the article also argues that their collective identity as related-kin members remains.

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Candra Kirana, Sukma Ayu, Diyan Mutyah, and Nisha Dharmayanti Rinarto. "GAMBARAN PERKEMBANGAN PSIKOSOSIAL MAHASISWA KEPERAWATAN DI SURABAYA." MEDIA ILMU KESEHATAN 8, no. 3 (July 1, 2020): 264–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.30989/mik.v8i3.336.

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Background: Young adulthood is a stage of human psychosocial development where individuals begin to accept and assume heavier responsibilities. At this stage of age, intimate relationships begin to be explored and experienced development, this is in line with the reproductive period that starts perfect. Intimacy is how individuals are able to foster intimate / close relationships and love with others. Objective: The purpose of this study is to get a description of the psychosocial development of nursing students in the Surabaya area using an intimacy questionnaire. Methods: The research method used was descriptive analysis by taking a sample of 50 nursing students from 5 nursing institutions in Surabaya so that the total sample was 250. Results: The results in this study that discuss the psychososisal development in young adults obtained the results of most of the psychososisal development is less than optimal with 83 respondents (33.2%) because of the age factor that produces greater than 19 years. Conclusion: So the need for activities that can support psychosocial development in students, especially in supporting the development of intimacy so that the development of intimacy in students can be optimal. Activities that can be carried out such as sharing activities between students and lecturers so that lecturers can help students in fulfilling their development tasks, and students need to play an active role in training themselves to improve the development of intimacy in themselves.

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Thaller, Jonel. "“I Know She Loves It”: Narrative Analysis of One Man’s Justifications for Reproductive Control in an Intimate Relationship." Men and Masculinities 23, no. 2 (November 6, 2017): 203–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x17739067.

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This study provides a close narrative analysis of one man’s justification for gaining reproductive control over an intimate partner. Frequent narrative disjunction, or inconsistency within narrative accounts, permeates the subject’s description of his intimate relationship. Further, the way in which he struggles to justify his “head of household” status reveals a tension between the dominant gender narrative he strives to uphold and his actual experiences. As evidenced, men can evoke the discourse of patriarchy against their own best interests and to the detriment of their intimate relationships. However, narrative disjunctions indicate an opening through which change can occur, pointing to specific areas where the cultural ideals of masculinity strain against the realities of practical life. Recognizing that narratives are deliberately and artificially crafted, one can begin to discern the tensions between the personal and the social in identity maintenance and can begin to generate useful narratives that challenge dominant ideologies.

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Robinson, Tracy. "THE PROPERTIES OF CITIZENS." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 10, no. 2 (2013): 425–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x13000209.

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AbstractThis paper considers how a taxonomy of conjugality—marriage,common-law marriage, andvisiting relationships—emerged as a specialized vocabulary to apprehend and govern the postcolonial Caribbean. Although the metaphor of intersections does not fully capture the ways these categories relate to each other to produce social meaning, I employ an intersectional framework to offer a close reading of the routes through which these and other social differences and equivalences are produced as dimensions of citizenship in specific historical contexts, such as the period of decolonization and Caribbean nation-formation. In so doing, I illustrate how the categorization of intimate relationships codified a hierarchy based on intersections of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation, and established rough moral boundaries for a heterosexual Caribbean nation. The lives of working class Black women animate the categorization. I show how by centering these women in intimate relationship codes their sexuality is contained and patriarchy naturalized. In this paper, I suggest that we should mark the role intersectionality plays in constituting categories of intimate association, explore how these categories shape sentiments about belonging, and articulate the social costs of their instantiations.

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Matera, Marc. "An Intimate History of Empire." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 25, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 175–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8912837.

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Through a combination of critical memoir and family history, Hazel V. Carby’s Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands offers an intimate history of empire—an excavation of close connections across space and time, of empire’s presence in the most intimate spaces and relationships, and of the sedimented yet contingent racial logics underlying constructions of Englishness and Britishness. This brief discussion essay considers the book’s eccentric form and method as a challenge to imperial history, its methodological commitments, and its archival moorings. Carby offers a powerful critique of narratives of the black presence and racism in postwar Britain that center on the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948. By way of conclusion, the essay follows Carby in revisiting the so-called Brown Baby debate at the end of World War II, an episode in the reracialization of Britain that offers glimpses of the diversity of perspectives and political imaginaries among people of African descent and their extensive ties to a wider black Atlantic.

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Gracia, Enrique, Christina M. Rodriguez, Manuel Martín-Fernández, and Marisol Lila. "Acceptability of Family Violence: Underlying Ties Between Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 35, no. 17-18 (May 12, 2017): 3217–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260517707310.

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) and child abuse (CA) are two forms of family violence with shared qualities and risk factors, and are forms of violence that tend to overlap. Acceptability of violence in partner relationships is a known risk factor in IPV just as acceptability of parent–child aggression is a risk factor in CA. We hypothesized that these acceptability attitudes may be linked and represent the expression of a general, underlying nonspecific acceptance of violence in close family relationships. The sample involved 164 male IPV offenders participating in a batterer intervention program. Implicit measures, which assess constructs covertly to minimize response distortions, were administered to assess acceptability of partner violence against women and acceptability of parent–child aggression. To determine whether acceptability attitudes regarding both forms of violence were related to a higher order construct tapping general acceptance of family violence, Bayesian confirmatory factor analyses were conducted. Findings supported a hierarchical (bifactor) model with a general factor expressing a nonspecific acceptance of family violence, and two specific factors reflecting acceptability of violence in intimate partner and parent–child relationships, respectively. This hierarchical model supporting a general acceptance of violence in close family relationships can inform future research aiming to better understand the connections between IPV and CA.

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Rosales-Villacrés, María de Lourdes, Cristián Oyanadel, Diana Changotasig-Loja, Ignacio Betancourt-Peters, and Wenceslao Peñate-Castro. "The Role of Mindfulness in the Intimate Relationships and Psychological Wellbeing in Emerging Adulthood." Social Sciences 10, no. 7 (July 8, 2021): 259. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci10070259.

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Little is known about the impact of mindfulness on psychological wellbeing, anxiety, and avoidance in couple relationships. In emerging adulthood, intimate relationships are associated with life satisfaction and changes that can cause psychological maladjustment. This study seeks to determine if dispositional mindfulness acts as a protective variable between psychological wellbeing, anxiety, and avoidance and identify the factors that are protectors. A sample was obtained of 391 young university students between 18 and 25 years old. The Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, the Ryff Scales of Psychological Wellbeing, and the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale were used. The results show that the highest levels of dispositional mindfulness are associated with greater psychological wellbeing. Dispositional mindfulness cannot act as a protective variable against anxiety and avoidance, and values were non-significant in intimate relationships. It is necessary to continue investigating the most protective facets of mindfulness for both anxiety and avoidance.

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Dammann, Gerhard. "Schizoid personality disorder." Psychosomatic Medicine and General Practice 2, no. 4 (November 5, 2017): e020484. http://dx.doi.org/10.26766/pmgp.v2i4.84.

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The schizoid personality disorder is characterized by a lack of interest in close relationships, both in the family and in other interpersonal relationships, including intimate/sexual interactions, a superiority of introverted activities, emotional coldness, estrangement and flattened affect (DSM-5). This video lecture is devoted to the review of the prevalence, diagnosis, and treatment of this disorder. In addition, the lecture examines clinical cases and an example of managing such patients.

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Birenbaum-Carmeli, Daphna. "Love Thy Neighbor: Sociability and Instrumentality Among Israeli Neighbors." Human Organization 58, no. 1 (March 1, 1999): 82–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/humo.58.1.l103495677558t05.

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The paper explores the tense dynamics among neighbors in a mixed middle-class neighborhood in Tel Aviv, based on three years of fieldwork (1988-1991) and a local survey. Considered within the context of the general community question, three case studies are presented as illsutrations of local relationships, their ambiguities and limitations: relations shifted from daily encounters to absolute disconnection; people concealed major life plans from presumably close neighbors; in some cases, residents took official measures against a neighbor. It is suggested that intensive, prolonged relationships maintained among neighbors were not necessarily intimate personal ones. Rather, neighbor relationships seemed primarily instrumental, centering on a continuous exchange of minor services and an enhancement of one's anchor in the locality. The intimate appearance of these particular relations can possibly be attributed to general traits characteristic of Israeli culture.

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Gahlot Sarkar, Juhi, and Abhigyan Sarkar. "Up, close and intimate: qualitative inquiry into brand proximity amongst young adult consumers in emerging market." Young Consumers 17, no. 3 (August 15, 2016): 256–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/yc-04-2016-00593.

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Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore possible types of brand proximity based on respective psychological causal antecedents, and also to uncover possible marking outcomes of brand proximity. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from young adult respondents through semi-structured depth interviewing. The data were coded using a grounded theory method to interpret causal relationships between concepts. Findings Data coding resulted in a causal process model showing various psychological factors that would predict various brand proximity types, and also various attitudinal outcomes of brand proximity. Important emerging market context-specific findings are that the majority of Asian consumers feel emotionally close to developed foreign country originated brands, and that they use brands as a means to escape from various stress factors present in their daily lives. Originality/value A value of the study lies in exploring the contemporary types of psychological brand proximity and associated factors in the domain of consumer-brand relationship for the first time among Asian young adults.

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Robinson, Stefan, Adam White, and Eric Anderson. "Privileging the Bromance: A Critical Appraisal of Romantic and Bromantic Relationships." Men and Masculinities 22, no. 5 (October 12, 2017): 850–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x17730386.

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In this research, utilizing data from thirty semistructured interviews, we examine how heterosexual undergraduate men compare their experiences of bromances to that of their romantic relationships (romances). We find that the increasingly intimate, emotive, and trusting nature of bromances offers young men a new social space for emotional disclosure, outside of traditional heterosexual relationships. Participants state that the lack of boundaries and judgment in a bromance is expressed as emotionally rivalling the benefits of a heterosexual romance. Our participants mostly determined that a bromance offered them elevated emotional stability, enhanced emotional disclosure, social fulfilment, and better conflict resolution, compared to the emotional lives they shared with girlfriends. Thus, this research provides an empirically grounded conceptual framework for understanding men’s view of close homosocial relationships in comparison to their romantic relationship in the twenty-first century.

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Yamanaka, Chisato, and Kimiko Kawata. "Characteristics of Mother–Daughter Relationships and Sexual Risk-Coping Consciousness among Japanese Female University Students." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 23 (November 26, 2020): 8795. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17238795.

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For heterosexual Japanese women in their early 20s, it is important to maintain good sexual health, develop intimate relationships with a partner, and go through the process of having a family. This study aimed to determine the characteristics of mother-daughter relationships among Japanese female university students and their associations with students’ sexual risk-coping consciousness. We conducted a cross-sectional study using anonymous self-administered questionnaires. Participants were 329 female university students in their junior and senior years. The mother-daughter relationships of the study respondents were divided into the following three clusters: controlled group, close group, and independent group. The close and independent groups often consulted their mothers about sexual matters and, also, tended to be highly capable of actively expressing their opinions and cooperating with their partner in a sexual setting. In contrast, the controlled group revealed a significantly lower percentages of consulting their mothers on sexual matters and scored lower sexual risk-coping consciousness subscale scores. The controlled group may suffer a negative impact of the relationship with their controlling mothers as they try to build a good, trusting relationship with others. The characteristics of mother-daughter relationships may be associated with daughters’ sexual risk-coping consciousness.

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Chen, Juan. "The Paradox of Gender Reversal: Dance Hosts and the Pursuit of Gender Ideals in Contemporary China." China Quarterly 243 (November 4, 2019): 737–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s030574101900136x.

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AbstractThis study examines the masculinity of Chinese male migrants who earn their living as “dance hosts.” Dance hosts partner middle-aged women in dance halls, sell experiences of intimacy and engage in ongoing romantic relationships with their female clients. This article seeks to capture an intimate and “up-close” portrait of (heterosexual) male dance hosting, and then further addresses dance hosts’ masculine subjectivity by examining the coping strategies they use to overcome the stigma attached to their profession and to assert their masculinity. Ultimately, the article argues that the process of masculine subjectivity formation in the case of male dance hosts is structured by dominant norms of Chinese masculinity. Although seemingly highly subversive, the relationship between dance hosts and clients in fact fulfils conventional gender ideals and encourages the perpetuation of traditional gender roles in China's patriarchal society. This work seeks to offer an understanding of traditional gender norms (or ideals) through the lens of normative Chinese masculinity within the context of a stigmatized occupation.

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Lin, Stephen, and Danièle Bélanger. "Negotiating the Social Family: Migrant Live-in Elder Care-workers in Taiwan." Asian Journal of Social Science 40, no. 3 (2012): 295–320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853112x650854.

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Abstract In response to difficulties faced by families in caring for the aged, the government of Taiwan launched a foreign live-in caregiver programme in 1992. This paper draws upon literature on family, domestic work and motives for caregiving to examine how the long-term co-residence of migrant live-in elder care-workers reconfigures Taiwanese families. Our analysis, based on in-depth interviews conducted in the summer of 2009 with 20 Vietnamese migrant live-in care-workers, uses the concept of ‘social family’ to document the close emotional and quasi-familial relationships between foreign care-workers and members of Taiwanese families. Narratives shed light on the dynamics of these relationships and show the limitations of the concept. The inherent asymmetrical employer-employee power relationship remains, while workers constantly negotiate contradictory feelings and positions in the intimate sphere of the employers’ private homes. This paper emphasizes the mutual dependency that migrants experience as both workers and members of a new family. Rather than being seen as cheap, disposable labour, migrants become indispensable to the families. It is this dependency and intimacy that make them part of the family, but also continues to make them vulnerable to abuse.

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Hammond, Matthew D., Nickola C. Overall, and Emily J. Cross. "Internalizing sexism within close relationships: Perceptions of intimate partners’ benevolent sexism promote women’s endorsement of benevolent sexism." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 110, no. 2 (2016): 214–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000043.

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Adamczyk, Katarzyna, and Aleksandra Pilarska. "Attachment style, relationship status, gender and relational competences among young adults." Polish Psychological Bulletin 43, no. 2 (January 1, 2012): 59–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10059-012-0007-4.

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Attachment style, relationship status, gender and relational competences among young adults The seeking of a lifetime partner/spouse, establishing and maintaining close relationships are central developmental tasks in young adulthood. In successful achievement of these tasks relational competences may play a crucial role, thus making it reasonable to study their conditions. This article provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the relationship between relational competences and attachment style, relationship status, and gender. It presents a study of a normal sample of 423 young adults, aged 20-35, who completed The Questionnaire of Relational Competences in Intimate Relationships, Revised Adult Attachment Scale, and Demographic Questionnaire. The analysis of the data revealed that in the description of various relational competences all three factors play an important role. It has also turned out that the association between relational competences and attachment style is influenced by the circumstances pertaining to relationship status.

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Russell, Eric M., William Ickes, and Vivian P. Ta. "Women Interact More Comfortably and Intimately With Gay Men—But Not Straight Men—After Learning Their Sexual Orientation." Psychological Science 29, no. 2 (January 8, 2018): 288–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797617733803.

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Research suggests that the development of close, opposite-sex friendships is frequently impeded by men’s often one-sided sexual attraction to women. But what if this element were removed? The current research tested the hypothesis that women engage in more comfortable and intimate interactions with a gay (but not a straight) man immediately after discovering his sexual orientation. In two studies, female participants engaged in imagined or actual initial interactions with either a straight man or a gay man. After the man’s sexual orientation was revealed, women (particularly attractive ones) who were paired with a gay man reported greater anticipated comfort, which was mediated by their reduced worry about his sexual intentions (Study 1). Further, once women discovered that they were interacting with a gay man, they displayed more intimate engagement behaviors with him (Study 2). These findings reveal how, and why, close relationships often form quickly between women and gay men.

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Gonlin, Vanessa, and Mary E. Campbell. "Is Blindness Contagious? Examining Racial Attitudes among People of Color with Close Interracial Relationships." Sociological Perspectives 60, no. 5 (July 12, 2017): 937–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0731121417719698.

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Are people of color with close relationships with whites more likely to embrace colorblind racial ideologies (CBRI)? Using restricted data from waves 1 and 2 of the Portraits of American Life Study ( N = 2,713), collected in 2006 and 2012, we test whether black, Latina/o, and Asian respondents are more likely to express colorblind racial attitudes if they have an intimate partner or close friends who are white. We use ordinal logit models to examine seven CBRI attitudinal items, controlling for the respondent’s socioeconomic characteristics, immigrant generation, national origin, gender, age, characteristics of the city, and region. Although black, Latina/o, and Asian respondents are less likely to express CBRI than whites are, respondents of color with close relationships with whites are more likely to minimize certain types of racism, even after controlling for other characteristics of the individual. We discuss the implications of these findings, considering the patterns of antiblack and anti-immigrant attitudes among groups of color and placing them in the context of the more negative attitudes often expressed by whites. We also describe how other demographic patterns in these attitudes could shape future trends in attitudes and suggest possible interventions.

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