scholarly journals The self-fulfilling nature of positive illusions in romantic relationships: Love is not blind, but prescient.

1996 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 1155-1180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra L. Murray ◽  
John G. Holmes ◽  
Dale W. Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
The Self ◽  
Positive Illusions

Outsourcing the Self

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Call Center ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Self ◽  
New Middle Class ◽  
First World ◽  
Class Youth ◽  
Call Center Workers

This chapter analyzes how call center workers, who are mostly middle- and working-class youth, create narratives that are described as expressing modern forms of “individualized Indianness.” The chapter demonstrates how call center workers produce narratives of individualized Indianness by engaging in practices of mimicry, accent training, and consumption; by going to public spaces such as bars and pubs; and by having romantic relationships that are largely hidden from their families. The narratives examined in this chapter are created out of an asymmetrical context of power as young Indians work as “subjects” of a global economy who primarily serve “First World” customers. The interviews with Indian youth reflect how tradition and modernity, mimicry and authenticity, collude with each other to dialogically create new middle-class subjectivities.

scholarly journals Values and Virtues as Correlates of Quality and Stability of Romantic Relationships and Marriage in a Post-Socialist Transitional Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 289
Author(s):  
Maja Kus Ambrož ◽  
Jana Suklan ◽  
Dejan Jelovac
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
The Self ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Relationship Stability ◽  
Value System ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Empirical Survey ◽  
Transitional Society

An individual’s value system plays an important role in their intimate relationship or marriage. Most marital satisfaction research to date has been carried out in high-income liberal Western societies. We conducted an original quantitative empirical survey of virtues and values to examine their effect on relationship quality and stability in a sample of 511 respondents from Slovenia, a post-socialist society in transition. The results showed that respondents rated health, love, and safety at the top of their hierarchy of values. The key finding was that the presence of love was associated with an individual’s subjective perception of relationship quality but had no effect on the self-evaluation of relationship stability. In addition to love, both family safety and comfort were significant correlates of relationship quality while self-respect was negatively correlated with relationship quality. Only excitement was found to have a statistically significant effect on relationship stability.

Bi-Directional Positive Illusions in Romantic Relationships: Possibilities and Pitfalls for the Socially Anxious

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Gordon ◽  
Kareem Johnson ◽  
Richard G. Heimberg ◽  
Jennifer L. Montesi ◽  
Robert L. Fauber
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Positive Illusions ◽  
Socially Anxious

Assault on the Self: Positive Illusions and Adjustment to Threatening Events

1991 ◽  
pp. 239-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley E. Taylor ◽  
Margaret E. Kemeny ◽  
Geoffrey M. Reed ◽  
Lisa G. Aspinwall
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Positive Illusions

Attachment styles, conflict styles and humour styles: interrelationships and associations with relationship satisfaction

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnie Cann ◽  
M. Ashley Norman ◽  
Jennifer L. Welbourne ◽  
Lawrence G. Calhoun
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
The Self ◽  
Conflict Styles ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Relationships among attachment styles, conflict styles and humour styles were examined in the context of romantic relationships. Each style was assumed to be based upon underlying assumptions about self and others, so relationships among the measures were predicted. A model assuming that the relationship of attachment styles to relationship satisfaction was partially mediated by the conflict styles and humour styles was tested. Overall, the predicted relationships among the three measures were supported. Conflict styles and humour styles reflecting attitudes about others were related to the avoidance attachment style, while those reflecting attitudes about the self were related to the anxiety attachment dimension. Conflict styles and humour styles were mediators of the association of attachment style with relationship satisfaction. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

scholarly journals Oι θετικές ψευδαισθήσεις για τον εαυτό και η ριψοκίνδυνη συμπεριφορά στην εφηβεία: Ανασκόπηση της βιβλιογραφίας

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 470
Author(s):  
Κατερίνα Μπάτζου ◽  
Βασιλική Τσούρτου
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Functional Adaptation ◽  
Gender Effects ◽  
The Self ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Dual Function ◽  
Positive Illusions ◽  
Personal Fable ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

The objective of this study is, through the relevant literature review, to point out the associations between risk-taking behavior during adolescence and positive illusions about the self, that is imaginary audience and personal fable ideations. Positive illusions about the self and risky behavior in adolescence are usually investigated as a direct result of adolescent egocentrism. in this study we briefly describe the main theoretical approaches of positive illusions about the self. Moreover, research findings are presented on the mediating role of self-esteem in the relationship between positive illusions about the self (mainly personal fable) and risk-taking in adolescence. also, we discuss age and gender effects on the complex phenomenon of risk-taking and we focus on adaptive developmental functions of positive illusions about the self. in particular, we focus on the dual function of the personal fable ideation: the illusions of omnipotence and invulnerability either lead adolescents and young adults to risk-taking, or they contribute both to a positive self-image projection in the future and to individuals’ functional adaptation to new situations in their transition from adolescence to adulthood.

Adapted Self-Affirmation and Conflict Management in Romantic Relationships

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Schumann ◽  
Emily Grace Ritchie ◽  
Anna Dragotta
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
The Self ◽  
Relationship Functioning ◽  
Romantic Couples ◽  
Constructive Conflict ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Destructive Conflict ◽  
One Year ◽  
Self Protection ◽  
At Will

Conflict can threaten our romantic relationships if managed ineffectively. Because destructive conflict responses are often fueled by self-protection motives, we theorized that protecting the self via self-affirmation could foster more constructive conflict responses. But how might people spontaneously use self-affirmation to improve their conflict practices? In a longitudinal intervention study (N=242) with romantic couples, we tested whether instructing partners to place themselves in the frame of mind that self-affirmation theoretically fosters—a big-picture focus that cultivates an expansive view of the self and reflection on one’s important values—could help people manage their conflicts more effectively. Compared to a control condition, couples who were instructed to take this “big-picture” focus reported more constructive conflict responses (e.g., empathy; responsiveness) and greater relationship functioning (e.g., higher relationship quality; lower avoidance) both immediately and one year after the intervention. This study thus offers a strategy people can use at will to improve their relationships.

scholarly journals Two new scales in the field of couples and marriage counseling: The inclusion of other in the self scale and Turkish self-change in romantic relationships scale

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 01053 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duygu Dincer ◽  
Halil Eksi ◽  
Arthur Aron
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Research Process ◽  
The Self ◽  
Relational Self ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Good Reliability ◽  
Third Stage

This study had two aims. One aim was to adapt the Inclusion of Other in the Self (IOS) Scale into the Turkish cultural context. The second aim was to develop the Turkish Self-Change in Romantic Relationships Scale (TSCRRS) based on the existing Relational Self-Change Scale. The research process for this study consisted of four stages. In the first stage, forward-backward translation of the IOS Scale was performed to determine bilingual equivalence. In the second stage, an item-pool was created to measure self-change in romantic relationships. In the third stage, data were collected to determine the reliability and validity of the TSCRRS (N = 426). In the fourth stage, new data were collected to determine the validity and reliability of the IOS Scale and the TSCRRS (N = 348). All of the participants were in a romantic relationship. The findings revealed that both the TSCRRS and the IOS Scale have good reliability and validity.

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