Behavior in romantic relationships: The creation and test of a new behavioral scale in dating couples

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth K. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Dating Couples ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Behavioral Scale

Momentary sexual enjoyment: The dyadic roles of relationship satisfaction and contraception among mixed-gender dating couples

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 932-941
Author(s):  
Shari M. Blumenstock ◽  
Lauren M. Papp
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Condom Use ◽  
Sexual Experiences ◽  
Relationship Length ◽  
Contraception Use ◽  
Dating Couples ◽  
Sexual Enjoyment ◽  
Mixed Gender

Enjoyable sexual experiences with a romantic partner are a vital element of healthy lives and happy relationships, yet positive experiences of sex, and associated interpersonal and contraceptive factors, have not been extensively studied at the momentary level. In particular, little is known about how relationship quality and contraception use simultaneously relate to both women’s and men’s momentary sexual experiences within young adult romantic relationships. Using electronic diary reports collected three times per day for 10 days ( n = 293 reports of sexual activity), this study assessed own and partner relationship satisfaction and contraception (hormonal and condom) use as predictors of momentary sexual enjoyment in 43 mixed-gender young adult dating couples. Dyadic multilevel model results indicated that women’s relationship satisfaction positively predicted sexual enjoyment for both women and men, whereas men’s relationship satisfaction was not associated with own or partner’s sexual enjoyment. Women’s hormonal contraception use was associated with lower momentary sexual enjoyment for women and their male partners. Condom use was infrequent and not associated with sexual enjoyment, contrary to our (and many young adults') expectations. All analyses controlled for relationship length and sexual frequency. Findings underscore the simultaneous importance of hormonal and relational factors in sexual outcomes within young adult romantic relationships, as well as the complex and interdependent nature of partnered sexual experiences.

Shifting priorities

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 793-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Gere ◽  
Emily A. Impett
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Multilevel Models ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Relationship Commitment ◽  
Goal Conflict ◽  
Goal Adjustment ◽  
Initial Session ◽  
Dating Couples ◽  
Over Time

We investigated whether partners in newly developing romantic relationships adjust their goals when they experience conflict with the goals of their partner, and the consequences of goal conflict and goal adjustment. Fifty-nine newly dating couples ( N = 118) reported on their goals at an initial session and again 3 months later. Multilevel models indicated that when people reported higher conflict between a goal and their partner’s goals, they were more likely to stop pursuing as well as to devalue the importance of that particular goal over time. Furthermore, goal devaluing was associated with increases in relationship commitment over time but decreases in women’s relationship satisfaction when their partners devalued conflicting goals. Overall levels of goal conflict were associated with marginal decreases in relationship satisfaction. These results indicate that romantic partners try to adjust their goals to reduce goal conflict even in developing relationships, and that these adjustments have consequences for relationship satisfaction and commitment.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Phubbing and Romantic Relationship Satisfaction: A Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masita Utami ◽  
Muhammad Khairul Anam ◽  
Rakhmaditya Dewi Noorrizki
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Couples Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Dating Couples ◽  
Romantic Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationship between phubbing and romantic relationship satisfaction in dating couples. Research on the topic of discussing the relationship between phubbing and romantic relationship satisfaction is rarely conducted in Indonesia. Research carried out abroad focuses on the satisfaction of romantic relationships in marriage couples, not dating couples. Therefore, a research that discusses phubbing and romantic relationship satisfaction in dating couples is needed. Two variables are still considered new in the world of psychology. This study aims to determine the relationship between phubbing and romantic relationship satisfaction in dating couples. The method used in this study is a literature review in which presented various studies. In this research, presented several studies related to related aspects, namely phubbing and satisfaction romantic relationship. It was concluded that there was a relationship between phubbing and romantic relationship satisfaction among dating couples. In addition, we presented several studies related to the topic and related variables within the aspects. Further research is needed in order to know what variables are influenced and influenced. Keywords: phubbing, romantic relationship, relationship satisfaction

Heterotopic Potential of Darkness: Exploration and Experimentation of Queer Space in Sarah Waters’s Neo-Victorian Trilogy

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Akira Suwa
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Queer Space ◽  
The Creation

This article argues that darkness contributes to the creation of, and expands the concept of, heterotopias. In Sarah Waters’s neo-Victorian trilogy, consisting of Tipping the Velvet (1998), Affinity (1999), and Fingersmith (2002), her characters utilize darkness as their queer heterotopic space in order to call into question dominant heteronormative ideologies. Darkness plays an important role at the inception of the characters’ romantic relationships by facilitating space that allows their non-normative feelings to be expressed, thereby bringing queer desire to the forefront of each narrative. Darkness is a critical factor that renders a space heterotopic, as it blurs the boundary between heteronormative and queer, hence allowing transgression of the characters within Waters’s novels. Within queer heterotopic space created out of the darkness, there is a confluence of opposing values that enables the characters to examine the possibility of transcending heteronormativity and envisioning queer futures.

Perceived Threats of Female Infidelity, Male Proprietariness, and Violence in College Dating Couples

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 651-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alita J. Cousins ◽  
Steven W. Gangestad
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Mating Tactics ◽  
Dating Couples ◽  
College Dating ◽  
Controlling Behaviors ◽  
Do So

According to evolutionary theory, men faced the adaptive problem of keeping their partners sexually faithful. In the current study, men’s perception that their partners are interested in other men was hypothesized to be associated with more controlling behaviors in romantic relationships. Of the two dimensions of mating tactics, controlling and attentive behaviors, physically aggressive men were expected to be especially controlling, but not attentive. Using structural equation modeling with 116 college dating couples, women who reported greater interest in other men were perceived by their partners to do so and these men also exhibited more controlling behaviors, which were associated with physical aggression. Men’s perception of women’s interest in others was a more important predictor of male violence than women’s actual interest in other men. The link between women’s control tactics and their use of physical violence differed from men.

Social allergies in romantic relationships: Behavioral repetition, emotional sensitization, and dissatisfaction in dating couples

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Cunningham ◽  
Stephen R. Shamblen ◽  
Anita P. Barbee ◽  
Lara K. Ault
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Dating Couples

scholarly journals The Association of Attachment Anxiety and Avoidance With Emotional Dating Abuse Perpetration Using Multimethod, Dyadic Data

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 622-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Goncy ◽  
Manfred H. M. van Dulmen
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Attachment Anxiety ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Dyadic Data ◽  
Dating Abuse ◽  
Dating Couples ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationship between emotional dating abuse perpetration and attachment anxiety and avoidance using multimethod, multi-informant dyadic data. Data were derived from a sample of young adult heterosexual dating couples (N = 113 couples). We measured attachment through self-report survey data and emotional dating abuse through self-report surveys, partner-report surveys, and ratings by independent observers of a videotaped couple interaction. Both female and male anxiety were related to female emotional abuse across each method. Male anxiety was related to male emotional abuse in survey data, but female anxiety was related to male emotional abuse in observed data. Neither male nor female avoidance was related to emotional abuse. Dating abuse prevention should focus on attachment anxiety factors (e.g., jealousy, anger) to reduce emotional abuse in young adult romantic relationships.

scholarly journals Optimism in close relationships: How seeing things in a positive light makes them so

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjay Srivastava ◽  
Kelly M. McGonigal ◽  
Jane M. Richards ◽  
Emily A. Butler ◽  
James Gross
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Perceived Support ◽  
Relationship Status ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Dating Couples ◽  
Cognitive Disposition

Does expecting positive outcomes--especially in important life domains such as relationships--make these positive outcomes more likely? In a longitudinal study of dating couples, the authors tested whether optimists (who have a cognitive disposition to expect positive outcomes) and their romantic partners are more satisfied in their relationships, and if so, whether this is due to optimists perceiving greater support from their partners. In cross-sectional analyses, both optimists and their partners indicated greater relationship satisfaction, an effect that was mediated by optimists' greater perceived support. When the couples engaged in a conflict conversation, optimists and their partners saw each other as engaging more constructively during the conflict, which in turn led both partners to feel that the conflict was better resolved 1 week later. In a 1-year follow-up, men's optimism predicted relationship status. Effects of optimism were mediated by the optimists' perceived support, which appears to promote a variety of beneficial processes in romantic relationships.

Rituals in Committed Romantic Relationships: The Creation and Validation of an Instrument

2010 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy C. Pearson ◽  
Jeffrey T. Child ◽  
Anna F. Carmon
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
The Creation
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