Ideal Standards in Close Relationships

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 102-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garth J.O. Fletcher ◽  
Jeffry A. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Current Partner ◽  
Ideal Standards

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.

Advice in Intimate Relationships

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Branch ◽  
Elizabeth Dorrance Hall
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Turbulence Theory ◽  
Confirmation Theory ◽  
Relational Context ◽  
Interdependence Theory

Friendships and romantic relationships are characterized by enduring concern for each other’s welfare. It is perhaps not surprising, then, that advice, a form of social support, is common, expected, and even desired in intimate relationships. While much of the research on advice samples from friendships and romantic relationships, the influence of the specific relational context is often overlooked. This chapter addresses this limitation with a synthesis of theory and research from relationship science. Specifically, it explores the potential contributions of interdependence theory (Kelley & Thibaut, 1978), relationship turbulence theory (Solomon, Knobloch, Theiss, & McLaren, 2016), attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969), and confirmation theory (Dailey, 2006) to understand how relationship cognitions affect advice outcomes. The chapter also discusses the intersections between these theories as applied to advice and shows how these theories can guide best practices of advising in close relationships.

Regulation processes in intimate relationships: The role of ideal standards.

2006 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 662-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nickola C. Overall ◽  
Garth J. O. Fletcher ◽  
Jeffry A. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Ideal Standards

scholarly journals The Role of Mindfulness in the Intimate Relationships and Psychological Wellbeing in Emerging Adulthood

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 259
Author(s):  
María de Lourdes Rosales-Villacrés ◽  
Cristián Oyanadel ◽  
Diana Changotasig-Loja ◽  
Ignacio Betancourt-Peters ◽  
Wenceslao Peñate-Castro
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Psychological Wellbeing ◽  
Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire ◽  
Dispositional Mindfulness ◽  
Psychological Maladjustment ◽  
The Impact

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.

scholarly journals Bliskie relacje na odległość w migranckich rodzinach chłopskich na początku XX wieku. Analiza serii listów Stelmachów

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 101-111
Author(s):  
Anna Dolińska
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Peasant Family ◽  
Peasant Farmers

Close relationships at a distance among migrating peasant family members at the beginning of the 20th century. An analysisof the Stelmach Series of LettersIn the proposed article and its demonstrative approach, I put the question about the nature of close, intimate relationships in peasant families from the early twentieth century, which were separ­ated by migration and maintained contact with their children through letters, with reference to the series of letters of John and Eve Stelmach taken from The Polish Peasant in Europe and America by Thomas and Znaniecki. Referring to the paradigm of transnationalism, modern phenomena and research categories associated with migration of families, I try to show how the Stelmach family, Galician peasant farmers, tried to experience togetherness and feelings across the borders in the pre-technology era.

scholarly journals Co-Occurrence of Violence on the Severity of Abuse in Intimate Relationships

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110642
Author(s):  
Frédéric Ouellet ◽  
Emeline Hetroy ◽  
Guisela Patard ◽  
Christophe Gauthier-Davies ◽  
Chloé Leclerc
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Temporal Aspects ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Several empirical studies have shown that women who experience violence in intimate personal relationships (IPV) commonly experience more than one form of violence. While it is recognized that individual trajectories of IPV vary over time, little is known about the temporal dynamics of this co-occurrence or its consequences. This study describes the different forms of violence experienced by women and looks at whether it is possible to predict when severe violence (physical and sexual) is most likely to occur. Data in the study comes from interviews with 70 women who had been victims of intimate partner violence. The life history calendar method was used to facilitate identifying kinds and levels of violence and the month in which violence took place. Individual victimization trajectories were found to be heterogenous and likely to change in the short term. The women in our sample experienced more than one form of intimate partner violence and co-occurrence of different forms of violence was common in individual trajectories. The characteristics of the kind of violence experienced were important in understanding the temporal aspects of acts of severe violence. The increased knowledge about patterns of violence provided by these results should help to develop better ways to intervene to prevent such events.

Ideal Standards, the Self, and Flexibility of Ideals in Close Relationships

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorne J. Campbell ◽  
Jeffrey A. Simpson ◽  
Deborah A. Kashy ◽  
Garth J. O. Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Close Relationships ◽  
The Self ◽  
Ideal Standards

“Your Professor Will Know You as a Person”

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca M. Chory ◽  
Evan H. Offstein
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Student Relationship

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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