Download or read book Long Distance Versus Geographically Close Romantic Relationships written by Alyssa Palmire Kopecki and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maintaining Long Distance and Cross Residential Relationships written by Laura Stafford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking volume offers an innovative and intriguing approach to the study of long-distance relationships. Author Laura Stafford examines romantic long-distance relationships and then expands the conception of long-distance relationships to include other relational types. She summarizes literature across the social sciences on various types of long-distance relationships and extracts themes and patterns across the relational types. In so doing, she reconsiders approaches to and offers an expanded vision of relational maintenance. By expanding her scope beyond romantic relationships, Stafford includes those that span residences and relational types, such as noncustodial parent-child and geographically and residentially separated adult children and parents. She contends that face-to-face interaction is not necessary to maintain healthy relationships, and questions the assumption that maintaining, rather than terminating, a particular relationship is always best for the involved parties. With its interdisciplinary approach to challenging commonly held assumptions about communication and close relationships, Maintaining Long-Distance and Cross-Residential Relationships will be engaging reading for scholars in communication, psychology, sociology, mass communication, and family studies. It is also appropriate for special topics graduate courses on long-distance relationships and human communication, and will serve as a unique supplemental text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in interpersonal, relational, and family communication and family studies.
Download or read book Close Relationships written by Patricia Noller and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close Relationships: Functions, Forms and Processes provides an overview of current theory and research in the area of close relationships, written by internationally renowned scholars whose work is at the cutting edge of research in the field. The volume consists of three sections: introductory issues, types of relationships, and relationship processes. In the first section, there is an exploration of the functions and benefits of close relationships, the diversity of methodologies used to study them, and the changing social context in which close relationships are embedded. A second section examines the various types of close relationships, including family bonds and friendships. The third section focuses on key relationship processes, including attachment, intimacy, sexuality, and conflict. This book is designed to be an essential resource for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, and practitioners, and will be suitable as a resource in advanced courses dealing with the social psychology of close relationships.
Download or read book Computer mediated Communication in Personal Relationships written by Kevin B. Wright and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2011 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lynne M. Webb (Ph. D., University of Oregon) is Professor in Communication at the University of Arkansas. She previously served as a tenured faculty member at the Universities of Florida and Memphis. Her research examines young adults' interpersonal communication in romantic and family contexts. Her research appears in over 50 essays published in scholarly journals and edited volumes, including computers in Human Behavior, Communication Education, Health Communication, and Journal of Family Communication. --Book Jacket.
Download or read book The Long Distance Relationship Guide written by Caroline Tiger and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the challenges of long-distance relationships with this fun and practical survival guide for geographically challenged lovers The phone company might think long distance is the next best thing to being there, but The Long-Distance Relationship Guide knows better: long-distance relationships require hard work, commitment, a sturdy travel bag, a good calling plan, a healthy sense of humor, supportive friends—and lots of ice cream. Here’s everything you need to make sure your relationship can go the distance. Learn how to: • Spot the serial long-distance dater • Prepare for “The Visit” • Discover the joys of phone sex • Write a juicy love letter • Negotiate turn-taking visits Full of helpful quizzes, checklists, and advice from relationship experts and long-distance veterans, The Long-Distance Relationship Guide will help you make the most of your long-distance romance.
Download or read book Maintaining Relationships Through Communication written by Daniel J. Canary and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relational maintenance provides a rallying point for those seeking to discover the behaviors that individuals utilize to sustain their personal relationships. Theoretical models, research programs, and specific studies have examined how people in a variety of close relationships choose to define and maintain those relationships. In addition, relational maintenance turns our attention to communicative processes that help people sustain their close relationships. In this collection, editors Daniel J. Canary and Marianne Dainton focus on the communicative processes critical to the maintenance and enhancement of personal relationships. The volume considers variations in maintaining different types of personal relationships; structural constraints on relationship maintenance; and cultural variations in relational maintenance. Contributions to the volume cover a broad range of relational types, including romantic relationships, family relationships, long-distance relationships, workplace relationships, and Gay and Lesbian relationships, among others. Maintaining Relationships Through Communication: Relational, Contextual, and Cultural Variations synthesizes current research in relationship maintenance, emphasizes the ways that behaviors vary in their maintenance functions across relational contexts, discusses alternative explanations for maintaining relationships, and presents avenues for future research. As such, it is intended for students and scholars studying interpersonal communication and personal relationships.
Download or read book Long Distance Relationships written by Gregory Guldner and published by Jf Milne Publications. This book was released on 2004-01-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're in a long distance relationship (LDR) you've probably heard this before. Millions of couples, married or dating, consider themselves long distance, and they struggle with the unique difficulties that come from living apart. Long distance relationships do work. But to be successful you must understand how they differ from other relationships, and you must learn new strategies proven to make a difference. Based on ground-breaking research, Long Distance Relationships will teach you the little-known, but critical secrets to a happy and healthy long-distance relationship. Book jacket.
Download or read book Relationship Maintenance written by Brian G. Ogolsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an interdisciplinary perspective on behaviors and strategies used to maintain intimate relationships.
Download or read book The Distance Factor written by Marie J. Stevens and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The current study examined the differences between LDRs [long-distance relationships] and geographically-close relationships (GCR) on measures of perceived social support, integration, and relationship satisfaction."-- Abstract.
Download or read book The Smart Girl s Guide to Polyamory written by Dedeker Winston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one likes a know-it-all, but everyone loves a girl with brains and heart. The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory is an intelligent and comprehensive guide to polyamory, open relationships, and other forms of alternative love, offering relationship advice radically different from anything you'll find on the magazine rack. This practical guidebook will help women break free of the mold of traditional monogamy, without the constraints of jealousy, possessiveness, insecurity, and competition. The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory incorporates interviews and real-world advice from women of all ages in nontraditional relationships, as well as exercises for building self-awareness, confidence in communication, and strategies for managing and eliminating jealousy. If you're curious about exploring group sex, opening up your current monogamous relationship, or ready to “come out” as polyamorous, this book covers it all! Whether you're a seasoned graduate, a timid freshman, or somewhere in between, you'll learn how to discover and craft unique relationships that are healthy, happy, sexy, and tailor-made for you. Because when it comes to your love life, being a know-it-all is actually a great thing to be.
Download or read book For Better written by Tara Parker-Pope and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Times' most popular journalists presents groundbreaking scientific news about marriage. And, surprise: It's good news. We've all heard the statistic: Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce. It's enough to make many couples give up when the going gets rough, thinking that's what everybody else does. But what if it weren't true? What if, in fact, it's not only possible but often easier than you think to save a seemingly troubled relationship? These are the questions Tara Parker-Pope asked herself after her own divorce. An investigative journalist on the health and wellness beat, she turned to some of the top biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and other scientists for the facts about marriage and divorce. Those facts were more positive and provocative than she'd ever expected, and For Better offers page after page of astonishing, eye-opening good news. Parker-Pope presents the science behind why some marriages work and others don't; the biology behind why some spouses cheat and others remain faithful; the best diagnostic tools created by the most cutting-edge psychologists to assess the probability of success in getting married, staying married, or remarrying. There are questionnaires to uncover potentially damaging hidden attitudes toward spouses. There are tools to show the impact of routine, fresh activity and how small adjustments can make a huge difference. Tara Parker- Pope's genius is for exploring the science behind the big issues that affect our lives every day and translating that science into advice that we can use-every day. For Better is the definitive guide to the most profound relationship of our lives.
Download or read book Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder Behaviors Adaptive And Perceptions Idealized written by Li Jiang and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people assume that it is challenging to maintain a romantic relationship when the partners are separated by a considerable distance. Recent research on long-distance relationships, however, suggests that long-distance romantic relationships are equally or even more intimate and satisfied than geographically close counterparts. The present study examined whether the everyday intimacy process unfolds differently in long-distance versus geographically close dating relationships and whether the use of interpersonal media interplays with geographic separation to affect intimacy in specific interactions. Drawing on the Interpersonal Process Model of Intimacy (IPMI; Reis & Shaver, 1988), the study tested an intimacy enhancement mechanism in which long-distance couples engage in more adaptive self-disclosure behaviors and form more idealized relationship perceptions than do geographically close couples for the pursuit of intimacy across various interpersonal media. These predictions were examined with a novel electronic diary method. Long-distance and geographically close dating couples completed a 7-day diary study in which both members of the couple independently reported their interactions that took place each day. The results provide support for the behavioral adaptation and perceptual idealization effects proposed, and suggest that the two effects vary along the media dimensions of cue multiplicity, synchronicity and mobility. These findings offer a contextual extension to the IPMI and advance the understanding of communication and relational processes in long-distance and mixed-mode relationships.
Download or read book Under Studied Relationships written by Julia T. Wood and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995-04-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full understanding of relationship processes must include consideration of theoretically inconvenient and/or socially disfavored instances as well as those whose value and importance, traditionally, have been acknowledged in research. "Moving off the beaten track," Under-Studied Relationships begins to rectify existing scholarship's tendency to ignore the diverse and emergent forms of relationships that are increasingly evident in modern society. Editors Julia T. Wood and Steve Duck have gathered together outstanding researchers in the field to discuss such largely overlooked issues as long-lasting marriages, cultural-minority relationships, lesbian/gay relationships, simultaneous hierarchical and friendships at work, nonmarital cohabitation, long-distance relationships, and personal relationships over computer networks.
Download or read book The Arc of Love written by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is love best when it is fresh? For many, the answer is a resounding “yes.” The intense experiences that characterize new love are impossible to replicate, leading to wistful reflection and even a repeated pursuit of such ecstatic beginnings. Aaron Ben-Ze’ev takes these experiences seriously, but he’s also here to remind us of the benefits of profound love—an emotion that can only develop with time. In The Arc of Love, he provides an in-depth, philosophical account of the experiences that arise in early, intense love—sexual passion, novelty, change—as well as the benefits of cultivating long-term, profound love—stability, development, calmness. Ben-Ze’ev analyzes the core of emotions many experience in early love and the challenges they encounter, and he offers pointers for weathering these challenges. Deploying the rigorous analysis of a philosopher, but writing clearly and in an often humorous style with an eye to lived experience, he takes on topics like compromise, commitment, polyamory, choosing a partner, online dating, and when to say “I love you.” Ultimately, Ben-Ze’ev assures us, while love is indeed best when fresh, if we tend to it carefully, it can become more delicious and nourishing even as time marches on.
Download or read book Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds written by Kiran Lakkaraju and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the rapidly-growing arena of 'virtual worlds', such as Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs), individuals behave in particular ways, influence one another, and develop complex relationships. This setting can be a useful tool for modeling complex social systems, cognitive factors, and interactions between groups and within organizations. To study these worlds effectively requires a cross-disciplinary approach that integrates social science theories with big data analytics. This broad-based book offers a comprehensive and holistic perspective on the field. It brings together research findings from an international team of experts in computer science (artificial intelligence, game design, and social computing), psychology, and the social sciences to help researchers and practitioners better understand the fundamental processes underpinning social behavior in virtual worlds such as World of Warcraft, Rift, Eve Online, and Travian.
Download or read book Attachment Self disclosure Gossip and Idealization as Predictors of Satisfaction in Geographically Close and Long Distance Romantic Relationships written by Ji-yeon Lee and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study examines geographically close (GCRs) and long distance (LDRs) romantic relationships, and the contribution of attachment style, self-disclosure, gossip, and idealization to explaining romantic relationship satisfaction, for each relational type. Therefore, the overarching hypothesis was that that the GCR and LDR explanatory models would be non-equivalent. The sub-hypotheses were: First, higher attachment security will predict (a) higher self-disclosure, (b)lower GCR and higher LDR gossip, (c) lower idealization, and (d) higher satisfaction. Second, higher gossip and lower self-disclosure will predict higher idealization. Third, lower GCR and higher LDR idealization will predict higher satisfaction. Thus, I expected GCR and LDR satisfaction to be mediated differently by gossip, self-disclosure, and idealization. College student participants (N = 539) completed a web survey. The instruments, widely used in research, included: (a) demographic information; (b) the Experience in Close Relationship Scale-Short Form (ECR-S; Wei, Russell, Mallinckrodt, & Vogel, 2007); (c) the Tendency to Gossip Questionnaire (TGQ, Nevo et al., 1993); (d) the self-disclosure scale, designed for this study; (e) the Idealistic Distortion Scale (IDS; Olson, 2005); and (f) the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS; Spanier, 1976). A Structural Equation Modeling multigroup analysis was used to test the hypotheses. The hypotheses were mostly supported. First, the results indicated that higher attachment security was significantly associated with (a) higher GCR and LDR self-disclosure, (b) lower LDR gossip, (c) higher GCR and LDR idealization, and (d) higher GCR and LDR relationship satisfaction. Second, lower GCR and higher LDR self-disclosure were associated with higher idealization, with gossip not significantly associated with idealization. Third, higher GCR and LDR idealization were associated with higher relationship satisfaction. As for the overarching hypothesis, the results indicated that the GCR and LDR models were non-equivalent, as expected; relationship satisfaction was mediated differently in GCRs than LDRs. In summary, the results imply that (a) attachment is a strong predictor of relationship satisfaction regardless of a couple's geographic distance, and (b) how couples communicate with each other is more important in LDR relational type. I also discuss implications, limitations, and areas for future research."--Leaves viii-ix.
Download or read book Influence of Attachment Dimensions on Relational Maintenance Behaviors in Long distance Versus Geographically Close Romantic Relationships written by Jian Yang and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
