Sentences with phrase «relational partners»

Unfriended individuals also ruminated more when the person who unfriended them was a close relational partner (e.g., a friend or immediate family member) and the more they used Facebook to connect with their existing social contacts.

Relational partners vary in the ways they tend to enact conflict, and researchers have concluded that the conflict strategies people utilize can be helpful or deleterious to personal and relational outcomes (Canary & Cupach, 1988; Gottman, 1994).

In this sense, resilience is a process of calibration in relationships where relational partners and family members constantly gather feedback from each other on how they are...

Under the relational conception of power what is truly for the good of any one or all of the relational partners is not a preconceived good.

Over time, the accumulated effects of this repeated exposure can lead to distress in the person's work and / or personal life, and can result in negative interactive patterns with co-workers, relational partners, or even children.

In fact, partners who engage in cybersex with each other have higher levels of sexual and relationship satisfaction.3 Cybersex with a relational partner can encourage honesty, openness, and sexual communication in a relationship, greater comfort with sexual desires and in some cases increased frequency of offline sex.4

This definition assumes that relational partners are likely to disagree with each other, causing negative emotions to arise in one or both partners.

Interview research conducted by Albada, Knapp, and Theune (2002) revealed that: «physical attractiveness emerged as a quality that is thought about, valued in a relational partner, and important for relationship satisfaction» (p. 17).

These behaviors are likely to generate stress in the relational partners of depressed individuals, which consequently may be at risk to develop depressive symptoms themselves (Joiner and Timmons 2009).