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Discrepancies in Parent-Adolescent Educational and Career Expectations and Overparenting 父母-青少年教育和职业期望的差异与过度养育

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Pub Date : 2023-05-23 DOI: 10.1177/02654075231177865

Peipei Hong, M. Cui

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Actor and Partner Effects of Prenatal Coparenting Behavior on Postpartum Depression in First-Time Parents 产前父母行为对首次为人父母者产后抑郁的影响

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Pub Date : 2023-05-23 DOI: 10.1177/02654075231179080

Roi Estlein, D. Shai

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On the Link Between Parental Support and Life Satisfaction: General and LGBQ+ Specific Self-Concepts as Mediators, and Parent-Oriented Interdependent Self-Construal as a Moderator 父母支持与生活满意度的关系:一般自我概念与LGBQ+特定自我概念的中介作用，父母导向的相互依存自我解释的调节作用

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Pub Date : 2023-05-22 DOI: 10.1177/02654075231174187

Fangsong Liu, E. Chong

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Interpersonal variables and caregiving partners' burden in cardiac illness: A longitudinal study 心脏病患者的人际变量与照顾伙伴负担:一项纵向研究

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Pub Date : 2023-05-20 DOI: 10.1177/02654075231177259

Eran Katz, E. Bar-Kalifa, P. Pietromonaco, H. Wolf, R. Klempfner, H. Hod, Noa Vilchinsky

{"title":"Interpersonal variables and caregiving partners' burden in cardiac illness: A longitudinal study","authors":"Eran Katz, E. Bar-Kalifa, P. Pietromonaco, H. Wolf, R. Klempfner, H. Hod, Noa Vilchinsky","doi":"10.1177/02654075231177259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231177259","url":null,"abstract":"The literature on coping with illness has for many years viewed only the patients as the focal point of attention and support, and only recently have the needs of patients’ caregivers been acknowledged as well. In addition, studies that have focused on factors contributing to caregiving partners’ burden in the context of chronic illness have assessed mostly intrapersonal variables of either the patient or the partner, thus overlooking the dyadic and interpersonal nature of caregiving. In the current longitudinal study, we examined the contribution of interpersonal factors, such as patients’ and partners’ relationship satisfaction and social support perceptions, to caregiving partners’ burden in the context of cardiac illness. Couples comprising male patients and female caregiving partners ( N = 131) completed measures of relationship satisfaction, provided support, and received support upon patients’ admission to a cardiac rehabilitation program after an acute cardiac event (Time 1), and 3 months later (Time 2), upon program completion. Caregiving partners also completed a measure of burden at both measurement times. Path analyses revealed that partners’ relationship satisfaction, provided support, and received support, were all associated with lower levels of different dimensions of burden at both timepoints, as well as over time. Patients’ contribution to their partners’ burden was salient cross-sectionally but not over time. The findings shed light on the substantial role played by interpersonal factors in the caregiving process. Our findings suggest that both patients and partners should be regarded as caregivers and care receivers to each other.","PeriodicalId":48288,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social and Personal Relationships","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47995955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The interpersonal process model of intimacy, burden and communal motivation to care in a multinational group of informal caregivers 跨国非正式照顾者群体中亲密关系、负担和共同照顾动机的人际过程模型

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Pub Date : 2023-05-17 DOI: 10.1177/02654075231174415

G. Ferraris, Eva Bei, Chelsea Coumoundouros, Joanne Woodford, E. Saita, R. Sanderman, M. Hagedoorn

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Reciprocal Self-Disclosure: Although Respondents are Reluctant to Steal the Spotlight, Self-Disclosers Feel Validated, Understood, and Cared for when Respondents Share Comparable Experiences 相互的自我表露:虽然受访者不愿意抢风头，但当受访者分享类似的经历时，自我表露者会感到被认可、被理解和被关心

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Pub Date : 2023-05-15 DOI: 10.1177/02654075231174530

Zachary A. Reese, Kristin Orrach

{"title":"Reciprocal Self-Disclosure: Although Respondents are Reluctant to Steal the Spotlight, Self-Disclosers Feel Validated, Understood, and Cared for when Respondents Share Comparable Experiences","authors":"Zachary A. Reese, Kristin Orrach","doi":"10.1177/02654075231174530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231174530","url":null,"abstract":"People often self-disclose news about themselves. Respondents may have similar news and feel conflicted about whether to share that news in the moment – that is, to reciprocally self-disclose. On the one hand, reciprocally self-disclosing could enable them to convey that they understand the recipient’s experience. On the other hand, reciprocally self-disclosing could dishonor the recipient’s contribution in a manner akin to stealing the spotlight. What contextual variables do respondents consider when navigating this conflict? How do recipients perceive reciprocal self-disclosures (RSDs) relative to non-disclosures – and what contextual variables moderate recipients’ perceptions? In this paper, we report four studies ( N = 1200 Reddit conversations, 733 MTurk and 701 Prolific users) examining how people use and perceive RSD across a variety of contexts. We focus principally on context valence (positive vs. negative) and news similarity (similar vs. more extreme). Across experimental and naturalistic studies, respondents were highly context-sensitive and particularly reluctant to reciprocally self-disclose in positive contexts. Yet, recipients were less context-sensitive. Recipients evaluated similar RSDs as comparably responsive as non-disclosures in positive contexts and more responsive than non-disclosures in negative contexts. Furthermore, recipients perceived more extreme RSDs as more responsive than non-disclosures in negative contexts and less responsive than non-disclosures in positive contexts. Exploratory analyses suggested privacy, gender of respondent, and closeness predicted whether respondents used RSD but not whether recipients perceived RSD as responsive. In short, people often refrain from RSD to avoid committing communication errors – but our research suggests RSD can be highly responsive and incurs few costs relative to non-disclosure.","PeriodicalId":48288,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social and Personal Relationships","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46167203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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“Children don’t think about these things.”: A qualitative research on the relationship views and experiences of former unaccompanied refugee children “孩子们不会考虑这些事情。“:关于前举目无亲难民儿童的关系观点和经验的定性研究

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Pub Date : 2023-05-11 DOI: 10.1177/02654075231175633

L. Anagnostaki, Alexandra Zaharia

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I just don’t agree with my parents: Why Chinese adolescents keep secrets 我只是不同意我父母的观点：中国青少年为什么保守秘密

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Pub Date : 2023-05-09 DOI: 10.1177/02654075231175632

Jianjin Liu, Allegra J. Midgette, Yuejiao Li

{"title":"I just don’t agree with my parents: Why Chinese adolescents keep secrets","authors":"Jianjin Liu, Allegra J. Midgette, Yuejiao Li","doi":"10.1177/02654075231175632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231175632","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigated 195 Chinese adolescents’ ( Mage = 15.9, SD = 1.46, 56% female) everyday secret-keeping behaviors and their rationale for their behaviors as reported in a two-week daily diary. A total of 860 secrets were reported. Chinese adolescents primarily kept secrets involving personal activities, followed by academic events and events concerning interpersonal relationships and electronic use. Justifications for their secretive behaviors mainly included reports of fear of parental disapproval in all types of events, particularly in personal events. Adolescents’ fear of parental disapproval was often referenced in the context of adolescents’ belief that their parents differed when it came to the value of doing activities outside of academics and attitudes towards adolescents’ academic successes and failures. Our findings highlighted the significance of academic events and achievement in Chinese adolescents’ secret-keeping behaviors and the central role of avoiding parental punishment or criticism in their justifications across all types of events. Girls reported a greater proportion of secrets concerning personal activity and a smaller proportion concerning electronic use than boys. Developmental differences were also found in the reporting of keeping secrets in personal activity and electronic use, i.e., adolescents reported more secrets in personal activity but fewer secrets concerning electronic use when they grew older. The findings highlight the importance of balancing adolescents’ needs for autonomy development and academic achievement in adolescent-parent relationships.","PeriodicalId":48288,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social and Personal Relationships","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49018509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Developmental Differences in Reported Overparenting, Autonomy, and Glucose Monitoring within a Medical Specialty Camp Context 医学专业营地环境中报告的过度养育、自主性和血糖监测的发展差异

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Pub Date : 2023-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/02654075231173459

R. Gagnon, B. Garst, Leslie E. Heffington

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The multidimensional evaluation of enacted social support: Best practices for use based on issues of factor structure, study design, and scale instructions 制定的社会支持的多维评估：基于因素结构、研究设计和量表说明问题的最佳实践

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Pub Date : 2023-05-05 DOI: 10.1177/02654075231171621

Colter D. Ray, Alan C. Mikkelson

{"title":"The multidimensional evaluation of enacted social support: Best practices for use based on issues of factor structure, study design, and scale instructions","authors":"Colter D. Ray, Alan C. Mikkelson","doi":"10.1177/02654075231171621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231171621","url":null,"abstract":"The Multidimensional Evaluation of Enacted Social Support (MEESS) measures communicated support in terms of supportiveness, helpfulness, and sensitivity. However, a systematic review of studies using the scale showed that the scale is mostly used as a unidimensional measure of support. Additionally, the scale is prone to having high interfactor correlations, and researchers rarely perform a confirmatory factor analysis to verify the scale’s factor structure. Therefore, we conducted two studies (Combined N = 1609) using nationally representative samples of U.S. adults to investigate the scale’s factor structure in message recall and hypothetical message study designs. We also explored whether the scale is best presented one factor at a time with factor-specific instructions as opposed to presenting the scale as a single set of items with one instruction set. Study 1 results indicate that the one-factor and three-factor solutions are both adequate without performing modifications during confirmatory factor analysis, but the three-factor model did provide a small but significantly better fit to the data than the one-factor model. In Study 2, both the one- and three-factor solutions had adequate fit; however, when using the factor-specific instructions, the three-factor solution had a far superior fit compared to the one-factor solution. Given the purpose of the scale as a multidimensional evaluation of social support, we recommend always conducting a confirmatory factor analysis when using the MEESS and to present the scale with separate instructions for each factor’s items.","PeriodicalId":48288,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social and Personal Relationships","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48443693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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