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Book Synopsis Satisfaction in Close Relationships by : Robert J. Sternberg
Download or read book Satisfaction in Close Relationships written by Robert J. Sternberg and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1997-06-27 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the premise that close relationships are subjected to extraordinary scrutiny in contemporary society, the authors go on to say that this generation values individual fulfilment more than any before us. We are able to leave existing relationships with relative ease, demand a high level of satisfaction from our intimate relationships, and are frustrated at those times when we fail to achieve it.; This volume presents a range Of Theoretical And Clinical Approaches To Understanding And Promoting relationship satisfaction. Integrating findings from social, clinical and counselling psychology, researchers illuminate what it means to be satisfied within a love relationship and identify the factors that allow couples to create successful relationships over time.
Book Synopsis Couple Intimacy and Relationship Satisfaction by : Hana Yoo
Download or read book Couple Intimacy and Relationship Satisfaction written by Hana Yoo and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Research has consistently demonstrated that partners tend to report high levels of relationship satisfaction when they feel intimate with each other. Conversely, a lack of intimacy is often associated with relationship distress, and is one of the common reasons couples seek therapy. However, little is known about distressed couples' intimacy experiences, especially as compared with their satisfied counterparts. Couple therapists may not know which aspect of intimacy (e.g., emotional or sexual) distressed couples may be lacking, particularly when limited information is given. Using Bowen's (1978) concept of differentiation as a framework, the current study aimed to explore how distressed treatment-seeking couples' (clinical couples') emotional/sexual intimacy experiences differ from those of satisfied non-treatment-seeking couples (community couples), and whether emotional/sexual intimacy is associated with relationship satisfaction similarly or differently among these couples. A total of 92 couples participated in this study: 46 clinical couples and 46 community couples. MANOVA and independent t-tests were conducted to examine the differences in the levels of differentiation, emotional and sexual intimacy, and relationship satisfaction among these couples in the clinical and community groups. The between-group similarities and differences in the associations between differentiation, emotional/sexual intimacy, and relationship satisfaction were tested using structural equation modeling and group invariance comparison strategies. The results demonstrated that distressed treatment-seeking couples' levels of differentiation, emotional and sexual intimacy, and relationship satisfaction were significantly lower than those of satisfied, non-treatment-seeking couples. However, the associations between these constructs were mostly similar among the clinical and community groups. The level of differentiation of a relationship was found to be positively associated with partners' emotional and sexual intimacy experiences, except for female sexual intimacy, in both groups. The associations between emotional/sexual intimacy and relationship satisfaction varied by gender and group (clinical or community), thus yielding interesting yet unexpected findings. For example, while the association between differentiation and male sexual intimacy was significant in both groups, the magnitude of the path was greater for clinical male partners than for those in the community group. Also, the association between male sexual intimacy and male relationship satisfaction was significant only among the clinical couples, not among the community couples. Overall, the findings of this study indicate that differentiation of a relationship plays an important part in partners' intimacy experiences as well as in their relationship satisfaction, suggesting "how to intervene" with distressed couples' intimacy concerns. By helping increase distressed couples' levels of differentiation, therapists may be able to enhance those couples' intimacy and relationship satisfaction, possibly to the levels experienced by satisfied, better-differentiated couples who are not seeking therapy.
Book Synopsis Individual versus Dyadic Processes: Health and Relationship Outcomes by : Maria Nicoleta Turliuc
Download or read book Individual versus Dyadic Processes: Health and Relationship Outcomes written by Maria Nicoleta Turliuc and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships by : Jon Carlson
Download or read book Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships written by Jon Carlson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The loss of intimacy is one of the most difficult—but also one of the most common—factors in the destruction of any relationship. Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships lays out practical, evidence-based guidelines on which clinicians can depend as they wade through the intense emotions and fragile bonds of couples in crisis. With care and sensitivity, the book's authors analyze the increasingly complex context in which the cycle of intimacy develops, wanes, and recovers. The chapters delve into diverse populations' attitudes toward intimacy and provide an entire section on cultural, gender and religious issues. Clinicians looking for a research-based, practical take on the many facets of intimacy in the twenty-first century need look no further than this book.
Download or read book Out of Touch written by Michelle Drouin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behavioral scientist explores love, belongingness, and fulfillment, focusing on how modern technology can both help and hinder our need to connect. A Next Big Idea Club nominee. Millions of people around the world are not getting the physical, emotional, and intellectual intimacy they crave. Through the wonders of modern technology, we are connecting with more people more often than ever before, but are these connections what we long for? Pandemic isolation has made us even more alone. In Out of Touch, Professor of Psychology Michelle Drouin investigates what she calls our intimacy famine, exploring love, belongingness, and fulfillment and considering why relationships carried out on technological platforms may leave us starving for physical connection. Drouin puts it this way: when most of our interactions are through social media, we are taking tiny hits of dopamine rather than the huge shots of oxytocin that an intimate in-person relationship would provide. Drouin explains that intimacy is not just sex—although of course sex is an important part of intimacy. But how important? Drouin reports on surveys that millennials (perhaps distracted by constant Tinder-swiping) have less sex than previous generations. She discusses pandemic puppies, professional cuddlers, the importance of touch, “desire discrepancy” in marriage, and the value of friendships. Online dating, she suggests, might give users too many options; and the internet facilitates “infidelity-related behaviors.” Some technological advances will help us develop and maintain intimate relationships—our phones, for example, can be bridges to emotional support. Some, on the other hand, might leave us out of touch. Drouin explores both of these possibilities.
Book Synopsis Great Myths of Intimate Relationships by : Matthew D. Johnson
Download or read book Great Myths of Intimate Relationships written by Matthew D. Johnson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Myths of Intimate Relationships provides a captivating, pithy introduction to the subject that challenges and demystifies the many fabrications and stereotypes surrounding relationships, attraction, sex, love, internet dating, and heartbreak. The book thoroughly interrogates the current research on topics such as attraction, sex, love, internet dating, and heartbreak Takes an argument driven approach to the study of intimate relationships, encouraging critical engagement with the subject Part of The Great Myths series, it's written in a style that is compelling and succinct, making it ideal for general readers and undergraduates
Book Synopsis Couple Relationships in a Global Context by : Angela Abela
Download or read book Couple Relationships in a Global Context written by Angela Abela and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the significance of the couple relationship in the 21st century, exploring in depth how couple relationships are changing in different parts of the world. It highlights global trends and cultural variations that are shaping couple relationships. The book discusses diverse relationships, such as intercultural couples, same sex couples, long distance couples, polygynous marriages, and later life couples. In addition, chapters offer suggestions for ways to best support couples through policy, clinical practices, and community support. The book also investigates aspects of a relationship that help predict fidelity and stability. Topics featured in this book include: Couple relationships when one partner has an acquired physical disability. Impact of smartphones on relationships. Online dating and its implications for couple relationships. Assessment and intervention in situations of infidelity and non-monogamy. Parenting interventions for the transition from partnership to parenthood. Online couple psychotherapy to support emotional links between long distance partners. Couple Relationships in a Global Context is an essential resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and practitioners in family therapy, clinical psychology, general practice/family medicine, social work, and related psychology and medical disciplines.
Book Synopsis Understanding Marriage by : Patricia Noller
Download or read book Understanding Marriage written by Patricia Noller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume draws together a wide range of exciting developments in the study of marital interaction. A significant feature of the book is its focus, not only on conflict and negative interactions but also on the processes by which couples maintain happy and constructive relationships. The chapters review and integrate the extensive literature in this area, as well as presenting important research findings. The contributors come from the disciplines of communication, social psychology and clinical psychology, and have national and international reputations for their work in this area. The findings reflect developments in theory and methodology, and have important implications for those working to strengthen and repair marital relationships.
Book Synopsis The Marriage Checkup by : James V. Córdova
Download or read book The Marriage Checkup written by James V. Córdova and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 2009-05-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marriage Checkup is designed to help couples assess the strengths and weaknesses of their relationship and to develop strategies for strengthening its health. Like physical health, the health of a relationship can be developed to greater levels of fitness and resilience to illness. Thus, even healthy couples can benefit from a marital health perspective by developing exercises for optimizing their health and fitness. This book primarily serves couples interested in improving the health of their relationship. Counselors and therapists may recommend that their couples-patients use the book. Additionally, the book may be of interest to professors of marriage and family counseling.
Book Synopsis Marital Relationships and Parenting: Intimate relations and their correlates by : Ami Rokach
Download or read book Marital Relationships and Parenting: Intimate relations and their correlates written by Ami Rokach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic relationships, especially good ones, are desired of almost all humans. However, what makes such relationships good and nourishing? For the most part, it is the support and intimacy that exists within the couple, and their ability to experience life and face difficulties together. This book is divided into two sections, one focusing on the couple and their intimate relationship, and the other on how that relationship influences their offspring. Part one examines whether sacrificing in an intimate relationship is always beneficial and whether it help strengthen the marital/couple unit? Attachment theory has had a significant influence on how we view relationships in childhood as well as in adulthood. The book sheds light on the mechanisms that mediate attachment style and the quality of the intimate relationships, exploring the relationship between one’s ability to express empathy and that person’s ability to offer social support to his/her partner. The second part of the book explores what young adults think about marriage, influenced by their parental relationship; how parental relationships affect children’s social experience in school; how parental approaches to children affect their sibling relationship; the parental role in childhood eating disturbances; and how the family climate affects children’s loneliness. All in all, the book affords a thorough review not only of what marital/couple intimacy is and what can affect it, but how significant it is in affecting their children, in and out of the house. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Psychology.
Book Synopsis Intimate Relationships across Cultures by : Charles T. Hill
Download or read book Intimate Relationships across Cultures written by Charles T. Hill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground breaking study of the ways that intimate relationships are similar around the world, and the ways they are different.
Book Synopsis Sexual Intimacy, Mood and Relationship Satisfaction After Couple Conflict by : Forouz Shirvani
Download or read book Sexual Intimacy, Mood and Relationship Satisfaction After Couple Conflict written by Forouz Shirvani and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partners need to recover from their conflicts and regain their intimate bond to sustain a satisfying and stable romantic relationship. If sexual contact (which has long been linked to relationship satisfaction) occurs after couple conflict, it may hasten post-conflict reconciliations by reducing negative emotions and behaviors and enhancing positive ones. The current study was designed to explore the effects of sexual experiences between romantic partners on their emotional recoveries from their conflicts, especially among romantic partners with higher levels of attachment insecurity. In a 3-week diary study, cohabiting couples (N=115) reported on their daily interactions with their romantic partners to address the following questions: (1) what is the impact of post-conflict sexual intimacy on couple partners’ moods and relationship satisfaction following conflict, and (2) what is the impact of sexual contact after conflict on the expected negative association between attachment insecurity and emotional recovery from conflict between romantic partners. Results indicated that sexual contact after conflict helps romantic partners regain their daily relationship satisfaction, but does not moderate the association between attachment insecurity and post-conflict recovery. Findings from this study can be applied in couple therapy, as it is the unresolved and lingering effects of conflicts that often bring individuals to marital counseling.
Book Synopsis Enhancing Intimacy in Marriage by : Dennis A. Bagarozzi
Download or read book Enhancing Intimacy in Marriage written by Dennis A. Bagarozzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people believe that intimacy is a unitary construct-that is, that it is made up of only one component. Dr. Bagarozzi demonstrates how intimacy is comprised of at least nine separate subcomponents. The degree to which partners can meet the intimacy needs of their mates in all nine areas is critical to marital satisfaction. Building upon the foundations of the author's Enhancing Intimacy Program, which he developed and utilized in his own practice with clients, EnhancingIntimacy in Marriage explores the ways in which intimacy is demonstrated and communicated between married partners. A simple questionnaire, the Intimacy Needs Survey, is used to help couples identify areas of satisfaction and areas where intimacy needs are not being met. Clinical strategies for helping couples improve their intimacy are presented in case examples. This book is unique in that it offers clinicians a step-by-step approach for both assessment and intervention
Book Synopsis Marital Communication by : Douglas Kelley
Download or read book Marital Communication written by Douglas Kelley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marital Communication provides insight into healthy relationships for those who want to better understand key communication processes between long-term, committed, romantic partners. Writing with students, teachers, researchers, practitioners, and couples in mind, this book uses marriage as a proving ground to understand the processes necessary to build and maintain positive romantic relationships. Marital Communication develops the idea that marriage is a distinctive communication context (long-term, romantic, and committed) that uniquely influences various relationship processes. It focuses on three essential elements needed for healthy marital functioning: positive everyday communication, intimacy and love, and productive conflict management. The book finishes by describing how these essential elements change across the life-span, by examining marriage’s dark side, and by focusing on the use of forgiveness to ensure a healthy longevity. Soundly documented with current research and written in a manner accessible to student and researcher alike, Marital Communication is an ideal supplement for current courses focusing on family communication, interpersonal and relational communication, and conflict. It is also an excellent, resource for the relationship professional.
Book Synopsis The Handbook of Sexuality in Close Relationships by : John H. Harvey
Download or read book The Handbook of Sexuality in Close Relationships written by John H. Harvey and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004-04-26 with total page 1075 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although sexuality is an integral part of close romantic relationships, research linking these two constructs has been less systematic than other areas pertaining to close relationships. To date, researchers in communication, sociology, family studies, psychology, and psychiatry, have made significant advances in both of these fields. The editors' goal is to integrate this research into one volume. They bring together major scholars from the diversity of fields working on close relationship topics to examine past contributions and new directions in sexuality. The emphasis is on theoretical integration and stimulation, methodological rigor, and critical analysis. This volume explores: *early sexual experiences and their impact on late life sexuality; *how life's stresses impact sexuality and satisfaction with closeness; *the affect of postpartum depression on sexuality; and *the relationship between control, power, anger, as well as revenge and sexual processes in couples. The Handbook of Sexuality in Close Relationships is intended for students and researchers in the disciplines of social, clinical, developmental, and health psychology; family studies; counseling; and interpersonal, family, and health communication. An excellent reference in advanced courses in close relationships taught in psychology, communications, sociology, anthropology, and family studies, the material in Part V will also appeal to clinical psychologists, health professionals, and policymakers.
Book Synopsis Perceptions of Risk in Intimacy by : Amy Beth Brunell
Download or read book Perceptions of Risk in Intimacy written by Amy Beth Brunell and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Intimacy, Marital Satisfaction, and Sexuality in Mature Couples by : Jennifer A. Volsky Rushton
Download or read book Intimacy, Marital Satisfaction, and Sexuality in Mature Couples written by Jennifer A. Volsky Rushton and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study investigated the relationship between intimacy and marital satisfaction, as well as between intimacy and sexuality. Participants were 30 couples, with a mean age of 49. Participants had been involved in a romantic relationship for an average of 20 years. Couples were asked to complete a variety of questionnaires on intimacy, marital, and sexual functioning. Results indicated no sex differences in levels of overall intimacy, or in levels of sexual satisfaction, however the men were experiencing more sexual problems than the women. For men, sexual and emotional intimacy predicted marital satisfaction, whereas for women, recreational and emotional intimacy were the significant predictors. High discrepancies between perceived and desired levels of intimacy were not related to lower marital satisfaction. Few dimensions of intimacy were related to sexual satisfaction and functioning. The finding that different types of intimacy are important to marital satisfaction for men and women has implications for the areas of focus in marital therapy. The finding that large discrepancies between perceived and desired intimacy levels did not decrease marital satisfaction suggests that individuals find ways to compensate for a lack of intimacy in their relationship. Other implications of the present findings, as well as how they relate to past research and theory, are discussed.
