Affectionate touch to promote relational, psychological, and physical well-being in adulthood: A theoretical model and review of the research

BK Jakubiak, BC Feeney - Personality and Social …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Throughout the life span, individuals engage in affectionate touch with close others. Touch
receipt promotes well-being in infancy, but the impacts of touch in adult close relationships …

Acknowledging the elephant in the room: How stressful environmental contexts shape relationship dynamics

LA Neff, BR Karney - Current opinion in psychology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Risk for marital distress is significantly greater for lower income couples.•Lower
income marriages develop in a context filled with negative stressors.•Stressful events …

A new look at social support: A theoretical perspective on thriving through relationships

BC Feeney, NL Collins - Personality and social psychology …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Close and caring relationships are undeniably linked to health and well-being at all stages
in the life span. Yet the specific pathways through which close relationships promote optimal …

The theory of resilience and relational load

TD Afifi, AF Merrill, S Davis - Personal Relationships, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Resilience is one of the most profound constructs across disciplines. Yet, the largely
atheoretical nature of the research on resilience continues to make it elusive. A new theory …

Playfulness in mobile instant messaging: Examining the influence of emoticons and text messaging on social interaction

SH Hsieh, TH Tseng - Computers in Human Behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
Mobile instant messaging is the communication technology revolution that is changing the
way people communicate. The adoption rate is surging and the massive growth is …

[책][B] Intimate relationships

RS Miller, D Perlman, SS Brehm - 2007 - ereserve.library.utah.edu
Intimate relationships/Rowland S. Miller...[et al.].-4th ed. p. cm.-(The McGraw-Hill series in
social psychology) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-07 …

Group emotions: Cutting the Gordian knots concerning terms, levels of analysis, and processes

JI Menges, M Kilduff - Academy of Management Annals, 2015 - journals.aom.org
Research has established that groups are pervaded by feelings. But group emotion
research within organizational science has suffered in recent years from a lack of …

Individual/relational resilience

TD Afifi - Journal of Applied Communication Research, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Resilience, or the ability to adapt positively when confronted with adversity (Luthar, 2003), is
one of the most studied concepts across disciplines, and yet continues to be one of the most …

Making the good even better: A review and theoretical model of interpersonal capitalization

BJ Peters, HT Reis, SL Gable - Social and Personality …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
When good things happen, individuals will often retell this good news to others, a process
termed capitalization. In so doing, individuals sharing their good news (ie, capitalizers) boost …

Play behavior and playfulness in adulthood

M Van Vleet, BC Feeney - Social and Personality Psychology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Although research has established play behavior and playfulness as important to the well‐
being of children and animals, researchers have not typically considered the importance or …