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Self-disclosure and marital satisfaction.
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In this article, the authors examined the effect of self-disclosure on marital satisfaction in couples and also introduced attitude similarity as a possible predictor of marital satisfaction, and 51 couples (mean age 30.6 yrs) completed five test instruments, including a selfdisclosure scale, 2 marriage satisfaction scales, an attituAbstract:
Examined the effect of self-disclosure on marital satisfaction in couples and also introduced attitude similarity as a possible predictor of marital satisfaction. 51 couples (mean age 30.6 yrs) completed 5 test instruments, including a self-disclosure scale, 2 marriage satisfaction scales, an attituread more
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A generic measure of relationship satisfaction.
TL;DR: The Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS) as mentioned in this paper ) is a psychometrically sound, generic measure of relationship satisfaction that measures love, sexual attitudes, self-disclosure, commitment, and investment in a relationship.
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Sex differences in self-disclosure: a meta-analysis.
Kathryn Dindia,Mike Allen +1 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of 205 studies involving 23,702 Ss found that sex differences in self-disclosure were significantly greater to female and same-sex partners than to opposite-sex or male partners.
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Age preferences in mates reflect sex differences in human reproductive strategies.
TL;DR: In this article, an evolutionary model was proposed to explain age preferences in personal advertisements from newspapers in Arizona West Germany the Netherlands and India and in singles advertisements by financially successful US women and men in the United States.
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Is actual similarity necessary for attraction? A meta-analysis of actual and perceived similarity
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of actual and perceived similarity on interpersonal attraction was evaluated by meta-analyzing 460 effect sizes from 313 laboratory and field investigations, and it was shown that perceived similarity predicted attraction in no-interaction, short interaction and existing relationship studies.
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The Relationship Assessment Scale
TL;DR: The Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS) as mentioned in this paper is a seven-item generic measure of relationship satisfaction, which was developed by Hendrick et al. The RAS shows moderate to high correlations with measures of marital satisfaction, good test-retest reliability and consistent measurement properties across samples of ethnically diverse and age-diverse couples.
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The norm of reciprocity: a preliminary statement *
TL;DR: The notion of complementarity and reciprocity in functional theory is explored in this article, enabling a reanalysis of the concepts of "survival" and "exploitation" and the need to distinguish between complementarity, reciprocity, and the generalized moral norm of reciprocity.