Bereavement not only is an individual psychological experience but also has meaningful
social and familial impacts. This article examines how relationship quality with both a …

Objectives The aims of the study were to examine within-person associations between
social interactions with friends (one's own and partner's) and depressive symptoms over …

Parents' differential treatment of siblings has been understudied among sibling research in
Chinese societies where the government ended its one-child policy. This study, using a …

Objective Drawing on the family systems framework, this study investigated the reciprocal
prospective associations between marital relationship quality, parent–adolescent closeness …

This study examines the typologies of adult son–parent and daughter–parent relations in
Hong Kong, a place where East meets West. The data were drawn from a survey of 834 …

Objectives. Despite the centrality of parent–adult child relations, prior research has found
only weak associations with parent well-being. There is a need to give more explicit …

The impact of divorce on children's development has been widely studied. The long-term
effects of divorce on young adults have been observed when young adults attempt to initiate …

Although intergenerational transmission processes have been studied on various aspects of
family life, cross-cultural comparisons have rarely been made. In the present study, the …

Objective Drawing on a relational developmental systems approach, this brief report
examines spillover and compensation processes in self‐disclosure and conflict in adult …

Previous research on married couples has indicated that loneliness, an unrealized desire for
close relationships, can affect even partnered adults. In addition to individual perceptions of …