How both partners' individual differences, stress, and behavior predict change in relationship satisfaction: Extending the VSA model

JK McNulty, AL Meltzer, LA Neff… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
We pooled data from 10 longitudinal studies of 1,104 married couples to test the
Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation (VSA) model of change in relationship satisfaction. Studies …

Sexual frequency predicts greater well-being, but more is not always better

A Muise, U Schimmack… - Social Psychological and …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Is it true that engaging in more frequent sex is associated with greater well-being? The
media emphasizes—and research supports—the claim that the more sex you have, the …

Leaders' personal wisdom and leader–member exchange quality: The role of individualized consideration

H Zacher, LK Pearce, D Rooney, B McKenna - Journal of business ethics, 2014 - Springer
Business scholars have recently proposed that the virtue of personal wisdom may predict
leadership behaviors and the quality of leader–follower relationships. This study …

Learning emotion representations from verbal and nonverbal communication

S Zhang, Y Pan, JZ Wang - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Emotion understanding is an essential but highly challenging component of artificial general
intelligence. The absence of extensive annotated datasets has significantly impeded …

Positive psychotherapy

T Rashid - Encyclopedia of quality of life and well-being research, 2020 - Springer
Positive psychotherapy (PPT) is a therapeutic endeavor within positive psychology to
broaden the scope of traditional psychotherapy. Its central premise is to address positive …

Positive psychology in context: Effects of expressing gratitude in ongoing relationships depend on perceptions of enactor responsiveness

SB Algoe, R Zhaoyang - The journal of positive psychology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Recent correlational evidence implicates gratitude in personal and relational growth, for
both members of ongoing relationships. From these observations, it would be tempting to …

Getting it on versus getting it over with: Sexual motivation, desire, and satisfaction in intimate bonds

A Muise, EA Impett… - Personality and Social …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Across three studies, we demonstrate that pursuing sex for approach goals, such as to
enhance intimacy, fuels satisfaction and pursuing sex for avoidance goals, such as to avoid …

Reconsidering virtue: Differences of perspective in virtue ethics and the positive social sciences

DS Bright, BA Winn, J Kanov - Journal of business ethics, 2014 - Springer
This paper describes differences in two perspectives on the idea of virtue as a theoretical
foundation for positive organizational ethics (POE). The virtue ethics perspective is …

Important goals, meanings, and relationships in flourishing and languishing states: Towards patterns of well-being

MP Wissing, L Schutte, C Liversage, B Entwisle… - Applied Research in …, 2021 - Springer
Qualitative studies of lay people's perspectives on facets of well-being are scarce, and it is
not known how the perspectives of people with high and low levels of well-being dovetail or …

Affirming the strengths in men: A positive masculinity approach to assisting male clients

M Englar‐Carlson, MS Kiselica - Journal of Counseling & …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Scholarship on men and masculinity has greatly informed the mental health field about the
experiences of men. Despite this growth in information, there is limited exploration of …