ArticleThe Journal of social psychology2019
Relationship social comparisons in dating and marital relationships: Adding relationship social comparison interpretations.
Article in The Journal of social psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Examining clinical relevance of interpretation inflexibility in social contexts.Annals of general psychiatry · 2026Article
- The Relationship between Perceived Friendship Quality and Self-Judgements in Adolescent Girls from London.The Journal of early adolescence · 2025Article
- Relationship quality among dating adolescents: Development and validation of the Relationship Quality Inventory for Adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Parental Social Comparison Related to Tutoring Anxiety, and Guided Approaches to Assisting Their Children's Home Online Learning During the COVID-19 Lockdown.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
How an individual interprets a relationship social comparison may have important implications for the self and one's relationship. We asked whether these interpretations significantly mediated the relation between the manipulated social comparison direction and relationship satisfaction, relationship commitment, satisfaction with life, and happiness for both dating (Studies 1 and 2) and married (Study 2) individuals. Participants were randomly assigned to make an upward or downward comparison to a friend's romantic relationship and completed measures of their interpretations, relationship quality, satisfaction with life, and happiness. For both dating and married individuals, there were indirect effects of manipulated social comparison direction through the interpretations for all dependent variables. Although there were some differences in mediation for married and dating individuals, the effect sizes were not significantly different.
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