Love Commitment Research Articles

Effects of the need fulfillment given by opposite-sex friends on breakup considerations: A moderated mediation model

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of need fulfillment given by opposite-sex friends (NFOF) on breakup considerations, the mediating role of love commitment in this relationship, and the moderating role of need fulfillment given by romantic partners (NFRP). A total of 334 unmarried individuals in romantic relationships from Northwest China were invited to participate in the study. The findings revealed the following: (1) NFOF significantly and positively predicted breakup considerations. (2) This relationship is mediated by love commitment (3) The association between NFOF and breakup considerations was moderated by NFRP (in terms of the first mediation path). Specifically, those who hold higher levels of NFRP are appreciably buffered against the negative impact of NFOF on love commitment. These findings emphasize the crucial role of NFOF and NFRP in shaping love commitment and breakup considerations. Moreover, our research has important realistic implications: NFOF, as a trigger, has a negative effects the quality of romantic relationships and leads to breakup considerations. And, the key to maintaining a romantic relationship is to focus on their partners' need fulfillment as much as possible and increasing the level of their love commitment.

Unrequited love: The role of prior commitment, motivation to remain friends, and friendship maintenance

ABSTRACTThis study tested a moderated mediation model that commitment prior to an unrequited love episode will be related to higher levels of friendship maintenance behaviors after the episode and that this relationship will be mediated by the individual’s motivations to remain friends with the rejecter. We predicted that rejection distress would weaken the mediational model among those reporting high distress. Participants wrote about an unrequited love experience as a pursuer and completed measures of pre-unrequited love commitment, rejection distress, motivations to remain friends, and friendship maintenance behaviors. Our results confirmed the moderated mediation model when the motivations to remain friends measure overall score, the interpersonal connection motivation, or the social connections motivation was the mediator. When covariates were added, only the model with the overall motivations score as mediator was supported. These data can help laypersons and mental health professionals understand and potentially repair friendships following an unrequited love episode.

Beyond the Boundaries of Current Human Nature: Some Theological and Ethical Reflections on Transhumanism

AbstractFollowing a brief overview of the emerging transhumanist vision, Childs turns to a theological and ethical assessment. He recommends that there take place a community‐wide conversation over the prospects of a post‐human future that includes both nerds and theologians along with all stakeholders in a healthy human future. Christians should be guided by the eschatological values that inform love's commitment to the common good. How does the common commitment to justice take concrete shape in public policies governing the mounting advances in science and technology? How does the commitment to life and healing speak to the ethical distinction between the uses of biomedical technology for therapy versus for enhancement?

Honoring the Ways of American Indian Women: A Group Therapy Intervention

A culturally grounded group intervention for a typically underserved population of urban American Indian women is described. The intervention is designed to increase interpersonal connection, improve inter-tribal acceptance and trust, and enhance psychological well being of marginalized urban American Indian women. Topics used to structure the intervention were generated collaboratively with tribal community members and included self-exploration and education, aging, body image, work, friendship, love commitment, and nurturance/motherhood. For illustrative purposes, the authors elaborate on two of these group therapy topics and provide member and leader reflections.

Factores sociais na percepção de riscos

Neste texto procura-se fazer uma introdução a uma área de estudos relativamente recente nas ciências sociais: a percepção de riscos, tentando-se em primeiro lugar caracterizar o objeto deste domínio de investigação e diferenciá-lo da abordagem do risco pelas ciências naturais. Analisam-se em seguida, num breve resumo histórico, as diversas tendências que, agora dentro da psicologia, se têm interessado por este tema. Finalmente, na última parte do texto, defende-se a necessidade de uma abordagem psicossociológica da percepção de riscos. Tal abordagem permite considerar, na compreensão das estimativas de probabilidade que os indivíduos fazem dos riscos a que estão sujeitos, dois aspectos fundamentais: (1) o contexto social em que estas estimativas são produzidas e (2) as funções individuais destas estimativas. Para ilustrar esta perspectiva apresentam-se resumidamente resultados de pesquisas que mostram como a diversidade do risco subjetivo pode ser explicado por fatores de ordem individual (manutenção da saúde mental em condições de ameaça crónica), fatores de ordem interpessoal (envolvimento amoroso), fatores de ordem grupal (normas e crenças grupais) e fatores de ordem ideológica.

Intimacy expressions in three cultures: France, Japan, and the United States

The purpose of this study was to examine cultural variability influence on intimacy expressions of love commitment, disclosure maintenance, ambivalence, and conflict in France, Japan, and the United States. The MANOVA analyses revealed significant main effects for culture type (France. Japan, and the United States) and for gender type (male versus female) on the intimacy expression patterns. No significant interaction effect was found for culture and gender. Respondents in France and the United States reported a significantly higher degree of love commitment and disclosure maintenance than the Japanese respondents. In addition, the U.S. respondents reported a higher degree of relational ambivalence than their Japanese counterparts. Further, the French respondents reported the lowest degree of conflict expression in comparison to the Japanese group and the United States group. In terms of gender differences, females reported a significantly higher degree of love commitment, disclosure maintenance and interpersonal conflict expressions than their male counterparts. The findings and the implications of the study along culture and gender lines are discussed.