This study examined the associations between the quality of adolescents’ peer and family relationships and the quality of their young adult romantic relationships. Adolescents (N = 253) completed self-report measures of their family and peer relationships in grades 10–12; 7 years later, they reported on connectedness, discord, and the confl ict tactics used by both partners in their current rom...

This study examined the relationships between attachment styles, drama viewing, parasocial interaction, and romantic beliefs. A survey of students revealed that drama viewing was weakly but negatively related to romantic beliefs, controlling for parasocial interaction and attachment styles. Instead, parasocial interaction mediated the effect of drama viewing on romantic beliefs: Those who viewe...

In this study with 236 Portuguese university students, we examined two competing models for understanding identity. In the first model, the direct independent effects of parental and romantic attachment on identity were tested. The second model examined the mediating role of romantic attachment representations in the link between parental attachment and identity. The participants completed meas...

The present research examined the association of political orientation with ingroup favoritism in two live romantic contexts. In Study 1, White participants had sequential interactions with both a White and Black confederate and reported their romantic desire for each. In Study 2, both White and Black participants speed-dated multiple potential romantic partners and reported whether they would ...

comparative literature is an important area of literarystudies with a long history. the comparative study of writers and poets canshed light on the impact of various thoughts among different cultures. sohrabsepehri, as one of the eminent contemporary poets of iran, and williamwordsworth, one of the founders of romantic poetry in england are chosen forthis research. the employment of some romant...

this article discusses the technical foundations of the prose poem and trying to look for common or similarity with the foundations of the romantic school and its assets. the prose poem in most founded and doctrine meet romantic so that adopted it and benefited from his principles, and his roots and tried to improve it and makes it different from romance. romantic school depends on in some of i...

Event-related potentials (ERPs) to task-relevant target and task-irrelevant novel stimuli were recorded in a somatosensory discrimination task. Subjects pressed a button to mechanical taps of the fifth finger (targets, P = 0.12), randomly interposed in sequences of taps to the second finger (standards, P = 0.76). Two types of infrequent novel stimuli were delivered; one was a mechanical tap to ...

The delayed entry into marriage that characterizes modern society raises questions about young adults' romantic relationship trajectories and whether patterns found to characterize adolescent romantic relationships persist into young adulthood. The current study traced developmental transitions into and out of romantic relationships from age 18 through age 25 in a sample of 511 young adults. Th...

In my study, I show how three different figures of the interwar Hungary saw Beethoven. The first them, Dénes Bartha (1908–1993), was a musicologist and became an international specialist Viennese Classicism. context contemporary Hungarian literature, his Beethoven monograph (1939) represents emphatically anti-Romantic attitude. second part, examine popular image composer, on basis planned opere...

This study examined adolescents' interpersonal functioning, including the qualities of their closest friendships and romantic relationships, as predictors of dating/heterosocial anxiety. An ethnically diverse sample of 781 adolescents (57% girls; ages 15-19 years) completed measures that assessed the number and type of close friends, the presence of a romantic relationship, the qualities of the...