Purpose. To quantify the quality of life (QoL) distress experienced by immediate family members of patients with urethral stricture via a questionnaire given prior to definitive urethroplasty. The emotional, social, and physical effects of urethral stricture disease on the QoL of family members have not been previously described. Materials and Methods. A questionnaire was administered prospecti...

Encouraging individual goal pursuit through social influence is a growing trend. While friendships can be both an asset but also a burden, the impact friends have on goal attainment is not well established in the literature. We explore the influence that friend quantity and quality have on individual task-oriented goal-directed behavior using a unique set of online gaming data with a sample of ...

How can social network sites (SNS) foster relationships when most status updates on SNS are mainly entertaining and not very intimate? This finding cannot be explained by classical social psychological theories such as social penetration theory which regard disclosure intimacy as the main driver of relational outcomes. By building on literature on the role of capitalization and humor in relatio...

Psychological intimacy in the lasting relationships of heterosexual and same sex women Research suggests that psychological intimacy, defined as the sense that one can be open and honest in talking with a partner about personal thoughts and feelings not usually expressed in other relationships, is important to individual well-being and overall mental health. Studies of gender differences dating...

How can social network sites (SNS) foster relationships when most status updates on SNS are mainly entertaining and not very intimate? This finding cannot be explained by classical social psychological theories such as social penetration theory which regard disclosure intimacy as the main driver of relational outcomes. By building on literature on the role of capitalization and humor in relatio...

This article aims to study factors affecting mental health of young people in Ahvaz City. These Factors are social adjustment, social intimacy and social support. This study is a survey and Questionnaire is used for data collection. Population was young people aged over 18 years old Living in Ahvaz city located in Iran and the method of sampling is multistage random sampling.in this research, u...

This study examined how perceived position and velocity regarding approach and avoidance in romantic relationships relate to affective experiences. The authors hypothesized that perceived progress toward intimacy would predict positive affect and that perceived movement toward conflict would predict anxious affect. Ninety-two romantic couples recorded perceived levels of, and perceived changes ...

The author begins with general considerations about intimacy in life, the life cycle, and relationships in general. He defines intimacy as an emotional experience of contact with oneself and with another subject. He then focuses on describing the experience of intimacy in the analytic relationship, asserting that the encounter between two subjects and their subjectivities creates an area of emo...

This study used daily reports of interactions in marriage to examine predictions from the conceptualization of intimacy as the outcome of an interpersonal process. Both partners of 96 married couples completed daily diaries assessing self-disclosure, partner disclosure, perceived partner responsiveness, and intimacy on each of 42 consecutive days. Multivariate multilevel modeling revealed that ...