Hypercompetitiveness and Relationships: Further Implications for Romantic, Family, and Peer Relationships

Hypercompetitiveness and Relationships: Further Implications for Romantic, Family, and Peer Relationships

Romantic relationships of hypercompetitive individuals are much more problematic with greater conflict compared to those not so hypercompetitive; however, relationship satisfaction and commitment do not covary with hypercompetitiveness (Ryckman et al., 2002). Study 1 considered whether the type of commitment matters in a romantic relationship. Indeed, hypercompetitiveness was associated positiv...

Adolescent obesity, overt and relational peer victimization, and romantic relationships.

OBJECTIVE To examine associations between obesity and peer relations in adolescents, specifically testing the hypotheses that obese adolescents are more frequent victims of peer aggression and are less likely to develop romantic relationships. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES Measures of overt and relational victimization, as well as dating status and satisfaction, were collected for a group o...

Peer Influence and Attraction to Interracial Romantic Relationships

The present research examined the effect of social influence on White, heterosexual individuals’ attraction to targets of varying races (White vs. Black) in two college student samples from the United States (one that leaned politically liberal and one that leaned politically conservative). Using a within-subjects experimental design, participants were given artificial peer evaluation data (pos...

Linking adolescent family and peer relationships to the quality of young adult romantic relationships: The mediating role of conflict tactics

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...

Family Dynamics and Romantic Relationships in a Changing Society