this study has examined the organizational antecedents and consequences of hypocritical behaviors in interpersonal communication in najafabad public organizations. to this end, proportional questionnaires were distributed among 280 employees of organizations as a sample. to test the hypothesis, the data were fitted to structural equation models based on chi-square, normed chi-square, incrementa...

objective: the aim of the present research was to determine whether depression and interpersonal problems had relationships with alexithymia and coping styles in adolescents. methods: the study population was randomly selected from all of the adolescent students in the schools of sari in iran 441 adolescents (228 boys and 213 girls) were included in the study. the participants completed the tor...

Based on traditional theories of interpersonal relationship development and on the hyperpersonal communication theory, this study examined predictors of relationship satisfaction for individuals involved in online romantic relationships. One hundredfourteen individuals (N1⁄4114) involved in online romantic relationships, and who had only engaged in computer-mediated communication (CMC) with the...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated how the precursors of interpersonal self-efficacy and weight/shape self-efficacy would interact in the face of interpersonal stress to prospectively predict dietary restraint. Three models were explored, each with a different type of interpersonal stress: stress from same sex friendships, opposite sex friendships, or romantic relationships. METHOD At Time 1 (...

Women exposed to violence early in life are at risk of revictimization. The interpersonal schema hypothesis of revictimization proposes that revictimized women will be more likely to hold negative expectations about intimate relationships, including expectations that relationships involve harm, relative to singly or nonvictimized women. To test the interpersonal schema hypothesis, we used the i...

Sullivan has a keen sensitivity to the needs, expectations, and anxieties of the patient, and this is used by him to explore the whole field of interpersonal relationships, and to enable the patient to develop his more healthy features. There is no coercion, and the interpersonal relationships, between Sullivan and his patients are rather like those of a good gardener and his plants. The garden...

Research on the interpersonal aspects of personality disorders (PDs) has generally sought to describe them in terms of behavioural dispositions, often mapping these dispositions onto the interpersonal circumplex. The present study, in contrast, tested a theory that accounts for PDs as systematic disturbances in relationships between people. Self-reports of 57 participants experiencing significa...