Valuing Romantic Relationships
The Role of Family Approval Across Cultures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24315000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geoff Macdonald (0009-0000-4723-9252, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Tara C Marshall (0000-0002-1379-5290, Brunel University of London), Judith Gere (University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Atsushi Shimotomai (Senshu University, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan), July Lies (0000-0003-3834-1807, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 366-393 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cross-Cultural Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1069-3971 • E-ISSN: 1552-3578 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1069397112450854 |
| OpenAlex | W2171546809 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 53 |
Research has suggested that individuals lower in self-esteem restrain from fully valuing romantic relationships because of relatively low confidence in positive regard from their partners (i.e., positive reflected appraisals). MacDonald and Jessica (2006) provided evidence that in Indonesia, where family plays an important role in mate selection, low self-esteem also leads to doubts regarding family approval of the relationship that, in turn, places an additional constraint on fully valuing a romantic relationship. In the current research, Study 1 replicated these findings, showing that the positive relationship between self-esteem and value placed on a romantic relationship was mediated by both reflected appraisals and approval from a partner’s family in Indonesia but only reflected appraisals in Canada. In Study 2, the relationship between self-esteem and relationship value was mediated by reflected appraisals and approval from own, but not partner’s, family in Japan whereas only reflected appraisals played a mediating role in Australia. These data suggest that in cultures involving family in mate selection, placing full value on romantic relationships may be contingent on confidence in both reflected appraisals and family approval of the relationship.
Australia · Canada · cross-cultural comparison · family approval · Indonesia · Japan · Mate choice · Mediation · reflected appraisals · Self-esteem · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Cultural Differences and Values · Personality Traits and Psychology
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Sex and Marriage With Members of Other Ethnic Groups
Culture Moderates the Normative and Distinctive Impact of Parents and Similarity on Young Adults’ Partner Preferences
Coping or Thriving? Reviewing Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Societal Factors Associated With Well-Being in Singlehood From a Within-Group Perspective
Cross‐Cultural Validation of Commitment Measures
Why Do You Want a Romantic Relationship? Individual Differences in Motives for Romantic Relationship Pursuit
Personality and Well-Being Across and Within Relationship Status
Conflicting Pressures on Romantic Relationship Commitment for Anxiously Attached Individuals
Intersectionality in studying and theorizing singlehood
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Intercultural Dating Relationships and Relationship Quality
Support processes in same- and mixed-sex relationships
What if they are right? Network approval, expectations, and relationship maintenance behaviors
The fallout of forgiveness
Cultural Variation in Parental Influence on Mate Choice
The nature and function of self-esteem
Confirmatory Factor Analytic Procedures for the Determination of Measurement Invariance
The Mismeasure of Love
Bias in cross-sectional analyses of longitudinal mediation.
Families Across Cultures
An Introduction to Japanese Society
Conflicting Pressures on Romantic Relationship Commitment for Anxiously Attached Individuals
Family approval as a constraint in dependency regulation
Subjective norms and the prediction of romantic relationship state and fate
Perceived versus reported social referent approval and romantic relationship commitment and persistence
Cultural perspectives on romantic love
Youth transitions to urban, middle-class marriage in Indonesia
Parent-child value transmission among Chinese immigrants to North America
A Study of Men and Women from Different Sides of Earth to Determine If Men Are from Mars and Women Are from Venus in Their Beliefs About Love and Romantic Relationships
Social approval and trait self-esteem
Some New Results on Indirect Effects and Their Standard Errors in Covariance Structure Models
Construct validation of a triangular love scale
Through the looking glass darkly? When self-doubts turn into relationship insecurities
The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
Asymptotic Confidence Intervals for Indirect Effects in Structural Equation Models
The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
When rejection stings
Romantic relationships
Trust in close relationships
The benefits of positive illusions
The self-fulfilling nature of positive illusions in romantic relationships
Marital satisfaction, depression, and attributions
Self-esteem and the quest for felt security
Many forms of culture
Optimizing assurance
Marital Satisfaction and Communication Practices
Postnuptial Migration and the Status of Women in Indonesia
The Influence of Parents and Friends on the Quality and Stability of Romantic Relationships
Practical Issues in Structural Modeling
Love and Marriage in Eleven Cultures
Can I Make my Own Decision? A Cross-Cultural Study of Perceived Social Network Influence in Mate Selection
The Role of Culture in Interpersonal Relationships
| Citations per year | 0.93 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |