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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Template

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, Family Dynamics and Relationships, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development. Over its lifetime it has published 3,179 papers, which have received 137,553 citations.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inAttachment and Relationship Dynamics Family Dynamics and Relationships Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
ISSN0265-4075
Citation impact (2-yr)2.06
h-index159
i10-index1,990
Top institutions publishing herePennsylvania State University
Journal websitewww.sagepub.com
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Papers published in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships per year

83
2014
54
2015
71
2016
87
2017
123
2018
109
2019
155
2020
202
2021
208
2022
139
2023
164
2024
165
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Social and Personal Relationships by publication year

3.2K
2014
1.8K
2015
2K
2016
3.3K
2017
3.9K
2018
2.5K
2019
2.9K
2020
3.8K
2021
2.7K
2022
924
2023
629
2024
202
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Avoidance of Intimacy: An Attachment Perspective

Kim Bartholomew · 1 May 1990

A basic principle of attachment theory is that early attachment relationships with caregivers provide the prototype for later social relations. Working within an attachment framework, a new 4-group model of characteristic attachment styles in adulthood is proposed. In particular, two forms of adult avoidance of intimacy are differentiated: a fearful style that is characterized by…

2,158 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
A Brief Measure of Social Support: Practical and Theoretical Implications

Irwin G. Sarason, Barbara R. Sarason, Edward N. Shearin et al. · 1 Nov 1987

Two studies leading to the development of a short form of the Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ) are reported. In Study 1 three items selected for high correlations with the total score (SSQ3) were administered to 182 university students together with several personality measures. SSQ3 had acceptable test-retest reliability and correlations with personality variables similar to…

1,999 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Interpersonal Perception: A Social Relations Analysis

David A. Kenny · 1 May 1988

Seven basic research questions in interpersonal perception are posed concerning issues of consensus, assimilation, reciprocity, accuracy, congruence, assumed similarity and self—other agreement. All questions can be addressed at the individual level, and three at the dyadic level. It is shown how the Social Relations Model can be used to answer the questions.

1,549 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The Parental Stress Scale: Initial Psychometric Evidence

Judy O. Berry, Warren H. Jones · 1 Aug 1995

The development of a measure of parental stress, the Parental Stress Scale, is presented. All participants (total N = 1276) completed the Parental Stress Scale and some also completed the Parenting Stress Index, a generic measure of stress called the Perceived Stress Scale, relevant measures of emotions and role satisfaction (e.g. loneliness, marital satisfaction, guilt,…

1,520 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Measuring Friendship Quality During Pre- and Early Adolescence: The Development and Psychometric Properties of the Friendship Qualities Scale

William M. Bukowski, Betsy Hoza, Michel Boivin · 1 Aug 1994

The Friendship Qualities Scale is a theoretically grounded, multidimensional measurement instrument to assess the quality of children's and early adolescents' relationships with their best friends according to five conceptually meaningful aspects of the friendship relation. These dimensions are companionship, conflict, help/aid, security and closeness. A confirmatory factor analysis, used to evaluate the factor structure of…

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does Journal of Social and Personal Relationships use?
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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