Rituals in Committed Romantic Relationships: The Creation and Validation of an Instrument

Pearson, Judy C.; Child, Jeffrey T.; Carmon, Anna F.

doi:10.1080/10510974.2010.492339

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“…Third, our participants had been married for approximately 15 years. They may have established communication and decision‐making rituals in their relationship (Pearson, Child, & Carmon, ), which are not influenced by one training session. Fourth, the presence of husbands may have influenced women to confirm to existing gender norms of being agreeable and supportive (i.e., stereotype threat; e.g., Logel et al, ), thereby hindering the expression of signs of empowerment.…”

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The impact of husbands' involvement in goal‐setting training on women's empowerment: First evidence from an intervention among female microfinance borrowers in Sri Lanka

Huis

Hansen

Otten

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Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Offering women access to microcredit and business training is a prominent approach to stimulate women's empowerment. Whereas men seem to profit from business training, women do not. We adjusted a goal‐setting training session on the basis of women's needs in collaboration with a women organization in Sri Lanka. We invited female microfinance borrowers and their husbands to the training as both parties should be involved to change existing gender roles with respect to their income‐generating activity. We investigated the impact of the training on goal‐setting skills, self‐esteem, and the couples' interaction in a subsequent task. In two field experiments, female borrowers and their husbands (nstudy1 = 68; nstudy2 = 76) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (a) goal‐setting training and setting goals as couple, (b) goal‐setting training and setting goals individually, or (c) no training (control condition). Participation in the training increased women's SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time bound) goal‐setting skills. We coded couples' interactions in a subsequent decision‐making task to assess signs of women's empowerment. Descriptively, we found some initial evidence of increased women's empowerment in the interaction (Study 2). We critically discuss results and how gendered power imbalances may need to be addressed to stimulate social change towards gender equity.

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The impact of husbands' involvement in goal‐setting training on women's empowerment: First evidence from an intervention among female microfinance borrowers in Sri Lanka

Huis

Hansen

Otten

et al. 2019

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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“…Romantic couples' rituals can be measured using Pearson et al's (2011) operationalization of Rituals in Dating Relationships (RDR), which models the factor structure of the Rituals in Committed Romantic Relationships (RCRR) measure (Pearson et al, 2010). The measure was developed from Pearson's (1997, 2002) earlier work and is particularly useful in examining relational processes (e.g., initiation, maintenance, and persistence of relationships).…”

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“…Dating rituals were operationalized using Pearson et al's (2011) Rituals in Dating Relationships (RDR), which modeled the factor structure of the Rituals in Committed Romantic Relationship (RCRR) scale (Pearson et al, 2010). The RDR includes 30-Likert items measuring participants' perception of rituals according to daily routines and tasks (DR; seven items: e.g., ''We have routines geared towards accomplishing everyday tasks'' and ''Our relationship is stronger because of established daily routines and tasks''), idiosyncratic rituals (IR; five items: e.g., ''In our relationship, we have favorite activities we enjoy engaging in together'' and ''We tease each other in a playful manner''), everyday talk (ET; six items: e.g., ''As a couple, we use language only we understand'' and ''The use of unique words characterizes our relationship''), intimacy expression (IE; six items: e.g., ''We have rituals for the way we engage in intimate displays of affection'' and ''As a couple, we have a pattern for how often we engage in sexual intercourse''), and couple-time rituals (CR; six items: e.g., ''Our relationship is stronger because of the time we spend together'' and ''An important part of our relationship involves the activities we do together'').…”

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Exploring Relational Cultures: Rituals, Privacy Disclosure, and Relational Satisfaction

Farrell

DiTunnariello

Pearson

2014

Communication Studies

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“…Committed relationship: a partnership defined "through marriage or cohabitation" (Pearson, Child, & Carmon, 2010;p. 470).…”

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Relationship between experiences of adverse childhood events and intimate partner violence in adult same sex monogamous relationships

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This study sought to examine the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and intimate partner violence in adult committed, monogamous, same sex female relationships. Participants included lesbian or queer cisgender women, age 18 or over, who were in a current committed relationship of at least six months. Partnerships with local and national lesbian advocacy groups allowed electronic access to participants. A total of 87 participants completed the Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire and the Abusive Behaviors Inventory. All participants were anonymous. The three examined variables included emotional/psychological abuse, sexual abuse, and physical abuse. These variables were entered into the Software Program for Statistical Analysis (SPSS) using correlational matrices, hierarchical regression, and one-way ANOVA analyses. Results from the data analysis will provide insight into the relationship of each variable on the presence of intimate partner violence in adult committed, monogamous, lesbian, or queer cisgender relationships.

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Rituals in Committed Romantic Relationships: The Creation and Validation of an Instrument

Cited by 17 publications

References 29 publications

The impact of husbands' involvement in goal‐setting training on women's empowerment: First evidence from an intervention among female microfinance borrowers in Sri Lanka

The impact of husbands' involvement in goal‐setting training on women's empowerment: First evidence from an intervention among female microfinance borrowers in Sri Lanka

Exploring Relational Cultures: Rituals, Privacy Disclosure, and Relational Satisfaction

Relationship between experiences of adverse childhood events and intimate partner violence in adult same sex monogamous relationships

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