Online relationship formation through social networking sites helps to meet the developmental need for intimacy in emerging adults. Through the use of the "rich get richer" and the "social compensation" hypotheses, it is evident that personality characteristics such as extraversion and introversion impact online relationship…

In 2 separate studies, the idea is tested that the positive association between self-regulatory capacities and well-being is partly explained by the positive effect self-regulation has on the successful resolution of developmental crises in Eriksonian terms. In Study 1, attentional control, intimacy, and subjective well-being are assessed in 177…

Explored position that relational patterns indicative of Personal Authority in Family System occur during fourth and early fifth decades of life. Participants were 232 university students. Canonical correlations revealed that, as age increases, amount of variance accounted for by nuclear family triangulation, intergenerational intimidation, and…