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PubMed2003

Acceptance and need for approval as moderators of self-esteem and satisfaction with a romantic relationship or closest friendship.

According to predictions of self-esteem theorists, the association between self-esteem and satisfaction with a relationship will be negative under perceptions of high acceptance and positive under perceptions of low acceptance; consistency theorists make the opposite prediction. The author primarily sought to test those predictions. By completing 4 measures, 88 female and 62 male students described their main current romantic relationship (defined as being in love and physically intimate), and 54 female and 32 male students described their relationship with their closest friend. Results supported only the self-esteem predictions for the romantic relationship. Contrary to this perspective, need for approval did not mediate this effect. In addition, self-esteem was significantly and positively correlated with satisfaction with the romantic relationship under high but not low need for approval.

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PubMed1976

Friendship and disaffiliation among the skid row population.

Personal relationships of skid row men have been described in terms of disaffiliation and replacemtent of friends. Analysis of social relationships of Philadelphia skid row residents upheld the theory of replacement. There was, however, a decline in the number of friends reported after the age of 70, which generally coincided with 20 years residence in the area. The loss of relationships was more closely associated with length of residence in skid row than with age. Qualitative measures of personal relationships indicated no major association between sociability and length of residence in skid row but a small association with advancing age. The proportions of friendless men desiring either friends of casual acquaintances were not related to either age or length of residence. These findings fail to uphold the disaffiliation hypothesis of aging and run counter to Vesliard's postulate of loss of need for meaningful personal relationships with increased exposure to the life of an outcast.

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