Concept information
Preferred term
creating and maintaining closeness
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- accommodation
- acquaintance process
- affection
- affiliation
- affirmation
- approach and avoidance orientations
- arousal and attraction
- capitalization
- closeness
- commitment, predictors and outcomes
- commitment, theories and typologies
- comparison levels
- compatibility
- complementarity
- connectedness and autonomy
- couple identity
- cross-cultural differences in courtship and dating
- dependence
- developing relationships
- early years of marriage project
- familiarity principle of attraction
- first impressions
- food and relationships
- forgiveness
- friendship formation and development
- fun in relationships
- idealization
- ingratiation
- initiating relationships
- internet and social connectedness
- interpersonal attraction
- interpersonal dependency
- interpersonal process model of intimacy
- interpersonal warmth
- intimacy
- investment model
- liking (emotion)
- long-distance relationships
- maintaining relationships
- matching hypothesis
- minding the relationship
- models and processes of courtship
- mutual cyclical growth
- nature of social support
- openness and honesty
- personal space
- principle of lesser interest
- proximity and attraction
- responsiveness
- rewards and costs in relationships
- risk in relationships
- role of physical attractiveness in relationships
- secrets
- secret tests of relationship status
- self-disclosure
- sex and love
- sex in established relationships
- sexuality and attachment
- shared activities
- similarity-attraction effect
- social penetration theory
- stage theories of relationship development
- transformation of motivation
- transition to marriage
- turning points in relationships
- understanding (cognition)
- validation in relationships
- willingness to sacrifice
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/creating_and_maintaining_closeness
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