Every Claim in This Article Has a Primary Source. Here They Are.
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3. René M. Dailey, Lingzi Zhong, Rudy Pett & Sarah Varga, Post-Dissolution Ambivalence, Breakup Adjustment, and Relationship Reconciliation, 37 J. Soc. & Personal Relationships 1604, 1604 (2020) (N = 275; recruited within thirty days of breakup; followed across up to five monthly surveys; cognitive and emotional ambivalence associated with greater breakup distress and greater likelihood of reconciliation; DOI: 10.1177/0265407520906014).
4. Morgan A. Cope & Brent A. Mattingly, Putting Me Back Together by Getting Back Together: Post-Dissolution Self-Concept Confusion Predicts Rekindling Desire Among Anxiously Attached Individuals, 38 J. Soc. & Personal Relationships 384, 384 (2021) (N = 361 across two cross-sectional studies, Study 1 N = 181 and Study 2 N = 180; attachment anxiety predicted desire to rekindle; association mediated by self-concept clarity; neither study followed participants to measure actual reconciliation behaviour; DOI: 10.1177/0265407520962849).
5. René M. Dailey, Abigail Pfiester, Borae Jin, Gary Beck & Gretchen Clark, On-Again/Off-Again Dating Relationships: How Are They Different From Other Dating Relationships?, 16 Personal Relationships 23, 23 (2009) (N = 445; cross-sectional comparison of on-off, stably together, and permanently separated partners; on-off partners reported lower satisfaction, lower commitment, lower passion, and more conflict than non-cyclical partners; design cannot establish direction of causation; DOI: 10.1111/j.1475–6811.2009.01208.x).
6. René M. Dailey, Lingzi Zhong, Sarah Varga, Zhengyu Zhang & Kyle Kearns, Explicating a Comprehensive Model of Post-Dissolution Distress, 41 J. Soc. & Personal Relationships 1018, 1018 (2024) (theoretical model; identifies distal static factors and proximal dynamic factors including contact with ex-partner and desire for reconciliation as proposed predictors of post-dissolution distress; empirical testing required; DOI: 10.1177/02654075231207588).
