Download or read book Influence of Attachment Dimensions on Relational Maintenance Behaviors in Long distance Versus Geographically Close Romantic Relationships written by Jian Yang and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maintaining Long Distance and Cross Residential Relationships written by Laura Stafford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking volume offers an innovative and intriguing approach to the study of long-distance relationships. Author Laura Stafford examines romantic long-distance relationships and then expands the conception of long-distance relationships to include other relational types. She summarizes literature across the social sciences on various types of long-distance relationships and extracts themes and patterns across the relational types. In so doing, she reconsiders approaches to and offers an expanded vision of relational maintenance. By expanding her scope beyond romantic relationships, Stafford includes those that span residences and relational types, such as noncustodial parent-child and geographically and residentially separated adult children and parents. She contends that face-to-face interaction is not necessary to maintain healthy relationships, and questions the assumption that maintaining, rather than terminating, a particular relationship is always best for the involved parties. With its interdisciplinary approach to challenging commonly held assumptions about communication and close relationships, Maintaining Long-Distance and Cross-Residential Relationships will be engaging reading for scholars in communication, psychology, sociology, mass communication, and family studies. It is also appropriate for special topics graduate courses on long-distance relationships and human communication, and will serve as a unique supplemental text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in interpersonal, relational, and family communication and family studies.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Close Relationships written by Jeffry A. Simpson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive summary of the psychology of close relationships, and showcases classic and contemporary theories, models, and empirical research that have been conducted in the field.
Download or read book Communication Research Measures II written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding and building on the measures included in the original 1994 volume, Communication Research Measures II: A Sourcebook provides new measures in mass, interpersonal, instructional, and group/organizational communication areas, and highlights work in newer subdisciplines in communication, including intercultural, family, and health. It also includes measures from outside the communication discipline that have been employed in communication research. The measures profiled here are the best of the best from the early 1990s through today. They are models for future scale development as well.
Download or read book Relational Uncertainty in Romantic Relationships written by Jay Cruz and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined the influence of attachment and relational maintenance behaviors on relational uncertainty. Ninety individuals currently involved in romantic relationships completed measures assessing their attachment (i.e., secure, preoccupied, dismissive, fearful), relational uncertainties (i.e., self, partner, relationship), and relational maintenance behaviors (i.e., shared tasks, shared networks, positivity, openness, assurances). Findings demonstrated that both secure attachment and fearful attachment were not significantly associated with self, partner, or relationship uncertainty. In addition, dismissive attachment was negatively associated with partner uncertainty and positively associated with relationship uncertainty. Preoccupied attachment was positively associated with both partner and relationship uncertainty. Furthermore, secure attachment was positively associated with shared tasks, preoccupied attachment was negatively associated with shared tasks, and dismissive attachment was negatively associated with assurances. All other hypothesized relationships between attachment and relational maintenance behaviors were nonsignificant. Finally, results indicated minimal support for a statistical model in which relational maintenance behaviors mediated the associations between attachment and relational uncertainty. Keywords: relational uncertainty, romantic relationships, attachment, relational maintenance behaviors.
Download or read book Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder Behaviors Adaptive And Perceptions Idealized written by Li Jiang and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people assume that it is challenging to maintain a romantic relationship when the partners are separated by a considerable distance. Recent research on long-distance relationships, however, suggests that long-distance romantic relationships are equally or even more intimate and satisfied than geographically close counterparts. The present study examined whether the everyday intimacy process unfolds differently in long-distance versus geographically close dating relationships and whether the use of interpersonal media interplays with geographic separation to affect intimacy in specific interactions. Drawing on the Interpersonal Process Model of Intimacy (IPMI; Reis & Shaver, 1988), the study tested an intimacy enhancement mechanism in which long-distance couples engage in more adaptive self-disclosure behaviors and form more idealized relationship perceptions than do geographically close couples for the pursuit of intimacy across various interpersonal media. These predictions were examined with a novel electronic diary method. Long-distance and geographically close dating couples completed a 7-day diary study in which both members of the couple independently reported their interactions that took place each day. The results provide support for the behavioral adaptation and perceptual idealization effects proposed, and suggest that the two effects vary along the media dimensions of cue multiplicity, synchronicity and mobility. These findings offer a contextual extension to the IPMI and advance the understanding of communication and relational processes in long-distance and mixed-mode relationships.
Download or read book Thinking Through Communication written by Sarah Trenholm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-23 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ninth edition of this textbook for hybrid introductory communication courses provides a balanced introduction to the fundamental theories and principles of communication. The book explores communication in a variety of contexts—including interpersonal, group, organizational, and mass media—and provides students the theoretical knowledge and the research and critical thinking skills they’ll need to succeed in advanced communication courses and professions. The first section explores the history of communication study and explains basic perspectives used by scholars in the field. The second looks at how communicators decode and encode messages, while the third examines channels and contexts, from interpersonal to mass media. This edition devotes attention to how new technologies are changing the ways we think about communication, with revised and updated examples, and gives special attention to relevant critical theory. Two appendices give users the flexibility to tailor their courses to the interests and needs of their students, offering guidelines for preparing and presenting public presentations and giving examples of major research methods. Thinking Through Communication is an ideal textbook for Introduction to Communication courses that aim to provide a comprehensive overview of the field. Material for instructors containing PowerPoint slides, test questions, and an instructor’s manual is available at https://routledge.com/9780367857011.
Download or read book Close Encounters written by Laura K. Guerrero and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 923 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close Encounters: Communication in Relationships helps students learn about their own relationships with romantic partners, friends, and family members by focusing on issues that are central to describing and understanding close relationships. Best-selling authors Laura K. Guerrero, Peter A. Andersen, and Walid A. Afifi present research-based insights and content illustrated with engaging scenarios to show how state-of-the-art research and theory can be applied to specific issues within relationships. The updated Sixth Edition includes fresh content reflecting current research and trends in relationships, balanced with coverage of classic research, and continues to empower readers to be more critical consumers of information about relationships.
Download or read book An Analysis of Uncertainty Trust Relational Maintenance Behaviors and Mediated Communication Among Romantic Partners in Long Distance Versus Geographically Close Relationships written by Daniel W. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maintaining Relationships Through Communication written by Daniel J. Canary and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relational maintenance provides a rallying point for those seeking to discover the behaviors that individuals utilize to sustain their personal relationships. Theoretical models, research programs, and specific studies have examined how people in a variety of close relationships choose to define and maintain those relationships. In addition, relational maintenance turns our attention to communicative processes that help people sustain their close relationships. In this collection, editors Daniel J. Canary and Marianne Dainton focus on the communicative processes critical to the maintenance and enhancement of personal relationships. The volume considers variations in maintaining different types of personal relationships; structural constraints on relationship maintenance; and cultural variations in relational maintenance. Contributions to the volume cover a broad range of relational types, including romantic relationships, family relationships, long-distance relationships, workplace relationships, and Gay and Lesbian relationships, among others. Maintaining Relationships Through Communication: Relational, Contextual, and Cultural Variations synthesizes current research in relationship maintenance, emphasizes the ways that behaviors vary in their maintenance functions across relational contexts, discusses alternative explanations for maintaining relationships, and presents avenues for future research. As such, it is intended for students and scholars studying interpersonal communication and personal relationships.
Download or read book Using Attachment Theory and the Hyperpersonal Model to Examine Relationship Maintenance Satisfaction and Affectionate Communication in Romantic Relationships written by Christina J. Gentile and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, individuals in long-distance and geographically close romantic relationships are surveyed to examine if there are differences in regards to one's relationship maintenance, affectionate communication, and relationship satisfaction via Facebook that is exhibited to a romantic partner. Attachment theory also is utilized to examine the same variables, but to assess if the results vary by attachment style. Both this theory as well as the hyperpersonal model (Walther, 1996) is used to guide this research. This model is typically used to explain why initial interactions among strangers can lead to heightened levels of communication and idealization, but limited research has examined the model in conjunction with those who are in already-established relationships, such as romantic ones. The results of this study suggest that there are few differences in Facebook use for individuals with varying attachment styles and relationship types. Thus, Facebook likely is not a primary medium individuals use to communicate with a romantic partner, although some findings indicate it still is beneficial.
Download or read book Computer mediated Communication in Personal Relationships written by Kevin B. Wright and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2011 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lynne M. Webb (Ph. D., University of Oregon) is Professor in Communication at the University of Arkansas. She previously served as a tenured faculty member at the Universities of Florida and Memphis. Her research examines young adults' interpersonal communication in romantic and family contexts. Her research appears in over 50 essays published in scholarly journals and edited volumes, including computers in Human Behavior, Communication Education, Health Communication, and Journal of Family Communication. --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Relationship Maintenance written by Brian G. Ogolsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an interdisciplinary perspective on behaviors and strategies used to maintain intimate relationships.
Download or read book Evaluating the Interplay Between Attachment and Resilience on Adult Relationships written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study aims to gain a deeper understanding of adult attachment, relational maintenance behaviors, and resilience in relation to adolescent friendships and romantic relationships. More specifically, within a population of adolescents who experienced frequent childhood non-routine school displacements. It is obvious that when children leave their current peer group due to these frequent displacements a disruption in the development of childhood relationships will occur, but less is known about the effects the displacements have on later adult relationships. Among the numerous factors that could contribute to how an adult may deal with this type of upbringing, a few specific variables were examined. Participants also must have been in at least one romantic relationship, even if it was no longer an active relationship and be able to report on one friendship. A total of N = 345 participants were surveyed using a cross-sectional questionnaire style survey. First, adult attachment theory was used to understand the effects of non-routine school changes and distance moved. Hypothesis examining non-routine school changes was partially supported and hypothesis two examining distance moved was not supported. Anxiety emerged as significantly correlated with non-routine school changes but not with distance moved. Avoidance was not significantly correlated with non-routine school changes or distance moved. In hypothesis three and four, resiliency was used as a moderating variable between the effect of non-routine school changes and attachment anxiety and avoidance as well as distance moved and attachment anxiety and avoidance. Hypothesis three examining nonroutine school changes was conditionally supported and hypothesis four was not supported. Hypothesis five and six examined the mediating effect of relational maintenance behaviors on attachment anxiety and avoidance and relational satisfaction and friendship validation and caring. Both hypotheses were supported with relational maintenance behaviors partially mediating the relationship between anxiety and relational satisfaction/friendship validation and caring and fully mediated the relationship between avoidance and relational satisfaction/friendship validation and caring. Implications for this study include adding to the relational maintenance literature and furture directions include examining the physiological consequences utilizing a longitudinal study.
Download or read book Attachment Self disclosure Gossip and Idealization as Predictors of Satisfaction in Geographically Close and Long Distance Romantic Relationships written by Ji-yeon Lee and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study examines geographically close (GCRs) and long distance (LDRs) romantic relationships, and the contribution of attachment style, self-disclosure, gossip, and idealization to explaining romantic relationship satisfaction, for each relational type. Therefore, the overarching hypothesis was that that the GCR and LDR explanatory models would be non-equivalent. The sub-hypotheses were: First, higher attachment security will predict (a) higher self-disclosure, (b)lower GCR and higher LDR gossip, (c) lower idealization, and (d) higher satisfaction. Second, higher gossip and lower self-disclosure will predict higher idealization. Third, lower GCR and higher LDR idealization will predict higher satisfaction. Thus, I expected GCR and LDR satisfaction to be mediated differently by gossip, self-disclosure, and idealization. College student participants (N = 539) completed a web survey. The instruments, widely used in research, included: (a) demographic information; (b) the Experience in Close Relationship Scale-Short Form (ECR-S; Wei, Russell, Mallinckrodt, & Vogel, 2007); (c) the Tendency to Gossip Questionnaire (TGQ, Nevo et al., 1993); (d) the self-disclosure scale, designed for this study; (e) the Idealistic Distortion Scale (IDS; Olson, 2005); and (f) the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS; Spanier, 1976). A Structural Equation Modeling multigroup analysis was used to test the hypotheses. The hypotheses were mostly supported. First, the results indicated that higher attachment security was significantly associated with (a) higher GCR and LDR self-disclosure, (b) lower LDR gossip, (c) higher GCR and LDR idealization, and (d) higher GCR and LDR relationship satisfaction. Second, lower GCR and higher LDR self-disclosure were associated with higher idealization, with gossip not significantly associated with idealization. Third, higher GCR and LDR idealization were associated with higher relationship satisfaction. As for the overarching hypothesis, the results indicated that the GCR and LDR models were non-equivalent, as expected; relationship satisfaction was mediated differently in GCRs than LDRs. In summary, the results imply that (a) attachment is a strong predictor of relationship satisfaction regardless of a couple's geographic distance, and (b) how couples communicate with each other is more important in LDR relational type. I also discuss implications, limitations, and areas for future research."--Leaves viii-ix.
Download or read book Long Distance Versus Geographically Close Romantic Relationships written by Alyssa Palmire Kopecki and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Promote Or Prevent when Near Or Far written by Adam J. Hampton and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No research to date has examined how regulatory focus theory applies to relationships that are maintained long-distance, nor if individuals' regulatory orientations differ in predicting relationship maintenance efforts between relationships that are geographically-close and those that are long-distance. The current study explores the communication efforts, ideal perceptions, and regulatory behaviors of individuals as a function of their regulatory focus (promotion focus vs. prevention focus) and relationship type (geographically-close vs. long-distance). One hundred eighty participants completed a survey that assessed their relationship type, regulatory focus, and relationship maintenance efforts (i.e., communications, perceptions, and behavior). Overall, it was found that individuals in long-distance relationships, compared to individuals in geographically-close relationships, engage in more frequent communication efforts, more self-idealized perceptions, and less self-regulation behaviors. Regarding regulatory orientations, those with a high degree of promotion focus, compared to those with a low degree of promotion focus, reported more intimate communication, more idealized perceptions of their partners and themselves, and less behavioral regulation of their partners and themselves. Alternatively, those with a high degree of prevention focus, compares to those with a low degree of prevention focus, reported less frequent communication, less partner-idealized perceptions, and more behavioral regulation of their partners and themselves. While regulatory orientations did not differ as a function of relationship type, implications are discussed pertaining to how the rapid evolution of communication technology has changed the way in which individuals maintain their relationship.
