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The Developmental Course of Romantic Relationships
Recipient of the 2014 International Association for Relationship Researchers Book Award!
This multidisciplinary text highlights the development of romantic relationships, from initiation to commitment or demise, by highlighting the historical context, current research and theory, and diversity of patterns. Engagingly written with colorful examples, the authors examine the joy, stress, power-struggles, intimacy, and aggression that characterize these relationships. Readers gain a better understanding as to why, even after the pain and suffering associated with a breakup, most of us go right back out and start again. Relationships are examined through an interdisciplinary lens -psychological, sociological, environmental and communicative perspectives are all considered. End of chapter summaries, lists of key concepts, and additional readings serve as a review. As a whole the book explores what precipitates success or failure of these relationships and how this has changed over time. Highlights of the book's coverage:Incorporates both cross-sex and same-sex romantic relationshipsExamines the roles of gender, race, class, culture, age, and sexuality in relationship developmentLooks at multiple types of romantic relationships in emerging adulthood, including dating and cohabitationExplores both positive and negative relational processesAnalyzes the latest and most important scholarship. The book opens with an introduction followed by a historical overview of the development of relationships. Next relationship development models are examined including the influence of social factors and the interaction of the partners involved. This volume examines how partners initiate romantic relationships, including infatuation, sexual attraction, and the impact of technology; how cohabitation affects the quality of the future of the relationship; and the individual, social, and circum
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The ebb and flow of marital lust: A relational approach
This diary study examined daily fluctuation in marital lust over a 56-day period. The purposes of the study were to describe typical patterns of lust over time and to examine intrapersonal and interpersonal associations between relationship affect, relationship states, and marital lust. We also tested various daily moderational predictions. Four patterns of daily fluctuation in lust were identified. Typical patterns varied from almost no fluctuation to wide fluctuation over time. Our findings showed that daily affect was generally related to lust both within partners and between partners. Also, spouses' relational states (closeness and equality of power) moderated several of these intrapersonal and interpersonal associations. In general, the affect-lust link was strengthened by closeness and equality of power, while the lust-lust link between spouses was often conditioned by both relationship affect and relational states. However, the role of negative affect toward spouses in interactions with other constructs was not as expected. We discuss possible explanations for the findings and implications for further research.
Journal Article
Couple Dynamics of Change-Resistant Smoking: Toward a Family Consultation Model
Smoking is North America's leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality. Although effective cessation treatments exist, their overall effect is modest, and they rarely reach the high‐risk, health‐compromised smokers who need them most. Surprisingly, despite evidence that marital relationship variables predict the success of cessation efforts, family systems ideas have had little impact on current intervention research. We review and critique the cessation literature from a systemic viewpoint, illustrate two couple‐interaction patterns relevant to the maintenance of high‐risk smoking, and outline a family‐consultation (FAMCON) intervention for couples in which at least one partner continues to smoke despite having heart or lung disease. Taking into account ironic processes and symptom‐system fit, FAMCON focuses on the immediate social context of smoking, aiming to interrupt well‐intentioned “solutions” that ironically feed back to keep smoking going, and to help clients realign important relationships in ways not organized around tobacco usage. Currently in its pilot‐testing phase, FAMCON is an adjunctive, complementary approach designed to include collaboration with primary‐care physicians and to make smokers more amenable to other, evidence‐based cessation strategies.
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role of rewards and fairness in developing premarital relationships
The role of rewards and fairness in predicting satisfaction and involvement in premarital relationships was investigated in a longitudinal study. The study used questionnaires to examine 90 respondents' premarital relationships twice during a three-month period. The findings indicate that (a) relationship rewards are a better predictor of satisfaction and involvement than fairness at both Time 1 and Time 2; (b) fairness decreases in its ability to predict satisfaction over time in premarital relationships; (c) relationship rewards increase in ability to predict involvement over time; and (d) relationship rewards at Time 1 are a better predictor than fairness of satisfaction and involvement at Time 2. Various explanations for these findings are presented.
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The Stability of Romantic Relationships
Thus far this book has focused on how romantic relationships begin and how they have changed historically. We now turn our attention to a very basic question: Why do some relationships work, whereas others do not? On the surface, the answer to this question seems like it should be straightforward given the fact that scholars have been studying relationships for several decades. This, however, is not the case. Despite the fact that relationship stability is one of the two most common outcome variables studied by relationship researchers (the other is satisfaction or quality), the actual meaning of the term \"stability\" is unclear. Most commonly, researchers conceptualize stability as a function of whether a relationship continues or dissolves. For example, in one of the early theories of stability, Lewis and Spanier (1979) posit that stability is simply a function of whether or not the relationship is intact. Unfortunately, such a definition positions relationship stability at the end of the relationship rather than viewing it as a dynamic process. That is, relationships may go through periods of growth and decline that would go unnoticed with a simple classification of intact versus dissolved. For example, Figure 6.1 illustrates trajectories of the chance of marriage over the course of four hypothetical romantic relationships (see Surra, Hughes, & Jacquet, 1999 for a discussion of the graphing procedure). If we assume that all of these relationships were still intact at the time of measurement, we would conclude that each of these relationships was stable according to the definition of stability above. Such a conclusion is problematic for two reasons. First, it is apparent from the graphs that the course of these relationships is obviously different, but a label of \"stable\" essentially equates them. Thus, predictors of dissolution emerging from these relationships may be inaccurate. Second, it is unknown whether these couples continue their relationships indefinitely or break up at a later time point, which further complicates the definition of stability in terms of dissolution.
Figure 6.1
Change in chance of marriage for four hypothetical romantic relationships
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The History of Romantic Partnering
This chapter traces the historical roots of contemporary romantic partnership practices in the United States. Fortunately, since the late 1980s several notable historical works have been published including D'Emilio and Freedman's Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (1988), Takaki's A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (1993) and Coontz's Marriage: A History (2005). These works, along with feminist analyses of gender and sexuality, have created new models for situating our current customs, behaviors, and ideas about romantic partnering within the larger context of history, including the legal, structural, and social supports/constraints surrounding intimate behavior. Additionally, they point out the myriad ways in which race, class, gender and sexuality are simultaneously regulated (Andersen & Witham, 2011).
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Theories and Models of Romantic Partnering
As we discussed the history of romantic partnering in Chapter 2, we emphasized the myriad ways that partnering processes are embedded within historical, economic, and political contexts. And yet romantic partnering is at its very core a process of individual attraction and choice, and dyadic interaction. In order to explain how partners come together, a host of theoretical models have been developed over time. The present chapter traces the development of the major theories and models proposed to explain the development of romantic relationships, from compatibility models to stage theories to the current emphasis on interpersonal process.
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Cohabitation
Perhaps nothing has changed the landscape of relationship development in recent decades as drastically as cohabitation outside of marriage. Although cohabitation has been normative among gay and lesbian couples for many decades, it has recently become a normative transition in the relationship development process for heterosexual couples as well. Participation in cohabitation, however, varies as a function of several factors, and the reasons for living together differ across individuals. In this chapter we discuss the rates of cohabitation, the movement from dating to cohabitation, and the reasons and consequences associated with the decision to cohabit. As we will discuss in the remainder of the chapter, research exploring cohabitation is difficult because of the diversity of decisions about whether or when to cohabit, as well as the specific arrangements that partners make following this decision. Most research relies on the partners to define whether they are cohabiting. As such, we discuss the research on cohabitation that focuses on romantic partnerships in which partners report a co-residential arrangement. In addition, we will discuss cohabitation for heterosexual as well as gay and lesbian couples.
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Violence in Romantic Partnerships
Because intimate pairings are highly romanticized in our culture, the motives and actions of dating, committed, and cohabiting partners are often imbued with both nobility and purity. Although there are a few references to violence and sexual exploitation in early family studies literature (see, for example, Kanin, 1957), scant attention was given to the study of romantic violence until the 1980s. It was not until the work of Makepeace (1981), Cate, Henton, Koval, Christopher, and Lloyd (1982), Laner and Thompson (1982), and Koss and Oros (1982) that issues of physical violence and rape in developing romantic relationships were brought to the forefront.
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