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Filsinger, Erik E. – 1984
Longitudinal research has shown that communication deficits (negative interaction) precede the development of relationship distress. To investigate the antecedents of relationship stability and adjustment 31 couples who were seriously considering marriage participated in a longitudinal study. The couples initially completed the Marital Inventories…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relationship
Download full textBiggers, J. Thompson; Masterson, John T. – 1983
It is axiomatic that context influences interpersonal behaviors, yet communication researchers have had limited success in generating a set of conceptual or operational definitions for the situation variable. Two studies were conducted to examine emotion-eliciting qualities as the basis for such a typology and the relationship of situations…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classification, Communication Research, Higher Education
Stokes, Joseph; Levin, Ira – 1985
Recent research suggesting a link between loneliness and social networks and a difference between males and females in both the quantity and quality of relationships support the view that loneliness can be predicted by gender from social network variables. In one study, two samples were used to explore gender differences. Sample 1, 97 males and 82…
Descriptors: College Students, Group Dynamics, Group Experience, Higher Education
Heinberg, Paul – 1983
The continuing inability of measures of personality to predict communicative or other types of behaviors has forced researchers to seek alternative ways of measuring. One alternative consists of a measure of four types of causal attribution in hypothetically crucial situations in five types of relationships of humans. The type of relationship in…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Communication Research
Peer reviewedCartledge, Gwendolyn – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1987
Social incompetence is a significant cause of postsecondary maladjustment for the learning disabled. The literature is reviewed on factors critical to occupational success; social development of the learning disabled; major social incompetencies (specifically, social perception and problem solving, task-related social behaviors, and social…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Generalization, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence
Peer reviewedKahn, James V. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 1996
This longitudinal study first administered the Uzgiris and Hunt scales (to predict learning of manual signs) to 34 children (mean age 5) with severe and profound mental retardation. Evaluation four years later indicated that achievement of stage five on the Uzgiris and Hunt scales was necessary for even minimal learning and use of manual signs.…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Cognitive Ability, Communication Skills, Developmental Stages
