Accounts of Relational Dissolution: A Comparison of Marital and Non-Marital Relationships.

Cupach, William R.; Metts, Sandra

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ERIC Number: EJ343554

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Publication Date: 1986

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Accounts of Relational Dissolution: A Comparison of Marital and Non-Marital Relationships.

Cupach, William R.; Metts, Sandra

Communication Monographs, v53 n4 p311-34 Dec 1986

Reveals that individuals personally cope with spoiled relationships and socially manage relationship dissolution principally through verbal accounts. Indicates that the structural and affective enmeshment of marital couples lend to their disengagement accounts a characteristic complexity not paralleled in the accounts of unmarried couples. (JD)

Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Conflict Resolution, Human Relations, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship, Marital Status, Psychological Patterns, Social Cognition

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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