Attribution theory in intimate relationships: A Methodological review

Thompson, Judith S.; Snyder, Douglas K.

doi:10.1080/01926188608250629

Cited by 31 publications

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“…Also, colleaguing interpersonal relationships proved very important for the participants as the high variability of the attributions indicates, in consistency with past research which has supported that individuals search for causes to explain the high ego involvement tasks (Argyle, 2001;Wang & Hall, 2018;Weiner, 2014). Similarly, the attributional pattern within and between the estimated as best and worst interpersonal relationships hinds the working teachers' desire and values of good relationships (Harvey et al, 2005;Karney et al, 2003;Weiner, 2002Weiner, , 2005Weiner, , 2010, and complimented previous research which has reported a strong link between attributional processes and relationship satisfaction (Fincham, 2003;Thompson & Snyder, 1986).…”

Section: Attributions For the Colleaguing Interpersonal Relationshipssupporting

confidence: 86%

Work Interpersonal Relationships: Cognitive Appraisals and the Prediction of Dispositional Forgiveness and Satisfaction of Life and Work

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Giorgali²

2020

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Section: Attributions For the Colleaguing Interpersonal Relationshipssupporting

confidence: 86%

Work Interpersonal Relationships: Cognitive Appraisals and the Prediction of Dispositional Forgiveness and Satisfaction of Life and Work

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Giorgali²

2020

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“…The attributions or explanations that spouses offer for a partner's behavior have been consistently linked to their marital quality (Bradbury & Fincham, 1990; Thompson & Snyder, 1986) making the attribution‐relationship quality association arguably the most robust phenomenon in the close‐relationship literature (Fincham, 2001). Attributions can be about who or what caused an event (causal attributions) and those that deal with accountability or answerability for the event (responsibility attributions).…”

Section: Attributions and Marital Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Dyadic Processes in Early Marriage: Attributions, Behavior, and Marital Quality

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Marital processes in early marriage are important for understanding couples’ future marital quality. Spouses’ attributions about a partner’s behavior have been linked to marital quality, yet the mechanisms underlying this association remain largely unknown. Using couple data from the Family Transitions Project (N = 280 couples) across the first four years of marriage, results from actor-partner interdependence modeling demonstrated that early marriage responsibility attributions were associated with marital quality four years later, after controlling for initial marital quality. Further, couple’s warm and hostile behavior two years into the marriage mediated the attribution-marital quality association. The results suggest that interventions designed to facilitate change in romantic relationships may benefit from addressing attributions for the partner’s behavior, in addition to changing behaviors, as part of a dyadic process unfolding across time.

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“…In order to judge an acceptable response, the receiving partner attributes motivation or reasons why the spouse is communicating private information. Recent research has shown that attributional searches evaluating motivations tend to be triggered when an event or message is unexpected (Thompson & Snyder, 1986).…”

Section: Attributional Searchesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Communication Boundary Management: A Theoretical Model of Managing Disclosure of Private Information Between Marital Couples

1991

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This article presents a theoretical approach that may be used to understand the way individuals regulate disclosure of private information. The communication boundary management perspective, while more generally applicable, in this presentation focuses on the way marital couples manage talking about private matters with each other. This theoretical perspective presents a boundary coordination process representing couples' management of communication boundaries in balancing a need for difclosure with the need for privacy. The theory identifies the prerequisite conditions for disclosure and the message strategies a disclosing spouse may use to tell private information, as well as the strategic messages the marital partner may use to reply. In addition, a proposal for the way the disclosing spouse and receiving partner manage the coordination of their communication boundaries is presented.

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Attribution theory in intimate relationships: A Methodological review

Cited by 31 publications

References 48 publications

Work Interpersonal Relationships: Cognitive Appraisals and the Prediction of Dispositional Forgiveness and Satisfaction of Life and Work

Work Interpersonal Relationships: Cognitive Appraisals and the Prediction of Dispositional Forgiveness and Satisfaction of Life and Work

Dyadic Processes in Early Marriage: Attributions, Behavior, and Marital Quality

Communication Boundary Management: A Theoretical Model of Managing Disclosure of Private Information Between Marital Couples

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