Interpersonal relationship

About: Interpersonal relationship is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 22392 publications have been published within this topic receiving 937957 citations. The topic is also known as: interpersonal status & relationship.

Male role and gender role conflict: Relations to help seeking in men.

Abstract: Tested theory that adherence to the traditional male gender role and help-seeking attitudes and behaviors are related. Ss were 401 undergraduate men who completed measures of help-seeking attitudes and behaviors, attitudes toward the stereotypic male role, and gender role conflict factors (i.e., success/power/competition, restrictive emotionality, and restrictive affectionate behavior between men). Canonical analysis and regression indicated that traditional attitudes about the male role, concern about expressing emotions, and concern about expressing affection toward other men were each significantly related to negative attitudes toward seeking professional psychological assistance. Restrictive emotionality also significantly predicted decreased past helpseeking behavior and decreased likelihood of future help seeking. The implications of these results for theory, research, and counseling practice are discussed. There appear to be distinct gender differences in psychological help seeking. Two-thirds of all clients seeking psychological help are female. Further, one in three women, compared with one in seven men, seek services from a mental health professional at some point during their lifetime (Collier, 1982). Whereas much research and theoretical writing has focused on the psychological and sociological reasons for women's use of counseling services, a much smaller amount of literature has focused on the problems associated with male reluctance to use psychological services. One possible source of men's hesitance to use counseling services is adherence to the traditional male gender role, although this hypothesis has received very little attention in the help-seeking literature. This lack of attention is somewhat surprising, given that adherence to a role characterized by instrumentality, strength, aggressiveness, and emotional inexpressiveness (David & Brannon, 1976; O'Neti, 1981) seems intuitively antithetical to the behavior of seeking help for psychological concerns. The little research that is available has reported that people with a masculine gender role orientation are less likely to express an interest in seeking counseling than individuals with a feminine gender role'Orientation

The Social Distance Theory of Power

Abstract: We propose that asymmetric dependence between individuals (i.e., power) produces asymmetric social distance, with high-power individuals feeling more distant than low-power individuals. From this insight, we articulate predictions about how power affects (a) social comparison, (b) susceptibility to influence, (c) mental state inference and responsiveness, and (d) emotions. We then explain how high-power individuals' greater experienced social distance leads them to engage in more abstract mental representation. This mediating process of construal level generates predictions about how power affects (a) goal selection and pursuit, (b) attention to desirability and feasibility concerns, (c) subjective certainty, (d) value-behavior correspondence, (e) self-control, and (f) person perception. We also reassess the approach/inhibition theory of power, noting limitations both in what it can predict and in the evidence directly supporting its proposed mechanisms. Finally, we discuss moderators and methodological recommendations for the study of power from a social distance perspective.

Interpersonal communication and human relationships

Abstract: Part I Human Communication in Developing Relationships 1 Communication: The Lifeblood of Relationships Relationship Messages Five Important Misconceptions About Communication in Relationships How Communication Changes as Our Relationships Develop Dimensions of Communication: Patterns and Variations Summary Selected Readings Notes 2 Stages of Coming Together and Coming Apart Types of Relationships A Model of Interaction Stages in Relationships Interaction Stages Movement: In, Out, and Around Stages Summary Selected Readings Notes Part II Factors Affecting Human Communication Behavior in Relationships 3 The Nature of the Communicators The Influence of Interpersonal Needs The Role of Interpersonal Needs Analyzing Our Own Needs and Those of Others Interpersonal Needs Across the Lifespan Interpersonal Needs of Females and Males Summary Selected Readings Notes 4 The Communication Environment: Cultural and Physical The Influence of the Cultural Environment The Influence of the Immediate Physical Environment or Setting Summary Selected Readings Notes Part III Interaction Patterns for Coming Together 5 The Genesis of Dialogue Getting Together Sizing Up the Other Person The Many Faces of Attraction Summary Selected Readings Notes 6 Interaction Rituals Communication Rules The Rhetoric of Hello Forms of Address Relationship "Openers" Small(?) Talk Summary Selected Readings Notes 7 The Foundations of Intimate Dialogue Types of Love Liking Versus Loving Intimacy and Close Relationships Foundations of Intimacy Summary Selected Readings Notes Part IV Interaction Patterns and the Maintenance of Relationships 8 Maintaining Relationships Through Dialogue: Disclosures, Lies, and Fights Relationship Maintenance Self-Disclosure, Confidentiality, and Trust Lying Constructive Conflict Summary Selected Readings Notes 9 Maintaining Relationships Through Dialogue: Commitment and Intimacy Commitment and Commitment Talk Personal Idioms Giving Compliments and Gifts Giving Comfort and Advice Persuasion Sex Talk Intimate Play Intimacy Without Words Summary Selected Readings Notes Part V Interaction Patterns for Coming Apart 10 Communication and the Process of Relationship Disengagement Terminating Relationships Communication During Relationship Decay: Return of the Stranger Summary Selected Readings Notes 11 The Dialogue of Distance and De-escalation Some Potentially Destructive Patterns of Communication: An Interpersonal Chamber of Horrors Summary Selected Readings Notes Part VI Toward More Effective Communication in Relationships 12 Evaluating and Developing Effective Communication in Relationships The Relativity of Effective Communication Perceptions of Effective Communication Rx for Effective Communication Becoming an Effective Communicator Writing Your Own Story Communicating Effectively Together Summary Selected Readings Notes Author Index Subject Index

Parents' Cultural Belief Systems: Their Origins, Expressions, and Consequences.

Abstract: 1. Introduction, Harkness and Super I. Theoretical Perspectives 2. Parents' Free Descriptions of Child Characteristics: A Cross-Cultural Search for the Developmental Antecendents of the Big Five, Kohnstamm, Halverson, Havill, and Mervielde 3. Processes of Generalization in Parental Reasoning, Valsiner and Litvinovic 4. The Answer Depends on the Question: A Conceptual and Methodological Analysis of a Parent Belief Behavior Interview Regarding Children's Learning, Sigel and Kim II. The Nature and Origins of Parents' Cultural Belief Systems 5. Essential Contrasts: Differences in Parental Ideas About Learners and Teaching in Tahiti and Nepal, Levy 6. How do Children Develop Knowledge?: Beliefs of Tansanian and American Mothers, McGillicuddy-De Lisi and Subramanian 7. Japanese Mothers' Ideas about Infants and Temperament, Shwalb, Shwalb, and Shoji 8. Scenes from a Marriage: Equality Ideology in Swedish Family Policy, Maternal Ethnotheories, and Practice, Welles-Nystrom III. Intracultural Variation: The Role of Education and "Experts" 9. Parents' and Adolescents' Ideas on Children: Origins and Transmission of Intracultural Diversity, Palacios and Moreno 10. Education and Mother Infant Interaction: A Mexican Case Study, LeVine, Miller, Richman, and LeVine 11. The Contrasting Developmental Timetables of Parents and Preschool Teachers in Two Cultural Communities, Edwards, Gandini, and Giovaninni 12. Ask the Doctor: The Negotiation of Cultural Models in American Parent Pediatrician Discourse, Harkness, Super, Keefer, Raghavan, and Kipp IV. The Instantiation of Parents' Cultural Belief Systems in Practices 13. From Household Practices to Parents' Ideas About Work and Interpersonal Relationships, Goodnow 14. How Mayan Parental Theories Come Into Play, Gaskins 15. Parental Theories in the Management of Young Children's Sleep in Japan, Italy, and the United States, Wolf, Lozoff, Latz, and Pauladetto 16. Maternal Beliefs and Infant-Care Practices in Italy and the United States, New and Richman V. The Consequences of Parents' Cultural Belief Systems for Children's Health and Development 17. My Child is My Crown: Yoruba Parental Theories and Practices in Early Childhood, Zeitlin 18. Growth Consequences of Low-Income Nicaraguan Mothers' Theories About Feeding 1-Year-Olds, Engle, Zeitlin, and Medrano 19. The "Three R's" of Dutch Childrearing and the Socialization of Infant Arousal, Super, Harkness, van Tijen, van der Flugt, Fintelman, and Dijkstra 20. Imagining and Engaging One's Children: Lessons From Poor, Rural New England Mothers, Bond, Belenky, Weinstock, and Cook 21. American Cultural Models of Early Influence and Parent Recognition of Developmental Delays: Is Earlier Always Better Than Later?, Weisner, Matheson, and Bernheimer

Group and Interpersonal Effects in International Computer-Mediated Collaboration

Abstract: Drawing on two recent theories, this article proposes interaction hypotheses involving the joint effects ojsalient pup versus individual identity and long-term versus short-term group membership on the social, interpersonal, and intellectual responses ojpup members collaborating via computer-mediated communication. Participantsfimn institutions in two countries used computer-mediated communication under various conditions. Results indicate that some conditions oj computer-mediated communication use by geographically dispersed partners render effects systematically superior to those obtained in other mediated conditions and greater or lesser than effects obtained thmughface-to-face interaction.