Mapping the topography of couples' daily conversation

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 299-322

  Alberts, Jess K ^a   Yoshimura, Christina G ^b   Rabby, Michael ^c   Loschiavo, Rose ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Conversation; Couples' talk; Interaction; Relational maintenance; Romantic relationships; Satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 20744445323     PISSN: 02654075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265407505050941     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Acitelli, L. K. (1988). When spouses talk to each other about their relationship. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 5, 185-199.
2. Acitelli, L. K. (1993). You, me and us: Perspectives on relationship awareness. In S. Duck (Ed.), Individuals in relationships: Understanding relationship processes (pp. 144-174). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
3. Alberts, J. K. (1992). A strategic/inferential explanation for the social organization of teases. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 11, 153-177.
4. Austin, J. L. (1975). How to do things with words. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
5. Ayres, J. (1983). Strategies to maintain relationships: Their identification and perceived usage. Communication Quarterly, 31, 61-67.
6. Bell, R. A., Daly, J. A., & Gonzales, M. C. (1987). Affinity-maintenance in marriage and its relationship to women's marital satisfaction. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 49, 445-454.
7. Bergmann, J. R. (1993). Discreet indiscretions: The social organization of gossip. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
8. Berscheid, E. (1995). Help wanted: A grand theorist of interpersonal relationships, sociologist or anthropologist preferred. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 12, 529-533.
9. Burleson, B. R. (1995). Personal relationships as a skilled accomplishment. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 12, 575-582.
10. Cahn, D., & Shulman, G. (1984). The perceived understanding instrument. Communication Research Reports, 1, 122-124.
11. Canary, D. J., & Dainton, M. (2003). Framing the maintenance of relationships through communication: An epilogue. In D. J. Canary & M. Dainton (Eds.), Maintaining relationships through communication (pp. 299-321). Mawah, NJ: Erlbaum.
12. Canary, D. J., & Stafford, L. (1992). Relational maintenance strategies and equity in marriage. Communication Monographs, 59, 243-267.
13. Canary, D. J., & Stafford, L. (1994). Maintaining relationships through strategic and routine interaction. In D. J. Canary & L. Stafford (Eds.), Communication and relational maintenance (pp. 3-22). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
14. Canary, D. J., Stafford, L., Hause, K. S., & Wallace, L. A. (1993). An inductive analysis of relational maintenance strategies: Comparisons among lovers, relatives, friends, and others. Communication Research Reports, 10, 5-14.
15. Dainton, M., & Stafford, L. (1993). Routine maintenance behaviors: A comparison of relational type, partner similarity and sex differences. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 10, 225-271.
16. DeFrancisco, V. L. (1991). The sounds of silence: How men silence women in marital relations. Discourse & Society, 2, 413-423.
17. Dindia, K., & Baxter, L. A. (1987). Strategies for maintaining and repairing personal relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 10, 163-173.
18. Dindia, K., Fitzpatrick, M. A., & Kenny, D. A. (1997). Self-disclosure in spouse and stranger interaction: A social relations analysis. Human Communication Research, 23, 388-412.
19. Duck, S. (1988). Relating to others. Chicago: Dorsey Press.
20. Duck, S. (1990). Relationships as unfinished business. Out of the frying pan and into the 1990s. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 7, 5-28.
21. Duck, S. (1994). Steady as (s)he goes: Relational maintenance as a shared meaning system. In D. J. Canary & L. Stafford (Eds.), Communication and relational maintenance (pp. 45-60). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
22. Duck, S. (1995). Talking relationships into being. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 12, 535-540.
23. Duck, S., & Miell, D. (1986). Charting the development of personal relationships. In R. Gilmour & S. Duck (Eds.), The emerging field of personal relationships (pp. 133-143). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
24. Duck, S., & Pond, K. (1989). Friends, Romans, countrymen; lend me your retrospections: Rhetoric and reality in personal relationships. In C. Hendrick (Ed.), Review of social psychology and personality, Vol. 10: Close relationships (pp. 17-38). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
25. Duck, S., Rutt, D. J., Hurst, M. H., & Strejc, H. (1991). Some evident truths about conversations in everyday relationships: All communications are not created equal. Human Communication Research, 18, 228-267.
26. Egloff, B., Tausch, A., Kohlman, C. W., & Krohne, H. W. (1995). Relationships between time of day, day of the week, and positive mood: Exploring the role of the mood measure. Motivation and Emotion, 19(2), 99-110.
27. Fleiss, J. L. (1981). Statistical methods for rates and proportions. New York: Wiley.
28. Feeney, J. A. (2002). Attachment, marital interaction, and relationship satisfaction: A diary study. Personal Relationships, 9, 39-55.
29. Fournier, D. G., Olson, D. H., & Druckman, J. M. (1983). Assessing marital and premarital relationships: The ENRICH and PREPARE inventories. In E. F. Filsinger (Ed.), Marriage and family assessment (pp. 229-250). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
30. Gilbertson, J., Dindia, K., & Allen, M. (1998) Relational continuity constructional units and the maintenance of relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 15(6), 774-790.
31. Ginsburg, G. P. (1986). The structural analysis of primary relationships. In R. Gilmour & S. Duck (Eds.), The emerging field of personal relationships (pp. 41-62). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
32. Goldsmith, D. J., & Baxter, L. A. (1996). Constituting relationships in talk: A taxonomy of speech events in social and personal relationships. Human Communication Research, 22, 87-114.
33. Gottman, J. M., & Carrere, S. (1994). Why can't men and women get along? In D. J. Canary & L. Stafford (Eds.), Communication and relational maintenance (pp. 203-229). New York: Academic Press.
34. Granato, C. (2000). 'Wonder if anything good's on TV tonight?': An exploration of maintenance in couples' television watching. Unpublished thesis, Arizona State University, Tempe.
35. Gross, H. E. (1980). Dual-career couples who live apart: Two types. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 42, 567-576.
36. Guerrero, L. K., Eloy, S. V., & Wabnik, A. I. (1993). Linking maintenance strategies to relationship development and disengagement: A reconceptualization. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 10, 273-283.
37. Haas, S. M., & Stafford, L. (1998). An initial examination of maintenance behaviors in gay and lesbian relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 15, 846-856.
38. Hopper, R. (1989). Speech in telephone openings: Emergent interaction v. routines. Western Journal of Speech Communication, 53, 178-194.
39. Kennedy-Moore, E., Greenberg, M. A., Newman, M. G., & Stone, A. A. (1992). The relationship between daily events and mood: The mood measure may matter. Motivation and Emotion, 16, 143-155.
40. Kenny, D. A. (1995). Relationship science in the 21st century. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 12, 597-600.
41. LaRossa, R. (1995). Stories and relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 12, 553-558.
42. Nofsinger, R. E. (1991). Everyday conversation. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
43. Pomerantz, A. (1978). Compliment responses: Notes on the cooperation of multiple constraints. In J. Schenkein (Ed.), Studies in the organization of conversational interaction (pp. 79-112). New York: Academic Press.
44. Rabby, M. (1996). Maintaining relationships via e-mail. Unpublished master's thesis, Pennsylvania State University, State College.
45. Rohlfing, M. (1995). 'Doesn't anybody stay in one place any more?' An exploration of the understudied phenomenon of long-distance relationships. In J. T. Wood & S. W. Duck (Eds.), Under-studied relationships: Off the beaten track [Understanding relationship processes: Vol. 6] (pp. 173-196). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
46. Rosenthal, R., & Rosnow, R. L. (1991). Essentials of behavioral research: Methods and data analysis (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
47. Rossi, A. S., & Rossi, P. E. (1977). Body time and social time: Mood patteras by menustral cycle phase and day of the week. Social Science Research, 6, 273-308.
48. Sanderson, C. A., & Karetsky, K. H. (2002). Intimacy goals and strategies of conflict resolution in dating relationships: A mediational analysis. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 19, 323-343.
49. Sigman, S. J. (1991). Handling the discontinuous aspects of continuous social relationships: Toward research on the persistence of social forms. Communication Theory, 1, 106-127.
50. Sillars, A. (1986). Procedures for coding interpersonal conflict. Unpublished.
51. Spanier, G. B., & Lewis, R. A. (1980). Marital quality: A review of the seventies. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 42, 825-839.
52. Stafford, L. (2003). Maintaining romantic relationships: Summary of analysis of one research program. In D. J. Canary & M. Dainton (Eds.), Maintaining relationships through communication (pp. 51-77). Mawah, NJ: Erlbaum.
53. Stafford, L., & Canary, D. J. (1991). Maintenance strategies and romantic relationship type, gender, and relational characteristics. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 8, 217-242.
54. Stafford, L., & Daly, J. A. (1984). Conversational memory: The effects of recall mode and memory expectancies on remembrances of natural conversations. Human Communication Research, 10, 379-402.
55. Stone, A. A., Hedges, S. M., Neale, J. M., & Satin, M. S. (1985). Prospective and cross-sectional mood reports offer no evidence of a 'Blue Monday' phenomenon. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49, 129-134.
56. Weigel, D. J., & Ballard-Reisch, D. S. (1999). How couples maintain marriages: A closer look at self and spouse influences upon the use of maintenance behaviors in marriages. Family Relations, 48, 263-269.