Relational maintenance and the influence of commitment in online and offline relationships

Communication Studies

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 315-337

  Rabby, Michael K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Commitment; Computer Mediated Communication; Long distance Relationships; Relational Maintenance; Romantic Relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849114471     PISSN: 10510974     EISSN: 17451035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10510970701518405     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Adams, J. M., (1999). Future directions for commitment research. In J. M., Adams & W. H., Jones (Eds.), Handbook of interpersonal commitment and relationship stability (pp. 503-520). New York: Plenum Publishing.
2. Aiken, L. S., & West, S. G., (1991). Multiple regression: Testing and interpreting interactions. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
3. Axelrod, R., (1984). The evolution of cooperation. New York: Basic Books.
4. Ballard-Reisch, D. S., & Weigel, D. J., (1999). Relational maintenance behaviors, marital satisfaction, and commitment in Tatar, Russian, and mixed Russian-Tatar marriages. Journal of Family Issues, 20, 677-697.
5. Baron, R. M., & Kenny, D. A., (1986). The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 1173-1182.
6. Baxter, L. A., (1990). Dialectical contradictions in relationship development. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 7, 69-88.
7. Baym, N. K., Zhang, Y. B., & Lin, M. C., (2004). Social interactions across media. New Media and Society, 6, 299-318.
8. Bippus, A. M., & Rollin, E., (2003). Attachment style differences in relational maintenance and conflict behaviors: Friend's perceptions. Communication Reports, 16, 113-123.
9. Canary, D. J., & Stafford, L. S., (1992). Relational maintenance strategies and equity in marriage. Communication Monographs, 59, 243-267.
10. Canary, D. J., Stafford, L. S., 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.
11. Cohen, J., & Cohen, P., (1983). Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
12. Connell, J. B., Mendelsohn, G. A., Robins, R. W., & Canny, J., (2001). Effects of communication medium on interpersonal perceptions: Don't hang up on the telephone yet! In C., Ellis & I., Zigurs (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2001 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work (pp. 117-124). New York: ACM Press.
13. Dainton, M., (2000). Satisfaction: Linking comparison levels to relational maintenance strategies. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 17, 827-842.
14. Dainton, M., & Aylor, B., (2002). Routine and strategic maintenance efforts: Behavioral patterns, variations associated with relational length, and the prediction of relational characteristics. Communication Monographs, 69, 52-66.
15. Dainton, M., & Stafford, L. S., (1993). Routine maintenance behaviors: A comparison of relationship type, partner similarity, and sex differences. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 10, 255-271.
16. Duck, S., (1988). Maintaining relationships. In S., Duck (Ed.), Relating to others (pp. 84-101). Chicago: Dorsey Press.
17. Duck, S., (1994). Steady as (s) he goes: Relational maintenance as a shared meaning system. In D. J., Canary & L. S., Stafford (Eds.), Communication and relational maintenance (pp. 45-60). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
18. Fitzpatrick, M. A., (1988). Between husbands & wives: Communication in marriage. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
19. Hiltz, S. R., & Turoff, M., (1993). The network organization (), 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
20. Keppel, G., (1991). Design and analysis: A researcher's handbook (), 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
21. Match.com. (2004, May 20). Who does America love? New research from Match.com reveals the surprising truth. Dallas, TX. Retrieved June 25, 2004, from www.match.com Web site: http://corp.match.com/news_center/nc_release_detail.aspx?pr=145
22. Merkle, E. R., & Richardson, R. A., (2000). Digital dating and virtual relating: Conceptualizing computer mediated romantic relationships. Family Relations, 49, 187-192.
23. Musch, J., & Reips, U. D., (2000). Brief history of web experimenting. In M. H., Birnbaum (Ed.), Psychological experiments on the Internet (pp. 61-87). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
24. O' Sullivan, P. B., (2000). What you don't know won't hurt me: Impression management functions of communication channels in relationships. Human Communication Research, 26, 403-432.
25. Parks, M. R., & Floyd, K., (1996). Making friends in cyberspace. Journal of Communication, 46, 80-97.
26. Rabby, M. K., & Walther, J. B., (2003). Maintaining on-line relationships. In D. J., Canary & M., Dainton (Eds.), Maintaining relationships through communication: Relational, contextual, and cultural variations (pp. 141-162). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
27. Rusbult, C. E., & Buunk, B. P., (1993). Commitment processes in close relationships: An interdependence analysis. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 10, 175-204.
28. Rusbult, C. E., Drigotas, S. M., & Verette, J., (1994). The investment model: An interdependence analysis of commitment processes and relationship maintenance phenomena. In D. J., Canary & L. S., Stafford (Eds.), Communication and relational maintenance. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
29. Rusbult, C. E., Martz, J. M., & Agnew, C. R., (1998). The investment model scale: Measuring commitment level, satisfaction level, quality of alternatives, and investment size. Personal Relationships, 5, 357-391.
30. Sassenberg, K., Boos, M., & Rabung, S., (2005). Attitude change in face-to-face and computer-meditated communication: Private self-awareness as mediator and moderator. European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 361-374.
31. Stafford, L. S., & Canary, D. J., (1991). Maintenance strategies and romantic relationship type, gender, and relational characteristics. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 8, 217-242.
32. Stafford, L. S., Dainton, M., & Haas, S., (2000). Measuring routine and strategic relational maintenance: Scale revision, sex versus gender roles, and the prediction of relational characteristics. Communication Monographs, 67, 306-323.
33. Stafford, L. S., Kline, S. L., & Dimmick, J., (1999). Home e-mail: Relational maintenance and gratification opportunities. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 43, 659-669.
34. Stephen, T., (1986). Communication and interdependence in geographically separated relationships. Human Communication Research, 13, 191-210.
35. Tabachnick, B. G., & Fidell, L. S., (1996). Using multivariate statistics (), 3rd ed. New York: HarperCollins.
36. Turkle, S., (1995). Life on the screen: Identity in the age if the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster.
37. Waldron, V. R., (2003). Relationship maintenance in organizational settings. In D. J., Canary & M., Dainton (Eds.), Maintaining relationships through communication (pp. 163-184). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
38. Walther, J. B., (1992). Interpersonal effects in computer-mediated interaction: A relational perspective. Communication Research, 19, 52-90.
39. Walther, J. B., (1994). Anticipated ongoing interaction versus channel effects on relational communication in computer-mediated interaction. Human Communication Research, 20, 473-501.
40. Walther, J. B., (1995). Relational aspects of computer-mediated communication: Experimental investigations over time. Organizational Science, 6, 186-208.
41. Walther, J. B., Loh, T., & Granka, L., (2005). Let me count the ways: The interchange of verbal and nonverbal cues in computer-mediated and face-to-face affinity. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 24, 36-65.
42. Weigel, D. J., & Ballard-Reisch, D. S., (1999). All marriages are not maintained equally: Marital type, marital quality, and the use of maintenance behaviors. Personal Relationships, 6, 291-303.
43. Wellman, B., (1997). An electronic group is virtually a social network. In S., Kiesler (Ed.), Culture of the Internet (pp. 179-205). Halesdale, NJ: Lawrence Elbraum.
44. Wright, K. B., (2004). On-line relational maintenance strategies and perceptions of partners within exclusively internet-based and primarily internet-based relationships. Communication Studies, 55, 239-253.