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Relationship Success (relationship + success)
Selected AbstractsCommunication, Conflict, and Commitment: Insights on the Foundations of Relationship Success from a National SurveyFAMILY PROCESS, Issue 4 2002Scott M. Stanley Ph.D. The key relationship dynamics of communication, conflict, and commitment were investigated using data from a randomly sampled, nationwide phone survey of adults in married, engaged, and cohabiting relationships. Findings on communication and conflict generally replicated those of studies using more in depth or objective measurement strategies. Negative interaction between partners was negatively associated with numerous measures of relationship quality and positively correlated with divorce potential (thinking or talking about divorce). Withdrawal during conflict by either or both partners, thought quite common, was associated with more negativity and less positive connection in relationships. The most frequently reported issue that couples argue about in first marriages was money, and in re-marriages it was conflict about children. Overall, how couples argue was more related to divorce potential than was what they argue about, although couples who argue most about money tended to have higher levels of negative communication and conflict than other couples. Further, while the male divorce potential was more strongly linked to levels of negative interaction, the female was more strongly linked to lower positive connection in the relationship. Consistent with the commitment literature, higher reported commitment was associated with less alternative monitoring, less feeling trapped in the relationship, and greater relationship satisfaction. [source] Conflict in Business-to-Business e-Commerce (B2B): A Study of B2B Relational Structure and Perceptions of Conflict, Power, and Relationship SuccessNEGOTIATION AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, Issue 3 2010Rhetta L. Standifer Abstract This field study investigates how the relational structure of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce relationships affects perceptions of conflict, power, and success in e-commerce relationships. Data from interviews with employees in 82 U.S. organizations reveal that employees in community-oriented B2B structures perceive themselves as experiencing more process conflict than do employees in buyer/supplier-oriented structures. Also, employees in community-oriented B2B structures perceive more organizational power. Furthermore, the B2B e-commerce relational structure was found to moderate the relationship between perceived organizational power and the number of reported conflict incidents. Specifically, in buyer/supplier structures, power differences were associated with low conflict and in community-oriented structures power differences were associated with high levels of conflict. [source] The Influence of In-Laws on Change in Marital SuccessJOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY, Issue 3 2001Chalandra M. Bryant This study prospectively examines the association between discord with in-laws and the long-term relationship success of husbands and wives who had been married for an average of almost 2 decades. We hypothesized that the quality of spouses' relationships with their parents-in-law would predict spouses' marital success. In addition, this study underscores the causal role of in-laws by examining the influence of marital success on relationships with in-laws. For wives, discord with mothers- and fathers-in-law predicted own perceptions of marital success at a later time period. Results were slightly different for husbands' discord with fathers-in-law. The reverse (marital success predicting less discord with in-laws) was only true for husbands. The study also explored the influence of spouses' discord with in-laws on partners' perceptions of marital success. These are among the first prospective, longitudinal findings demonstrating that, even in long-term marriages, conflicts in extended family relations will erode marital stability, satisfaction, and commitment over time. [source] Respect in close relationships: Prototype definition, self-report assessment, and initial correlatesPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, Issue 2 2002Jennifer R. Frei Researchers who study romantic relationships have mentioned respect as a factor contributing to relationship success, but little effort has been made to define respect, measure it, or discover how it relates to other relationship constructs. In Study 1 a prototype methodology was used to identify consensual features of respect. Participants in Study 2 rated the centrality of the features of respect and completed a new prototype-based respect-for-partner scale that was highly reliable and correlated in predictable ways with avoidant attachment and evaluative aspects of partner descriptions. In Study 3, the new respect scale predicted relationship satisfaction better than scales measuring liking, loving, attachment-related anxiety and avoidance, and positive and negative partner qualities. Suggestions are offered for future research on respect. [source] | ||||||||||