Attributions, Accounts, and Close Relationships

ATTRIBUTIONS, ACCOUNTS AND CLOSE RELATIONSHPIS documents attributional and accounts approaches to the study of close relationships. Issues of focus include communication pro- blems in marriage and their relationship with causal attri- butions; marital violence and its relationship with early learning experience; ego-defensive attribution and excuse- making in couples and with respect to medical problems; and attributions about transitions in relationships.

Autorentext
Neben ihrer Aufgabe als Projektleiterin der Langzeitstudie Early Years of Marriage Project lehrt und forscht Terri L. Orbuch auch als Professorin an der University of Michigan (Institute for Social Research) und an der Oakland University. Die Gastgeberin der wöchentlich auf VoiceAmerica.com ausgestrahlten The Love Doctor®-Radiosendung arbeitet seit mehr als 20 Jahren als Ehetherapeutin. Dr. Orbuch lebt zusammen mit ihrem Ehemann in Michigan.

Inhalt
1 Introduction: Convergence of the Attribution and Accounts Concepts in the Study of Close Relationships.- 2 What Is a Personal Relationship? A Rhetorical-Responsive Account of Unfinished Business.- 3 Interactions of Process and Moderator Variables in Account Episodes.- 4 Autobiographical Accounts, Situational Roles, and Motivated Biases: When Stories Don't Match Up.- 5 The Role of Account-Making in the Growth and Deterioration of Close Relationships.- 6 Coping with Relational Dissolutions: Attributions, Account Credibility, and Plans for Resolving Conflicts.- 7 Accounting for Relationships: A Knowledge Structure Approach.- 8 Communication Problems in Committed Relationships: An Attributional Analysis.- 9 Attributions and Maritally Violent Men: The Role of Cognitions in Marital Violence.- 10 Attribution Processes in Victims of Marital Violence: Who Do Women Blame and Why?.- 11 Attribution and Emotion in Patients' Families.- 12 Attributions and Apologies in Letters of Complaint to Hospitals and Letters of Response.- 13 Accounts of Intimate Support Relationships in the Early Months of Mothering.- Commentaries.- 14 Richness and Rigor: Advancing the Study of Attributions and Accounts in Close Relationships.- 15 Toward a Deeper Understanding of Close Relationships.- 16 Attributions, Accounts, and Close Relationships: Close Calls and Relational Resolutions.- 17 A Meta-Account.- Author Index.