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Chapter 9

Chapter 9. Communication in Personal Relationships. Defining Personal Relationships. Unique commitments between irreplaceable individuals who are influenced by relational dialectics, rules, and surrounding contexts . Uniqueness.

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Chapter 9

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  1. Chapter 9 Communication in Personal Relationships

  2. Defining Personal Relationships • Unique commitments between irreplaceable individuals who are influenced by relational dialectics, rules, and surrounding contexts

  3. Uniqueness • Particular people—who they are and what they think, feel and do—define the value of the communication

  4. Commitment • A decision to remain in the relationship • Passion • intense positive feelings and desires • Investments • material (money, possessions), time, energy, thought, feelings

  5. Relationship Rules • Constitutive rules • the meaning of various types of communication • Regulative rules • specify when and with whom to engage in various kinds of communication

  6. Contexts • Neighborhoods, social circles, family units, and society as a whole • Changes in society and social norms • Technological advances

  7. Relational Dialectics • Opposing and continual tensions in personal relationships • autonomy/connection • novelty/predictability • openness/closedness

  8. Managing Dialectics • Neutralization • negotiate a balance • Separation • one need favored and the other ignored • Segmentation • assign each need to certain spheres, issues, activities, or times • Reframing • define apparently contradictory needs as not really in opposition

  9. Stages of Friendship

  10. Friendships • Role-limited interaction • Friendly relations • Movement toward friendship • Nascent friendship • Stabilized friendship • Waning friendship

  11. Typical Evolution of Romantic Relationships

  12. Escalation • Independence • Inviting • Exploring • Intensifying • Revising • Commitment

  13. Navigation • Communicating to sustain intimacy in the face of changes in oneself and one’s partner, the relationship, and surrounding contexts • relational culture

  14. Deterioration Processes • Intrapsychic • Dyadic • Social support • Grave dressing • Resurrection

  15. Challenges in Personal Relationships • Adapting to diverse communication styles • Dealing with distance • Creating equitable romantic relationships • psychological responsibility • Negotiating safer sex

  16. Challenges (cont’d) • Resisting violence and abuse between intimates The Cycle of Abuse

  17. Websites • Online Friendship Formation, Communication Channels, and Social Closeness • Maria Krysan and Mick P. Couper (March 2006)International Journal of Internet Science • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships(abstracts) • Family Violence Prevention Fund • World Health Organization

  18. More Websites • National Sex Violence Resource Center • Abuse.com • A comprehensive guide to resources for dealing with various types of abuse and prevention thereof

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