Relationship Maintenance Strategies and Dialectical Contradictions in Personal Relationships
- 1 May 1993
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
- Vol. 10 (2) , 225-242
- https://doi.org/10.1177/026540759301000204
Abstract
This questionnaire study of both partners from 162 romantic and marital relationships sought to examine perceived partner maintenance strategies as correlates of participant satisfaction for relationships at varying dialectical moments of the autonomy-connection, predictability-novelty and openness-closedness contradictions. The perceived partner maintenance strategies of contact, romance and avoidance varied in efficacy depending on the particular dialectical conditions of the relationship, especially among male participants.Keywords
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