1st Edition
Communicating Interpersonal Conflict in Close Relationships Contexts, Challenges, and Opportunities
Communicating Interpersonal Conflict in Close Relationships: Contexts, Challenges, and Opportunities provides a state-of-the-art review of research on conflict in close personal relationships. This volume brings together both seasoned and new voices in communication research to address the challenges in evaluating conflict. Contributors review the current state of research on themes related to power, serial arguments, interpersonal and family dynamics, physiological processes, and mechanisms of forgiveness by presenting theoretical reviews, original unpublished data-driven research, and discussions about the methodological challenges and opportunities in studying interpersonal conflict.
An essential resource for graduate students and faculty interested in interpersonal conflict in close relationships between romantic partners, families, or friends, this volume is intended for advanced coursework and individual study in communication, social psychology, and close relationship scholarship.
Introduction: Jennifer A. Samp
Section 1: Influences on Conflict Processes in Close Relationships
- Cognitive and Physiological Systems Linking Childhood Exposure to Family Verbal
- There is Nothing as Calming as a Good Theory: How a Soulmate Theory Helps Individuals Experience Less Demand/Withdraw and Stress
- Communication with Heterosexual Partners about Sexual Discrepancies: Conflict Avoidance, De-escalation Strategies, Facilitators to Conversation
- The Connections between Communication Technologies and Relational Conflict: A Multiple Goals and Communication Interdependence Perspective
- Power in Close Relationships: A Dyadic Power Theory Perspective
- Complaint Expression in Close Relationships: A Dependence Power Perspective
- Serial Arguments in Interpersonal Relationships: Public versus Personal arguments
- Romantic Serial Argument Perceived Resolvability, Goals, Rumination, and Conflict Strategy Usage: A Preliminary Longitudinal Study
Aggression and Reactions to Conflict in Adulthood
Lindsey S. Aloia & Denise Haunani Solomon
Courtney Waite Miller, Rachel Reznik, & Michael E. Roloff
Moon Sook Son, Lynne Webb, & Trish Amason
John P. Caughlin, Erin D. Basinger, & Lissel L. Sharabi
Section 2: Power and Conflict in Close Relationships
Norah E. Dunbar, Brianna L. Lane, & Gordon Abra
Timothy R. Worley
Section 3: Conflict as an Ongoing Process
Ioana Cionea & Amy Janan Johnson
Jennifer Bevan, Megan Cummings, Makenna Engert, & Lisa Sparks
9. Worth Fighting For: The Causes, Correlates, and Consequences of Avoiding versus Enacting Domestic Labor Conflict
Kendra Knight & Jess K. Alberts
Section 4: Conflict in Families
- Demand and Withdraw Behavior and Emotion in Mother-Adolescent Conflict
Christin E. Huggins, Melissa Sturge-Apple, & Patrick T. Davies
11. The Role of Perception in Interparental Conflict
Tamara D. Afifi, Shardé Davis, Anne F. Merrill and Sam Coveleski
- Family Conflict is Detrimental to Physical and Mental Health
Chris Segrin & Jeanne Flora
Section 5: Forgiveness as Part of Interpersonal Conflict
13. Forgiveness Following Conflict: What It Is, Why It Happens, and How It’s Done
Andrew J. Merolla
14. Expressing and Suppressing Conditional Forgiveness in Serious Romantic Relationships
Dayna N. Kloeber & Vincent R. Waldron
Biography
Jennifer A. Samp is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia, USA.
