Attributions, Accounts, and Close Relationships [Paperback]

ATTRIBUTIONS, ACCOUNTS AND CLOSE RELATIONSHPIS documentsattributional and accounts approaches to the study of closerelationships. Issues of focus include communication pro-blems in marriage and their relationship with causal attri-butions; marital violence and its relationship with earlylearning experience; ego-defensive attribution and excuse-making in couples and with respect to medical problems; andattributions about transitions in relationships.ATTRIBUTIONS, ACCOUNTS AND CLOSE RELATIONSHPIS documentsattributional and accounts approaches to the study of closerelationships. Issues of focus include communication pro-blems in marriage and their relationship with causal attri-butions; marital violence and its relationship with earlylearning experience; ego-defensive attribution and excuse-making in couples and with respect to medical problems; andattributions about transitions in relationships.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 Dont 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 Inl3K