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Relationship Maintenance Strategies and Dialectical Contradictions in Personal Relationships

1993; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 10; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/026540759301000204

1460-3608

Leslie A. Baxter, Eric Pierre Simon,

Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

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.