Relational Transitions: The Evolution of Personal Relationships

ISBN-13: 9780275935238 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 208 str.

Richard L. Conville

Opis

Richard Conville tackles the problem of how to think about the process nature of communication in personal relationships by moving beyond stage models of relational development and proposing a helical model which depicts a four-phase strucutre of transition between relational stages. The model is based on Difference developed as a theoretical concept, and on the structural analysis of relational partners' narratives of their transition experiences. Conville's perspective offers both a conceptual and a methodological alternative to current work in relationship development. Though its focus is ostensibly a narrow slice of the human communication field, its principles can be applied to other communications contexts successfully.