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Social scientists from various disciplines have been increasingly concerned with the nature, structure, and function of close relationships. Although most of the early work on the topic of close relationships drew attention to the development of close relationships, since the mid-1970s researchers have begun to investigate the many different aspects connected to the loss of close relationships. Despite the change to a more comprehensive conceptual framework, close relationship research is often criticized for being atheoretical; the research is criticized for being purely descriptive in...

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 documents attributional and accounts approaches to the study of close relationships. Issues of focus include communication pro- blems in marriage and their relationship with causal attri- butions; marital violence and its relationship with early learning experience; ego-defensive attribution and excuse- making in couples and with respect to medical problems; and attributions about transitions in relationships.