Attributions Associated with Significant Turning Points in Premarital Relationship Development and Dissolution

摘要: The purpose of this study was to describe attributions about significant changes in involvement level during the course permarital relationship development and dissolution. Retrospective Interview Technique (RIT) (Fitzgerald & Surra, 1981) employed reconstruct, for 100 individuals, history serious, heterosexual, romantic relationships that had dissolved within last twelve months. average length such 15.70 In all, 1,988 were made concerning 797 turning points these relationships. broke down as follows: 43 percent dyadic, 30 individual, 15 network, 12 circumstantial. Chi-square tests conducted test whether distribution four types varied a function (1) stage relationship, (2) sign magnitude change (3) gender (4) initiator breakup relationship. Results indicate differences ...