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INTERNATIONAL NETWORK NEWSLETTER NUMBER 15 JUNE 1991 ======

ABSTRACT

Thanks are expressed to the Gang of Three who so successfully organized the Network's conference in Normal in May....announcement is made of the next Network Graduate Workshop and the next Network International Conference in Milwaukee in 1993 the recipients of the Network's initiative to support graduate student travel are recognized....the procedures for the next Network Dissertation Award are announced....The Committee on the Future of the Network reports on its proposals, along with progress report on the talks on the proposed merger with ISSPR .. a new feature of the Newsletters is announced .... a copy of the program for the Normal conference is included in case those who missed the conference would like to benefit by contacting authors of papers

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: IT IS TIME TO RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP. NOTE THAT YOU CAN GET A DISCOUNT BY RENEWING BEFORE SEPTEMBER 30TH

THE "NORMAL" CONFERENCE The Normal conference was, from start to finish, a thoroughly well-organized, thoroughly stimulating and thoroughly enjoyable affair with a wonderful atmosphere free from all rancor and strife! Sound too good to be true? Well, if you were not there then ask someone who was and if you were, you probably have already told others. As was put at the very end of the conference, to acclamation by the audience, this "was the best such conference there has ever been". The Network is very grateful to the conference organizers, Bill Cupach, Sandra Metts, and Sue Sprecher, and to their institution, Illinois State University, for its supportiveness. Those of you who missed the conference but want to know about the papers there can turn to the end of this INN for a draft of the program. Another Network innovation!

GRADUATE TRAVEL AWARDS Although the Network's innovations and initiatives are almost as innumerable as the sands of the Nile, one of the most important was the initiation of travel awards to support graduate students' participation in conferences. At the conference in Normal the following graduate student members of the Network were rewarded "for simultaneous excellence and poverty" with a Network Travel Award: Rosalie Croghan (UK), Diane Holmberg (Canada) and Pam Yankeelov (USA). Congratulations!

NEXT NETWORK GRADUATE WORKSHOP As usual in the "off" (conference) years, the Network is holding a graduate workshop in May of 1992. The theme is "Studying Romantic Relationships" and the Distinguished Speakers are Dan Canary, Rod Cate, Susan Hendrick, and Sandra Metts. The Workshop will take place in Iowa City May 15-17. Usually some 50 graduates from around the world attend these workshops and you are encouraged to bring it to the attention of students. Those wishing further details should contact Melanie Barnes, Chair, International Network's Graduate Workshop, Communication Studies, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City. IA 52242, USA. As you will know, these workshops are a unique Network initiative in the field and provide a great opportunity for students to get to know not only one another, but also famous speakers and others in the field, in the traditionally enjoyable atmosphere of all Network events. Fees are geared not to graduate IQ, but to graduate income and will be less than $100 for the full weekend including accommodation and meals.

DISSERTATION AWARD The Network has created an Annual Dissertation Award, as you will know, dating back to 1987. On the recommendation of the past committee on the Dissertation Award, there will be a change to procedure this time around. No award will be made at this time for the current year. Instead the award for dissertations completed in 1991 will be made in mid-1992, and judgements will be made on the basis of a paper derived from the dissertation. The reasons for this are pragmatic. If we judge dissertations then they have to be ready and they have to be read. This means that those people who complete dissertations towards the end of a year are rushed to get the dissertation into the judgement and it also means that the committee has to read huge amounts of material. In the past we have solved this by asking for abstracts only, which solves the second problem but not the first; yet some people write good complex theses with abstracts that do not reflect that so well. If we ask for journal-paper length submissions drawn from the dissertation then it make the task easier for the committee and more comparable for the candidates, as well as, incidentally, encouraging the candidates to develop skills of conciseness in reporting. This procedure also makes it more likely that non-USA dissertators can be considered since the style of European dissertations, for example, renders them unsuitable for submission under the previous arrangements. If we interpose a lag time after the end of the relevant Dissertation Year then every candidate should have a good chance to do the necessary paper as carefully as he or she would like.

COMMITTEE ON THE FUTURE Feedback from members The committee sought and received feedback form members on a number of issues, ranging from problems on non- USA people paying their dues in US dollars, to the form of the Dissertation awards, to the prospects of a merger with ISSPR. Issues of organization of mini-conferences and workshops were considered. A list of resulting actions taking to improve things follows. Resulting actions of Committee's discussions Changes to dissertation awards structure to permit consideration of European style theses. See announcement on new procedures Cosponsoring events with other groups The Network's Committee on the Future wisely suggests that the Network support mini-conferences and workshops that are organized locally (especially in countries other than the USA) to bring together workers from different disciplines. If you have plans for such events please say so and the Network can talk to you about them. Also the Network is interested in setting up links with other groups so that we can co-sponsor sessions at other conferences. If you have ideas on this then please get in touch. The Network co-sponsored a "Rising Stars" panel at the International Communication Association Conference in Chicago in May. Papers were presented by 4 graduate students: Kathy Werking (on cross-sex non-romantic friendships); Laurie Haag (on the functions and effects of the first statement of "I love you" on heterosexual and lesbian relationships); Susan Harriman McDaniel (on the nature and functions of family celebration rituals); and Kris Pond (on discursive remembering). This joint sponsorship was the second such arrangement with ICA (the first was in Dublin in 1990). If members would like to set up such co-sponsorships with other professional groups please let me know and we will see what can be done. Fee payment for non US Members The feedback from non-US members indicated that the Network could be doing more for non-US members, one element of which concerns the inconvenience of paying in dollars for the membership package, given the high costs of banking arrangements to transfer funds. Non-US members may continue to pay in dollars if they wish, but may also pay in local currency using the method described on the back of the new membership form. We hope this helps.

Proposal from ISSPR to merge with Network The six person Committee reviewed the extra materials produced by their second procedure to elicit members' views and the feedback received by committee members direct from their personal contacts with individual members, in addition to the questionnaire that the Network has previously used to assess general trends of member opinion on the matter of the merger proposed by ISSPR. The committee noted that ISSPR has not yet polled its members at all, and this was a cause for concern in view of the importance of the matter and the "message" that it sends the Network about likely process if a merger were to occur. The Network's second polling yielded results similar to those previously, in terms of specifics, but also evidenced a slight shift away from the desire to merge -- or rather a reaction to the fear of being taken over by a smaller group that happens to have a constitution. The committee reviewed the feedback from members and also looked at some comparative researched information that members may like to consider. In some people's minds the error persists that one group is "international" and the other is "local". In fact both are international and the International Network has members from 21 countries. The committee also considered the claim that the merger would strengthen the field by producing a much bigger and stronger body to represent it. This would be true if the two groups were not already a large degree of overlap composed of some of essentially the same people. The Network has over 600 recently paid up members (members are dropped if they do not renew for two years, so the Directory enclosed with this INN has dropped people who did not renew after paying for 1988-9) while ISSPR claimed around 300 in the 1990 Directory. However, membership in ISSPR lapses only after failure to renew for two payment periods of two years. The 1990 ISSPR Directory thus legitimately contains the names of people who have not paid since 1984-6. In checking the ISSPR Directory and from evidence of recent mailings returned to the Network by the Post Office, it is evident that the 1990 ISSPR Directory is unreliable and some people have not lived at their listed addresses for at least four years. In the past a number of people have been listed twice. After correcting for these errors, it seems that the nub of people in-ISSPR-but-not-already-in-the-Network amounts to somewhere in the region of 60-70 people. Thus the merger would not add to the Network anything much above the Network's annual increase in size, although it would obviously benefit ISSPR substantially (by giving it some 400 members). The Committee also compared the package of benefits offered by the Network and ISSPR. Whereas the Network has taken many initiatives to establish graduate workshops, support for graduate travel, special rates for journal subscriptions, discounts from publishers, an annual directory, quarterly newsletters, specially negotiated discounts on back issues of JSPR and an increase in fees that has never exceeded 8% (ISSPR fees were hiked 100% last July), the picture at ISSPR is somewhat different. Members who are in ISSPR will know that the ISSPR package is less impressive and less frequent. As one respondent noted " I was also struck by the absence of comments [in the Network's opinion questionnaire returns] about what ISSPR offers its members. As a member of that organization I only recall receiving an occasional newsletter and conference announcement. What else does ISSPR do?". Clearly Network members need absoulte assurances that their benefit package will not be reduced or spoiled by a merger. Strong views were expressed about the differences in interdisciplinary "feel" to the two organizations and the Committee insisted that it be a high priority for any new association of the two present groups to be structurally interdisciplinary, with enforced rotation of Presidencies between disciplines and that this general tendency be encouraged at all levels in any group representing this field. The committee was especially concerned that strong evidence of disciplinary openness, especially in members of any future Publications Boards, be built into the whole enterprise. There were mixed reactions about the advantages and disadvantages of adding a constitution to the Network since one of the main advantages that people see in the present structure is the lack of "politics" so prevalent in ISSPR. Several members had made the point in feedback that the Network does not LOOK like a democracy but actually involves more members in committees than does ISSPR, while ISSPR appears to be democratic but is actually controlled by a small clique not only from the same narrow discipline but within that, from an even smaller group within the discipline -- indeed the list of presidents bears a significant correlation with the list of authors in the Kelley 1983 book not only in name but also in sequence!! [Members are referred to INN13 for several detailed comments along these lines from individual members. SD] On the other side of the issue there is concern about the future and stability of the Network. The committee discussed the possibility of polling members about setting up a more formal framework within the Network as it exists at the moment, independently of the merger talks. In some ways this may be a necessary procedure anyway if the merger talks proceed, so that there exist democratic procedures for conducting any interim arrangements that may be necessary to bring the two groups together -- if that is ultimately what members say they want. In any case the committee suggested a further membership poll on the issues that face us, and the setting up of some criterion for proceeding (e.g. a two-thirds majority). Another point that was suggested was that some of the present work of running the Network be devolved upon others who would like to become involved. Steve Duck had assured the Committee that it would not be a problem to continue the trend that has already happened with, for example conference organisation, workshop organisation, award committees, and the committee on the future. It was agreed that it is important to ensure that the future of the Network does not depend upon only one person's willingness to take on the work, and Steve Duck assured the committee that there would be no problem in spreading the work around [believe me there would be no problem! SD] if people want to help. [See below announcement on the Newsletters, for example. SD]. The committee considered other issues to do with the constituency that might vote on the merger and discussed how we deal with the fact that some people are apparently members of both organizations. It was agreed to repeat the request to ISSPR for an updated membership list so that this could be checked [This request has been made, but the list has not yet been released. In the final analysis there are other ways around the problem if the list is not supplied. SD] It was finally proposed that various options be put to members at some point and that every attempt be made by the Network to ensure that the real feelings of the majority of members about the continuance of the Network be thoroughly assessed. If choices about the merger are to be made, it was stressed by the committee that the Network should encourage options to be placed in such a constructive framework that people are not put in the position of having to vote for "The ISSPR position" or the "Network position". Some discussion of timetabling of all this was also held and the Committee once again reemphasized the importance of all members taking a position on this issue and making it known. [More information on all of this will be provided as it becomes available. SD] ****======****

TEACHING COURSES ON RELATIONSHIPS. A new feature in the Newsletter Following her leadership of a very successful Roundtable on Teaching at the Normal Conference, Ann Weber has volunteered to run a regular section in future Newsletters concerning teaching of relationships courses. If you have ideas, topics, thoughts, proposals, queries, hints, tips, requests, and suggestions ..... then write or call Ann (Psychology Department, University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC 28804-3299 Phone: 704-251-6423). Exam Question Help. Kathryn Dindia is looking for Network members who use Relating to Others as a teaching text and who would be willing to exchange exam questions on that text. Please write to her (Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin, PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201) if you are interested in this exchange. What A Good Idea. The above idea might be useful for Network members using other texts. If you are interested in trying other people's questions on relational texts in exchange for your own, please write to Ann Weber or myself and let us know the text involved.

WELCOME to the following new members Marianne DAINTON, Beth C. EMERY, Tara EMMERS, Manfred HASSEBRAUCK, Ronald G. KESSLER, Laurie KRAMER, Douglas LEBER, Timothy R. LEVINE, Linda PLEDGER, Jim QUERY, Jr., Elisabeth REISENZEIN, Constantine SEDIKIDES, Steve WILSON. Enjoy the Network!!

....who use the following techniques Beth C. EMERY Conflict Tactics Scale Laurie KRAMER, Observations of sibling, parent-child & peer interaction. Manfred HASSEBRAUCK, DAS, RAS Jim QUERY, Jr., SSQ, BDT, CCSI use the instruments w/older adults Elisabeth REISENZEIN, Sonet-Questionnaire (social network and social support quest developed by our research team)

...have the following interests Marianne DAINTON Physical affection in relational maintenance; predictors of love,liking and satisfaction. Beth C. EMERY Currently studying the dynamics of the violent dating relationship and the influence of less severe violence on the relationship. Manfred HASSEBRAUCK Lay conceptions of relationship quality, inequity and satisfaction. Ronald G. KESSLER Depression in married couples. Laurie KRAMER Understanding the early development of sibling relationships, and how these relationships are influenced by relationships with others. Douglas LEBER Investigating the role(s) of marital interaction processes as mediators of the effects of personality on marital satisfaction and stability. Timothy R. LEVINE Relational deception and compliance gaining Jim QUERY, Jr. My research examines communication competence, social support, and health outcomes across life transitions and crises. Elisabeth REISENZEIN Doctoral thesis on social networks of Californians and Austrians (A comparison study). Constantine SEDIKIDES Effects of romantic relationships on the self-concept. Steve WILSON The role of attributions for unfulfilled objectives in relationships. ...and published the following works Manfred HASSEBRAUCK, Hassebrauck, M. (1990).Who looks for whom? Zeitschrift F. Social Psychologies, 21, 101. Hassebrauck, M. (1990).Similarity and marital adjustment. Zeitschrift F. Sozial Psychologie, 21, 265-273. Hassebrauck, M. (1987).Misattributions and reactions to inequity. Europ J of Soc Psychology, 17, 295-304. Laurie KRAMER Kramer, Laurie (under review).Becoming a sibling:With a little help from my friends. Kramer, L., Katz, L., & Gottman, J.M. (in press).Conflict styles and emotions in marital, sibling & peer relationships. In C. Shantz & W.W. Hartup (Eds..), Conflict in Child & Adol Development. Timothy R. LEVINE LEVINE, T.R., & MCCORNACK, S.A. (1991). Linking love and lies: A formal test of McCornack and Parks' model of deception detection. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (in press). LEVINE, T.R., & MCCORNACK, S.A. (1991). The dark side of trust: Conceptualizing and measuring types of communicative suspicion. Communication Quarterly, 39, 1-16 (in press). LEVINE, T.R., & McCroskey, J.C. (1990). Measuring trait communication apprehension: A test of rival measurement models of the PRCA-24. Communication Monographs, 57, 62-72. LEVINE, T.R., & Wheeless, L.R. (199). Cross-situational consistency and use-nonuse tendencies in compliance- gaining tactic selections. The Southern Communication Journal, 56, 1-11. MCCORNACK, S.A., & LEVINE, T.R. (1990a). When lies are discovered: Emotional and relational outcomes of discovered deception. Communication Monographs, 57, 119-138. MCCORNACK, S.A., & LEVINE, T.R. (1990b). When lovers become leery: The relationship between suspicion and accuracy in detecting deception. Communication Monographs, 57. Jim QUERY, Jr. Query, J. (2nd author).Health communication and interpersonal competence (1990 Ch in 75th anniv book). Query, J. (1989).The relationship between interp. com. comp & soc support among elderly support groups. Health Communication 3, 165-184. Query, J. (1989).Alzheimer's disease and dementia.In B. Dreher & J. Alter.... Steve WILSON Wilson, S. (1990).A cognitive rules model of interactive Goals. Communication Monographs. Wilson, S. (1990).Interaction goals in negotiation. Communication Yearbook, 14. Welcome!

NEWS OF MEMBERS Deaths JOHN BERG. Members will be saddened to learn of the death of John H. Berg at the age of 39. He was born on May 5 1952 and died on May 20 1991 of kidney failure at his home in Oxford, Mississippi. He had been suffering from Multiple Sclerosis for many years. He was an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Mississippi and was on the advisory boards of three journals. He was a familiar sight at the Network Conferences where all too apparent was the tragic paradox of his energetic mind in a body confined to a wheelchair. I have never seen anyone give such clear and coherent talks, full of insights and lively ideas, yet given without notes. His work with such colleagues as Peggy Clark, Val Derlega, Susan Hendrick, Anne Peplau, Kelly Piner, Lynn Miller and Richard Archer was already marking him as a major contributor to the field of research on personal relationships and we mourn the loss of a colleague who both stimulated and enriched our thinking. Network members who have particular memories about John that they would like to share with his closest relatives may like to write to his mother at 1728 Hoyt Avenue, Aurora, IL 60506. PHILIP BLUMSTEIN. Members will also be saddened to learn of the death of Phil Blumstein whose work on American Couples, with Pepper Schwartz, was such a landmark in the field.

MEMBERS ON THE MOVE LINDA ACITELLI is moving to the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor TERRANCE L. ALBRECHT is moving to a position at Department of Communication, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620. NIALL BOLGER is moving to become an Assistant Professor in the Social Psychology and Personality Program at NYU. KELLY BRENNAN is moving to take a position as Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. GERALDINE DOWNEY is moving to become an Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology at Columbia University. SCOTT FELD has recently accepted a position as Full Professor in the Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803. JULIE FITNESS will be moving to a position at the School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia. DEBORAH KASHY has taken a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Texas A&M. GREGORY R. PIERCE is moving to a position at Psychology Department, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 13323. KRIS POND has been appointed an Assistant Professor at the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Art, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN 56562. ABRAN SALAZAR has taken a post as Assistant Professor at Department of Speech Communication & Theatre Arts, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843. DIRK SCHEERHORN has accepted a position in the Department of Communication at Ohio State University, Columbus, OH beginning in the Fall. JILL SUITOR has recently accepted a position as Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803. ANITA VANGELISTI has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Dept of Speech Communication, University of Texas, Austin, TX. PENNY YEE is moving to a position at Psychology Department, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 13323.

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS FOR NETWORK MEMBERS JAMES APPLEGATE, University of Kentucky, received the 1991 National Faculty Service Award from the National University Continuing Education Association (made up of 400 universities). The award is given for outstanding contributions to continuing education in higher education. HANS BIERHOFF received a grant of appr. DM 160,000 from the German NSF (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) for studies on friendship and love relationships. This research project will start in September. STEVE DUCK was awarded a presentation clock at the Network Conference in Normal. The inscription reads: "To Steve Duck for your time and dedication to INPR". GARTH FLETCHER won the Hunter Award for Research Excellence given once every two years by the N.Z. Psychological Association (for 1991). This award is named after Sir Thomas Hunter who established the first psychological laboratory in New Zealand in 1908. ANDY LOCK has taken the Chair at Department of Psychology, Massey University in New Zealand and been promoted to Full Professor. PAUL MONGEAU won a Central States Communication Association Outstanding Young Teacher Award for 1991. SALLY PLANALP was granted Tenure and Promotion at University of Colorado Boulder.

Publications of members Montada, L., & BIERHOFF, H.W. (Eds.) (1991). Altruism in Social Systems. Lewiston, NY: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers. DILLARD, J.P. (Ed) (1990). Seeking Compliance: The Production of Interpersonal Influence Messages. Scottsdale, AZ: Gorsuch-Scaresbrick. Judy C. PEARSON, Ohio University, was a guest on CBS This Morning on Valentines Day, 1991. She was interviewed by Mark McEwen about her upcoming book, Lasting Love: How Couples Keep Marriages Together. The book became available in May and is published by the William C. Brown Company.

======CALL FOR PAPERS Summer, 1992 Special Issue of the Western Journal of Speech Communication Guest Editor: Leslie A. Baxter, Communication Diversity in Personal Relationships ["Relational Heteroglossia"] This issue offers scholars the opportunity to broaden and develop approaches to research and theory in communication and personal relationships. For example, previous research has been dominated by a fairly narrow band of communicative forms and functions, such as self-disclosure, but there are others that have hitherto received less attention. Personal relationships research has also been dominated by the study of communicative acts of individuals, to the relative neglect of communication events jointly enacted by relationship parties, yet recently researchers have begun to question and improve upon this emphasis. Researchers and theorists have also tended to presume that communication is valued in the same ways from one relationship to another, while recent work has challenged and extended this approach. In borrowing Bakhtin's term "heteroglossia," this Special Issue seeks to celebrate the communicative richness and diversity of personal relationships and to offer scholars a chance to develop and extend their work on relational interaction beyond the above or other previously celebrated themes. Both theoretical and empirical submissions are encouraged which examine communication in personal relationships from new and innovative perspectives, although papers will also be considered that develop and extend existing approaches. Submissions will be refereed. Send four copies of the manuscript, in the editorial style of the journal, no later than AUGUST 1, 1991 to: Leslie A. Baxter, Guest Editor, WJSC, "Summer, 1992 Special Issue", Department of Rhetoric and Communication, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, (Phone: 916-752-1225) ======

JOB OPPORTUNITY DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, MASSEY UNIVERSITY, SENIOR LECTURESHIPS/LECTURESHIPS IN PSYCHOLOGY The Department seeks applications for a number of positions at both Senior Lecturer and Lecturer level. The Department currently offers a wide range of courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels, and specialized graduate programmes in clinical, occupational and rehabilitation psychology, and is seeking to strengthen both the teaching it offers as well as its research base. Applications are invited from people with both research and teaching interests in any of the major areas of contemporary psychology, although we do not anticipate making an appointment that would require a major investment in laboratory-based animal psychology. The Department has particular needs in the following areas, but these should not be seen as a disincentive to applicants who have other specialisms: 1. Critical Social Psychology, especially in the area of gender issues 2. Cognitive Science 3. Clinical/Counselling Psychology, with particular reference to either developmental or rehabilitation issues 4. Developmental Psychology 5. Cross- cultural Psychology or Ethnopsychology Special attention will be given to applicants who are able to contribute to courses on experimental design and data analysis, including multi-variate analysis, in addition to any substantive topic area. Further particulars can be obtained from Professor A. Lock, Department of Psychology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand (e-mail: [email protected]), to whom informal inquiries may also be addressed. Salary Scales are currently: Lecturer NZ$37,440-49,088; Senior Lecturer NZ$52,000-67,080 (Current conversion rate NZ$1 = US$.60: however, the cost of living in New Zealand is quite low by Western nation standards, and it is difficult to get a gauge of the salary value from the currency conversion rate. Adjusted to "notional" values, a conversion NZ$1 = US$.90 gives a more realistic idea of purchasing power within the country.) Closing date: October 31, 1991 ======

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Special Issue 8iii (August 1991) on Family-peer relationships [Edited by Gary W. Ladd] GARY W. LADD.Introduction:Family-peer relations during childhood: Pathways to competence and pathology? Gary W. Ladd, Bureau of Education Research, University of Illinois, 1310 S. 6th Street, Champaign, IL 61820-6990, USA. DEBORAH A. COHN, CHARLOTTE J. PATTERSON, & CHRISTINA CHRISTOPOULOS.The family and children's peer relations. We review research on linkages between the family and children's peer relations including studies of attachment, parent-child relations and the social and economic contexts of family life.Whether based on observations of parent- child relations, teacher reports, parental reports or child reports, the literature has consistently documented connections between the quality of parent-child relationships and peer relations assessed in the school context.In addition, children's experience of stressors such as low income and parental divorce appear to be associated with difficulties in peer relations.Given that such connections would seem to exist, several recommendations for future research are offered, including the adoption of broader perspectives on the family (e.g., to incorporate marital as well as parent-child relations), the expansion of conceptualizations of peer relations (e.g., to include friendships and social networks as well as popularity and behavior) and greater consideration of social contextual factors (e.g., economic and other life circumstances and events) as they influence both the family and peer relations. Deborah A. Cohn, Curry Programs in Clinical and School Psychology, University of Virginia, 147 Ruffner Hall, 405 Emmet Street, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2495, USA. CHARLOTTE J. PATTERSON, NANCY A. VADEN, & JANIS B. KUPERSMIDT.Family background, recent life events and peer rejection during childhood. Although rejection by peers during childhood has been associated with many kinds of adjustment problems, relatively little is known about factors that increase children's vulnerability to peer rejection.In this study, we examined the relations of family background and recent life events to peer status among 949 elementary school children, focusing especially on rejected status.Peer status was assessed using the sociometric methods and techniques for classification described by Coie, et al (1982).Family background variables and life events were assessed by reports of the children's teachers (Study 1) and parents (Study 2).As expected, results showed that children who came from certain family backgrounds and who experienced certain life events were rejected by their peers more often than other children.In particular, chronic family background variables such as low income and acute life stresses such as parental separation or divorce contributed to the probability that a child would be rejected by peers.The probability of rejection by peers was greater for children subjected to relatively high levels of both chronic and acute life stresses. Charlotte J. Patterson, Department of Psychology, Gilmer Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA. CATHRYN L. BOOTH, LINDA ROSE-KRASNOR, & KENNETH H. RUBIN.Relating preschoolers' social competence and their mothers' parenting behaviors to early attachment security and high risk status. Early attachment quality was related to social competence with an unfamiliar peer at age 4, and to maternal management of peer interaction.Subjects were 38 children, 18 insecure and 20 securely attached children at 20 mos.Approximately half of each group was middle-class and half was lower-class, high risk.At age 4, each focal child and an unfamiliar play partner were videotaped during dyadic free play; the mother and the two children were videotaped building a house out of Duplo blocks. Behaviors of the mother and the focal child were coded using a social problem solving framework.Results indicated that mothers of insecurely attached children were more adult-centered and less likely to use questions to meet their goals than were mothers of securely attached children.High risk mothers were more adult-centered and more likely to use coercive, power assertive strategies than middle-class mothers.Four- year-old children who were insecurely attached as toddlers were more aggressive and their social interchanges were more likely to involve negative affect than securely attached children.Attachment x social class interactions suggested diverging maladaptive developmental pathways for insecures from different family environments. Cathryn L. Booth, Child Development and Mental Retardation Center, WJ-10, University of Washington, Seattle, WA98195, USA. GREGORY S. PETTIT, AMANDA W. HARRIST, JOHN E. BATES, & KENNETH A. DODGE. Family interaction, social cognition, and children's subsequent relations. This study examined relations among family interaction qualities and children's social cognitions and subsequent social competence with peers.30 five-year old children (15 boys) and their families were observed in their homes and the children were administered a social cognitive assessment battery during the summer prior to the children's entry into kindergarten. Interactional episodes were coded in terms of the degree of observed parent-child responsiveness, coerciveness, and intrusiveness.Social cognitive measures consisted of self-efficacy and outcome expectations regarding aggressive and competent responding to hypothetical conflicts.Children's subsequent relations with peers in kindergarten were evaluated on the basis of teacher ratings.Social competence with peers was predicted by responsive family interactions and lower self-efficacy scores for both aggressive and competent responding. Aggression with peers was predicted by coercive and intrusive family interactions and higher self-efficacy scores for aggressive responding.Regression analyses suggested that the social cognitive patterns mediated the relation between family interaction and children's social behavior.Implications of these findings are discussed with respect to the role of family interaction patterns in the social transmission of interpersonal style. Gregory S. Pettit, Department of Family and Child Development, Spidle Hall, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA. MARTHA PUTALLAZ, PHILIP R. COSTANZO, & REBECCA B. SMITH.Maternal recollections of childhood peer relationships:Implications for their children's social competence. The relations between mothers' recollections of their childhood peer relationships and their child-rearing intentions, parenting behaviors, and their preschoolers' social competence were examined.Mothers with predominantly anxious/lonely peer recollections appeared to take the most active role in their children's social development and had the most socially competent children as compared to mothers reporting either predominantly positive or negative peer recollections.This pattern of effects was influenced by the sex of the child.Implications of these results for a gender- moderated model of socialization were discussed. Martha Putallaz or Philip Costanzo, Department of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC27706, USA. NAVAZ P. BHAVNAGRI & ROSS D. PARKE.Parents as direct facilitators of children's peer relationships:Effects of age of child and sex of parent. The goal of the study was to examine the impact of parental facilitation on children's play with an unfamiliar peer.Seventy pairs of preschoolers and their parents (mothers and fathers on separate occasions) were videotaped under two conditions in an ABABA design.In one condition, (A) parents were instructed to remain passive, while in a second condition, (B) parents were asked to "help the children play together."Children were rated as higher in social competence with their peers under conditions of parental facilitation than under conditions where parents were passive.Younger preschoolers benefited from parental assistance more than older preschoolers; younger children were less able to maintain peer interaction without parental assistance.There was little evidence that parental supervision facilitated peer interaction among older preschoolers.Fathers and mothers were equally competent facilitators in the lab.Interview data suggest that mothers are more likely to perform this direct facilitatory role in home settings.The implications of the findings for models of family-peer linkage are discussed. Navaz P. Bhavnagri, Department of Education, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI48202, USA. JOHN M. GOTTMAN. Commentary: Finding the roots of children's problems with other children. John M. Gottman, Dept of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195

======JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Contents of Issue 8iv (November 1991) KELLY A. BRENNAN, PHILLIP R. SHAVER, & ANN E. TOBEY.Attachment styles, gender, and parental problem drinking. Kelly A. Brennan, Psychology Department, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA. ROBERT W. MARTIN.Examining personal relationship thinking:The relational cognition complexity instrument. Robert W. Martin, Department of Communication, Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Ft. Wayne, IN 46805, USA. CONSTANCE J. PILKINGTON, ABRAHAM TESSER, & DEBORAH STEPHENS. Complementarity in romantic relationships:A self-evaluation maintenance perspective. Constance J. Pilkington, Department of Psychology, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23185, USA. KAREN J. PRAGER.Intimacy status and couple conflict resolution. Karen J. Prager, School of General Studies, The University of Texas at Dallas, P.O. Box 830688, Richardson, TX 75083-0688, USA. DEBORAH J. TERRY.Stress, coping, and adaptation to new parenthood. Deborah J. Terry, Psychology Department, The University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, AUSTRALIA. DANIELLE JULIEN & HOWARD J. MARKMAN.Social support and social networks as determinants of individual and marital outcomes. Danielle Julien, Department de Psychologie, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, C.P. 8888, Succursale 'A', Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3P8, CANADA. ROBIN GOODWIN.A re-examination of Rusbult's responses to dissatisfaction' typology. Robin Goodwin, Department of Psychology, University of Keele, Keele ST5 5BG, ENGLAND. ======+ ++++++++++++++======

PROGRAM FOR THE "NORMAL" CONFERENCE. If you missed the conference, commiserations. However, here are the titles and authors of the papers presented there, so now you can look up your Wonderful Network Directory and contact the people for fuller versions of papers that interest you. If the authors are not listed there (i.e. if they are not Network members) then I may be able to supply the addresses if you contact me. The most efficient thing for you to do would be to send me the letter of request for information or reprints and I will forward them to the authors. The papers are listed in the order of their presentation. INVITED SPEAKER: JOHN HARVEY "House of Pain and Hope: Accounts of Loss" INVITED SPEAKER: LESLIE BAXTER "Thinking Dialogically About Relationships" INVITED SPEAKER: ROBERT MILARDO "Linking Social Networks and Marital Relationships" Support Seeking and Giving Among Same-Sex Friends, Opposite-Sex Friends, and Romantic Partners: Mary R. Gulley, Anita P. Barbee, & Michael R. Cunningham The Measurement of Reciprocity: A Methodological Evaluation of Sequence Effects of Questions : Theo van Tilburg The Disgrace of Asking for Help: Geoff Leatham The Influence of Communication Avoidance and Network Involvement on Perceived Social Support and Communication Satisfaction: Christie M. Pearson & Peter A. Andersen Symposium: Secondary Analysis of Personal Relations DataÄConvener: Elizabeth L. Paul Using Two National Surveys to See How Spouses View Their Marital Relationships in 1976 and 1986: Linda K. Acitelli & Toni C. Antonucci Using a Swedish Data Set to Study Intergenerational Relationships: Victoria H. Bedford The Community Context of Marital Interaction: Analysis of the National Survey of Family and Households: Patricia H. Dyk & Gary L. Hansen Young Adults' Experiences of Intimacy in Multiple Relationships: Asking New Questions of Existing Data: Elizabeth L. Paul On Public Display of Private Intimacy: An Analysis of Valentine's Day Messages: Steve Duck, Kris Pond, & Sara Schnittjer Interpersonal Relationships in Popular Women's Magazines: Dating and Relating in the 1970's and 1980's: Diane Prusank, Robert L. Duran, & Dena A. Detillo How to Get a Man and Other Advice: Articulation of the Rhetorical Visions Present in Popular Women's Magazines From 1974-1989: Julie Megli & Lauren Morgan `Getting His Feet Wet II': Ritual Communication and Gender Socialization at Wedding and Baby Showers: Dawn O. Braithwaite Mediated Friendships: An Empirical Study of Parasocial Relations: Carol A. Cortez Professional, Marital and Parental Well-Being as Related to Perceptions of Marital Equity in Dual-Career Couples: Margie J. S. Geasler Equity, Normative Disapproval and Extramarital Relationships: Karin S. Prins, Bram P. Buunk, & Nico W. VanYperen The Impact of the Comparison Level on Evaluations of Satisfaction and Alternatives in Romantic Involvements: Gregory D. Morrow & Jeffrey S. Berman Physical Attractiveness and Courtship Progress: Gillian Stevens, Kristian May, & Sandy Kraegel The "Grass May Be Greener" Elsewhere, but Happy Gardeners are Less Likely to Notice: Relationship Satisfaction and Attention to Alternatives: Rowland Miller & Jeffry A. Simpson Motivational Structures of Types of Unrequited Love: Arthur Aron & Elaine N. Aron Experimentally Induced Closeness, Ego Identity, and the Opportunity to Say No: Arthur Aron, Elaine Aron, Edward Melinat, & Robert Vallone Measuring Perceived Mutuality in Close Relationships: Nancy Genero, Jean Baker Miller, Janet Surrey, & Lawrence Baldwin Assessing Close Relationship Beliefs: Garth Fletcher & Leah Kininmonth The Effect of Participants' Sex, Level of Relationship and Topic on Self-Disclosure: Mary A. Banski & Kathryn Dindia Disclosure of Marital Problems to Outsiders: An Interactional Analysis: Danielle Julien, Howard J. Markman, Elise Chartrand, & Sophie Levielle Issues of Deception in Dating Relationships: James Tolhuizen Effects of Personal and Partner Expectations on the Emotional and Relational Consequences of Deceptive and Truthful Behavior in Romantic Relationships: Perri B. Druen, Michael R. Cunningham, & Anita P. Barbee INVITED SPEAKER: BRAM BUUNK "Social Comparison and Social Exchange in Relationships" INVITED SPEAKER: Rosemary Blieszner: "Trends and Future Directions in Adult Friendship Research"Methods Used in Studying Relationship Loss Symposium on Relationship Loss; Convened by Terri Orbuch Broken Attachments: Relationship Loss from the Perspective of Attachment Theory: Cindy Hazan & Phillip Shaver Developmental Perspectives on Relationship Loss: Rosemary Blieszner & Jay A. Mancini Developmental and Clinical Perspectives on Children's Explanations for Their Parents' Divorce: John H. Grych & Frank D. Fincham The Account-Making Process: A Phenomenological Approach: Ann L. Weber A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to the Study of Relationship Loss: Terri L. Orbuch Perceptions of Social Support in Older Married Couples: Linda K. Acitelli & Toni C. Antonucci Communication In and About Friendships: A Comparison of Children & Adults: Julie Yingling The Meaning and Measurement of Intimacy Within Elderly Friendship Relationships: Jon F. Nussbaum, Lorraine Bettini, Brian Patterson, & M. Laurie Norton Love Styles in Long-Term Relationships: Steve DePaola & Robert A. Neimeyer Perceptions of Females Who Initiate Dates: Differences Due to Sex and Request Types: Paul A. Mongeau, Jerold L. Hale, & Jacqueline Hillis Flirting Behavior: More than Just Impression Management: Todd Ostler, Ginny McBride, & Deborah Davis Impact of Gender Compliance on Exchange of Love and Status in Dating Relationships: Stanley O. Gaines 'Who's Touching Whom?' Attributions of Sexual Interest: Judy C. Pearson (Presented by Daniel Canary) Symposium: Psychotherapy as a Personal Relationship-Conveners: Valerian Derlega & Barbara Winstead Psychotherapy as a Personal Relationship: An Introduction: Barbara A. Winstead A Social Exchange Analysis of Satisfaction and Commitment in Psychotherapy: Valerian Derlega Therapist-Client Attraction: Susan S. Hendrick Therapist and Client Responsiveness: John. H. Berg Discussants: John Harvey and Dan Perlman Gender and Same-Sex Friendships in Australia and the United States: Barbara Bank Gender Differences in Same-Sex Friendships: Do Quantitative Effects Have Qualitative Implications?: David F. Lopez, Suzanne E. Carrell, & Roxanne Cohen-Silver Friendship Types, Gender Differences, and Pair Symmetry Effects: Thomas O. Blank Meanings of Intimacy in Cross and Same-Sex Friendships: Michael Monsour Social Cognitive and Communicative Correlates of Individual Differences in Friendship Definition: Greg B. Leichty INVITED SPEAKER: PEPPER SCHWARTZ "What's Sex Got To Do With It?" ROUND TABLES: Cross-Sex Friendship: An Ignored Personal Relationship. Don O'Meara The ADF-C3: A Multivariate Approach to Measuring Codependency. Paul H. Wright & Katherine D. Wright Teaching About Close Relationships. Ann L. Weber Understanding Perceived Social Support: An Application of Marital Satisfaction Theory and Research. Tamara Fuller & Frank Fincham Planning the ISSPR 1992 Conference. Keith Davis & ISSPR Planning Committee Members INVITED SPEAKER: RODNEY CATE "Relationship Thinking: A Measure and Some Initial Studies" INVITED SPEAKER: CARYL RUSBULT "Maintaining Close Relationships" Maintenance Strategies III: Locus of Control and Equity in the Maintenance of Personal Relationships: Daniel J. Canary & Laura Stafford Marital Satisfaction and Self-Disclosure to Spouses and Same-Sex Friends: Melanie K. Barnes Intimacy Status and Couple Conflict Resolution: Karen J. Prager Conflict Management and Marital Adjustment of Black and White Middle Class Couples: Judi Beinstein Miller Love Attitudes and Eating Disorder Characteristics: Gender Differences and Similarities: Susan S. Hendrick & Maria Raciti Attachment Styles, Gender, and Parental Problem Drinking: Kelly A. Brennan, Phillip R. Shaver, & Ann E. Tobey Relationship and Achievement Stressors: Sex Differences in Appraisals, Coping and Outcome: Kim E. Rapson & Barbara A. Winstead A Preliminary Report on the IUSB Parent Project: Infant Temperament and Bidirectional Influence in the Family: Gwendolyn Mettetal Felt Obligation: The "Oughts" and "Shoulds" of Ongoing Relationships with Family: Catherine Stein Family Privacy Typology and the Parent-Child Relationship: Sandra Petronio To Come Out or Not To Come Out: A Test of Self-Disclosure Theories Applied to Adolescent-Parent Relationships: Ted Spencer Stability of Social Interaction: John B. Nezlek The Perception of Risk in Intimacy and Experiences in Social Interaction: Constance J. Pilkington & John Nezlek Levels of Analysis of Social Interaction Diaries: Separating the Effects of Person, Partner, Day, and Interaction: Deborah A. Kashy & David A. Kenny Remembering as a Context for Being in Relationships: Different Perspectives on 'The Same' Interaction: Steve Duck, Kris Pond, & Geoff Leatham Perceived Responsibility for Marital Behaviors: Susan K. Gano & Frank D. Fincham Mediators of Personality Effects on Marital Satisfaction: Douglas Leber Stability and Development Change in Marital Quality: A Three-Wave Panel Analysis: David R. Johnson, Teodora O. Amoloza, & Alan Booth The Good Old Days Become the Bad Old Days: Distortions in Early Relationship Memories: Diane Holmberg & Joseph Veroff Predictors of Commitment in Close, Heterosexual Relationships:Processes and Causal Conditions: Phillip C. Garnier Interpersonal Skills as a Mediator of Social Support and Loneliness and Depression: Brian H. Spitzberg Conversational Collaboration and Relational Competence: Scott A. Conover When Tasks Matter to a Friend: Implications for Self-Evaluation Maintenance: Jo Ann Mooney & Allen M. Omoto Attachment Style Differences in Patterns of Explanation, Emotion, and Behavior: Nancy L. Collins INVITED SPEAKER: STEVE DUCK "New Lamps For Old: A New Theory of Relationships (and a Fresh Look at Some Old Research)" Date Rape: A Sexual Script Approach: John Pryor & Lisa Parry Relational Correlates of Premarital Sexual Aggressiveness: F. Scott Christopher, Heidi L. Londen, & Lara A. Owens Conflict and Compliance Tactics Reported by Physically and/or Psychologically Abused Women: Linda L. Marshall The Intolerance for Marital Conflict Scale: Carl A. Ridley Two Important Distinctions in Social Support: Perceived versus Received and Kind of Social Support: Vicki S. Helgeson A Meta-Analytic Review of Coyne's Interactional Theory of Depression: Chris Segrin & James Dillard Dysfunctional Attitudes of Depressed Persons and Their Spouses: Karen J. Prager & Monica R. Basco Situational Characteristics as Predictors of Social Discomfort: Cecilia H. Solano Conversations About Weight Control: An Example of Interpersonal Influence on Individual Behavior: Carol Masheter The Parental Guilt Episode: Daughters' and Sons' Orientations: Thomas J. Socha My Parents Always Give Me Advice: The Gender Differences Found in Advice Giving: Sandra Petronio, Michael Mayer, & Eric Snider Interactive Coping in Romantic Couples: Pamela Yankeelov, Anita P. Barbee, & Michael Cunningham The Application of Hazard Models to the Study of Intimate Relationships: Diane Felmlee A Comparison of Unidimensional and Multidimensional Measures of Marital Quality: Kathryn Dindia The Development and Construct Validation of the Desire for Union Questionnaire: Amy Jaffey Stressful Intimate Experiences in Close Relationships: William E. Snell, Jr., Rickard A. Sebby, & Tonya R. Wente Self-Serving Illusions: Adaptive at an Individual Level, But Maladaptive in Relationships?: Glenn Reeder & Douglas H. Lamb The Influence of Self-Esteem On Uncertainty Reduction and Relationship Satisfaction: Judi Truitt Best or Worst of Two Worlds: A Study of Asian Adolescents: P. A. S. Ghuman Loneliness and Values: Brad Bell Close Relationship Loss Theory: Steve Duck Women's and Men's Friendships With Men and Women: Brian DeVries & Sandra Parker Friendship Communication: A Needs Assessment and a Pedagogical Model: Carol Diesel Gender Differences in Friendship: Correspondence On Relationship Orientation and Closeness: Allen M. Omoto & Jo Ann Mooney Personal Relationships Within the Organization: An Analysis of Black and White Friendship: Prince Dimpka Teachers and Multicultural Students: The Need For Effective Interpersonal Relationships Based on Cultural Knowledge and Congruence: Lissa J. VanBebber Developing Cross-Cultural Cohesion: A Study of Interpersonal Bonding in the Workplace: Larry Long, Manoochehr Javidi, Penelope Long, & Akbar Javidi Condom Use of Sexually Active Late Adolescents and Young Adults: Which Love Attitudes Promote `Safe Sex'?: Marilyn J. Montgomery, G. T. Sorell, & R. E. Martin Initial Attraction as a Function of Adult Attachment Style: Patricia A. Frazier & Anne Byer Centrality of Love Attributes: Developmental Changes and Factor Structure: Lori Westbay & Arthur Aron Valuing and the Concepts of Love and Emotion: Edward E. Rousar III The Stability of Spouses' Attachment Style and Their Partners' Intimacy Over the First Year of Marriage: Marilyn Senchak, Daria Papalia, & Kenneth E. Leonard Predicting Commitment and Trust in Romantic Relationships: Patrick Keelan, Karen Dion, & Kenneth Dion Self-Disclosure Patterns of Depressed and Nondepressed Students: A Microanalytic Approach: John Vitkus To Tell the Truth: An Analysis of Deception Detection Strategies: Pamela Kalbfleisch An Exploration of Immediacy Behaviors in Initial Interaction: What Causes Attraction That Leads to Future Encounters?: John G. Oetzel Putting the Relationship Back into Relational Deception: A Re-conceptualization: Carlos G. Aleman Interpersonal Communication as a Return to Conscious Experience: The Communication Case: James C. Lundy, Jr. Adolescent Women's Definition of Love: How Does It Affect the Messages They Send Men?: Yvonne Kellar Power and the Use of Persuasive Strategies Among Marital Couples: Shu Chu Sarrina Li Parental Satisfaction as a Function of Temperamental Goodness-of-Fit: Diana Streevey-Asher & Saige Swank Accounting for Distress: Mother's Perceptions of Responsibility and Failure in Parenting: Rosaleen Croghan Social Support: Differences Between Alcoholic and Community Comparison Families: Linda Sullivan, Eugene Maguin, Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Robert A. Zucker, & Robert B. Noll Adolescent Communication With Parents and Peers: Who Matters Most?: Anita L. Vangelisti Marital Relationships and Social Networks: Edith Burger & Robert Milardo Attributions for Long-Term Relationships: Valerie Cole Relational Transitions: Richard Conville Types of Interknowledge and Cognitive Interpersonal Behavior: Catalin Mamali Personal Relationships and Leisure Theory: Elery Hamilton-Smith The Integrative Perspective: Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Russell Madden

======The following remarks were made at the closing of the conference in Normal:

Eliminating the Heterosexist Bias in Relationship Research by Ted Spencer Situation: In the course of this weekend's conference, there have been a number of studies focusing on the phenomena of friendship dyads and romantic couples which have defined the composition of the dyad according to the gender of the participants. This use of gender classification introduces a serious source of error or bias in relationship studies, not to mention perpetuating an unfortunate judgement concerning "normal" relationship dyads. Several kinds of research design discriminate according to gender: same-sex vs. opposite sex-friendships; married couple research; cohabiting or dating couple, operationalized as opposite-sex, whereas the actual research questions may focus on: commitment to relationship; attraction as a barrier to or influence on friendship; long-term relationship implications for friends; effects of gender role on dyad combinations; relationship outcomes & mediating variables for romantic partners. Problem: There are problems with limiting the gender composition of dyads in personal relationship research. For one, gender does not completely match or control attraction variables. That is to say, it is not true that attraction exists only in opposite-sex relationship dyads while not existing in same-sex relationship dyads. And marital status does not identify a fully representative sample of household partners: there are many cohabiting couples of every gender combination who are committed, romantic relationship partners. E.g.: Consider same-sex vs. opposite-sex friendships. Consider a research question exploring whether touch behavior varies according to gender composition of dyad. Rather than a one-way ANOVA of touch behavior according to 3 classes of dyad (M-F, M-M, F-F), a more honest & sophisticated question might hypothesize an effect based on attractiveness of partner mediated by sex-role (gender-role) attitudes. Co-incidental problem: Not only do we get confounded or limited research results, but we alienate research subjects. E.g. Consider the young male student who is coming to grips with being attracted to men, not women. He is told to answer questions about the women he has dated in the past year. He feels shame perhaps that he has not been sexually active as college students are supposed to be -- and he doesn't see it as virtuous, either, as many of his Christian friends do. E.g. Consider the lesbian couple just finishing school -- one has majored in psychology and personal relationships, and read all about social support systems for married couples. But she has to "translate" the research to apply it to her own relationship, crossing out half of it because it deals only with "husband" and "wife" roles rather than dealing with task roles, social roles, etc. Suggested remedies: 1. Isolate the theoretical variables in a research question other than gender: attraction; household task roles; gender roles and gender-based attitudes; commitment to relationship; history of cohabitation; history of sexual relationship activity. 2. Remove value judgements from questionnaires: calling instances of nonmonogamy "cheating"; privileging "marriage" as a sign of commitment. 3. Remove normative assumption of heterosexual attraction: replace "member of the opposite sex" with "person whom you find attractive, either male or female" or "person you are attracted to, of either sex". 4. Seek out same-sex couples to include in close relationships: don't assume they are different, requiring a large N for a separate cell (unless you have a theory to predict differences); include qualitative measures that will reveal potential differences for future research 5. Reviewers: reject articles which do not justify the use of gender as relevant variable: theoretical models of gender role effects are defensible, such as demonstrating that male attitudes toward friendship roles are different than female attitudes; allow a 2 year grace period consigning the problem to "limitations" apologies. Benefits: Monitoring our publications in this way will advance our field in three ways: 1. We can gain deeper insight into the true theoretical constructs at work in relationships, not the ones that masquerade as gender effects; 2. We will be intellectually honest about our questions and our findings; 3. We will be inclusive of otherwise disenfranchised students/subjects in our classrooms and our research pools. Personal Remark: I'm not intending to be a researcher on gay and lesbian relationships (there aren't many jobs out there for that); I'm not trying to wear my sexuality on my sleeve, although I feel uncomfortably tempted to apologize for my constant remarks on the topic of sexuality. But I am constantly reminded of how it must feel to be the only African- American on a committee -- always having to be the one to address the "black perspective" of an issue. Let me stress that I do not find homophobia at work in any of the papers I have heard, nor have I heard any perspectives that discredit or disaffirm persons on account of their sexual orientation. But it is time to remove the heterosexist bias from our journals, our papers, and our advising of students not only for the sake of the disenfranchised gay and lesbian students at our Universities, but for the intellectual development of our field.

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INTERNATIONAL NETWORK NEWSLETTER NUMBER 16 SEPTEMBER 1991 ======

ABSTRACT Last chance to renew your membership at the discounted price [discount available only until Sept 30th]...A number of large and significant grants awarded by national agencies to Network members for relationship work are announced... We welcome another score or so new members....Further news of the merger talks with ISSPR.... Committee on the Future of the Network to assess members' desires for new Network structure...First special article on teaching in this issue. last chance to renew your membership for the coming year at the DISCOUNTED price. to renew membership at the discounted rate you must return your form and payment by september 30th 1991. forms were sent out in july [an extra one is enclosed with this newsletter only for those who have not already returned one]

CONFERENCE ACCOUNT IN PROFIT Many people have praised the organisational efficiency and social creativity of the Gang of Three (Bill Cupach, Sandra Metts & Susan Sprecher) who organised the Network Conference in Normal last May. The official auditing of the accounts has now been completed and I am happy to report that this shows that the conference came out satisfactorily "in the black". This was despite the fact that the conference was held in a hotel with first class facilities and had a registration fee that was significantly lower than last year's Oxford conference. Congratulations once again to the Gang of Three for a job thoroughly well done on behalf of the interests of Network members. As in previous years this bonus from Network conferences will be put towards support for graduate students in the field, in this case, the next Network Graduate Workshop.

GRADUATE WORKSHOP MARK YOUR CALENDAR for the Fourth Graduate Workshop (on "Studying Romantic Relationship") to be held in Iowa City on May 15th-17th 1992. Speakers are: Dan Canary, Rod Cate, Susan Hendrick, and Sandra Metts. The workshop organiser is Melanie Barnes, Dept of Communication Studies, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 [BLAMKBWY@UIAMVS] and a flyer on the Workshop will be circulated with the next INN in December. Meantime, make sure that your students know about the workshop, whose costs will be held down as low as possible (and now even more possible thanks to the Gang of Three), probably in the region of $80 for the whole package [including guest accommodation, meals, and conference materials].

FOURTH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK MARK YOUR CALENDAR for the Fourth Conference of the Network, to be held in Milwaukee, June 3-June 7, 1993. Speakers are Rebecca Adams (Sociology); Inge Bretherton (Child & Family Studies); Pearl Dykstra (Research Methods); William Ickes (Personality and Social Psychology); Neil Jacobson (Clinical Psychology); Sally Planalp (Communication); Brian Spitzberg (Communication); and Cathy Surra (Home Economics). This is an ALL NEW list of speakers, with the emphasis on the dynamic and emerging researchers as well as on other key figures from a variety of disciplines.

MEMBER BENEFITS YOU MIGHT HAVE FORGOTTEN Enclosed with this INN you should find a sheet listing some of the special benefits you may have forgotten about. You may not have ever known about them, since they are additional to those included on the standard [and extremely attractive] lime green luminescent advertising sheet that you have received --- probably already posted to adorn one of your Departmental notice boards. Special forms for book discounts have been previously circulated but if the present list of benefits spurs you to seek them now, I still have some forms left for all of them and can send you them while they last.

FUTURE OF THE NETWORK I have to report to the membership that talks between ISSPR and the Network on a possible merger have been put on hold for a while. This is a palpable disappointment to some of us who had expected to be able to report increased indications of scholarly accommodation and cooperation, but it should not divert us from the task of making the Network and the field the best that they can be. It would be nice if the remaining members of ISSPR were to join the rest of us in this task, but if those of them who have not already joined the Network should now wish to go it alone, then we can wish them well and still proceed to complete our own tasks. I do not intend to make the full picture public (though members are welcome to enquire personally), because for the most part it is a sordid, shocking and soaplike saga of sin and politics! I also do not want to close off the possibility of ISSPR working with the Network in the future. Suffice it to report that the discussions have not proceeded in a way that favors Network interests or shows significant and real recognition of the Network's goals, style, growing size and importance. In both a previous INN (Number 12) and ISSPR Bulletin (Fall 1990) at the start of these negotiations, I noted the Network's position as based importantly on the assumption of an open and fundamental restructuring of the field rather than the mere take-over of one group by the other, a position strongly represented in the questionnaires returned to the Committee on the Future. Despite these rather clear statements it is also clear that those representing ISSPR did not get the message. Thus I cannot find any cause for optimism in the talks with which to assuage the opposition to the merger that has not only grown within the Network, but also been more openly expressed. It remains the case that, as stated in the previous INN15, many members are concerned that their membership benefits might be reduced in a new merged organisation (See INN15). Furthermore, deeper consideration of some of the evidence available about opinion FOR the merger (e.g., return rates on the Network questionnaire and lack of specific evidence from ISSPR on any numbers at all) makes me uncertain whether the vaunted support for it comes from more than a small group who happen to be in both organisations already. I believe that, as an open organisation guided by member opinions, we need to take a more up- to-date assessment of the members' true position on this issue. Accordingly I have asked the Committee on the Future to consider ways for the Network to develop itself independently, while doing so with integrity and in a careful and thoughtful manner that does not exclude ISSPR from coming to us in future. As indicated in the previous INN, the vast majority of (listed) members of ISSPR are already in the Network. This effectively means that the merger has already taken place, although whether it is a migration or a joining of membership will not be publicly apparent until the 1996 ISSPR Directory is published [since ISSPR's constitution requires that people are not dropped from "membership in good standing" until they have failed to renew membership for two membership periods of two years each]. I continue to believe that The Network would welcome those remaining members of ISSPR to join us and the Network will continue to invite cooperation in developing the field, not only in principle but also in line with some of the constructive, specific and detailed proposals that we have previously made to the past two Presidents of ISSPR, on joint ventures, conference fee arrangements, suggestions for a newly organised Association and, indeed, the first [rejected] proposal for a merger, in 1989. The Network is now at a point in development rather similar in form to that reached by ISSPR when, after three years under an informal Chair, they proposed a constitution, had three years under the presidency of another person and then began a regular full round of elections and political institutions. My personal opinion is that the Network needs to become somewhat more structured than it has been until now. I hope that this could be done as simply as possible and in a way that keeps politics to a minimum while continuing to emphasise multiplicity of perspectives, the importance of support for younger/newer scholars, open representation of women, and the widest possible base of members on committees -- 77 DIFFERENT people on our committees since 1988. I anticipate this being a structurally democratic organisation not built merely on the informal open consultation, member involvement, and personal touches that I have tried to encourage while the organisation was emerging and growing, but certainly ensuring nevertheless that this continues as a major tradition. If members judge that it is now time for the organisation to become that much more traditional then I am confident that we can arrange this without it becoming elitist or boring or controlled by a small group of people. Accordingly I have asked the Committee on the Future of the Network to consult the membership and assess the degree of support for changes to the Network's form. Should there be support for change, then I have asked the Committee to develop a plan for the creation of a new structure for the Network that can be offered to the members for acceptance or rejection. It is important that all members express their views on this at all stages of the consultation process, so that we do not have only a small number of people providing all that we have to go on in order to comprehend and represent opinion at large -- as with all other surveys of opinion that the field may be presented with, it is important that we are sensitive to return rates. Our previous report on the Committee's questionnaire suggested -- with several detailed provisos and concerns -- a favoring of the merger, but was based on about 70 returns. Since the Network continues to grow so rapidly, this number represents about 11% of the present membership and also indicates to me that large numbers of the Network members are more interested in the present style of the Network than in all the political machinations that can so easily submerge formal groups. For a change to take place in the Network, I think that it would be healthy to see at least 60% of the membership endorsing the change, rather than a simple majority of those voting. Since the basic issues are important, I am sure that members will feel it is also important to ensure that their voices are heard. During this transition toward greater structure, as it may turn out to be, I continue to be willing to serve in the capacities in which I have previously served, with the growing help and assistance of those who are already taking some of the load and administrative responsibility for Newsletter sections, conferences, workshops, committees, award-making, and so on. This is the best way to manage a transition until such time as any new arrangement takes effect [if such new arrangement is what a large majority of members ultimately decide to create]. I strongly believe that it is important that officers of any newly organised Network are not mere figureheads who take office "for the honour of it", but rather are active, contributory and hard-working leaders. My personal view is that having fulfilled this role willingly and gladly for the past few years, I should hand over to a new President [or Chair or whatever] of any newly structured Network, though I will do whatever the members desire and would like to continue to be very involved in some service role (e.g., as Membership Development Secretary), if that is what members wish to happen. The field has a large amount of both new and experienced talent out there and it is better for the field if more people have chances to become prominent in its organisation and in its leadership, rather than just its service roles. The future of the field lies not with the already famous and entrenched, but with the new and vigorous: let us give them the chance to develop their talents rather than encouraging them merely to wait. In effect this would be a relatively simple extension of the policies that the Network has been successfully and openly pursuing for some time, and, as indicated in the first item in this INN, the policies have paid off in both literal and metaphorical senses.

NEWS OF MEMBERS Jim APPLEGATE has been promoted to Full Professor and continues to serve as Chair of the dept of Communication, Univ of Kentucky at Lexington. Rod CATE has received the James D. Moran Memorial Research Award given by the American Home Economics Association and the Virginia Tech Foundation, for research contributions to child and family studies. Mollie CONDRA received a special stipend from the University of Arkansas to participate in the National Education for Women's Leadership 1991 Summer Institute (Rutgers University). Don ELLIS has been promoted to Full Professor in the Dept of Communication, Univ of Hartford, CT. Garth FLETCHER is on sabbatical this year and will be a Visiting Professor at Dept of Psychology, Brandeis Univ, Waltham MA 02254-9110 (617-736-3244; [email protected]) Jim HONEYCUTT has been granted early tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at Louisiana State University. Robert L. MONTGOMERY has become President of Southwestern Psychological Association. The annual meeting will be in Austin, TX, April 16-18 1992. Call for papers deadline is Nov 1st, 1991. Bill RAWLINS has been granted tenure at Purdue University. Howard SYPHER was elected Chair of Dept of Communication Studies, Univ of Kansas. Good Luck! Paul WRIGHT has recently produced a booklet "The Acquaintance Description Form: What it is and how to use it". Although it is being prepared for t more formal publication, Paul has kindly agreed to make advance copies available to Network members who contact him [see the Wonderful Network Directory for his full address].

MEMBERS ON THE MOVE Linda ACITELLI, in a subtle move, has relocated from the Dept of Social Work, Univ of Michigan, to a position as Research Investigator in the Institute for Social Research. Her new Phone number (not known in time for listing in the Wonderful Network Directory) is 313-764-2561. Joel BENNETT, in a similarly subtle move, has gone from St Mary's College, Winona, to Dept of Psychology, Winona State University, Winona, MN. Eddie CLARK has moved to Dept of Psychology, St Louis University, Missouri, 63103. Lee KIRKPATRICK is now a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23185 (Phone 804-221-3997; E-Mail LAKIRK1@WMVM1). Gwendoline METTETAL, in a move even subtler than Joel Bennet's above, has moved from the Dept of Psychology, Indiana Univ at South Bend to the Dept of Education there. Barnett PEARCE has moved to become Chair of the Dept of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago. Lynne WEBB has taken a position as an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Studies in Memphis State University.

GRANTS AWARDED FOR RELATIONSHIP RESEARCH Linda ACITELLI has received notice of a FIRST Award (First Independent Research and Transition Award) from NIMH. The grant is entitled "Awareness of Self, Partner and Relationship" and will start in September 1991 to run for five years. Frank FINCHAM has been awarded a grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, entitled "Interpersonal conflict and child aggression". Rod CATE has received (with three others who are not Network members) a grant from NIMH on "War stress, support and well being in military families". Nancy GENERO (PI) has been awarded a large grant, with several co-investigators, by the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau to assess the effects of mutual confidante relationships between mothers of young children. The major "effect" that is being investigated is level of depression, but they plan to look at a whole range of relationship variables also. Elery HAMILTON-SMITH (Leisure Studies, Phillip Institute of Technology,Victoria, Australia) and Sally Garrett, from the Nursing School on the same campus, have just received a major grant for a three year study of care regimes for people suffering from Alzheimer's disease [see also section below on Network members seeking help]. Carol MASHETER has been awarded a grant by the Mineral Lease Funds, State of Utah, to study "Post divorce relationships between ex-spouses in rural Utah: Comparison with other regions of the United States". David MORGAN has recently received a 3 year grant, from the National Institute on Aging, to investigate changes in recent widows' networks of personal relationships. Joseph B. WALTHER has received a $50,000 software grant from Omniquest Software Inc as part of his research on interpersonal and group factors in computer-mediated communication and group decision support systems. He also received a $5000 Junior Faculty Research Fellowship from Univ of Oklahoma to support the development of a measure of participant satisfaction in electronic meeting system.

BOOKS BY MEMBERS Coupland, N., Howerd GILES & John WIEMANN (1991) Miscommunication and problematic talk. Sage: Newbury Park. Garth FLETCHER & Frank FINCHAM (Eds..) Cognition in close relationships LEA: Hillsdale, NJ. Larry FREY, C.H. Botan, P. G. Friendman, & G. L. Kreps (1991) Investigating communication: An introduction to research methods Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs. Luciano L'ABATE (1990) Building Family Competence: Primary and secondary prevention strategies SAGE: Newbury Park. Luciano L'ABATE (1992) Programmed writing: A self-administered approach for intervention with individuals, couples and families Brook/Cole: Monterey. Jacquline WISEMAN (1991) The other half: Wives of alcoholics and their social-psychological situation. Aldine de Gruyter: New York.

IF YOU DO A BOOK OR HAVE ONE COMING OUT SOON I have been in the habit of circulating publishers' leaflet free with INNs as long as the publishers will offer a discount to Network members. If you have a book coming out, tell your publisher about this Network arrangement and have them contact me to see what kind of deal they will offer the Network members. Most of them will give us 20% off, so everybody wins from this arrangement.

NETWORK MEMBERS SEEKING OTHERS WITH SIMILAR INTERESTS (full contact addresses are in the Wonderful Network Directory) Norman BROWN (Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida) wants to get in touch with people working on stage theories of marriage and stage theories of cohabitation. He would also like to hear from people who have published on premarital relationships, specifically engagement, "going steady" and other semi-stable commitments; conflict; decay (esp. phenomenological accounts and other approaches). Larry FREY is interested in receiving proposals from anyone who is doing applied research on small group communication for possible inclusion in an edited text of original research studies. Philip GARNIER is interested in hearing from any Network member who works on intercultural relationships, particularly interracial marriage (esp Anglo/Latino and White/Asian marriages). Luciano L'ABATE wishes to contact other Network members working on therapeutic or paratherapeutic writing. Charlan NEMETH [having begun work on Gender and persuasive style; Diversity, dissent and quality of decision- making; and the Lifespans of highly creative individuals] would like to contact other members working on Gender and persuasive styles or women in authority: task and personal relationships.

NETWORK MEMBERS SEEKING HELP OR COLLABORATORS Elery HAMILTON-SMITH, whose major grant is announced above, would like to hear from anyone who has done work on maintenance of the capacity in Alzheimer's victims to relate with others or to recognise relationship behaviors in Alzheimer's victims. Luciano L'ABATE seeks help in setting up a Sociaety for Therapeutic and Paratherapeutic Writing. Charlan NEMETH would like to obtain publications by members on Gender and persuasive styles or on Dissent (for address see above section).

TEACHING CLOSE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS COURSES [Contributed by Ann Weber]

This column is a new feature in the International Network Newsletter, one that I hope will bring together members of different persuasions in a common endeavor: developing better ways to teach courses on the topic of close personal relationships. At the Network Conference in Normal last May, I facilitated a roundtable on this topic. It was very well attended by people who brought syllabi, ideas, and questions from their different disciplines and interests. Everyone attending supported the idea of continuing such an exchange in some ongoing format. A regular feature in the INN was offered as one way to follow up on this suggestion. Some of you may recognize that I run a similar semi-regular column in Contemporary Social Psychology, the journal/newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of Social Psychology (SASP). The column I edit in CSP is called "Teaching Tips for Social Psychology." Ideally it provides a forum for readers' suggestions and questions, to be responded to or picked up on by other readers--I'm just a conduit. More often than not, however, I end up pontificating about pedagogy on my own since readers may not have the time to send in their submissions. But there's always a chance and when people do send things in, they're superb--really creative and useful. My proposal for this column is that it be an exchange or clearing-house for information, ideas, inspiration, and simply gimmicks that you have found helpful in teaching courses on personal relationships and similar topics. If you have a syllabus that works, please send it to me with a note about what you think makes it effective. If you have strong opinions about texts that work or don't work, then drop me a line. If you have developed sure-fire techniques to illustrate or demonstrate tricky material, tell us about it. If your students have surprised you with their creativity or enthusiasm in dealing with a course assignment, reading, or project, please share that with your teaching colleagues by contacting me. If you have questions to share on required books then pass them around (see previous INN on KAthryn Dindia's useful suggestion here). Likewise, if you have questions, needs, queries, problems, crises, or pedagogical impasses and want help in overcoming them, please write to me. If you wish to remain anonymous (so no one knows who's having this problem), that's fine. If you want the world to know who you are, that's great. I'll give credit where credit is due and possible, just be sure you give me names and details. I'll start off the column this time by passing along two helpful ideas submitted by Network member Karen Shafer of Southern Oregon State College. Karen suggests that a good way to help students move from their assigned reading to active participation in class discussion is to have them write a precis of the assigned chapter plus one question about the material. This assignment is due to be turned in on the day of discussion. Karen notes that it involves students more intensely in their reading, and prompts them to share their comments and questions in discussion. Her second suggestion is to distribute a list of suggested term paper topics, rather than leave students completely on their own in choosing them. She keeps a running computer file of these topics that she adds to with every new student suggestion, discovery, or offering of the course. It's a great idea since students need models to make the creative process less intimidating. Moreover, by recording Great Topics from past offerings of the course, you can record and preserve the best efforts of past students. That's it for this introductory column. I hope it catches on and that those of you who are teachers, would-be teachers, and even has-been teachers will take a minute to drop me a note: Ann Weber, Department of Psychology, UNC at Asheville, Asheville, NC 28804. Or bitnet me at "[email protected]."

WELCOME TO THE FOLLOWING NEW MEMBERS The following 22 new members joined the Network between the middle of July and the end of August. Welcome to the everÄexpanding Network. Walid AFIFI, Rachel BERMAN, Gloria W. BIRD, David M. BUSS, Kim COLLIER, Jason COSTELLO, Sandra COTTON, Joyce EMDE, Katherine FIALA, Kathryn GREENE, Nancy GROTE, Judith JORDAN, Masahiro MASUDA, Charlan NEMETH, Rose M. PERRINE, Thomas RIZZO, Ann RUVOLO, Marilyn SENCHAK, Howard SYPHER, Beverly SYPHER, Joseph VEROFF, Kipling WILLIAMS.

... whose Wonderful Network Directory details are as follows Walid Afifi, Dept of Communication, Speech Building, Room 209, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA, AFIFI@ARIZRVAX, (602) 621-1366 Rachel Berman, 310 Tweedsmuir Ave, Apt 1008, Toronto, Ontario M5P 2Y2, Canada, (416) 921-6041 (H) Gloria W. Bird, 804 Horseshoe Lane, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA, GLORIA@VTVM1, (703) 231-4791 David M. Buss, Dept of Psychology, 580 Union Drive, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA, [email protected], (313) 747-3953 Kim Collier, Dept of Psychology, Benton Hall, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA, KC63PSY6@MIAMIU, (513) 529-2448 Jason Costello, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Hawaii-Manoa, 2430 Campus Rd, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA, (808) 956- 7617. Sandra Cotton, School of Behavioral Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, AUSTRALIA, [email protected], (02) 805-8060 Joyce EMDE, Univ of Denver, 6085 East Fair Ave, Englewood, CO 80111, USA (303) 759-5093. Katherine Fiala, 5062 Institute for Social Research, Univ of Michigan, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, USA, [email protected], (313) 936-1248 Kathryn Greene, Dept of Speech Communication, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA, (404) 542-4893 Nancy Grote, 800 W. Waldheim Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15215, USA,(412)781-2664 Judith Jordan, McLean Hospital/ Harvard, 115 Mill St, Belmont, MA 02178, USA, (617) 855-2137 Masahiro Masuda, Lab of Psychology, Kyoto University, Yoshida Nihon-matsu-cho, KYOTO, Kyoto 606, Japan, 075 753 6555 Charlan Nemeth, Dept of Psychology, Univ of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, (415) 642-5111 Rose M. Perrine, Dept of Psychology, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 40475, USA Thomas Rizzo, Searle Building 10-526, Northwestern University, 303 East Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, USA, (312) 503-8522 Ann Ruvolo, Dept of Psychology, Haggar Hall, Univ of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA, [email protected], (219) 239-7257 Marilyn Senchak, Research Institute on Alcoholism, 1021 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA, (716) 887-2569 Howard Sypher, Dept of Communication Studies, 3090 Wescoe Hall, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA, HSYPHER@UKANVM, (913) 864-3633 Beverly Sypher, Dept of Communication Studies, 3090 Wescoe Hall, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA Joseph Veroff, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, [email protected], (313) 747-4855 Kipling Williams, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA, (419) 537-3617

....who use the following techniques David M. BUSS, Measure of conflict between the sexes. Sandra COTTON, Spanier DAS, network eliciting procedure (Fischer). Joyce EMDE, DAS, DERI, SOS, TCDC, Cardiovasscular measures (MAP, systolic, diastolic pressure and heart rate) Katherine FIALA, Hazan & Shaver Adult Attach Style; Beck Depression Inventory; Epstein's Mother, Father, Peer Scales. Kathryn GREENE, A measure of attitudes towards sexist language Nancy GROTE, Revised Love Attitudes Scale Masahiro MASUDA, Questionnaires Charlan NEMETH, Questionnaires; Behavior Coding; Interviews. Thomas RIZZO, Ethnography, Sociometrics. Joseph VEROFF, Narratives; Survey Questionnaires.

...have the following interests Walid AFIFI, Male-Female (cross-sex) Friendships; identity in marriage; deception in dating relationships. Rachel C. BERMAN, I am starting a Master's Thesis exploring how alienation manifests itself across the lifespan. Gloria W. BIRD, Stress and coping in dual-employed couples; Dating violence. David M. BUSS, Sexual strategies, jealousy, conflict between sexes. Status and prestige, reputation. Kim COLLIER, Describing/interpreting the relational process of newly formed dyads. Sandra COTTON, The relationships among network structure, network support and family processes (esp. marital satisfaction). Joyce EMDE, Marital communication and stress; linked marital satisfaction, marital communication and cardiovascular reactivity (blood pressure). Katherine FIALA, Attachment and psychosocial functioning of depressed remitted depressed and nondepressed women and their partners. Kathryn GREENE, Privacy and AIDS testing; conflict in families; attitudes toward gender inclusive language. Nancy GROTE, Love styles; Gneder and marital satisfaction. Judith V. JORDAN, The movement of power and mutuality; relational resilience. Masahiro MASUDA, Attitudes and emotions to dissolution of romantic relationships. Charlan NEMETH, Dissent as a step to creativity and between decisions; Gender and Persuasion; Life Span of creative individuals. Thomas RIZZO, Children's' friendship development and its relations with self-genesis and social support. Ann RUVOLO, Research on ideals, perceptions, marital well-being and personal change. Marilyn SENCHAK, NIAAA Grant - Interpersonal skills among ACoAs; Alcohol use, Attributions, Aggression, Attachment Styles among married couples. Joseph VEROFF, Factors affecting marital quality and stability among newlyweds. Kipling WILLIAMS, The role of social ostracism in marital relations. Social loafing/compensation in couples.

...and published the following works Gloria W. BIRD, Bird, G.W. (1991). Psychological resource, coping strategies, and negotiation styles as discriminators of violence in dating relationships. Family Relations. Bird, G.W. (1991). Close dating relationships among college students: Differences by violence and by gender. JSPR. Bird, G.W. (1991). An exploratory path analysis of the stress process for dual-career men & women. JMF. David M. BUSS, Buss, D.M. (1989). Sex differences in mate preferences. Behavioral & Brain Sciences. Buss, D.M. & Dedden, (1991). Derogation of competitors. JSPR. Buss, D.M. (1989). Conflict between the sexes. JPSP. Sandra COTTON, Cotton, S., Antill, J.K., & Cunningham, J.D. (1989). The work motivations of mothers with preschool children. Journal of Family Issues, 10, 189-210. Cotton, S., Antill, J.K., & Cunningham, J.D. (1990). Factors influencing the labour force attachment of mothers. Australian Journal of Psychology, 42, 157-171. Cotton, S., Antill, J.K., & Cunningham, J.D. (1990). The work attachment of mothers with preschool children. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 14, 255-270. Katherine FIALA, Fiala, K.B., & Janoff-Bulman, R. (in press). Optimism about love relationships: General vs. specific lessons from one's personal experiences. JSPR. Kathryn GREENE, Rubin & Greene (1991) Gender and age differences in attitudes toward gender inclusive/exclusive language. Sex Roles 24, 391-412. Senovich,Green & Parrott (in press) Boundaries and AIDS testing: Privacy and the family system. Family Relations. Greene & Rubin (1991) Effects of gender inclusive/exclusive language in religious discourse. J. Lang. & Soc Behav. 10, 1-18 Judith V. JORDAN, Jordan, J.V. et al (1991). Women's growth in connection: Writings from the Stone Center. Guilford Publications. Jordan, J.V. (1991). The relational self: A New perspective for understanding women's ?? Springer Verlag. Jordan, J.V. Courage in connection. Work in progress." Charlan NEMETH, Nemeth, C. (1989). Tradeoffs on social control and innovation. Advances in Exp Soc Psy. Nemeth, C. (1990). Improving recall.. Exposure to a dissent. JPSP Nemeth, C. et al. (1991). When convergent thought improves performance: Majority versus minority influence. PSPB. Thomas RIZZO, Rizzo, T. (1988). Developmental Review, 8, 219-237. Rizzo, T. (1988). American Sociological Review, 53, 879-894. Rizzo, T. (1988). Child Study Journal, 19, 161-191" Marilyn SENCHAK, Senchak, M., & Leonard, K.E. (in press). Attachment styles & marital adjustment among newlywed couples. JSPR. Boye-Beaman, J., Leonard, K.E., & Senchak, M. (1991). Assortive mating, relationship development and intimacy among offspring of alcoholics. Family Dynamics of Addiction Quarterly, 1(2), 20-33. Joseph VEROFF, Veroff, J., & Crohan, S. (1989). Dimensions of marital well being. JMF. Kipling WILLIAMS, Williams, K.D., & Karau, S.J. (in press). Social loafing and social compensation. The effects of expectations of co- worker performance. JPSP.

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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Contents of Issue 8iv (November 1991)

KELLY A. BRENNAN, PHILLIP R. SHAVER, & ANN E. TOBEY. Attachment styles, gender, and parental problem drinking. Bartholomew's (1990) four-category typology of adult attachment styles was compared with Hazan & Shaver's (1987) three-category typology in terms of three substantive issues. First, the same two dimensions were found to underlie both typologies, and the Bartholomew and Hazan & Shaver measures corresponded as predicted. Second, there were no gender differences on Hazan & Shaver's measure, in line with previous studies, but there were gender differences on Bartholomew's measure, especially in her two avoidant categories. More males than females were dismissing avoidants; more females than males were fearful avoidants. Third, a hypothesis advanced by Latty-Mann & Davis (1988) was confirmed. Adult children of alcoholics scored high on both avoidant and anxious-ambivalent scales of Hazan & Shaver's measure, and fell predominantly into Bartholomew's fearful avoidant category, suggesting that at least some fearful adults are grown-up versions of the 'disorganized, disoriented' children identified by Crittenden (1988) and by Main & Solomon (in press). These children are more common in families troubled by parental alcoholism, depression, or abuse. Kelly A. Brennan, Psychology Department, SUNY at Buffalo, Park Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.

Robert W. Martin. Examining personal relationship thinking: The Relational Cognition Complexity Instrument. A review of the literature demonstrates that 'relationship thinking' is a central factor influencing the behavior of personal relationship participants. The present investigation examined the psychometric properties of an instrument designed to assess individual levels of relational cognition complexity, a structural quality of relationship thinking. Scores obtained via the Relational Cognition Complexity Instrument (RCCI) were found to have moderate one-week test-retest reliability and high internal consistency. They were also found to have discriminant validity relative to measures of person cognition complexity and verbal intelligence. Male relationship partners were also found to score significantly lower on the RCCI than were female relationships partners. Robert W. Martin, Department of Communication, Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Ft. Wayne, IN 46805, USA.

CONSTANCE J. PILKINGTON, ABRAHAM TESSER, & DEBORAH STEPHENS. Complementarity in romantic relationships: A self-evaluation maintenance perspective. Three studies were conducted to extend the Self-Evaluation Maintenance (SEM) model to romantic relationships. Subjects in all three studies indicated the importance of 68 activities to themselves and, in Studies 2 and 3, to their partners. For activities that were relevant to subjects' self-definitions, a comparison effect emerged; subjects reported outperforming their partners. When self-relevance was low, a reflection effect emerged; subjects reported being outperformed by their partners. Subjects' reports also showed "empathic" comparison and reflection processes for their partners. These effects were strongest when relevance was high for one partner and low for the other; when partners' self-definitions were similar, the SEM processes were attenuated. These effects persisted even when the reports of both partners were considered (Study 3). The finding are discussed in the framework of the complementarity hypothesis, and implications for both the SEM model and the complementarity hypothesis are considered. Constance J. Pilkington, Department of Psychology, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23185, USA.

KAREN J. PRAGER. Intimacy status and couple conflict resolution. Fifty couples participated in a study to assess the relationship between individual intimacy development and conflict resolution style. Each individual was given an intimacy status interview, and couples were videotaped while discussing an area of conflict in their relationship. The hypothesis that men and women classified into the Intimate status would use more cognitively-oriented conflict resolution strategies was not supported, although a trend indicated that women in the Pseudointimate status used more cognitive, problem-focused conflict resolution strategies than women in the Merger status, while women in the Merger status used more affective, emotion-focused strategies than women in the Pseudointimate status. Men in the Merger status were more coercive than other men when paired with Merger women. Sequential analyses showed that partners tended to respond to each other in kind, and that both affective and coercive acts temporarily discouraged problem-focused acts from the partner for the next two acts. Intimacy status had little relationship with the sequencing of conflict behavior between partners, but was predictive of individuals' own sequences of behavior. Results support in part the notion that intimacy status affects the way in which individuals resolve conflict in an important relationship. Karen J. Prager, School of General Studies, The University of Texas at Dallas, P.O. Box 830688, Richardson, TX 75083-0688, USA.

DEBORAH J. TERRY. Stress, coping, and adaptation to new parenthood. A longitudinal study of 123 couples provided some support for the utility of a model of adaptation to parenthood. Even when the effects of initial well-being were controlled, the level of subjective stress (strain) and the use of tension- reducing coping strategies emerged as (negative) predictors of contemporaneous and delayed measures of adaptation. This support for the model was also evident when an external measure of adaptation was utilized. there was, additionally, support for the proposal that problem-focused coping facilitates adaptation to new parenthood, although 18 weeks after the birth this effect was evident only for males. In relation to coping resources, the data provided some support for the proposed effects of the individual resources (self-esteem, internality) and both marital and family support. Non-family support was not related to any of the measures of adaptation. There was some evidence that females experienced lower levels of psychological well-being in the immediate post-natal period than males, while males rated their partner's coping effectiveness more poorly than females. In addition to the gender difference in the effects of problem-focused coping, there was also evidence to suggest that the effects of internality on adaptation four weeks after the event differed for males and females. Deborah J. Terry, Psychology Department, The University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, AUSTRALIA.

DANIELLE JULIEN & HOWARD J. MARKMAN. Social support and social networks as determinants of individual and marital outcomes. This study examined the effects of social support, within and outside marriage, on the individual and marital adjustment of 87 married couples. Stress, functional and structural measures of spouses' supportive networks, and outcome variables were included in two models that were represented as path diagrams and tested for husbands and wives, respectively. As predicted, marital distress was associated with higher mobilization of outsiders for support, but outsiders mediated rather than counteracted the negative effects of marital distress on spouses' health. Contrary to expectations, husbands' mobilization of their wives' support was positively associated with their levels of symptoms, and compared to wives, husbands' mobilization of their partners' help was more weakly associated with their marital adjustment. Results are discussed with respect to models of the interaction between spouses' and outsiders' support. Danielle Julien, Departement de Psychologie, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, C.P. 8888, Succursale 'A', Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3P8, CANADA.

ROBIN GOODWIN. A re-examination of Rusbult's 'responses to dissatisfaction' typology. Rusbult's typology has been widely employed but has rarely been subjected to critical empirical examination. The model was evaluated in three phases, using data from 166 randomly selected married respondents: 1) The four proposed responses to dissatisfaction were correlated with four measures of relationship quality and relationship alternatives, with the correlations lending support to Rusbult's matrix 2) an oblique factor analysis successfully distinguished among the four dissatisfaction responses 3) three of these responses (exit, voice and neglect) were clearly identifiable in multi-dimensional scaling. The results thus largely support Rusbult's typology, although the Loyalty response and the validity of Rusbult's 'active/passive' distinction, require further investigation. Robin Goodwin, Department of Psychology, University of Keele, Keele ST5 5BG, ENGLAND.

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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Contents of Issue 9i (February 1992)

KATHERINE B. FIALA & RONNIE JANOFF-BULMAN: Optimism about love relationships: General vs. specific lessons from one's personal experiences. Ronnie Janoff-Bulman, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.

MICHELE ACKER & MARK H. DAVIS: Intimacy, passion, and commitment in adult relationships: A test of the triangular theory of love. Michele Acker, 5247 ISR, University of Michigan,426 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

MARILYN SENCHAK & KENNETH E. LEONARD: Attachment styles and marital adjustment among newlywed couples. Marilyn Senchak, Research Institute on Alcoholism, 1021 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA.

JANICE M. STEIL & KAREN WELTMAN: Influence strategies at home and at work: A study of sixty dual career couples. Janice M. Steil, Derner Institute, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11580, USA.

SUSAN E. CROHAN: Marital happiness and spousal consensus on beliefs about marital conflict: A longitudinal investigation Susan E. Crohan, Department of Child and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.

C. ARTHUR VANLEAR: Marital communication across the generations: Learning and rebellion, continuity and change. C. Arthur VanLear, Department of Communication Sciences, Box U-85, University of Connecticut, 850 Bolton Road, Storrs, CT 06269-1085, USA.

LAWRENCE A. KURDEK: Relationship stability and relationships satisfaction in cohabiting gay and lesbian couples: A prospective longitudinal test of the contextual and interdependence models. Lawrence A. Kurdek, Department of Psychology, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435-0001, USA.

TIMOTHY R. LEVINE & STEVEN A. MCCORNACK: Linking love and lies: A formal test of the McCornack and Parks model of deception detection. Timothy R. Levine, Department of Speech Communication, 809 East 7th Street, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.

REMINDER ON THE DISSERTATION AWARD DISSERTATION AWARD The Network has created an Annual Dissertation Award, as you will know, dating back to 1987. On the recommendation of the past committee on the Dissertation Award, there will be a change to procedure this time around. No award will be made at this time for the current year. Instead the award for dissertations completed in 1991 will be made in mid-1992, and judgements will be made on the basis of a paper derived from the dissertation. The reasons for this are pragmatic. If we judge dissertations then they have to be ready and they have to be read. This means that those people who complete dissertations towards the end of a year are rushed to get the dissertation into the judgement and it also means that the committee has to read huge amounts of material. In the past we have solved this by asking for abstracts only, which solves the second problem but not the first; yet some people write good complex theses with abstracts that do not reflect that so well. If we ask for journal-paper length submissions drawn from the dissertation then it make the task easier for the committee and more comparable for the candidates, as well as, incidentally, encouraging the candidates to develop skills of conciseness in reporting. This procedure also makes it more likely that non-USA dissertators can be considered since the style of European dissertations, for example, renders them unsuitable for submission under the previous arrangements. If we interpose a lag time after the end of the relevant Dissertation Year then every candidate should have a good chance to do the necessary paper as carefully as he or she would like.

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INTERNATIONAL NETWORK NEWSLETTER NUMBER 19 JUNE 1992 ======ABSTRACT TIME TO RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP IF YOU WANT A DISCOUNT OF $6 (BEFORE SEPT 30TH 1992 ONLY) Several new committees have been formed to help in governance and day to day business of the Network (some 160 members now serve on committees to show how democracy works!)...Special Issue of JSPR announced on Children's friendships [Barry Schneider will edit] (Call for papers enclosed) .... More new members (details below) ... Network's Conference organizers for the Extraordinary Normal Conference honored by the City of Normal/Bloomington ... JSPR to expand again for the 1993 volume

END OF YEAR MEMBERSHIP REPORT: As this membership year closes, we have 647 active members, for 1991-1992 and a 152 still "on the books" from 1990. This total of 797 Network members compares with 583 this time last year. 267 list social psych as a main discipline, 163 Communication and 133 Family Studies.

SEVERAL NEW NETWORK COMMITTEES FORMED In accordance with the recommendations of the Committee on the Future of the Network and with announcements made previously in response to members' requests, several new committees have been set up to conduct Network business. These include a Member Benefits Committee that will explore ways to increase benefits that the Network provides to members; a large Outreach Committee to explore ways in which the Network can connect with other organizations; Conferences and Workshops Committee for development of our offerings to members; Ways and Means Committee to consider future policy; Graduate membership development committee; and a Publications Committee. Also new committees are being formed for the consideration of nominations for the Berscheid Hatfield Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Personal Relationships, the Gerald R. Miller Award for Early Career Achievement, and the Network's Annual Dissertation Award. Lists of members of these committees will be announced in September. Meantime there is still time to nominate people for the awards (B/H and Miller awards close on 9 October 1992, Dissertation nominations close 13 November 1992). A total of 160 Network members is now serving on Network committees, but if you want to volunteer yourself then please do so. We can always find a place for the willing and there is plenty to be done.

NETWORK CONFERENCE IN MILWAUKEE: Keep working on the proposals The next Network Conference will be in Milwaukee, June 3-7 1993 Proposals are due to Kathryn Dindia by November 1st 1992

JPSR WILL EXPAND AGAIN FOR THE 1993 VOLUME SAGE has agreed to expand JSPR to a page length of 640 pages per volume beginning with the 1993 volume (the tenth aniversary issue). In times of shrinkm ing library budgets, when new journals, more often than not, fail within the first three years, the success of JSPR has been quite exceptional not only in terms of its subscription base but also in terms of its meteoric rise up the impact tables in SSCI (detialed in INN17). SAGE has recognized all this by effectively increasing the size of the journal by an number of pages that amounts to one issue per year, as compared to the orignal page allocation.

HOME TOWN HEROES: THE GANG OF THREE In recognition of their wonderful efforts on behalf of Normal Illinois in organizing the best conference there has ever been (i.e., the Network's conference of 1991 in Normal Illinois), the town of Normal Illinois has named Bill Cupach, Sandra Metts, and Sue Sprecher as "Hometown Heroes". They will be treated to various awards and benefits by the city as a recognition of their contribution to the community. We once again offer our own recognition of their work for the Network and wish we had also thought of calling them Network Heroes.

GRADUATE WORKSHOP REPORT Melanie Barnes and her team successfully organized a well-attended Graduate Workshop on the development of romantic relationships. Invited Speakers were Dan Canary, Rodney Cate, Susan Hendrick, and Sandra Metts. Fifty four people attended the workshop. Thanks to all concerned.

NEWS OF MEMBERS Jim APPLEGATE is on the ballot for President of SCA and Network-SCA members are invited to vote for him! He will be taking a sabbatical leave next Fall after completing his second term (8th year) as chair at University of Kentucky, Lexington. Glutton for punishment! Anita BARBEE has been appointed Program Chair for the Society of Southeastern Psychologists 1993 Fall Conference. Mary BURGESS has will move on 1st August to Dept of Psychology, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, become Mary INMAN, and acquire the new e-mail address: [email protected] Dan CANARY will be a Visiting Associate Professor at the Communication Studies Dept, University of Iowa, for AY 1992-1993. Kathryn DINDIA had a girl (Katelyn) somewhat earlier than expected in June, but everything is fine. She asked me to say that she has had a very (re)productive year! Steve DUCK and Bill GUDYKUNST were the two persons elected as Fellows of the International Communication Association this year. Kathleen GALVIN was chosen as a Visiting Scholar at DePauw's Undergraduate Honors Conference, March 1992. Steve HOBFOLL has been appointed co-Editor of Anxiety, Stress and Coping: An International Journal and will probably find out a lot about all three as a result, both academically and personally. Mark KNAPP has been named a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer for the 54th Louisiana State University Distinguished Lecture Series in Speech Communication. Francis MACNAB has just established the Australian Foundation for Aftermath Reactions (AFAR) which will function as a centre for helping trauma victims to deal with their aftermath reactions, conduct research into aftermath reactions, and maintain a reference centre for major trauma and its consequences. Sandra PETRONIO was one of two Distinguished Guest Speakers in Communication at U of Minnesota, Duluth. Apologies to Joy Hart SEIBERT whose name I gave incorrectly in the last INN as Jay. I agree that "Tidings of co-o-o- omfort and jay" doesn't sound quite right ring for the famous Christmas Carol. Stephan VAN DEN BROUCKE has successfully defended his dissertation and obtained his PhD: "Partners through thick and thin: Intimacy, communication, and conflict regulation in the relationships of married Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa patients". Great title! John WIEMANN has a new e-mail address: [email protected]

GRANTS WON BY NETWORK MEMBERS John NEZLEK has recently been awarded a research contract by the Alcohol Beverage Research Foundation to study social interaction and drinking. This Bud's for you..... and so is this questionnaire battery! Pamela KALBFLEISCH has received a grant from the University of Kentucky to support work on mentoring relationships. Michael SUNNAFRANK has received a grant from the U of Minnesota Graduate School to support work on communication and acquaintance.

MEMBERS ON THE MOVE Dawn BRAITHWAITE has accepted a position at the developing Arizona State University West campus and from July 15th her address will be Communication, Human Services Program, Arizona State University West, Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100 [(602) 543-6600] e-mail: ICDOB@ASUACAD. Edith BURGER requests that any correspondence to her from fellow Networkers be sent to Kraehenland 3, Drensteinfurt 4406, Germany rather than to the address previously notified. Mary BURGESS (Ph.D.) has been appointed Assistant Professor of Psychology at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. Geoff LEATHAM has been appointed to a full time tenure track position in the Dept of Speech Communication, University of Hawaii. Some people have all the luck! Mary ROHLFING has been appointed to an Assistant Professorship in Communication at Boise State University, Idaho. Barry SCHNEIDER will be moving to Dept of Applied Psychology, OISE, 252 Bloor St West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1V6 from August 1st but will still retain links with his present address. Ron WRIGHT has taken a postdoctoral position with Sheldon Stryker and his new address will be: Ron Wright, Dept of Sociology, Indiana University, 744 Ballantine Hall, Bloomington, IN 47405. Bitnet: ROWRIGHT@IUBACS. Internet: [email protected]

MEMBERS ON THE MOVE----**NOT ** (or "very much upwards but not necessarily onwards") Nancy GENERO has been appointed as a "Full time, tenure track" with the Dept of Psychology at Wellesley College. She also has a new phone number to go with it: 617-283-3281, which includes Wellesley Voice Mail care (as distinct from a Welsh Male Voice Choir). Lee KIKPATRICK, presently on a visitor line at College of William and Mary, has now been selected for a tenure track position there. Brent MALLINCKRODT has been awarded Tenure and Promotion. Connie PILKINGTON.....same piece of good news as Lee Kirkpatrick. Deb RICHARDSON's address has been incorrect in our records fro a while and should be Dept of Psychology [not Dept of Sociology and Psychology], Florida Atlantic U. Apologies Michael SUNNAFRANK has been promoted to Professor at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

MEMBERS SEEKING HELP Sandra COTTON has responsibility for developing two one semester units one on developmental/social/personality psych and (AND??!!) individual differences. There is a Macintosh lab where students run computerized simulations as part of the practical component of their work. Sandra is looking for advice and assistance from anyone with experience in Macintosh software for such a program that would be especially suitable for the developmental/social/personality areas. Sandra can be contacted by e-mail at [email protected] Perri DRUEN is looking for help from anyone who has information about personal construct theory and personal relationships, especially as it applies to romantic relationships. Anton LAIREITER wants to organize a symposium on "psychological research on social networks" at the Third European Congress of Psychology at Tampere, Finland, Jul 4-9 1993. A call for papers has gone out and members who are interested in submitting an abstract should contact him at [email protected] (The first character in the address is a ONE). Abstracts are due by the end of July 1992. Zbigniew ZOBOROWSKI writes that the economic crisis in Poland is severely restricting opportunities for Polish scholars to obtain reprints and scholarly materials from overseas. Network members who have reprints of their work that they are willing to share with our colleague in Poland should send them to Zbigniew Zoborowski, Dept of Social Problems, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland. He is particularly interested in self-awareness and relationship stability, but reprints on any other topics relevant to relationship research will be much appreciated and will help in building up his picture of the literature.

BOOKS BY MEMBERS Zbigniew ZOBOROWSKI published "The Psychological Problem of Justice and Equality" in 1986.

NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following who have joined the Network since April: Patricia AMASON, Melanie ANSON, Sanford BRAVER, Enrico DITOMMASO, Kim DOLGIN, Irene FRIEZE, Kenneth J. GERGEN, Mary GERGEN, Frederic LEGAULT, Martha PUTALLAZ, Michael ROLOFF, Traci A. SMITH, BRENDA STEWART, Carolyn TARABAN, Nelly VANZETTI, Lori WESTBAY, Stephanie WESTMEYER

.. who have the following interests Patricia AMASON, Coding systems developed for types of social support message; strategies and support communication goals. Melanie ANSON, Self disclosure & communication competence in marital adjustment. Sanford BRAVER, Studies of divorce/dissolution and effects on family members using social exchange approach. Enrico DITOMMASO, Development of SELSA and assessment of R. Weiss' (1973) Typology of Loneliness. Kim DOLGIN, Disclosure by adolescents; parents' disclosure to children. Irene FRIEZE, Love and violence in close relationships. Frederic LEGAULT, Gender differences in the perception of classroom networks/social status and perception of networks. Martha PUTALLAZ, The study of the mutual influence of parents and peers on the development and evolution of children's social competence and social relationships. Michael ROLOFF, I am studying the tendency of intimate to withhold complaints from their partners. I am also investigating how interpersonal influence is achieved. BRENDA STEWART, The effects of empathy, Love Attitudes and conflict tactics on relationship satisfaction Nelly VANZETTI, Cognitions in marriage; prediction of marital distress/dissolution; gender differences in marital functioning. Lori WESTBAY, Latent structure of love-prototype features and relation to Erikson's Intimacy Stage. Stephanie WESTMEYER, Communication of sexual undertones in opposite-sex friendships.

...who use the following methods Patricia AMASON, Role Category Questionnaires, Self-Report Melanie ANSON, Spanier DAS, Enrico DITOMMASO, Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults (SELSA), SCL-90; Social Provisions Scale, Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults (SELSA) Kim DOLGIN, Self-developed disclosure inventories. Irene FRIEZE, Simpson satisfaction, Hendrick & Hendrick, New measure of Lee's Love Styles Frederic LEGAULT, Sociometrics, Rating Scales, Attitude Scales, Perception of Classroom Networks (see Cairns et al, Strayer et al) Martha PUTALLAZ, Sociometric questionnaires Nelly VANZETTI, Marital agendas protocol; marital adjustment test Lori WESTBAY, Questionnaires Stephanie WESTMEYER, Self-Report

...and who have produced the following publications Patricia AMASON Communication Yearbook 10 - Supportive Preadolescents Sanford BRAVER Braver, S. Economic hardship & psychological distress in custodial mothers. Journal of Divorce, 12. Braver, S. (Perceived control of divorce settlement process & interparental conduct. Family Relations, 39, 382-387. Braver, S. (in press). Who divorced whom: Theoretical & methodological issues. Journal of Divorce. Enrico DITOMMASO Ditommaso, E., & Spinner, B. (in press). The development and initial validation of the social and emotional loneliness scale for adults (SELSA). Personality and Individual Differences. MA Thesis: A multivariate typology of loneliness and its mental health implications., Kim DOLGIN Dolgin, Meyer, & Schwartz (1991). Sex Roles, 25, 311-329." Irene FRIEZE Frieze & McHugh (in press). Power and influence strategies... Psycho of Women Quarterly. Frieze & Browne. Violence in marriage. Frieze et al (1991). Considering the social context in gender research. Psych of Women Quarterly. Frederic LEGAULT Legault, F. (in prep). Perception of the social structure in primary school boys and girls. Legault, F. (1992). Genese de la segregation sexuelle et differences comportementales entre.... Legault, F. (1989). La Coordination des structures sociales chez les jeunes enfants. Revue int de psychol sociale, 21, 113-131. Martha PUTALLAZ Putallaz, M., Costanzo, P.R., & Smith, R.B. (1991). Maternal recollections of childhood peer relationships: Implications for their children's peer relationships. JSPR, 8, 403-422. Putallaz, M., & Sheppard, B.H. (1992). Conflict management and social competence. In C. Shantz & W.W. Hartup (Eds.) Conflict in child & adolescent development. New York: Cambridge. Putallaz, M., Costanzo, P.R., & Klein, T., (in press). Parental childhood social experiences and their effects on children's relationships. In S. Duck (Ed) Understanding relationship processes, Vol 2: Learning about relationships. SAGE: London. Michael ROLOFF Jordan, J.M., & Roloff, M.E. (1990). Acquiring assistance from others. Human Communication Research, 16, 519-555. Roloff, M.E., Janisew, C.A. (1989). Overcoming obstacles to interpersonal compliance. Human Communication Research, 16, 33-61. Cloven, D.H., & Roloff, M.E. (1991). Sense-making activity and interpersonal conflict. Western Journal of Speech Communication, 55, 134-158. Carolyn TARABAN Clark, M.S., & Taraban, C. (1991). Reactions to a willingness to express emotions in communal and exchange relationships. JESP, 27, 324-336. Nelly VANZETTI Vanzetti, N., Notarius, C., & NeeSmith, D. (In press) Specific and generalized expectancies in marital interaction. Journal of Family Psychology, in press

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Contents Of Issue 9iii, August 1992 Special Issue On Social Networks Edited By Bob Milardo & Barry Wellman ROBERT M. MILARDO & BARRY WELLMAN: The personal is social. Bob Milardo, Child Development and Family Studies, University of Maine, 30 Merrill Hall, Orono, ME 04469, USA. MICHAEL P. JOHNSON, TED L. HUSTON, STANLEY O. GAINES, & GEORGE LEVINGER: Patterns of married life among young couples. A typology of marital structure was developed by means of a cluster analysis of data regarding husbands' and wives' day to day life together in work and leisure. The sample consisted of 100 couples living in rural Pennsylvania who had been married approximately two years. Bernard's (1964) discussion of the central features of marriage provided the rationale for the inclusion of the following five variables in the analysis: (1) gender asymmetry in labor force participation; (2) sex-typing of household work; (3) differences between husbands and wives in amount of leisure time they spend with friends; (4) differences between husbands and wives in the leisure time they spend with kind; and (5) amount of leisure time spouses spend together. The results indicated that marriages fall into four major types: (a) symmetrical (42%); (b) parallel (27%); (c) differentiated companionate (21%); and (d) role reversed (10%). All five variables used in the cluster analysis contributed to distinguishing the marital types. The typology was replicated using data from the same couples when they were newlyweds, as well as after they had been married only one year. The four marital groups identified in the original cluster analysis were differentiable in terms of their sex role attitudes and the likelihood of their having children, but the groups did not differ in marital satisfaction. Michael P. Johnson, Department of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. CATHERINE H. STEIN, ELLEN G. BUSH, RONALD R. ROSS, & MARCIA WARD: Mine, yours and ours: A configural analysis of the networks of married couples in relation to marital satisfaction and individual well-being. The present study examined different ways that a sample of 49 working and middle class married couples structured their shared and separate relationships with family and friends. The research focused on the married couple as the unit of analysis, and used information from both members of the dyad to construct descriptions of couples' conjoint networks. Couples were empirically classified according to network structural variables considered simultaneously. Four different types of conjoint networks were found to differ in the self-reports of marital satisfaction. Conjoint network type was also differentially related to self-reports of depression and psychological symptoms for husbands and wives. Catherine H. Stein, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403-0228, USA. BEVERLY WELLMAN & BARRY WELLMAN: Domestic affairs and network relations. We examine how spouses and community members provide social support: companionship, emotional aid and services for dealing with domestic situations. Torontonians engage their networks from their homes; there is no Bott-ian tendency for networks to lure people away from their spouses. Spouses exchange a wide range of support, but most community members provide specialized support. We develop a typology based on the extent of support that people receive from spouses and networks. Networkers, with much spousal and network support, tend to be in their thirties, parents of preschoolers, with wives who are home much of the time, have larger networks and more contact with network members. Householders, with spousal support but little network support, tend to be in their forties, with both spouses doing paid work, have the smallest networks, and do not have much contact with the members of their small networks. Self-Reliants, getting little support from spouses and networks, tend to have no children living at home, small networks, and little contact with network members. Beverly Wellman, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto, 455 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A1, CANADA. CAROL M. WERNER, BARBARA B. BROWN, IRWIN ALTMAN, & BRENDA STAPLES: Close relationships in their physical and social contexts: A transactional perspective. This paper calls for more research that embeds close dyadic relationships in their physical, social, and temporal contexts. We use ethnographic accounts of courtship, wedding, and placemaking practices in two different societies and find that: a) social and environmental rituals often make salient the couple members' relationship to one another and their degree of obligation to their families and society; b) events almost always involve significant use of the physical environment in terms of the location of events, the exchange of gifts, the use of special clothing and objects, etc.; and c) activities occurring during these stages often symbolize and forecast future relationships between dyad members and between the dyad and its family and kin. Although network researchers often take into account the dyad's social context, our analysis suggests that physical and temporal qualities are also important. Carol M. Werner, Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA. THEO VAN TILBURG: Support networks before and after retirement. Changes in one's personal network can be expected to follow after retirement. A certain loss of relationships, for example with colleagues, is inevitable. How do people who are either about to retire or have recently done so react to this life event? Do they form new relationships or deepen their existing ones? Which type of relationships are most likely to be terminated? Is over-benefiting or under-benefiting in support a significant aspect in the termination of relationships? This article addresses these questions on how retirement affects support networks. The data were obtained from 50 men, interviewed before and after retirement. At T2 approximately a third of the personal relationships were no longer part of the network. The average size of the networks had not changed. A larger proportion of network members was unemployed and most of the relationships with colleagues were terminated. The relationships were evaluated as being more pleasant and the frequency of the contact was higher. On the average, the relationships at T2 were with older persons and tended to be more frequently with an acquaintance than those at T1. More exchanges were carried out at T2 than at T1. They were mainly exchanges in which support was given by the respondents to network members, so that there was a small reduction in the overall reciprocity. The results confirm the hypothesis concerning the significance of reciprocity for the stability of exchange relationships. Theo van Tilburg, Department of Research Methods, Free University, Koningslaan 22-24, Amsterdam, 1075 BH, NETHERLANDS. ROBERT M. MILARDO: Comparative methods for delineating social networks. By centering on the assumption that clear conceptualization precedes appropriate measurement, four methods for defining and enumerating personal networks are detailed. Global networks are defined in terms of the domain from which all other personal networks are derived. The three additional types, including significant other, exchange, and interactive networks, are conceptually unique and largely non-overlapping in their memberships. The network types reviewed here do not exhaust all of the methods available for sampling personal networks, but they do represent methods with favorable psychometric properties, and most importantly, clear conceptual foundations. Robert M. Milardo, School of Human Development, 30 Merrill Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA. ======

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Submitted Contents of Issue 9iv (November 1992)

LISA M. REGISTER & TRACY B. HENLEY. The phenomenology of intimacy. Tracy B. Henley, Department of Psychology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA. SALLY PLANALP & ANNE BENSON. Friends' and acquaintances' conversation I: Perceived differences. Sally Planalp, Department of Communication, Campus Box 270, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. KATHERINE A. McGONAGLE, RONALD C. KESSLER & ELIZABETH A. SCHILLING. The frequency and determinants of marital disagreements in a community sample. Ronald C. Kessler Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan, Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, USA. CATHERINE H. STEIN. Ties that bind: Three studies of obligation in adult relationships with family. Catherine H. Stein, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA. J. JILL SUITOR & KARL PILLEMER. Status transitions and marital satisfaction: The case of adult children caring for elderly parents suffering from dementia. J. Jill Suitor, Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA. DAVID L. MORGAN & STEPHEN J. MARCH. The impact of life events on networks of personal relationships: A comparison of widowhood and caring for a spouse with Alzheimer's disease. David L. Morgan, Institute on Aging, Portland Sta te University, Portland, OR 97201, USA. MICHAEL ROSS & DIANE HOLMBERG. Are wives' memories for events in relationships more vivid than their husbands' memories? Michael Ross, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, CANADA.

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New Associate Editors and additional Board members for JSPR announced... Several new committees appointed .... Nominations (including self-nominations) for the major awards close soon .... Time to submit your proposals for the Milwaukee conference (Deadline Nov 1st)... Twenty three new members since July.... Lots of other news

NEW ASSOCIATE EDITORS and board members FOR JSPR Bill Cupach and Alan Vaux have agreed to serve as new JSPR Associate Editors for Communication and for Clinical and Community Psychology respectively. Dan Canary, Judy Fischer, Susan Hendrick, and Sandra Metts have joined the Board and other further changes to the Board and structure of JSPR, including a new Associate Editor for Social Psychology, will be announced in December. Our thanks are due to Kathryn Dindia and Ian Gotlib the retiring Associates for all their efforts on behalf of the Journal.

REMINDERS ABOUT NOMINATING CANDIDATES FOR awards Berscheid Hatfield Award for Distinguished Scholarship: Nominations of candidates "in mid-career" are due by October 9th; Vitas of nominees will be requested Gerald R. Miller Award for Early Career Achievement: Nominations of candidates "in mid-career" are also due by October 9th; Vitas of nominees will be requested and the committee will want a representative paper of the best work of each candidate in addition to the vita. Network Dissertation Award: nominations close November 13th and must be accompanied (or supported) by a paper-length outline of the dissertation work (or a paper derived from the dissertation). Theses must have been deposited before 31st December 1991 to qualify for this round of decisions. Nominations for these awards are not restricted to Network members, and the awards are made by the Network for the furtherance of the field as a whole.

REMINDER ABOUT MILWAUKEE PROPOSAL DEADLINES Proposals for papers and symposia for the Milwaukee conference (June 3-7, 1993) are due to Kathryn Dindia by November 1st 1992.

NEW NETWORK COMMITTEES As announced in the June Newsletter the Network has formed several new committees (listed in full below) to help in the devolution of management, conduct of business, and formation/implementation of policy for the future. You are invited to contact these committees to express your views on the issue with which they are concerned. We are grateful to all these Network members for their willingness to serve on the committees.

WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE The following Network members have agreed to serve as a Ways and Means Committee to assess member opinion about the future structure of the Network and to develop plans to create such a structure, including a constitution, if that is what member want, and also to consider other matters of future Network policy. Dan Canary (Chair)(Communication, Univ of Iowa), Susan Boon (Psychology, Calgary), Kathryn Dindia (Communication, Univ of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Michael Hecht (Communication, Arizona State), Bill Ickes (Psychology, UTexas-Arlington), Nancy Kingsbury (Family Science, Texas Women's Univ), Gwynn Mettetal (Education, Indiana U South Bend), Carole Pistole (Counseling, Memphis State), Ron Riggio (Psychology, CalState, Fullerton), Pepper Schwartz (Sociology, U Washington), Karen Shafer (Communcation, Southern Oregon State College), Kathy Werking (Communication, U of Louisville), Ron Wright (Sociology, Indiana U). [More invitations to serve on this committee are out but the persons either are away or had not replied by press time]

TASK FORCE ON POSSIBLE BIASES IN THE FIELD The following Network members have agreed to act as a Task Force to investigate possible biases in research on relationships and, in particular, to assess the status of marginalized groups and their representation in relationship work. Larry Kurdek (Chair) (Psychology, Wright State Univ), Dana De Hart (Psychology, Univ of Louisville), Stan Gaines (Psychology, UNC-CH), Robin Goodwin (Psychology, Univ of Keele, UK), Carol Hodne (Psychology, Univ of Iowa), Chris Inman (Communication, UNC-CH), Renee Lyons (Leisure Studies, Dalhousie, Canada), Abran Salazar (Communication, Texas A&M), Ted Spencer (Communication, Eastern Washington Univ), Paul Wright (Psychology, UND-Grand Forks).

PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE The following Network members have agreed to constitute a Publications Committee to consider the publications that are offered to members, to plan out new outlets that may be desired, to oversee JSPR and eventually, with agreement from SAGE, to become the body responsible for recommending the appointment of Editors and Associate Editors for JSPR. Michael Cunningham (Chair)(Psychology, U of Louisville), Diane Badzinski (Communcation, Nebraska), Tom Bradbury (Psychology, UCLA), Bill Cupach (Communication, Illinois State), Margie Geasler (Family Studies, Western Michigan U), Rowdie Miller (Psychology, Sam Houston State), Judi Beinstein Miller (Psychology, Oberlin College), Chuck Tardy (Communication, U of Southern Mississippi). [Other invitations to serve on this committee are out but the persons either were away or had not replied by press time]

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS COMMITTEE The following Network members have agreed to be a Committee on Conferences and Workshops that will develop plans for future convention events (including conferences, min-conferences, workshops, graduate meetings) and will generally consider the broad range and frequency of such offerings that the Network provides for the community of scholars in this field. Jerry Hale (Chair)(Communication, Georgia), Mary Banski (Communication, UTexas-Austin), Kim Dolgin (Psychology, Ohio Wesleyan U), Mary Gulley (Psychology, U of Louisville), Valerie Manusov (Communication, Rutgers), Greg Morrow (Psychology, Edinboro U), Greg Pettit (Family & Child Devel, Auburn U), Catherine Radecki- Bush (Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth U), Deb Saidla (Counseling, NC State U), Nelly Vanzetti (Psychology, U of Tulsa).[Other invitations to serve on this committee are out but the persons either were away or had not replied by press time].

MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS COMMITTEE The following Network members have agreed to be on a Membership Benefits Committee that will consider the range of benefits offered to members and devise ways of developing them to meet member needs Cecilia Solano (Chair) (Psychology, Wake Forest), Carol Hodne (Psychology, U of Iowa), Jim Ponzetti (Home Economics, Central Washington U), Don Sharpsteen (Psychology, U of Missouri-Rolla), Brian Spitzberg (Communication, SDSU). [Other invitations to serve on this committee are out but the persons either were away or had not replied by press time]

GRADUATE MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE The following Network members have agreed to serve on Graduate Membership Development Committee that will consider the offerings of the Network for Graduate students and will devise ways to extend and develop them to meet member needs Anne Beall (Chair) (Psychology, Yale), Michele Acker (ISR, Michigan), Melanie Barnes (Comm, Iowa), Rachel Berman (Fam Stud, Guelph), Julie Carberry (Hum Dev, UT-Dallas), Perri Druen (Psych, Louisville), Tara Emmers (Communication, Ohio U), Diane Holmberg (ISR Michigan), JoAnn Mooney (Psych, Kansas), Warren Reich (Psych, Rutgers), Peter Sainsbury (Public Health, Liverpool, UK), Charles Silver (Communication, ASU, Tempe).

BERSCHEID-HATFIELD AWARD The following have agreed to serve on the Berscheid-Hatfield Award Committee for Distinguished Mid-career contributions to the field of research in personal relationships Pat Frazier (Chair) (Psych, U of Minnesota), Niall Bolger (Psych, NYU), Irene Frieze (Psych, Univ of Pittsburgh), Greg Leichty (Communication, U of Louisville), Bill Owen (Communication, Cal State Sacramento), Elaine Scharfe (Psych, Simon Fraser), Marilyn Senchak (Res Inst on Alcoholism, Buffalo, NY), Laura Stafford (Communication, Ohio State), Jan Stets (Sociology, Washington State, Pullman), Mike Sunnafrank (Communication, U of MN, Duluth).

GERALD R. MILLER AWARD The following committee will review the nominees and make the award of the Gerald R Miller Award for Early Career Achievement: Paul Mongeau (Chair) (Communication, Miami U, OH), Walid Afifi (Communication, U of Arizona), Jamie Comstock (Communcation, U of West Florida), Pam Kalbfleisch (Communication, U of Kentucky), Jane Ledingham (Child Study Ctr, U of Ottawa), Rosemary Mills (Family Studies, Univ of Manitoba), Elliot Robins (Psychology, Antioch U), Tom Socha (Communication, Old Dominion), Melanie Trost (Communication, Arizona State Univ). [Other invitations to serve on this committee are out but the persons either were away or had not replied by press time]

NETWORK ANNUAL DISSERTATION AWARD The following committee will review the nominated dissertation papers and make the award of the Network's dissertation prize. Kim Bartholomew (Psychology, Simon Fraser), Marianne Dainton (Communication, Ohio State), Daena Goldsmith (Communication, Maryland), Marilyn Montgomery (Hum Devel & Family Studies, Texas Tech), Jim Tolhuizen (Communication, Indiana U Northwest), JoEllen Vespo (Psychology, Syracuse U) [Other invitations to serve on this committee, including the invitation to chair, are out but the persons either were away or had not replied by press time]

NETWORK OUTREACH COMMITTEE The following huge committee, which is actually broken down into smaller and more manageable local cells, is charged with establishing links with other groups of scholars interested in relationship work and with developing constructive scholarly connections with those groups. Ann Elisabeth Auhagen (Instituet fuer Psychologie, Freie Universitaet Berlin), Anita P. Barbee,(Department of Psychology, University of Louisville), Hans Bierhoff, (Dept of Psychology, University of Marburg), Gloria W. Bird (Blacksburg, VA), Virginia Blankenship (Department of Psychology, Northern Arizona University), Robert G. Bringle (Department of Psychology, Purdue Univ at Indianapolis), Judee K. Burgoon (Department of Communication, University of Arizona), Alberta Contarello (Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Padova, Italy), Stanley Gaines (Psychology Dept, UNC-CH), Lawrence Ganong (Dept of Hum Devel., Univ of Missouri-Columbia), Nancy Genero (Wellesley College, MA), Elery Hamilton-Smith (Victoria, Australia), Mannfred Hassebrauck (University of Mannheim), Danielle Julien (Department of Psychology, University of Quebec), Pamela J. Kalbfleisch (Department of Communication, Univ of Kentucky), Karen Kayser (Graduate School of Social Work, Boston College), Anton Rupert Laireiter (Instituet fuer Psychologie, Univ of Salzburg), Michael E. Lamb (Section on Social & Emotional Devel, NICHD), Ofra Mayseless (School of Education, Haifa University), Gwendolyn Mettetal (Dept of Education, Indiana Univ at South Bend), Rosemary S. L. Mills (Dept of Family Studies, Univ of Manitoba), Robert A. Neimeyer (Department of Psychology, Memphis State University), Patricia Parmelee (Philadelphia Geriatric Center), Beth Paul (Trenton State College), Robyn Penman (Communication Research Institute of Australia Inc), Candida Peterson (Dept of Psychology, University of Queensland), Karl Pillemer (Human Devel & Fam Studies, Cornell University), Jim Query, Jr. (Dept of Communication, University of Tulsa), Rebecca Renwick (Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Toronto), Robert G. Ryder, (University of Connecticut), Ronald M. Sabatelli (Human Develop & Fam Relations, University of Connecticut), Barry Schneider (Dept of Applied Psych, Univ of Toronto), Karlein Schreurs (Dept of Clinical and Health Psych, Utrecht, Netherlands), Stephan F.B. Van den Broucke (Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Leuven), Myra Vernooij-Dassen (Dept of General Practice, Univ of Nijmegen), Deborah Weider-Hatfield (School of Communication, University of Central Florida), Barbara A. Winstead (Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University).

BOOKS BY MEMBERS Pam KALBFLEISCH [Ed] (in press) Interpersonal Communication: Evolving Interpersonal Relationships Erlbaum: Hillsdale. Peter NARDI (1992) Men's friendships, SAGE: Newbury Park Pat O'CONNOR (1992) Friendships between women: A critical review. [Harvester/Wheatsheaf Press: UK] Guilford: New York

GRANTS WON BY NETWORK MEMBERS Perri DRUEN has won an APA student travel grant for a presentation on Honesty and deception Carol MASHETER has won two grants to study post-divorce relationships between ex-spouses, one in urban Utah, one in rural Utah. Barry WELLMAN has won a $3million grant (with three computer scientists) to develop and evaluate a computer- supported co-operative work system using personal video and simultaneous computer files.

MEMBERS ON THE MOVE Susan BOON has moved to Dept of Psychology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Sandra COTTON has a new e-mail: [email protected]. Cynthia CROWN has been promoted and tenured at the Psychology Dept at Xavier University. Carolyn CUTRONA and Dan RUSSELL have both taken Full Professorships at Iowa State University in Ames. Stan GAINES has moved to Dept of Psychology, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 to work with Caryl Rusbult. Stella GARCIA has taken a temporary position as Assistant Professor in the Dept of Psychology, North Dakota State University. Nancy GROTE is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology teaching Psychology of Women, Gender and Intimacy, and Intro to Psych at Smith for this year Holly LATTY-MANN has moved to a postdoctoral position in the Dept of Psychology, Kent State University and will work on clinical re-specialization. Pat O'CONNOR has been appointed Director of the MA Program in Women's Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland. Becky L. OMDAHL has moved to the Dept of Speech Communication, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Beth PAUL has moved to Department of Psychology, Trenton State College, Trenton NJ, where she will start out as Assistant Prof teaching Personality and Gender. Barry SCHNEIDER has a new e-mail and phone as a result of his move to Toronto, previously announced: BSCHNEIDER@UTOROISE (416) 923-6641, Phil SHAVER is moving to Dept of Psychology, Univ of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616-8686. [email protected] Charles SILVER has a new e-mail: [email protected] Ted SPENCER has taken a position as an Associate at the Dept of Communication Studies of the Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 99004 (509) 359-2875 (after Sept 14th). Debbie WRIGHT has moved to the NICHD Study of early Child Care, Dept of Psychology, Weiss Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122 (215) 787-7894 [email protected]

NEWS OF MEMBERS Diane BADZINSKI has been awarded the Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln Parents' Association Recognition Award for Contributions to Students. Victoria BEDFORD is presently completing a third wave of a longitudinal study of sibling relationships in middle and old age, and trying out a new diary method for studying "symbolic" relationships. Stephen J. BREWER has been awarded the Edward Victor Gant Scholarship for 1992 at the University of Connecticut. Marilyn COLEMAN's e-mail is different from the one listed in the Directory: HDFSSTEP@MIZZOU1 (The last character is a one) Perri DRUEN has started a dissertation on Strategies of relationship selection: Cumulative influence of past partners Larry GANONG's e-mail is subtly different from the one listed in the Directory: NURSGANO@MIZZOU1 (The last character is a one) Elery HAMILTON-SMITH has been appointed to a Personal Research Chair in Leisure Studies (=Distinguished Research Professor) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Edith LEFEBVRE has been granted tenure at Cal State University, Sacramento Kathy MCKINNEY has been selected as the new editor of Teaching Sociology, an ASA-sponsored journal. Don O'MEARA (he wrote this himself) has been "finally promoted to Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati." Rose PERRINE has acquired a new e-mail address, which is PSYPRRE@EKU. Lynne M. WEBB served as a visiting scholar in the Dept of Telecommunications, University of Florida during summer 1992. Barry WELLMAN has acquired a modified e-mail address: [email protected]

MEMBERS SEEKING HELP Kathyrn DINDIA and Mike ALLEN are conducting a meta-analysis on similarity and attraction. If you have thesis, dissertation, published or unpublished study on the topic, please send them a copy (Dept of Communication, Univ of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee WI 53201, USA. Perri DRUEN would like to get in touch with people working on personal constructs/assessments of constructs; development of mental models of relationships; and influence of prior relationships on current one. If anyone has reprints on any of these topics, please send them to her. Edith LEFEBVRE has recently published a student workbook entitles Effective Communication for Leadership and is interested in corresponding with anyone interested in the topic of effective communication skills for leaders. Rose PERRINE is exploring emotional support within teacher-student interactions and is especially interested in the potential for oversupport by teachers, i.e., giving too much support to a student. She would like to hear from anyone working on similar projects.

NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following new members who have joined the Network since June 1992 (* those who are asterisked unfortunately joined after the Directory was printed and so their addresses and details are given here as a supplement): Meredith BOMBAR, Marjolein BROESE VAN GROENOU, Cynthia BURGGRAF, Helen COWIE, Kim DOLGIN, Mark A. FINE, Robert A. HINDE, Christopher INMAN, Nancy KINGSBURY, Leon KUCZYNSKI, Martin KUMPF, Lyn H. LOFLAND, Karol MAYBURY*, Jean RHODES*, Michael ROLOFF, Chris SEGRIN, Peter K. SMITH, Michael SPERLING, Brenda STEWART, John SYLVESTRE, Albert TUSKENIS*, Nelly A. VANZETTI, Alan VAUX*, Hans O.F. VEIEL Karol MAYBURY Dept of Psychology, Univ of California, Davis, CA 95616 USA (916) 752-1869 (o) Jean RHODES, Dept of Psychology, 603 East Daniel St, Univ of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 333-4941. Albert TUSKENIS Dept of Psychology M/C 285, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, BOX 4348, Chicago, IL 60680 USA (312) 996-3036 (o) Alan VAUX, Psychology Dept, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901 (618) 453-3550.

...who have the following interests Meredith BOMBAR, Exploratory study of babytalk in close adult romantic relationships; undergraduate textbook in progress. Marjolein BROESE VAN GROENOU, Changes in relationships after divorce (PhD), networks of the elderly (55-89 yrs) in relation to life-events, support, well-being, loneliness. Cynthia BURGGRAF, Examining the influence of cultural beliefs about 'good' communication on marital communication behaviors. Helen COWIE, Friendships in multi-ethnic classrooms; Cooperative group work. Kim DOLGIN, Disclosure by adolescents; parents disclosure to children. Mark A. FINE, Effects of family processes on child and adolescent adjustment; social cognition and relation to adjustment. Christopher INMAN, Masculine orientations toward closeness in relationships. Nancy KINGSBURY, Difference on relationship characteristics for relationship state. Leon KUCZYNSKI, New interest in 'Relationship Based Compliance' -- impact of parent-child relationship on influence and cooperation. Also interested in parent-child friendship and intimacy. Lyn H. LOFLAND, Completing manuscript of The Public Realm: Quintessential City Life Karol MAYBURY, Strategies for managing feelings of romantic love. Jean RHODES, Mentoring relationships with at risk adolescents, social support among African-American teenage mothers. Michael ROLOFF, I am studying the tendency of intimates to withhold complaints from their partners. I am also investigating how interpersonal influence is achieved. Chris SEGRIN, Social skills and psychosocial problems. Peter K. SMITH, Friendship and play in children; bully-victim relationships. Michael SPERLING, Focus on adult attachment, mental representations in normal and psychopathological populations - theoretical and measurement issues. Brenda STEWART, The effects of empathy, love attitudes, and conflict tactics on relationship satisfaction. John SYLVESTRE, A qualitative study of youth ties with non-parental adults. Albert TUSKENIS, Assessment of working models of attachment relationships using rep grid technique (See note above in "Members seeking help" under Perri Druen) Nelly A. VANZETTI, Cognitions in marriage; prediction of marital distress/dissolution; gender differences in marital functioning. Alan VAUX, Social support and well-being, social support and attachment, antisocial personality and social betrayals. Hans O.F. VEIEL, Conditions of relapse and recovery in discharged psychiatric patients. Psychological factors. Cross- cultural comparison of social networks.

.. who use the following methods in their work Meredith BOMBAR, Rubin's Love Scale; BSRI; Hazan & Shaver's Attachment Paragraphs, Adapt H&S Attachment measure to distinguish overall style & style in a specific relation. Marjolein BROESE VAN GROENOU, Network identification, support measures, deJong Gierveld Scale of Loneliness, Own method of network identification. Cynthia BURGGRAF, Fitzpatrick's Relational Dimensions Instrument, Helen COWIE, Ethnographic Methods, Sociometric Status Kim DOLGIN, Self-developed disclosure inventories. Mark A. FINE, Self-report measures of family processes (warmth, order, supervision, interest, conflict). Nancy KINGSBURY, Conflict scales, Rubric Love Scale, PAIR Leon KUCZYNSKI, Observation, Diaries, Interview Martin KUMPF, Sternberg Love Scale Jean RHODES, Social Support Measure (SSNQ), Mentoring Questionnaire Chris SEGRIN, Social Skills Inventory; Beck Depression Inventory, Peter K. SMITH, Questionnaires, Observation Michael SPERLING, Attached Style Inventory, Attachment Style Inventory - separates styles from security dimension and yields continuances. Albert TUSKENIS, Rep Grid, Attachment Questionnaires, Rep grid method of working models of attachment. Nelly A. VANZETTI, Marital Agendas Protocol; Marital Adjustment Test. Alan VAUX, Social support resources, social support behaviors, social support appraisals, network orientation scale, attachment scales (Simpson, Collins & Read), UCLA Loneliness scale. Hans O.F. VEIEL, Mannheim Interview on Social Support.

...and produced the following publications (details reproduced as supplied) Cynthia BURGGRAF, Sillars, A.L., Burggraf, C.S., Yost, S., & Zietlow, P. (1992). Conversational themes and marital relationship definitions. Human Communication Research, 19, 124-154., Helen COWIE, Cowie, H. (1911). Understanding children's development Cowie, H. (1989). Learning together, working together Cowie, H. (1990). Learning from one another: The Challenge. In H. Foote (Ed) Helping Children. Kim DOLGIN, Dolgin, Meyer, & Schwartz (1991). Sex Roles, 25, 311-329 Mark A. FINE, Fine, M.A., Kurdek, L.A., & Hennigen, L. (1992). Perceived self-competence and its relations to step family myths and step parent role ambiguity in adolescents from stepfather and stepmother families Fine, M.A., & Kurdek, L.A. (in press). The adjustment of adolescents in stepfather and stepmother families. Journal of Marriage and the Family. Kurdek, L.A., & Fine, M.A. (in press). Parent and nonparent residential family members as providers of warmth and supervision in young adolescents. Journal of Family Psychology. Nancy KINGSBURY, Kingsbury, N., & Scarzoni, J. (in press). Structural-functionalism. In Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods. New York: Plenum Press. Kingsbury, N., & Greenwood, L. (1992). Fertility expectations and employment across three female cohorts. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 13, 1, 73-93 Leon KUCZYNSKI, Kuczynski, L., & Kochanska, G.M. (1990). The development of children's noncompliance strategies from toddlerhood to age 5. Developmental Psychology, 26, 398-408. Kuczynski, L. (in press). The concept of compliance in childrearing interactions. In J. Janssens & J. Gerris (Eds.) Childrearing and the Child's Prosocial and Moral Development. Swets & Zeitlinger Kochanska, G., & Kuczynski, L. (in press). Maternal autonomy granting: Predictors of normal and depressed mothers' compliance with the requests of 5-year olds. Child Development. Martin KUMPF, Kumpf, M. (1990). History of Social Psychology Kumpf, M. (1991). Action Control and Political Participation. Kumpf, M. (in press). Taking Disability into Account. Lyn H. LOFLAND, Lofland, L.H. (in press). Social interaction: Continuities and complexities in the study of non- intimate sociality. In K. Cook, G. Fine & J House (Eds.) Sociological Perspectives on Social Psychology Lofland, L.H., & Cahill, S.E. (Eds.) (in press). Community of the streets. JAI Press. Jean RHODES, Rhodes, J. (in press). Natural mentors: An overlooked resource in the social networks of young African-American mothers. American Journal of Community Psychology. Michael ROLOFF, Jordan, J.M., & Roloff, M.E. (1990). Acquiring assistance from others. Human Communication Research, 16, 519-555. Roloff, M.E., Janisew, C.A. (1989). Overcoming obstacles to interpersonal compliance. Human Communication Research, 16, 33-61. Cloven, D.H., & Roloff, M.E. (1991). Sense-making activity and interpersonal conflict. Western Journal of Speech Communication, 55, 134-158. Chris SEGRIN, Segrin, C. (in press). Interpersonal reactions to dysphoria. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Segrin, C. (in press). Specifying the nature of social skill deficits associated with depression. Human Communication Research Segrin, C., & Dillard, J. (1992). The interactional theory of depression: A meta-analysis of the research literature. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 11, 43-70. Peter K. SMITH, Smith, P.K. (Ed) (1991). The psychology of grandparenting Michael SPERLING, Sperling, M.B., Berman, W.H., & Fagen, G. (in press). Classification of adult attachment: An integrative taxonomy. Journal of Personal Assessment. Sperling, M.B., & Berman, W.H. (1991). An attachment classification of desperate love. Journal of Personality Assessment. Sperling, M.B., Shorp, J.L., & Fishler, P.H. (1991). On the nature of attachment in a borderline population. Psychological Reports. John SYLVESTRE, Sylvestre, J.C., & Gottlieb, B.H. (1992). A critical appraisal of supported employment for persons with developmental disabilities. Developmental Disabilities Bulletin, 20 (4). Nelly A. VANZETTI, Vanzetti, N.A., Notarius, C., & Nee Smith, D. (in press). Specific and generalized expectancies in marital interactions. Journal of Family Psychology. Alan VAUX, Vaux, A. (1988) Social support: Theory, research and intervention NY: Praeger Vaux, A. (1991) The assessment of social support. In H. O. F. Veiel & U. Baumann (Eds) The meaning and measurement of social support. NY: Hemisphere Hobfoll, S. E. & Vaux, A. (in press) Social support: Social resources and social context. In S. Goldenberger & S. Breznitz (Eds) Handbook of Stress NY: Wiley. Hans O.F. VEIEL, Veiel, H.O.F. The Mannheim Interview on Social Support (MISS). Reliability and validity data from three samples. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 25, 250-259. Veiel, H.O.F., & Baumann, U. (Eds.). The meaning and measurement of social support. New York: Hemisphere. Veiel, H.O.F., Kuhner, Ch., Brill, G., Ihle, W. (in press). Psychosocial correlates of clinical depression after psychiatric in-patient treatment:

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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

Contents of Issue 9iv (November 1992)

LISA M. REGISTER & TRACY B. HENLEY. The phenomenology of intimacy. Intimacy is a topic of importance with respect to many aspects of relationship theory and a variety of academic disciplines. A consideration of the literature reveals much research but little consensus on even such basic issues as a definition of intimacy. Given that, a phenomenological study was done to determine what ordinary people meant by, and experienced as, intimacy. Results of that study revealed seven major components to intimate experiences. These included: Non-Verbal Communication, Presence, Time, Boundary, Body, Destiny/Surprise, and Transformation. The relationship between these results and previous research is discussed. Tracy B. Henley, Department of Psychology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA.

SALLY PLANALP & ANNE BENSON. Friends' and acquaintances' conversational: Perceived differences. Although interaction and intimacy are widely recognized as key concepts in understanding personal relationships, comprehensive theories of differences between intimate and non-intimate relationships have been grounded primarily in self-reports of general communication patterns rather than in observed interaction. This study was designed to investigate what observable cues in conversations distinguish friends' from acquaintances' conversations. Excerpts from 36 conversations were audiotaped and played to observers who judged whether the conversations were between friends or acquaintances and what cues they used to make their judgments. Those cues served as the basis for an inductively- derived category system. Major findings were that judges were 80% accurate and their judgments were based on a wide variety of cues. About half of the cues that could be coded reliably fell into three categories: mutual knowledge, intimacy of self-disclosure, and relaxation. The other half, however, were dispersed across 27 other types of cues. Implications of these findings are then drawn for several existing theories and for further research. Sally Planalp, Department of Communication, Campus Box 270, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

KATHERINE A. McGONAGLE, RONALD C. KESSLER & ELIZABETH A. SCHILLING. The frequency and determinants of marital disagreements in a community sample. Although information about marital disagreements is included in most scales of marital quality, disagreements have generally not been studied as outcomes of importance in their own right. This is unfortunate in light of recent research documenting that marital disagreements have a powerful effect on mental health over and above the effects of marital quality. In this report, we describe a prospective analysis of the frequency and determinants of marital disagreements aimed at taking a first step toward treating disagreements as important in their own right. The analysis is based on a two-wave community survey of married couples that obtained basic descriptive information about both the frequency of marital disagreements and a variety of social and personal characteristics that might be their determinants. Results show that nearly all respondents report having marital disagreements at least some of the time, with the vast majority reporting average frequencies between one and two disagreements per month. Prospective analyses of daily diaries obtained from a random subsample of the survey respondents confirmed the accuracy of these retrospective frequency estimates. Multiple regression analyses revealed that personality and social support are the most powerful predictors of disagreement frequency. We close with a discussion of the implications of these results for future research on marital disagreements. Ronald C. Kessler Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan, Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, USA.

CATHERINE H. STEIN. Ties that bind: Three studies of obligation in adult relationships with family. This paper reports three exploratory studies that describe aspects of obligation in ongoing relationships with family. Using independent samples of young married couples and single, college age adults, five dimensions of felt obligation were identified as expectations for appropriate behavior about: 1) family contact and participation in family ritual; 2) assistance; 3) conflict avoidance; 4) self-sufficiency and 5) personal sharing in specific relationships with kin. Initial evidence of convergent and discriminant validity was established for the felt obligation measure. Gender differences in felt obligation dimensions were found across studies with women generally reporting higher levels of obligation than did men. Felt obligation differed as a function of kin role relationship (i.e. parents and in-laws, mother, father) across the three studies. Among married couples, felt obligation towards parents was related to higher levels of psychological symptomatology, depression and neuroticism for men but were not significantly related to mental health scores for women. The usefulness of the concept of felt obligation in the study of adult family relationships is discussed. Catherine H. Stein, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA. J. JILL SUITOR & KARL PILLEMER. Status transitions and marital satisfaction: The case of adult children caring for elderly parents suffering from dementia. This article uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative data to examine the factors explaining marital satisfaction among 117 women who recently began caring for an elderly parent with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia. The analysis examines the relative importance of the demands of caregiving, other social statuses the caregiver occupies (employment and parenting of minor children), husband's provision of instrumental and emotional support, and husband's behaviors that hinder the caregiving effort. The findings indicated that husband's hindrance and emotional support were related to marital satisfaction, while husband's instrumental support was not. None of the other variables in the analysis was important in explaining marital satisfaction. These findings are consistent with other recent studies that demonstrate the relative importance of spouses' emotional support and hindrance in explaining marital satisfaction following status transitions. J. Jill Suitor, Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.

DAVID L. MORGAN & STEPHEN J. MARCH. The impact of life events on networks of personal relationships: A comparison of widowhood and caring for a spouse with Alzheimer's disease. This paper investigates the effects of different life events on networks of personal relationships through a comparison of recent widows and caregivers for a spouse with Alzheimer's Disease. In both cases, we collected qualitative data from focus groups and coded each mention of another person according to their relationship to the widow or caregiver and whether the person was mentioned positively, neutrally, or negatively. The results show that there were notable differences between widows' networks of relationships and those of caregivers. Widows not only mentioned more people in their networks, but also mentioned these relationships in a more positive or a negative fashion, while caregivers made fewer mentions of other people and in a more neutral fashion. Comparing the effects of the two life events shows that widowhood generates changes that have impacts throughout the social network, while caregiving leads to a life that is centered on the intense demands of caring for the spouse. This difference suggests the importance of studying changes in relationships and networks across a broad range of life events. As individuals move through the lifecourse, life events that create changes are a certainty, and we need to learn how such changes affect social networks and personal relationships. David L. Morgan, Institute on Aging, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201, USA.

MICHAEL ROSS & DIANE HOLMBERG. Are wives' memories for events in relationships more vivid than their husbands' memories? Gender differences in socialization and marital roles may lead wives to attend more closely to relationship interactions than their spouses do; wives may also assign greater importance to such interactions and deliberate more about them. As a result, wives would possess more vivid memories than their husbands have for events in their relationship. Spouses tape-recorded descriptions of their first date together, a shared vacation, and an argument between the two of them. They subsequently assessed the clarity of their own recall of each event. Women reported more vivid memories than did their husbands. Women also attributed greater personal importance to the events, reported reminiscing about them more often, and expressed more affect in their event descriptions than did their husbands. the best predictors of spouses' clarity ratings were frequency of reminiscing about the event and, for the argument, outcome of the dispute. After reading typed transcripts of spouses' descriptions of each event, observers completed the same clarity of recall questions as the couples. Observers judged the women's recall to be more vivid. The best predictor of observers' clarity judgments was the number of affective statements in a description. The results were discussed in terms of their implications for social memory and marital relations. Michael Ross, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, CANADA. ======

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Submitted contents Volume 10(i) issue: Feb 1993 LINDA K. ACITELLI, ELIZABETH DOUVAN, & JOSEPH VEROFF: Perceptions of Conflict in the First Years of Marriage: How Important are Similarity and Understanding? Linda K. Acitelli, The University of Michigan, 5080 Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1248, USA. CHERYL BUEHLER & BOBBIE H. LEGG: Mothers' Receipt of Social Support and Their Psychological Well- Being Following Marital Separation. Cheryl Buehler, Department of Child and Family Studies, JHB 115, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA. KARIN S. PRINS, BRAM P. BUUNK & NICO W. VANYPEREN: Equity, Normative Disapproval, and Extramarital Relationships. Karin S. Prins, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, Groningen, 9712 TS, Netherlands. PATRICIA A. FRAZIER & STEPHEN W. COOK: Correlates of Distress Following Heterosexual Relationship Dissolution. Patricia A. Frazier, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. DON J. SHARPSTEEN: Romantic Jealousy as an Emotion Concept: A Prototype Analysis. Don J. Sharpsteen, Department of Psychology, University of Missouri, Rolla, MO 65401, USA. CHRIS SEGRIN: Interpersonal Reactions to Dysphoria: The Role of Relationship with Partner and Perceptions of Rejection. Chris Segrin, Department of Communication Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-2177, USA. VINCENT JEFFRIES: Virtue and Attraction: Validation of a Measure of Love. Vincent Jeffries, Department of Sociology, California State University, Northridge, CA, 91330, USA. Invited Program Overview JULIA C. BABCOCK & NEIL S. JACOBSON. A program of research on behavioral marital therapy: Hot spots and smoldering embers in marital therapy research. Neil S. Jacobson, Department of Psychology, NI-25, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. BRIAN H. SPITZBERG: The Dialectics of (In)competence. Brian H. Spitzberg, Department of Speech Communication, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 92182, USA. ======

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ABSTRACT Student travel awards announced .... Two new Associate Editors announced for new sections of JSPR ... JSPR's astonishing attainments in SSCI's Impact Figures revealed ... Personal Relationship Issues, a new official publication for Network members launched ... Preliminary program for Milwaukee conference enclosed, book now!!!!

GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS TO MILWAUKEE CONFERENCE I messed up. I forgot to announce in the last Newsletter that the Network's Graduate Student Travel Awards competition will be held again for the Milwaukee conference. The Network will be making these awards on the basis of rank ordering of papers submitted for the conference. There will be one $100 award, one $75 award and one $50 award. If you are a graduate student who submitted a paper for review by the readers and you did not identify yourself as a graduate student (or even if you did, just to be sure) then please contact Kathryn Dindia by January 31st absolute latest (your notice must reach her by then, postdate irrelevant) and make sure that your paper is considered for the awards. Results will be announced in the March Newsletter and successful candidates will be informed personally before then so they can make their plans ahead of time. two NEW ASSOCIATE EDITORS FOR JSPR Barbara Sarason and Beverley Fehr have agreed to serve as Associate Editors respectively for two new sections: Personality and Individual Differences, and Social Psychology.

JSPR HITS THE STRATOSPHERE As you know the Social Sciences Citation Index does a collation of details from selected journals and regularly cites and incorporates them into SSCI's citation indices. It is by no means automatic for journals to be included and very many are not selected, especially new ones that have not yet proven themselves. Deans and promotion committees very often consult these listings in order to assess the relative quality of the places where faculty publishes its work, so listing in the rankings is an important mark of success for a relatively new journal. Publication in unlisted journals may count for much less in Tenure and Promotion reviews or may even be disregarded. JSPR is one of the chosen journals and so is also included in the SSCI annual compilation of ratings of Impact and Ranking. Because of the time it takes to get this stuff analysed, SSCI usually runs some way behind the calendar, and the figures for 1990 have just been released on microfiche in the Journal Citation Report. At a time when journals are finding it increasingly difficult to get going or to survive as library budgets are cut back, I am very pleased to report that JSPR has substantially increased its rankings even over the last year (figures given in brackets for comparison). Our Impact Factor (roughly speaking the importance, as judged by citations, of articles published in JSPR) has increased to 1.136 (0.815), our Impact Rank of all journals in the social sciences (some 2000 are analysed in this report, and that is not all that there are!) has improved to 187 (304 in 1989, but 1187 in 1987!!). We are now ranked 5th most influential social psychology journal (their classification, not mine), where JPSP is ranked 1, and PSPB is 8th out of some 28 that are listed. If they had classified us in Family Studies we would rank 6th out of 19, in Sociology we'd be 6th out of 79, in Communication (a broader category than human interpersonal communication) we'd be TOP RANKED out of 21 (even ABOVE HCR!), in Clinical Psych we'd be 11th out of 42, in Applied Psychology 9th out of 26, Social Issues 4th out of 26, and in Developmental Psych we'd be 6th out of 28. These figures are really quite dramatic for a journal this young and may help you to persuade the administration about the quality of effect that the Network is having. Also it may help you to make your case for retaining JSPR in any library cuts that are coming your way, or to argue for acquisition of JSPR in the library as against other journals. personal relationship issues: a new member benefit As will have become apparent when you opened the packet that contained this Newsletter, a new Network publication Personal Relationship Issues is now being provided to members and will be published every six months. The editor, Art Van Lear has outlined the policies of PRI and invites your inputs by means of a questionnaire that should be returned to him. You are also invited to submit articles on contentious professional issues, reactions and discussions of previous articles and so on. Our hope is that this outlet will provide a useful forum for the discussion of ideas that concern our practices as scholars, as distinct from the research ideas that we might specifically test and expound in articles in JSPR, JMF, Family Rels, JPSP, etc.

MORE ON THE NETWORK'S NEW COMMITTEES The following have now agreed to serve on the Network Committees in addition to those already indicated in the previous INN: G. R. Miller Award: Jane Ledingham (Child Study Ctr, U of Ottawa), Elliot Robins (Psychology, Antioch U), Pat Keelan (Psychology, U of Toronto), Sandra Cotton (Psychology, Macquarie U. Australia), Susan Crohan (Wheelock College) Dissertation Committee: Peggy Clark [Chair] (Psychology, Carnegie Mellon); Leanne Lamke (Dept of Family & Child Development, Auburn Univ); Frederic LeGault (Dep Psychopedagogie, Univ Laval). Membership benefits: Julie Yingling (Communication, Humboldt State); Kathy Adams (Speech Comm, Cal State Fresno), Don Sharpsteen (Psychology, UMissouri-Rolla), Shelley Hymel (Psychology, Univ of Waterloo); David Morgan (Institute on Aging, Portland State Univ) Conferences and workshops: Dorothy Miell (Psychology, Open Univ, UK); Martin Lea (Psychology, UManchester, UK); Beth Paul (Psychology, Trenton College) Publications Committee: Diane Felmlee (Sociology, UC-Davis) Ways and Means Committee: Gila Shusterman (Psychology, Brandeis)

BOOKS BY MEMBERS Gloria BIRD and M. Spirakowski (1992) Taking sides: Clashing views on controversial issues in family and personal relationships. Sluice Dock, CT: Dushkin Larry FREY and others who are not members (1992) Interpreting Communication Research: A case study approach. Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs Peter NARDI (1992) has edited Men's Friendships SAGE Newbury Park. Sandra PETRONIO, J. K. Alberts, Michael HECHT & ?. Buley (Eds) Contemporary Perspectives on Interpersonal Communication W.C. Brown: Dubuque, IA. Barry H. SCHNEIDER (1992) Children's social competence in context: the contribution of family, school and culture. Oxford: Pergamon Julia T. WOOD (1993) Who cares: Women, care, and culture. SIU Press. Julia T. WOOD (1993) Engendered lives: Communication, Gender and Culture Wadsworth.

MEMBERS ON THE MOVE/ONWARDS AND UPWARDS Joel BENNET has moved (kind of) to Box 68, RR1, Winona, MN 55987 Susan BOON is now an Assistant Professor, Univ of Calgary, Alberta, and has completed her dissertation on risk and information processing in dating relationships. Her new FAX number is 403-282-8249 and e-mail is [email protected] Edith BURGER, who moves more than Genghis Khan, has moved again, this time to Trajanstrasse 16, 6500 Mainz, Germany. Nancy COLLINS has just accepted a faculty position at the Dept of Psychology, SUNY Buffalo Susan CROHAN has moved to Wheelock College, Riverway 7, 200 The Riverway, Boston, MA 02215-4176 (617) 734-5200x161. Bob DURAN has been awarded a Yale Visiting Faculty Fellowship to study the application of intelligence theories to communication competence. Larry HOSMAN has been promoted to Full Professor. Frederic LEGAULT has moved to Dep. Psychopedagogie, Fac of education, Universite Laval, Sainte-Foy, Quebec, G1K 7P4, Canada, [email protected] (418) 656-2802. Tim LEVINE has successfully defended his dissertation on Effects of power and message content on success in gaining compliance. He is now an Assistant Professor of Speech at the Dept of Speech, 2560 Campus Road, Univ of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822 (LEVINE@UHCCVX) (808) 956-3324 Bob NEIMEYER has been promoted to Full Professor at Memphis State University, and is it hardly surprising when you look at his vita. Sandra PETRONIO has been appointed Editor of the Western Journal of Speech Communication and would like to encourage Network members to send their work to the journal. Sandra PETRONIO has also been on sabbatical in Edinburgh (Scotland) investigating privacy deprivation of the institutionalized elderly and will be a Visiting Scholar at UC Santa Barbara from March 1993. Michael ROLOFF has been elected Chair of the Dept of Communication Studies at Northwestern Unviersity. Zipora SCHECHTMAN has a new address: 1714 Mark Lane, Rockville, MD 20852, USA. She has been working on development of children's close relationships via group experiences and will be happy to present her work to groups of interested professionals during her sabbatical travels from Israel, which will be based at the above address. Al SILLARS has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor at the University of Montana. Ted SPENCER having now moved to Eastern Washington (see last Newsletter) now has the following technological necessities: TSPENCER@EWUVMS and (509) 359-2875. DOCTOR Ted SPENCER, closely related to the above, has successfully defended his thesis and earned new reasons for our respect. Howard SYPHER has been promoted to Full Professor at the Univ of Kansas Chuck TARDY has been promoted to Full Professor Bruce WAMPOLD has recently, moved to Dept of Counseling Psychology, School of Education, 321 Education Bldg, U of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706. FAX: (608) 265-3347, [email protected]

NEWS OF MEMBERS Tom BRADBURY's e-mail has changed to IASZCMY@UCLAMVS Carol BRUESS has begun a new project on husbands' and wives' perceptions of playful behavior and everyday communication. Brant BURLESON has been appointed editor of the Communication Yearbook. Kim COLLIER's email address is KC63PSYG not KC63PSY6 as I typed it in the Directory. Mike ENZLE's e-mail address was incorrectly typed by me in the Directory. Apologies. But now it has changed anyway to MENZLE@UALTAVM. Jerry GALE now has a fax: 706-542-4862 Carol GOODENOW has a subtly altered e-mail: [email protected] and a FAX: 617-627-3901 Marty KRUGMAN has developed a new pictorial scale for measuring multiple aspects of relationships. Toni LAIREITER has experienced the same subtle change of e-mail address as Elizabeth Reisenzein (see below) Geoff LEATHAM now has a new Bitnet handle in his tropical paradise on Hawaii: [email protected] Beth PAUL now has a new e-mail handle on her tropical paradise in New Jersey: BETHPAUL@TSCVM Elisabeth REISENZEIN has experienced a very subtle change to her e-mail address, which is now: [email protected] (i.e., drop the "1" that used to precede it) Deb RICHARDSON has a modified e-mail: RICHARDD@FAUVAX or alternatively [email protected] Andrew SCHWEBEL now has an e-mail address, and it's a long one: [email protected] STATE.EDU Julie YINGLING has a new e-mail: [email protected]

MEMBERS SEEKING HELP/ADVICE OR COLLABORATION Carol BRUESS would like to hear from anyone using the Iowa Communication Record and would like a copy of studies using it. She would also like to talk to people who use it and find out "why you used it". Jerry GALE would like to hear from people using videotape playback with clinicians and clients in therapy or working on reflexivity in research. Carol GOODENOW would like to hear from people working on adolescent friendships, relationships and educational outcomes. Anyone with any (p)reprints on that topic is also encouraged to send them to Carol. Zipora SCHECHTMAN [see two sections up for new address] would like to get in touch with members exploring the development of personal relationships via group techniques (group counseling, therapy, social skills development). Bruce WAMPOLD would like to hear from members working on social interaction in work settings.

GRANTS WON BY NETWORK MEMBERS Linda ACITELLI has received approx $800,000 for four years from NIMH for a project on "Awareness of Self, Partner and Relationships". Mara ADELMAN won a grant of $3975 from Northwestern U for a longitudinal study of community life in a residential facility for people with AIDS. Joe CAPPELLA and K. Hall Jamieson have won a grant of $175,000 from the Markle Foundation to study viewer processing of broadcast news. Jerry GALE has won a $45000 state funded first offenders program grant for research with families of juvenile court first offenders. Lynn Carol MILLER was recently awarded $100,400 as Program Director for a new AIDS Institutional Predoctoral Training Grant. Linda ROBERTS has won a Scientist Development Award (grant 1992-1997) from ADAMHA on "Alcohol and marital processes: Naturalistic studies" Tom SOCHA has won a grant of $1000 from Old Dominion University to study children's humor development.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES The Department of Communication at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne is seeking a tenure eligible Assistant Professor beginning August 1993. PhD preferred; doctoral candidates in final stages will be considered. The persons appointed will be required to teach effectively, develop a credible program of research, and succeed in professional service roles. The position may include administrative responsibilities for introductory courses. Will teach undergraduate and graduate courses in interpersonal communication and/or organizational communication and some combination of the following: family communication, research methods, interviewing, public relations, small group communication. Applicants should send a letter of application, vita, official graduate and undergraduate transcripts, and at least 3 current letters of reference to: Dr. Robert Martin Department of Communication Neff 230 Indiana University-Purdue University--Ft. Wayne 2101 Coliseum Blvd East Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499 Screening will begin October 26 and continue until the positions are filled. Search committee members will attend the SCA convention in Chicago. Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne is an EEO/AA employer. Applications from women and minorities are particularly encouraged.

Chairperson, Department of Child Development and Family Science, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota. EFFECTIVE: July 1, 1993. This is a full-time, tenure-track position. The chairperson provides leadership and performs administrative and teaching functions for the department's undergraduate programs in Child Development, Family Services, and Family Economics, and graduate programs in Child Development, Family Science and Family Therapy. The Chair conducts and facilitates research in the department and provides overall administrative leadership for the Center for Child Development. QUALIFICATIONS: Earned Doctorate in Human Development, Family Science, or related field. Significant administrative experience and demonstrated leadership competence. Credentials sufficient to qualify for the rank of Associate/Full Professor. Ability to relate and interact effectively with faculty, staff, and students. Demonstrated ability to write grant proposals. Evidence of a focused, on-going program of research, competence as a teacher, and experience in developing and managing budgets. Preference for individuals with a track record in obtaining grant funding, a knowledge of the mission of land grant universities, experience in providing leadership and support in networking with other departments and agencies, experience with microcomputer applications, and a Doctorate in Human Development. SALARY Dependent on qualifications and expertise; TIAA- CREF retirement and BENEFITS: social security; North Dakota Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance benefits. DEPARTMENT: The Department of Child Development and Family Science has nine full-time graduate faculty positions with seven staff members in the Center for Child Development. The department offers graduate programs in Marital and Family Therapy, Child Development, and Family Science. Undergraduate program major options are Child Development, Family Science and Family Economics. The Center for Child Development is an accredited child care Center and along with the Family Studies Institute provides practicum experience for students. The Child Development and Family Science department serves approximately 250 majors. Drawing students mainly from North Dakota and Minnesota, NDSU serves about 9000 students. COMMUNITY: Consistently ranked high in national surveys on quality of life, Fargo is an active center of education, medicine, culture, transportation and commerce in the upper Midwest. The community of Fargo-Moorhead (population 100,000) includes two universities, one college, an excellent public education system and offers the cultural and recreational advantages of theater, extensive park systems, a symphony orchestra and art galleries. We offer an excellent environment and a rewarding pace of life; situated near hundreds of natural lakes, the twin cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul and Winnipeg, Canada. There are opportunities for indoor and outdoor activities. CLOSING DATE: January 15, 1993 or until position is filled. APPLICATIONS: Women and Minorities strongly encouraged to apply. Send letter of application including a statement of academic and administrative interests; curriculum vitae and the name of three individuals willing to provide a professional reference to Dr. Richard Hanson, Chair, Search Committee, Box 5014, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105. Phone number: (701) 237-8931; FAX# (701) 298-1013; e-mail: NU034966@ndsuvm1. NDSU is an equal opportunity employer.

The Department of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa seeks a one year Visitor for Fall 1993 through Spring 1994 in the area of Interpersonal and Small Group Communication. We wish to broaden student exposure to theory and methods not already covered by the present faculty who teach primarily in small group decision making and relational communication. A particular asset would be ability to teach a Communication Theory Course at undergraduate and graduate level. Any area of specialism will be considered. Rank and salary range open. Contact Steve Duck.

NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following new members who have joined since October 1992: Marty Birkholt, Dept of Communication, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1205, USA, (602) 695-0714 Karen Bonnell, Dept of Communication Studies, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN 47712, USA, (812) 464-1968 Al Carlozzi, Dept of Applied Behavioral Studies, 314 N Murray, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA, (407) 744-6036 Amy Cataldi, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Oklahoma, 455 W Lindsey, Norman, OK 73019-0535, USA, AE0067@UOKMVSA, (405) 325-4511 John Caughlin, Dept of Speech Communication, Jesse H Jones Communication Ct, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA, [email protected], (512) 471-7041 Catherine Cohan, Dept of Psychology, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1563, USA, [email protected], Leesa Dillman, Dept of Communication Studies 3W, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA, LDILLMAN@NMSUVM1, (505) 646-4729 Rose Dobrowolski, Dept of Communication Studies, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA, Lyle Flint, Dept of Speech Communication, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA, 00LJFLIN@BSUVAX1, (317) 285-1953 Vickie Harvey, Dept of Human Communication Studies, Univ of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA, (303) 871-2385 Terry Hendrix, SAGE Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Road, Newbury Park, CA 91320, USA, [email protected], (805) 499-0721X213 Joseph Hopper, Dept of Sociology, Ketchum 219 CB327, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA, (303) 442-0976 Yoshinori Kamo, Dept of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA, SOKAMO@LSUVM, (504) 388-1117 (0) Daniel Kaplan, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, M/C 285 1009 BSB, BOX4348 , CHICAGO, IL 60680, USA, U53639@UIUCVM, Tovah Klein, Dept of Psychology, SHS , Duke University, BOX 90085, Durham, NC 27708-0085, USA, TOVAH@DUKEMVS, (919) 660-5711 Robert Lemieux, Dept of Speech Communication, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA, (706) 542-4893 Michael R. Liepman, M.D. , Univ of Massachusetts Medical Schoo, C/o OPD-2/CD Service/Med Ctr, 119 Belmont St, Worcester, MA 01605, USA, (508) 793-6170 Dorothy Markiewicz, Concordia University, School of Graduate Studies, 1455 de Maisonneuve Bld W, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8, Canada, (514) 848-3889 Marifran Mattson, Dept of Communication, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1205, USA, (602) 965-9289 Anne Nicotera, Dept of Human Communication Studies, Sch of Communication, Howard U , 525 Bryant St NW, Washington, DC 20059, USA, NICOTERA@HUMAIN, (202) 806-6711 Theodore P. Peck, 9856 Palm St NW, , Minneapolis, MN 55433, USA, Barbara Pettit, Dept of Psychology, Texas Tech Univ, PO BOX 4100, Lubbock, TX 79409-2051, USA, (806) 742-3737 Michell Phelan, 700 Woodland Ave F207, , Lexington, KY 40508-3423, USA, [email protected], Garth Pittman, 608 10th Ave, , Coralville, IA 52241, USA, Edward Quinnan, School of Family Studies, U-58, Univ of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA, (203) 486-0663 Roger Rubin, Dept of Family Studies, 1204B Marie Mount Hall, , University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA, (301) 405-4004 Rebecca Rudman, 70 English Philosophy Bldg, Dept of Rhetoric, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA, [email protected], Elaine Scharfe, Dept of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, CANADA, [email protected], (604) 291-5709 Zipora Schechtman, 6903 Tilden Ln, Rockville, MD 20852, USA, Joann Wu Shortt, Psychology Dept NI-25, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA, [email protected], (206) 685-3111 Glen Stamp, Dept of Speech Communication, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA, OOGHSTAMP@BSUVAX1, (317) 285-1952 Christy Teranishi, Dept of Speech Communication, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA, (619) 594-4195 Sally Vogl, Dept of Communication, 247 Greham Bldg, Lexington, KY 40506, USA, SMVOGL00@UKCC, (606) 257-8676 Roos Vonk, Dept of Soc & Org Psychology, Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden University, Leiden, 2333 AK, Holland, VONK@HLERULSS, (31) 71 273716 Bruce Wampold, Dpt of Counseling Psych & Cnslr Ed, Rm 321 Educ Bldg, 1000 Bascom , Univ of Wisconsin- Madison, Madison, WI 53701, USA, [email protected], (608) 262-2878 Cindy H. White, Dept of Communication, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA, CWHITE@, (602) 621- 3860

...and who use the following methods Karen BONNELL, PAQ, Miller Social Intimacy Scale, ICR, Amy CATALDI, Relationship Closeness Inventory, Interpersonal Orientation Catherine COHAN, Locke-Wallace MAT, CPQ, Coping Inventories, Health Inventories. Leesa DILLMAN, Burgoon & Hale's Relational Topoi, Observation Diaries Lyle FLINT, Argumentativeness/Beck Depression Inventory, Modified Argumentativeness Scale; Devel of Symbolic Influence Scale Joseph HOPPER, Ethnographic methods/participant observations/depth interviews. Daniel KAPLAN, Rubin's Loving and Liking Scales, Michael R. LIEPMAN, McMaster Family Assessment Device, Family Behavior Loop Mapping Dorothy MARKIEWICZ, Wright Acquaintance Description Form, Bukowski Friendship Scale, Hazan & Shaver Attachment Style, Brief form of Wright Marifran MATTSON, Variety of surveys, interviews, participant observation. Anne NICOTERA, Galileo; Self Reports on variety of variables; Stereotype/other reports, Attribute questionnaire for PR development. Edward J. QUINNAN, Interviews Zipora SHECHTMAN, Intimacy (Sharabany Scale); Self-Disclosure (Vunderkack). Christy TERANISHI, Surveys, Questionnaires and Interviews Sally VOGL, Maintenance Strategy Measures, Quality Scales, BATs/BAMs, Working on a deceptive communication scale w/Pamela Kalbfleisch Roos VONK, Experimental Designs or Questionnaires. Developed analysis scheme for open-ended descriptions of self and partner. Bruce WAMPOLD, Sequential Analysis of Behavior,

....and have the following research interests Karen BONNELL, Gender stereotyping of children's toy commercials, mentoring relationships, parental communication. Al CARLOZZI, Live supervision-of-supervision: A multi-level perspective; Effects of meditation on empathy and anxiety. Amy CATALDI, Manipulation tactics in close relationships. Leesa DILLMAN, Relationship development and maintenance, nonverbal communication, conflict management, deception. Lyle FLINT, Development and testing of a two dimensional social support model. Joseph HOPPER, Dissertation work on divorce: Language and accounts as meaning-conferring rhetorical constructs that create one's understanding of divorce. Yoshinori KAMO, Cross-cultural aspects of marriages and families including marital satisfaction, division of household work and family care of the elderly Daniel KAPLAN, Males' and females' differing perceptions of cross-sex friendships. Tovah KLEIN, Intergenerational transmission between parents and children; how parents' remembered childhoods influence their children's social development Michael R. LIEPMAN, Oscillation of family behavior in alcoholic/drug abusing families using status shifts from sober to active. Dorothy MARKIEWICZ, Family influences on children's friendship, Friendships in the workplace. Marifran MATTSON, Adoption and family satisfaction, job loss, deception, business ethics. Anne NICOTERA, Book on PR development/maintenance in several cultures. Barbara PETTIT, Abortion and contraception attitudes. Garth PITTMAN, Self disclosure in everyday life Edward J. QUINNAN, Construction of intimacy, celibacy, and gender Roger RUBIN, Impact of the black church on African-American Families & Communities; Policy implications if homosexual marriage were legalized. Rebecca RUDMAN, Communication theory Zipora SHECHTMAN, Group therapy as a positive impact on intimate relationships and other social variables (social status, etc). Glen STAMP, The transition to parenthood, defensive communication. Christy TERANISHI, Cultural values & child-rearing practices: predictors of academic achievement/child-rearing practices, cultural values and communication competence. Sally VOGL, Use of deception within maintenance strategy usage; looking at parent-adolescent communication; mentoring issues. Roos VONK, Male/female relationships at work/gender stereotypes in leader-subordinate relationships. Bruce WAMPOLD, Examination of interpersonal relations in work environments created by homogeneous Holland type individuals. Cindy H. WHITE, Accounts of relational dissolution and re-establishment. Expectations in relational developments.

....and who recently published the following Lyle FLINT, Flint, L. (1992). The relationship among social support, communication competence and cognitive depression for employees pursuing a degree. J.Applied Comm. Res, 20 (1)., Flint, L. (1992). Adolescent parental affinity-seeking: Age and gender mediated strategies. Adolescence, 27 (106)., Flint, L. (1990). The role of subject perceptions of issues in argumentativeness scores. Communication Studies, 41 (2). Yoshinori KAMO, Kamo, Y. (1992) Family roles. In Encyclopedia of Sociology. Macmillan, Kamo, Y. (1992) Marital adjustment. In Encyclopedia of Sociology, Macmillan, Kamo, Y. (1991) A nonlinear effect of the number of children on the division of household labor. Sociological Perspective Tovah KLEIN, Putallaz, M. Costanzo, P.R., & Klein, T.P. Parental social experiences and their effects on children's development. To appear in S. W. Duck (Ed) Understanding relationship processes, Vol 2. Learning about relationships, SAGE., Plunkett, J.W., Klein, T., & Meisels, S.J. (1988). The relationships of preterm infant-mother attachment to stranger sociability at age 3. Infant Behavior and Development, 11. 83-96., Michael R. LIEPMAN, Liepman, M.R. (1991). Family behavior loop mapping enhances treatment of alcoholism. Family and Community Health 13 (4), 72-83., Rohsenow, D.J., Monti, P.M., Binkoff, J.A., Liepman, M.R., et al (1991). Patient-treatment matching for alcoholic men in communication skills versus cognitive-behavioral mood management training. , Nirenberg, T.D., Liepman, M.R., Begin, A.M., etc (1990). The sexual relationship of male alcoholics and their female partners during periods of drinking and abstinence. J of Studies in Alcohol Dorothy MARKIEWICZ, Devine, I., & Markiewicz, D. (1990). Cross-sex relationships at work and the impact of gender stereotypes. Journal of Business Ethics, 9, 333-338., Markiewicz, D., & Devine, I. (1990). Interpersonal relationships at work: Attributions about mutual sexual attractions. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 7, 34-40. Marifran MATTSON, Neulep, J.W., & Mattson, M. (1990). The use of deception as a compliance gaining strategy. Human Communication Research, 16, 3, 409-421. Anne NICOTERA, Nicotera, A. (in press). Interpersonal communication in Friend and Mate Relationships. SUNY Press. Nicotera, A. (in press). Beyond two dimensions: A grounded theory model of conflict handling behavior. Management Comm Quarterly. Nicotera, A., & Cushman, D. (in press). Organizational ethics: A within-org view. J of Applied Comm Research. Roger RUBIN, Rubin, R., & Elrod, J. Parental involvement in sexual abuse prevention education. Child abuse and neglect. The International Journal. Rubin, R. Public policies and variant family forms. Families in Trouble Series, Sage. Rubin, R. The social context of sexual functioning: Lifestyles, values, behavior & gender roles. Zipora SHECHTMAN, Shechtman, Z. (1991). Small group therapy and pre-adolescent, same-sex friendship. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 222-243. Shechtman, Z. (in press). Schoolchildren and small group therapy: An Israeli study. J of Counseling & Development. Shechtman, Z. (in press). Group Psychotherapy for the enhancement of intimate friendship and self-esteem among troubled elementary school children. J of Social and Personal Relationships. Glen STAMP, Stamp, G. (1992). Western Journal of Communication, 56, 3. Stamp, G (1992). Communication Quarterly, 40, 2. Stamp, G. (1991). Family Process, 30, 2, Christy TERANISHI, Teranishi, C. (1991). Childrearing practices among Japanese American mothers: A study of generational differences. U.C. Santa Cruz, Senior Thesis. Teranishi, C. (1991). College students childrearing practices and attachment patterns. WPA Convention Paper. Teranishi, C. (1992). Cultural values and childrearing practices: Predictors of academic achievement. Fullerton, Convention Paper. Sally VOGL, Vogl, S. (1992). Stress in Small Groups. SCA, November. Roos VONK, Vonk, R. (1991) Implicit personlity theory and social judgement: Effects of familiarity with a target person, Multivartiate Behavioral Research Vonk, R., & VAn Nobelen (1993) Mascualininty and femininity n the self with an intimate paretner: Men are not always men in the company of women. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Bruce WAMPOLD, Wampold, B. (1992). The intensive analysis of social interactions. In T.R. Kratochwill & J.R. Levin (Eds), Single case research methods in psychology and education. Erlbaum. Wampold, B. (1989). Kappas as a measure of pattern in sequential data. Quality & Quality, 58, 360-367. Keppner, P.P., Kivlighan, D.M., Wampold, B. (1992). Research Design in Counseling. Brooks Cole.

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CALLS FOR PAPERS:

1) COMMUNICATION YEARBOOK Editor-elect Brant BURLESON (a Network member) is soliciting MSS and proposals for CY 18. Sponsored by the International Communication Association and published through an arrangement with SAGE Publications Inc, Communication Yearbook seeks to feature the very best in scholarship about communication and is committed to the publication of essays, monographs, and reviews of greater depth than those generally found in professional journals. Volume 18 of CY will focus on communication in mass and public settings. Especially welcome are contributions concerning the communication of scientific information, risk communication, communication about the environment, communication in campaigns and movements, and the effects of mass communication. However, essays, reviews and monographs addressing other topical areas will also be addressed. State of the art research reviews, essays developing a new theoretical viewpoint, papers reporting an extended series of studies and other works providing in-depth treatments of significant topics are specifically sought. CY seeks to represent the diverse range of philosophical, theoretical and methodological perspectives informing contemporary communication scholarship. Contributions from scholars residing outside the United States are especially welcome. Complete MSS or 3-5 page proposals are due February 1, 1993. Send three high quality copies to Brant Burleson, Editor elect, CY, Dept of Communications, Purdue University, 1366 Heavilon Hall, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1366, USA (317) 494-3321 [FAX 317-496-1394] XWXF@PURCCVM or [email protected] 2) 2nd international congress of family psychology The 1994 congress will be held July 13-15 in the University of Padua, Italy and will have symposia and paper and/or poster presentations. Abstracts of material must be postmarked no later than August 30th, 1993 (an absolute deadline). For each proposal, submit three copies of a one-page abstract, single-spaced, with one inch margins on 8.5x11inch paper. At the top of each abstract specify (1) title of paper; (2) author/s; (3) institutional affiliation; (4) mailing address; (5) short title on the upper right hand corner. Please ensure all print is clear and legible and include the original copy of the abstract in your package. Provide as much information as possible about your research in the abstract and mail it to : Scientific Committee of the 2nd International Congress of Family Psychology, c/o Mario Cusinato, Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Piazza Cavour 23, 35139 Padua, Italy. Participants who do not want to submit a contribution are also welcome and should contact the organizing committee for details. ======

FELLOWSHIP POSSIBILITIES The University of Iowa Center for Advanced Studies and the National Resource Center on Family Based Services invite applications for $3500 Obermann Faculty Research Fellowships for participation in the 1993 Faculty Research Seminar "Family and Community-based Approaches to Social Problems", July 6-30, 1993, directed by Paul Adams and Kristine Nelson, National Resource Center on Family based Services, School of Social Work. Applications are due no later than February 1, 1993. For application materials, write or call Jay Semel, Center for Advanced Studies, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 (319-335-4034). ======

GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD ASA Sociology of emotions section: Graduate student paper award competition. Submissions should be single-authored papers by a graduate student and should represent original research or conceptual work in the sociology of emotions. All methodologies are acceptable. Papers should be 40 pages or less in length. The winner will receive a certificate and $100 to defray costs of attending the ASA convention in Miami where the award will be presented. Send three copies, no later than June 1st, 1993, to the Chair of the Sociology of Emotions Section Graduate Student Paper Award Committee (from whom further details may be obtained) Lyn H Lofland, Dept of Sociology, Univ of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Contents for Issue 10i February 1993 LINDA K. ACITELLI, ELIZABETH DOUVAN, & JOSEPH VEROFF: Perceptions of Conflict in the First Years of Marriage: How Important are Similarity and Understanding? Perceptions of self and spouse play a central role in marital relationships. Using data from 219 newlywed couples, we examined the relative importance (to marital well-being) of partners' similarity and understanding of conflict styles. These data include reports of behaviors of the self and spouse during their most recent disagreement. Behaviors were categorized as either constructive or destructive to resolving the conflict, and data from each category were analyzed separately. Measures of perceptions of similarity based on one spouse's report, actual similarity between spouses' separate reports and spouses' accuracy in reporting (or "understanding" of) each other's behaviors were derived from these reports. Consistent with earlier studies, perceived similarity was shown to be higher than actual similarity and was a stronger positive predictor of marital well-being. This finding highlights the importance of partners believing that they are similar. The strongest predictor of marital well-being for wives was wives' understanding of their husbands. For husbands, both spouses' self reports of their own behaviors were the strongest predictors. These gender differences are discussed with regard to differences in orientation toward and power in relationships. Linda K. Acitelli, The University of Michigan, 5080 Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1248, USA.

CHERYL BUEHLER & BOBBIE H. LEGG: Mothers' Receipt of Social Support and Their Psychological Well- Being Following Marital Separation. A sample of 144 separated women with children was used to examine the direct and buffering effects of social support on the relationship between stressful life change and their psychological well-being approximately six months following marital separation. The results indicated that the relationship between life change and psychological well- being was buffered by various aspects of social support. These aspects were the number of sources from which support was received, support from family and friends, and support that functioned to enhance self-esteem and provide social companionship. In addition, there was a direct, positive relationship between receipt of technical support and psycho- emotional well-being. Cheryl Buehler, Department of Child and Family Studies, JHB 115, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.

KARIN S. PRINS, BRAM P. BUUNK & NICO W. VANYPEREN: Equity, Normative Disapproval, and Extramarital Relationships. This study examined the extent to which inequity, normative disapproval, and marital dissatisfaction were related to involvement in extramarital sexual relationships. The study was conducted among 82 married men and 132 married women with a mean age of 41. Of the sample, 30% had been involved in extramarital relationships. The results showed that among men as well as women, normative disapproval, and to a lesser extent, relational dissatisfaction were related to the desire to become involved in such relationships. Fear of contracting AIDS was not an important factor in this context. Only among women was inequity associated with extramarital behavior and inclinations. The effect of inequity was independent of the effects of relational dissatisfaction, sexual dissatisfaction, normative disapproval, and exchange orientation. Karin S. Prins, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, Groningen, 9712 TS, Netherlands.

PATRICIA A. FRAZIER & STEPHEN W. COOK: Correlates of Distress Following Heterosexual Relationship Dissolution. The purpose of this study was to examine correlates of initial distress and current recovery among individuals who have experienced the breakup of a dating relationship, including factors associated with commitment to the relationship (i.e., satisfaction, duration, closeness, perceived alternatives) and factors associated with coping with life stressors (i.e., perceptions of the controllability of the breakup, social support, and self-esteem). Participants were 34 males and 51 females who had experienced the breakup of a dating relationship within the past six months. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that these variables accounted for between 21% and 47% of the variance in the measures of initial distress and current recovery. The coping-related variables added significantly to the prediction of initial distress and current recovery once the commitment-related variables were taken into account, but were more strongly related to recovery than to initial distress. Implications for research and practice are discussed. Patricia A. Frazier, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

DON J. SHARPSTEEN: Romantic Jealousy as an Emotion Concept: A Prototype Analysis. A consensus is emerging that romantic jealousy is best defined in terms of a situation and is not itself an emotion. However, people use the term "jealousy" as an emotion concept, which suggests that the term may reliably describe more than a situation. Emotion concepts embody prototypes (ideas about the characteristic features of emotion events and the organization of those features) as well as theories about why these events have the features and organization they do (Clore & Ortony, 1991). I explored the prototype aspect of the concept "romantic jealousy." A list of prototypic features was compiled and subjects were asked to rate the centrality of each feature to the concept "romantic jealousy." These ratings were made reliably. Further, subjects' recognition of jealousy's features in a memory task (Study One) and judgments of jealousy intensity (Study Two) were influenced by feature centrality. Thus two criteria for demonstrating prototype structure (that subjects find it meaningful to judge features in terms of their centrality to the concept and that centrality affects cognition) were met. The prototype structure could be explored further and used in conjunction with psychological theory as a framework for studying romantic jealousy. Don J. Sharpsteen, Department of Psychology, University of Missouri, Rolla, MO 65401, USA.

CHRIS SEGRIN: Interpersonal Reactions to Dysphoria: The Role of Relationship with Partner and Perceptions of Rejection. Coyne's interactional perspective on depression states that depressed people induce a negative mood in others and thus elicit rejection from them. Research relevant to these hypotheses has been criticized for heavy reliance on interactions between depressed persons and strangers for gathering data. A second shortcoming of this research is that relatively little is known about depressed persons' perceptions of the rejection that they supposedly elicit from others. To address these two issues a study was conducted in which 74 non-dysphoric and 67 dysphoric subjects engaged in an eight minute conversation with either a friend or stranger. Partners' mood and rejection of the dysphoric or non-dysphoric subject were assessed. In addition, subjects reported their perceptions of how much they felt their partner rejected them. Relationship with the partner (friend/stranger) had an impact on both the negative mood induction and rejection of subjects following conversation. In addition, all subjects, dysphoric or not, appeared relatively accurate in their perceptions of rejection from their partner, although dysphoric subjects exhibited a slight tendency to feel more rejected than non-dysphoric subjects. Implications for reevaluating past research and conducting future research on the interactional theory are discussed. Chris Segrin, Department of Communication Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-2177, USA.

VINCENT JEFFRIES: Virtue and Attraction: Validation of a Measure of Love. This study presents data to validate a measure of love, the Virtue-Attraction Scale (VAS). Love is conceptualized as two basic dimensions, virtue and attraction. Virtue is love which is directed toward furthering the welfare of another, while attraction is love based upon gratifications which are received from the relationship. The study measures 712 subjects' self-reported love for their mothers and fathers (during their teenage years), and subjects; perceived love of their parents for them. Factor analyses indicate that virtue and attraction are separate dimensions of love. They are also related to parental support, the Davis-Todd Relationship Rating Form, self-esteem, and faith in people in a theoretically consistent manner, show discriminant validity when related to need fulfillment, religiosity, and altruism, and criterion-related validity when related to parental divorce. Additional evidence of validity from previous studies is presented. A preliminary theory of love is considered and the relationship between virtue-attraction and passion is discussed. Vincent Jeffries, Department of Sociology, California State University, Northridge, CA, 91330, USA.

JULIA C. BABCOCK & NEIL S. JACOBSON: A Program of Research on Behavioral Marital Therapy: Hot Spots and Smoldering Embers in Marital Therapy Research. This Research Program overview elaborates the conceptual and empirical development of our program of Behavioral Marital Therapy (BMT). The article outlines the refinement of our procedures, our search for the "active ingredients" of BMT's successes, our brush with cognitive therapy (leading to our doubts that the two therapies could be integrated), and our most recent examinations of the behavioral/contextual philosophical roots of BMT. Our attempts to improve BMT have moved us closer to general relationship themes, such as the nature of intimacy, and have identified not only new sparks of interest but also other themes perhaps best left to smolder into embers. Neil S. Jacobson, Department of Psychology, NI-25, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

BRIAN H. SPITZBERG: The Dialectics of (In)competence. The study of interpersonal communication competence, like many other constructs in social science, has been unduly biased by an ideology of positivity. This paper attempts to redress this emphasis by examining a variety of dialectical and problematic tensions in human relations. These tensions reflect potential dilemmas for social actors who face potentially incompatible objectives in their lines of action. In addition, several dialectical tensions reflect dilemmas in the attribution of competence in the stream of interaction. The intent of this analysis is to direct conceptual and empirical efforts toward a richer and more complex understanding of interpersonal competence. Brian H. Spitzberg, Department of Speech Communication, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 92182, USA.

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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Special Issue on Relational Maintenance Edited by Kathryn Dindia and Daniel J. Canary Issue 10ii - May 1993

KATHRYN DINDIA & DANIEL J. CANARY: Definitions and theoretical perspectives on maintaining relationships Kathryn Dindia, Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA CARYL E. RUSBULT & BRAM BUUNK: Commitment processes in close relationships: An interdependence analysis Caryl E. Rusbult, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270, USA BARBARA M. MONTGOMERY: Relationship maintenance versus relationship change: A dialectical dilemma Barbara M. Montgomery, Academic Affairs, Thompson Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 03824, USA LESLIE A. BAXTER & ERIC P. SIMON: Relationship maintenance strategies and dialectical contradictions in personal relationships Leslie A. Baxter, Dept of Rhetoric & Communication, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA CHARLOTTE REISSMAN, ARTHUR ARON & MERLYNN BERGEN: Shared activities and marital satisfaction: Causal direction and self-expansion versus boredom Arthur Aron, Psychology Board - Kerr Hall, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA MARIANNE DAINTON & LAURA STAFFORD: Routine maintenance behaviors: A comparison of relationship type, partner similarity, and sex differences Marianne Dainton, Dept of Communication, 410 Neil Hall, 1634 Neil Avenue, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA LAURA K. GUERRERO, SYLVIE V. ELOY, & ALISA I. WABNIK: Linking maintenance strategies to relationship development and disengagement: A reconceptualization. Laura Guerrero, Dept of Communication, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA JAMES M. HONEYCUTT, BARBARA L. WOODS, & KAREN FONTENOT: The endorsement of communication conflict rules as a function of engagement, marriage and marital ideology. James Honeycutt, Dept of Speech Communication, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803-3923, USA

======family relations Contents for January 1993, kindly supplied by editor Mark A. Fine (For details of these papers and addresses of authors, please contact Mark Fine, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469-1430, USA) Editor's note: Mark A. Fine Articles Maternal employment Parent, infant, and contextual characteristics related to maternal employment decisions in the first year of infancy: Brenda J. Volling & Jay Belsky Employed first time mothers: A Typology of maternal responses to integrating parenting and employment. Claudia Schuster Parent education Evaluations of a practical parenting program with middle- and low-income teens. Ronald W. Thompson, Crystal R. Grow, Penney R. Ruma, Daniel L. Daly & Raymond V. Burke Empirical evaluation of a self psychologically oriented parent education program. Christine Brems, Michael Baldwin & Susan Baxter Marriage and romantic relationships Defining intimacy in romantic relationships. Barry F. Moss & Andrew I. Schwebel Marital strengths in enduring marriages: Linda C. Robinson & Priscilla W. Blanton Other Children's loneliness and their relationship with family and peers. Janis R. Bullock "Stop the world I want to get off for a while": Sources of daily stress in the lives of low-income single mothers of young children. Sheryl L. Olson & Victoria Banyard Who has joint custody? Class differences in the determination of custody arrangements. Denise Donnelly & David Finkelhor Sexuality education: What daughters in their 30s wish their mothers had told them. Linda J, Brock & Glen H Jennings Parents as educators about war and peace. Judith A. Myers-Walls, Karen S. Myers-Bowman & Ann E. Pelo Stress among job insecure workers and their spouses. Stephan M. Wilson, Jeffrey H. Larson, & Katherine L. Stone Family risk factors, parental alcohol abuse and problem behaviors among school age children. Jonathan G. Tubman Impact of Vietnam War service on veterans' perceptions of family life. Charles C. Hendrix & Lisa M. Anelli The myths and misconceptions of the stepmother identity: Descriptions and prescriptions for identity management. Marianne Dainton Literature and resource review 1992: The 24th Annual National Council on Family Relations Media Awards competition. Ollie Pocs, Deborah Gentry, Robert Walsh, Jeanna Fearson & Julie Scott Book reviews

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INTERNATIONAL NETWORK NEWSLETTER NUMBER 22 MARCH 1993 ======

ABSTRACT Network's prizewinners are announced... details of the registration and housing materials for June's International Network Conference in Milwaukee (Great place on a Great Lake) are enclosed with this Newsletter ... Network's Annual Publication Supplement enclosed with this mailing

NEWS OF MEMBERS Bram BUUNK's e-mail is now [email protected] Steve DUCK's e-mail has been changed to [email protected] Susan HENDRICK now has an e-mail address: DJSSH@TTACS Linda MARSHALL now has an e-mail address: [email protected] Sal MEYER's e-mail is now [email protected] Judi Beinstein MILLER has been moved from Bitnet to Internet and her new address is [email protected] Marilyn MONTGOMERY has successfully completed her thesis on "Relationship beliefs of early and middle adolescents" Roos VONK's e-mail address is at HLERUL55 (not HLERULSS)(five-five not ess-ess) Greg WHITE is just beginning tenure as President of the Shasta County Psychological Association and is also President of the Redding Men's Center.

members on the move/onwards and upwards Susan DAVIS-ALI [Ph.D] has "changed my status, my address, and my place of employment". Let's hope she never reads the Life Events literature. Anyway she now works at the Dept of Psychology, Univ of Minnesota (Phone 612- 625-9501. No Bitnet yet) and is a Research Associate with the Network's very own Pat Frazier. Erich KIRCHLER has moved from the University of Linz to the University of Vienna where the coffee and the chocolate are better. His new address is: Dept of Psychology, Univ of Vienna, Liebiggasse 5, A-1010 Vienna, Austria. books by members Ann Elizabeth AUHAGEN & Maria von Salisch (Eds) (1993) Zwischenmenshliche Beziehungen [Interpersonal relationships, I believe] Ottiger-Hogrefe GmbH: Goettingen. Mark J. FINE & Cindy CARLSON (1992) The Handbook of Family-School Intervention: A systems perspective. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Michael L. HECHT, M. J. Collier, & S. Ribeau (1993) African American Communication: Ethnic identity and cultural interpretation. Newbury Park: SAGE. Anton LAIREITER [Ed.](1993) Soziales Netzwerk und Soziale Unterstuetzung: Konzepte, Methoden und Befunde [Social networks and social support: Concepts, methods and results]. Bern: Hans Huber. Laura STAFFORD & Cherie Baxter (1993) Between Parents and Children SAGE: Newbury Park. John VITKUS (1993) Casebook in Abnormal Psychology (second ed) New York: McGraw Hill new members Marisabel ABU-JABER, PO BOX 599, Jubeiha, Jordan Graham ALLAN, Dept of Sociology, Univ of Southampton, Southampton, SO2 1PN, England, [email protected], (0703) 592636 Walter BIEN, Deutsche Jugendinstitut, Freibachstrasse, MUENCHEN, D-8000, GERMANY, [email protected], (89) 62306234 (O) Andrew BLAIR, 9062 Flynn Circle #1, Boca Raton, FL 33496, USA Cindy CARLSON, Dept of Educational Psychology, EDB 504, Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA, CCARLSON@UTXVM, (512) 471-4407 (O), FAX 512-471-4607 Serdar M. DEGIRMENCIOGLU, Psychology Dept, Wayne State Univ, 71 Warren, Detroit, MI 48202, USA, USERFC9R@WAYNEMTS, (313) 873-2751 Dennis GRADY, Dept of Speech Communication, Univ of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA, DENNIS.GRADY@UTXVM, (512) 471-1920 (O), 512-471-3504 Georgina HAMMOCK, Dept of Psychology, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699-5825, USA, USERAB00@CLVM, (315) 268-7933 (O), FAX 315-268-6610 Thomas JOINER, Psychology Service (116B), Teague VAMC, Temple, TX, 76504, USA, PSHS361@VTXVM, (817) 771-4552 (O) Lawrence KERSTEN, Sociology Dept, Eastern Michigan Univ, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, USA, (313) 973-2220 (o) Lothar KRAPPMANN, Max Planck Institute for Hum Deve &, Lentzeallee 94, Berlin, D-1000 BERLIN, GERMANY, [email protected], (030) 82995-357 (O, FAX [G] 30-8249939 Suzanne KURTH, Ombuds Office, 346 Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37909, USA, (615) 974-4311 (o), FAX 615-974-4094 Portia LAI, 909 Lake Blvd Apt 9, , Bemidji, MN, 56601, USA Mary J. LEVITT, Dept of Psychology, Florida International Univ, North Miami Campus, North Miami, FL 33181, USA, LEVITTMJ@SERVAX, (305) 940-5953 (O), FAX 305-940-5964 E. James LIEBERMAN, The Family Institute, 3900 Northampton St NW, Washington, DC 20015, USA, EJL@GWUVM, (202) 362-3962 (O), 202-363-6899 Carole LOGAN, Dept of Communication Studies, University of San Diego, Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 91947, USA, C_LOGAN@ACUSD, (619) 260-4600 (O) Connie MEINHOLDT, Psychology Dept, Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA, P- [email protected], (301) 405-5934 (O) Lynn MUSSER, Dept of Child Devel & Family Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA, [email protected], (317) 494-2947 (O), 317-496-1144 Patrick O'SULLIVAN, Dept of Communication, 1832 Ellison Hall, Univ California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4479, USA, 6500PATO@UCSBXA, (805) 893-4479 (O), FAX 805-893-7102 Rhoda Hurst ROJIANI, Dept of Family & Child Development, Virginia Poly Inst & State U, Wallace Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0416, USA, [email protected], (703) 231-4794 (O), FAX 703-231-7157 Ivars UDRIS, Institut fuer Arbeitpsychologie, ETH Zuerich, Nelkenstrasse 11, ZURICH, 8092, Switzerland, (411) 254- 7087 (o), FAX 411-362-5205 Dan WEIGEL, Univ of Nevada Cooperative Extension, PO BOX 11130, Reno, NV 89520, USA, (702) 784-4848 (o), FAX 702-784-4881 Arthur WEINER, 10 Plaza Street #70, , Brooklyn, NY 11238, USA, (718) 636-9429 (o) Malcolm WEST, Dept of Psychiatry, Calgary General Hospital, 841 Centre Avenue East, Calgary, Alberta, T2E 0A1, Canada, , (403) 268-9210 (o), 403-268-9201 Jan YAGER, 67 Acre View, , Stamford, CT 06903, USA, (203) 329-8738 (o)

...who have been working in these Current interests or recent projects Graham ALLAN, Friendship; Supported Housing Walter BIEN, Development of family networks and resource flows in such networks. Andrew BLAIR, Gender intensification in close relationships. Cindy CARLSON, Insider and outsider perspectives on family functioning as related to child competence. Serdar M. DEGIRMENCIOGLU, Interested in the significance of friendships, as well as other relationships, for development (especially in adolescence). Current focus is on influence and networks. Dennis GRADY, Communications of equity/inequity deception Georgina HAMMOCK, Work has centered on perceptions of relationships and commitment to relationships. In addition, I have studied conflict & violence (date rape). Thomas JOINER, Interpersonal and cognitive factors associated with depression as causes, concomitants or consequences. Lawrence KERSTEN, Book on Love Mary J. LEVITT, Intergenerational relations, support, children's social networks. E. James LIEBERMAN, General audience book '7 deadly sins of marriage & other relationships' in process based on clinical experience in marital therapy. Carole LOGAN, I have most recently been involved in looking at the relationship between message design logics (O'Keefe) and moral reasoning measures (developmental variables); Also taboo topics in close personal relationships; and disclosure dilemmas faced by physicians Connie MEINHOLDT, Nature of attributions about partner and about self in the context of distressing interpersonal incidents. Lynn MUSSER, Children's definitions of same-age and non-agemate peers, and how these ideas get translated into behaviors in mixed-age peer interactions. Patrick O'SULLIVAN, Exploring how relational partners use personal communication media in their relationships and how that affects relationships Rhoda Hurst ROJIANI, Dissertation examines the hypothesized relationship between separation and loss of attachment figures in childhood and subsequent adult caregiving. This is a secondary data analysis using the National Survey of Families and Households. Ivars UDRIS, Industrial & Organizational Psychology; Health Psychology; Social Support; Participation at Work. Dan WEIGEL, Marital communication, marital decision making, intergenerational communication, parent-child communication. Arthur WEINER, Doctoral dissertation describes & analyzes the social support networks of blind and usually impaired young adults examining relationships among such variables as level of visual impairment, age at onset of blindness, education, employment, etc. and social network size, number of multiplex tie Malcolm WEST, Personality disorders and attachment problems; attachment patterns in suicidal teenagers. Jan YAGER, Survey of 258 members of the Society of Human Resource Management on work and friendship.

...using the following methods Walter BIEN, Egocentral networks in surveys, Cindy CARLSON, Family Environment Scale, Family Assessment Measure, Parenting Stress Index, Personal Authority, Developing a Family Functioning Interview Serdar M. DEGIRMENCIOGLU, Friendship Qualities Scale (Bukowski, Boivin and Hoza), Georgina HAMMOCK, Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory II, Hendricks & Hendricks Love Attitudes, Passionate Lo, Thomas JOINER, Depressive Interpersonal Relationships Inventory, DIRI Measures excessive reassurance-seeking Lothar KRAPPMANN, Interview about friends, observations in natural settings, Still revising our 'Interview about friends' Mary J. LEVITT, Social Networks, Support, Relationship Quality, Children's Social Network Measures (Preschool and Older) E. James LIEBERMAN, Marital Checklist, Marital Checklist - 14 point checklist based on '7 deadly sins of marriage & other relationship Carole LOGAN, Spanier's satisfaction scale; Rubin's liking scale; Lyons self-orientation typology and other more interpretative methods such as diary and narrative form. Connie MEINHOLDT, DAS, Rosenberg self-esteem scale; PAIR; RAM (relationship attribution measure), I have made changes in RAM, added dimensions and am using with dating couples. Lynn MUSSER, Peer Sociometric Rating Scales; Jr Self-Monitoring Scale, Rhoda Hurst ROJIANI, Working with the National Survey of Families and Households; also Ethnographic Approach, Ivars UDRIS, Social Support Scales, Malcolm WEST, Reciprocal Attachment Questionnaire, Adult Attachment Inventory, Identification of dimensions defining adult attachment & types of pathological attachment style

.. and have produced the following publications Graham ALLAN, Allan, G., & Crow, G. (1991). Privatization, Home Centredness and Leisure. Leisure Studies, 10, 19-32. Allan, G. (1991). Social work, community care and informal networks. In M. Davies (Ed), The sociology of social work. London: Routledge. Allan, G. (1989). Friendship: Developing a sociological perspective. London: Harvester. Cindy CARLSON, Carlson, C.I., Cooper, C.R., & Spradling, V. (1991). Developmental implications of shared versus distinct perceptions of the family in early adolescence. New Directions in Child Development, 51. Grotevant, H.D., & Carlson, C.I. (1989). Handbook of Family Assessment. New York: Guilford. , Georgina HAMMOCK, Hammock, G.S., & Richardson, D.R. (1992). Aggression as one response to conflict. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 22,298-311. Hammock, G.S., Richardson, D.R., Pilkington, C.J., & Utley, M. (1990). Measurement of conflict in close interpersonal relationships. Personality and Individual Differences, 11. 577-583. Richardson, D.R., & Hammock, G.S. (1991). Alcohol in acquaintance rape. In A. Parrot & L. Berchhofer (Eds), Acquaintance Rape: The Hidden Camera. New York: Wiley & Sons, 83-95. Thomas JOINER, Joiner, T.E., Alfano, M.S., & Metalsky, G.I. (1992). When depression breeds contempt: Reassurance-seeking, self- esteem and rejection of depressed college students by their roommates. Journal of Abn Joiner, T.E., Alfano, M.S., & Metalsky, G.I. (in press). Caught in the crossfire: Depression, self-enhancement, self- consistency, and the response of others. Journal of Social and Clinical Psych. Metalsky, G.I., & Joiner, T.E. (1992). Vulnerability to depressive symptomatology: A prospective test of the hopelessness theory of depression. J of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 667-675. Lawrence KERSTEN, Kersten, L. Marriage and Family: Studying Close Relationships, Seeking Closeness. Lothar KRAPPMANN, Krappmann, L. (in press). Self threat in the peer world - Observations of twelve-year old children in natural settings. In G. Noam, T. Wren (Eds), The moral self: Building a better paradigm. MIT Pr Oswald, H., Krappmann, L., Uhlendorff, H., & Weiss, K. (in press). Social relationships and support among children of the same age in middle childhood. In K. Hurrelmann, F. Nestmann (Eds), Social su , Krappmann, L. (1992). Die entwicklung vielfaltiger sozialer beziehungen. In Zwischebmenschliche beziehungen, Hrsg. A.E. Auhagen, M.V. Salisch. Hogrefe Gottingen, 37-58. Mary J. LEVITT, Levitt, Guacci & Weber (1992). Intergenerational support, relationship quality, and well-being: A bicultural analysis. J of Family Issues, 13 (4), 465-481. Levitt, Weber & Guacci (in press). Convoys of social support: An intergenerational analysis. Psychology and Aging. Levitt (1991). Attachment and close relationships. In Interactions with attachment. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. E. James LIEBERMAN, Lieberman, E.J. (1991). Why Oedipus loved his father. Harvard MH Letter. Lieberman, E.J. (1985). Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto Rank. Free Press. Lieberman, E.J. (1992). Language Futures. Esperantic Studies, #3. Carole LOGAN, John Stewart & Carole Logan: Together: Communicating interpersonally, McGraw-Hill: New York, 1993 Connie MEINHOLDT, Kruglanski & Meinholdt (1990). Biases, self-deceptions & defense mechanisms. Polish Psychological Bulletin, 21, 269-277. Kruglanski & Meinholdt (1990). Cognitive and motivational bases of judgmental bias. Polish Psychological Bulletin, 21, 296-305. Lynn MUSSER, Musser, L.M., & Graziano, W.G. (1991). Behavioral confirmation in children's interactions with peers. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 12, 441-456. Musser, L.M., & Browne, B. (1991). Self-monitoring in middle childhood: Personality and social correlates. Developmental Psychology, 27, 994-999. Musser, L.M., Graziano, W.G., & Moore, J.S. (1987). 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PRIZE WINNERS The winner of the Berscheid Hatfield Award is Frank Fincham. The winner of the Gerald R. Miller Award is Lynn Carol Miller. The winner of the Dissertation Award is Julie Fitness (Stephan van den Broucke, runner up). The winners of the graduate student Travel Awards for the Milwaukee/Great Place on a Great Lake Conference in June are : 1. Stephan Van den Broucke (Marital conflict in patients with an eating disorder) 2. Elizabeth Reisenzein (Social networks and social support in Austria and America: A cross cultural comparison) 3. Pat Keelan (Perspectives on commitment and trust in romantic relationships) 4. Perri Druen (From first date to last mate: Learning about self, partners and relationships) Pam Yankeelov (Cognitive and emotional influences on the interactive coping process in romantic couples and stick figures from Upper Egypt) Winners of the Steve Duck New Scholar Awards announced by independent committee (not a Network award nor committee, nor funded from Network funds): Brian Spitzberg (Chair) writes: In 1991, the Steve Duck New Scholar Award was inaugurated to encourage new scholars in the field of close personal relationships and to give recognition to Steve Duck for his service to our field. In its second year, this award was administered by a committee of researchers who are associated with either the Network, or ISSPR, or both. The funds for the awards were donated by individuals. Two types of awards were given: one for faculty and post-docs in their first three years past the Ph.D., and a second for graduate students. An interdisciplinary committee of eight scholars evaluated the proposals that were submitted. The winner this year are : Post Ph.D. New Scholar: Kathy Werking, University of Louisville (The process of dissolution in cross-sex friendships); Student new scholar: Tovah Klein, Duke University (Intergenerational mechanisms of transmission: Parental social framing and social construction as pathways of influence on children's quality of friendship and social satisfaction). The committee wishes to extend their congratulations no only to the winners but to all applicants for this award. The committee members were consistently impressed with the quality of the submissions and look forward to seeing the program of research carried out to their fruition. At the present time, there are sufficient funds to continue the award for at least one more year. The deadline for the next competition will be November 1, 1993. Submissions will be to Dr. Brian H. Spitzberg, Department of Speech Communication, San Diego State University. The 1992-93 committee was composed of Art Aron, Rodney Cate, Sandra Metts, Terri Orbuch, Daniel Perlman, L. Edna Rogers, Brian H., Spitzberg, and Julie Yingling.

MORE ON THE JSPR RANKINGS Several people have asked me for the full Impact Rankings of JSPR as against other journals by categories. Categories other than Soc Psych are based on the impact scores but SSCI itself does not yet rank JSPR in those categories. I have written to them about it in view of multiple category listings of other journals: Social psychology: 1) JPSP; 2) JESP; 3) Soc Cog; 4) J Pers; 5) JSPR; 6) SPQ; 7) J. Pers Assess.; 8) PSPB; 9) Brit J Soc Psych; 10) Eur J Pers.; 11) JSCP; 12) Eur J Soc Psych; 13) JASP; 14) Sex Roles, and then another 15 journals in this category. Clinical Psychology: 1) JCCP; 2) J.Abn.Psy.; 3) Clin Psy Rev; 4) J. Clin Psychiat; 5) Psy Med; 6) Health Psy; 7) J.Clin Exp. Neur.; 8) J.Sex Res.; 9) Behav Ther.; 10) Fam Proc.; 11) J. Appl Behav. Anal. 12) JSPR; 13) Int. J. Eat. Dis.; 14) BJMedPs.; 15) BJClinPs. and then another 28 journals in this category. Child Devel: 1) ChDev; 2) Dev Psy; 3) J.Ch.Psy.P; 4) Cog Dev; 5) Psy. Aging; 6) J. Aut Deve Dis.; 7) JSPR; 8) Dev Rev; 9) J.Ch.Lang.; 10) J.Exp.Ch. Ps; 11) Merrill Palmer Q, and then another 17 in this category; Sociology: 1) AJS; 2) EtholSociobiol; 3) ASR; 4) JMF; 5) Soc Prob; 6) Sociology; 7) Soc Net; 8) JSPR; 9) Sociol Ed.; 10) Soc Forces; ...[BJSoc=19]... and another 59 in this category; Family Studies: 1) JMF; 2) Fam Rel; 3) Fam Proc; 4) Fam Plan; 5) Fam Law Q.; 6) JSPR; 7) Stud Fam Pl.; 8) JFamIss. 9) JMFT; and another 10 in this category. Communication: 1) JSPR; 2) HCR; 3) Comm. Ed.; 4) Comm Monog; 5) Lang Comm; 6) Pub Op. Q. and fourteen others

call for proposals on parents, children and communication Reviews of published research and a recent Commission on Family Communication panel (Speech Communication Association conference, Chicago 1992) identified the need for communication research on family relationships other than the marital dyad. The proposed co-edited text responds to this need by show-casing communication scholarship about parent-child communication, highlighting advancements in communication theory and research in this foundational dyadic relationship. We seek proposals which represent a range of topics, theoretical approaches and methods. We intend the terms "parents" and "children" to include a plurality of biological, social and legal configurations of this intergenerational relationship. Thus, proposals which examine communication in step-parents, foster parents, gay and lesbian parents, as well as biological parents are welcome. The term "children" is taken to include infancy through adulthood. Proposals should be 2-5 pages and include a tentative title for the chapter, an overview, and the names, addresses and brief background statement for all authors. The deadline for submission of proposals is May 1, 1993. Those authors whose proposals are selected for inclusion will be advised of dates for submission of first and final drafts. Please direct inquiries and proposals to either Dr Thomas Socha, Dept of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529 (804-683-3833) or Dr Glen Stamp, Dept of Speech Communication, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306 (317-285-1952) Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Issue 10ii, May 1993

SPECIAL ISSUE ON RELATIONAL MAINTENANCE Edited by Kathryn Dindia and Daniel J. Canary

KATHRYN DINDIA & DANIEL J. CANARY: Definitions and theoretical perspectives on maintaining relationships. Kathryn Dindia, Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA.

CARYL E. RUSBULT & BRAM BUUNK: Commitment processes in close relationships: An interdependence analysis. This paper employs interdependence theory as a means of understanding how and why some relationships survive difficult times whereas other promising relationships end. Interdependence theory makes important distinctions between satisfaction and dependence. These distinctions are extended in the investment model, a theory of the process by which individuals become dependent on and committed to their relationships. The investment model suggests that dependence increases not only as a consequence of increasing satisfaction, but also because available alternatives are perceived to be poor and numerous important resources are invested in a relationship. Subjective commitment summarizes the nature of an individual's dependence on a partner, and represents broad, long-term orientation toward a relationship. Strong commitment not only makes individuals more likely to remain with their partners, but also promotes a variety of relationship maintenance behaviors such as adaptive social comparison and perceived relationship superiority, derogation of attractive and threatening alternatives, effective management of jealousy and extra-relationship involvements, willingness to sacrifice for the good of a relationship, and tendencies to accommodate rather than retaliate when a partner behaves poorly. Caryl Rusbult, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270, USA.

BARBARA M. MONTGOMERY: Relationship maintenance versus relationship change: A dialectical dilemma. The dialectical assumption that change is at the heart of social processes contradicts the emphasis on stability and consistency that exists in most conceptualizations of relationship maintenance. After an elaborated description of the major tenets of dialectical thinking, this article explores ways of transcending this contradiction, thereby advancing a reconceptualization of maintenance processes and an expanded agenda for research on the issue. Barbara M. Montgomery, Office of Academic Affairs, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA.

LESLIE A. BAXTER & ERIC P. SIMON: Relationship maintenance strategies and dialectical contradictions in personal relationships. 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. Leslie A. Baxter, Department of Rhetoric and Communication, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.

CHARLOTTE REISSMAN, ARTHUR ARON, & MERLYNN BERGEN: Shared activities and marital satisfaction: Causal direction and self-expansion versus boredom. Fifty-three married couples were randomly assigned to engage in activities for 1-1/2 hours each week for 10 weeks that were self-defined as (a) exciting or (b) pleasant, or couples were in a (c) no-special-activity control group. Pretest and post-test data were obtained on a standard marital satisfaction measure (adjusted for scores on a social desirability index). A planned linear contrast comparing the two activities groups to the control group was not significant and had a small effect size; thus the theory that any kind of activity enhances marital satisfaction was not supported. However, the other planned orthogonal contrast found significantly higher satisfaction for the exciting than the pleasant group, a difference that had a moderate effect size. This finding is consistent with views emphasizing habituation as an obstacle to relationship maintenance , for example, Aron & Aron's (1986) prediction from their self-expansion model that sharing stimulating activities will enhance marital satisfaction. Arthur Aron, California Graduate School of Family Psychology, University of California, Kerr Hall, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.

MARIANNE DAINTON & LAURA STAFFORD: Routine maintenance behaviors: A comparison of relationship type, partner similarity, and sex differences. This study replicates and extends previous research by probing for routine behaviors that maintain relationships. In addition, maintenance behaviors of married versus dating partners are compared, and similarity of relational partners' reports of maintenance behaviors is assessed. Finally, the differences in the use of maintenance behaviors by men and women are examined. Results indicate that many of the behaviors identified in this study are similar to behaviors found in past research on relational maintenance strategies. However, sharing tasks, a behaviors only infrequently mentioned in previous research, was the most frequently reported maintenance behaviors, indicating that sharing tasks is characteristic of routine, rather than strategy, maintenance behavior. Results also indicate that there is little difference in maintenance behaviors according to relationship type; that relational partners' reports of maintenance behaviors are quite similar; but that there are significant differences in the behaviors listed by men and women. Marianne Dainton, Department of Communication, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.

LAURA K. GUERRERO, SYLVIE V. ELOY, & ALISA I. WABNIK: Linking maintenance strategies to relationship development and disengagement: A reconceptualization. Maintenance strategies are conceptualized as vehicles by which romantic partners can change, as well as preserve, their relationships. A longitudinal approach is used to investigate the idea that daters' perceptions of proactive/constructive maintenance will affect four possible relational outcomes , escalation, stability, deescalation, and termination. Results indicate that perceived frequent use of proactive/constructive maintenance strategies is associated with stability or escalation, while perceived infrequent use of these strategies is related to deescalation of termination. Results also demonstrate that perceptions of openness and assurances increase over time in escalating relationships, while perceptions of positivity, assurances, and the sharing of tasks decrease in deescalating relationships. These findings support the contention that proactive/constructive maintenance strategies operate not only to stabilize relationships, but also to change them. Laura Guerrero, Department of Communication, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.

JAMES M. HONEYCUTT, BARBARA L. WOODS, & KAREN FONTENOT: The endorsement of communication conflict rules as a function of engagement, marriage and marital ideology. The maintenance of relationships is examined using a rules-based perspective in which engaged and married couples rated how often they followed a number of communication rules for conflict management in the marriage. In addition, couples were measured on their ideology about marriage using Fitzpatrick's (1988) marital typology descriptions. The results reveal four basic communicative rule dimensions dealing with conflict that include signaling positive understanding to one's partner, being rational, being concise, and showing consideration to the partner. Analyses revealed marital status and marital type differences in terms of rule endorsement. Other differences attached to judgements of the applicability of the rules along a number of situational dimensions such as applying more in public/private, applying to men/women, not being important-extremely important, applying only in conflict versus other situations, and applying only to unhappy versus happy marriages. Mostly importantly, the results indicate that endorsement of rules regarding communication of positive understanding is positively related to relationship quality for all but engaged, independent couples. James M. Honeycutt, Department of Speech Communication, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803- 3923, USA. ======Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Issue 10iii, August 1993 DIANE T. PRUSANK, ROBERT L. DURAN, & DENA A. DELILLO: Interpersonal relationships in women's magazines: Dating and relating in the 1970s and 1980s. Diane T. Prusank, Department of Communication, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117, USA.

LESLIE A. BAXTER & SALLY WIDENMANN: Revealing and not revealing the status of romantic relationships to social networks. Leslie A. Baxter, Department of Rhetoric and Communication, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.

SALLY PLANALP: Friends' and acquaintances' conversations II: Coded differences. Sally Planalp, Department of Communication, Campus Box 270, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

PEARL A. DYKSTRA: The differential availability of relationships and the provision and effectiveness of support to older adults. Pearl A. Dykstra, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, P.O. Box 11650, 2502 AR The Hague, NETHERLANDS.

ROSE M. PERRINE: On being supportive: The emotional consequences of listening to another's distress. Rose M. Perrine, Department of Psychology, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 40475, USA.

KATHERINE A. McGONAGLE, RONALD C. KESSLER, & IAN H. GOTLIB: The effects of marital disagreement style, frequency and outcome on marital disruption. Ronald C. Kessler, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, USA.

STEVEN R. H. BEACH & K. DANIEL O'LEARY: Marital discord and dysphoria: For whom does the marital relationship predict depressive symptomatology. Steven R.H. Beach, Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.

SONIA MASCIUCH & KIM KIENAPPLE: The emergence of jealousy in children 4 months to 7 years of age. Sonia Masciuch, Coordinator, Graduate Education Programs in School Psychology, Department of Education, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3M 2J6, CANADA.

Program Overview JOSEPH VEROFF, LYNNE SUTHERLAND, LETHA CHAIDLA & ROBERT M. ORTEGA: Newlyweds tell their stories: A narrative method for assessing marital experiences. Joseph Veroff, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

Brief Articles SUSAN S. HENDRICK & CLYDE HENDRICK: Lovers as friends. Susan S. Hendrick, Department of Psychology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA.

DANIEL J. WEIGEL & RANDY R. WEIGEL: Intergenerational family communication: Generational differences in rural families. Daniel J. Weigel, Western Area Cooperative Extension, University of Nevada-Reno, Box 11130, Reno, NV 89520- 2893, USA.

BERNARD E. WHITLEY: Reliability and aspects of the construct validity of Sternberg's Triangular Love Scale. Bernard E. Whitley, Jr., Department of Psychological Science, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA.

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Contents for April 1993, kindly supplied by editor Mark A. Fine (For details of these papers and addresses of authors, please contact Mark Fine, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469-1430, USA)

Ethics in marital and family treatment: A special collection Introduction. Robert G. Ryder Ecology, ethics, and responsibility in family therapy. James W. Brock Ethical guidelines for the practice of family life education. Gregory W. Brock Ethical issues associated with client values conversion and therapist value agendas in family therapy. Mark Odell & Scott Philip Stewart Child sexual abuse: Ethical guidelines for the family therapist. Beth Haverkamp & Judith C. Daniluk Some ethical issues for systems-oriented therapists in hospital settings. Michael C Gottlieb & Caren C. Cooper No more Mr Nice-Guy: Informed consent and benevolence in marriage and family therapy. Robert G. Ryder & Robert Tepley

Articles Marriage and romantic relationships Couples' debriefing conversations: the impact of gender, occupation and demographic characteristics. Anita Vangelisti & Mary Banski Sexual intercourse and relationship development. Rodney M. Cate, Edgar Long, Jeffrey J. Angera & Kersten K. Draper. Grandparenting Racial comparisons of the grandmother role: Implications for strengthening the family support system of older black women. Vira R. Kivett Grandparents' rights: Implications for family specialists. Marie Prunell & Beatrice H. Bagby

General interest Evaluation of court-mandated prevention program for divorcing parents: The children first program. Laurie Kramer & Christine A. Washo Family rituals in alcoholic and non-alcoholic households: Relation to adolescent health symptomatology and problem drinking. Barbara H. Fiese Perceptions of family boundaries: The case of disclosure of HIV testing information. Julianne M. Serovich & Kathryn Greene Domestic partnerships: A concept paper and policy discussion. Steven K. Wisensale & Kathlyn E. Heckart Mothers caring for an adult child with schizophrenia: The effects of subjective burden on maternal health. Jan Steven Greenberg, James R. Greenley, David McKee, Roger Brown, & Claire Griffin-Francell

Applied Literature review Family Life education for the later years. Timothy Brubaker & Karen Roberto Literature and resource review Youthful sexual offenders: A comprehensive bibliography of journal references, 1970-1992. D. Kim Openshaw, Roger B. Graves, Susan L. Ericksen, Mariya Lowry, Deborah D. Durso, Laurel Agee, Stephanie Todd, & Julie Scherzinger Book reviews

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INTERNATIONAL NETWORK NEWSLETTER NUMBER 23 JUNE 1993 Compiled and edited by Steve Duck, who is also responsible for the typing errors ======

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ABSTRACT A report of the Milwaukee conference and the business transacted at the meeting and in the reports of Network committees ... News of the next Network Workshop (1994) and Conference (1995) ... Important questions posed to all of the membership about the future shape of the Network (PLEASE VOTE) ... 43 new members join since April ... Membership nears 1000 ... More news about the visibility of JSPR as compared to other journals ... Call for papers and proposals for the conference workshop ... Lots of stuff!

MILWAUKEE CONFERENCE A record number of people registered for the Milwaukee conference organized (outstandingly) by Kathryn Dindia. The conference was, from start to finish, a thoroughly well-organized, thoroughly stimulating, and thoroughly enjoyable affair with a wonderful atmosphere free from ingroups and politics! Sound too good to be true? Well, if you were not there then ask someone who was and if you were, you probably have already told others. The Network is very grateful to the Kathryn, who took the whole responsibility for the conference herself and ran it single-handed (with some help from very capable grad students who provided some of the fingers for the single hand). The Network is also grateful to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, for its supportiveness.

Network business and committee reports The Network held a Business Meeting at the Milwaukee conference and the several committees established in 1992 reported on their work, making recommendations for changing some things about the Network and keeping others, some large things and some small but important. We are grateful to the 100+ Network members who have worked on the Network's committee in the past year, a quite remarkable testament to the Network's openness and the dedication of its members. Each Committee submitted a formal report which, for reasons of space (and costs of postage) are summarised here. Copies of the full reports are available from Steve Duck. While some of the recommendations from a given committee may be inconsistent with or slightly different from those of other committees, many of the proposals were consistent and uncontentious, and they make good improvements to current practice. They have therefore been acted upon already, as noted. Some proposals for change to practice can be adopted or considered by committees for implementation in the future as also noted. Others make for fundamental change that requires the expression of member opinion in a postal ballot and you are urged to cast your votes at this critical juncture in the Network's development since the future form of the Network for at least the next few years will be decided by the voting that is done (and not by the voting that people wish they had done but did not get around to doing).

In opening the meeting, Steve Duck urged that members approach the evolution of the Network with a broad and decisive vision. We should be less concerned with today's practices, petty hassles, and concerns and should focus ourselves on the long term structure and broad future of the Network ten or more years from now. We need a structure that will last and not one that merely reflects the present disciplinary geography or current practices. Given the Network's growth towards 1000 members in the last four years and its active achievement of outreach to other groups, members need to envision a future organization that eschews political concerns and aims to achieve the goals of inclusiveness, egalitarianism, serious scholarship coupled with collegial fun, genuinely interactive multidisciplinary goals, internationalism, concern over younger colleagues, and promotion of others' careers and interests as well as one's own, especially focussing on the future in a nurturing and supportive style. Duck envisioned that the desirable and timely necessity to create a more formal organization should be based on these principles and the established practice of having a working executive dedicated to expanding member benefits actively. He proposed that we set up a leadership structure that follows the Elizabethan principle that "who shall not work shall not eat" and selects persons for the highest offices in the organization only after they have demonstrated dedication to the Network and worked on committees and chaired at least one of them. He argued for a fluidity and turnover in officers, with vigorous and systematic rotation of the Presidency around disciplines. Looking to the future and the number of outstandingly capable younger persons in the field, he urged that we make room for them to serve the Network by making sure that terms of office are annual terms for the most part. He pointed to the complexity of this task, but chose to view it with optimism and the conviction that persons of integrity and good will can solve the problems that this important transition will present to us as we set up a Network that will last into the future.

The committees then reported in the order given below:

Graduate Committee recommendations (Chair, Anne E. Beall reporting): The Network should set up a Graduate Committee each year comprising at least 12 students from numerous universities and programs; the Network should set up workshops and conferences every year so that graduate students never have to wait two years to present their work at such a conference and to provide a greater sense of continuity; the Network should set up ways of facilitating the transition from student to professor, give workshops on the logistics of doing research, provide guidelines for student reviewers of MSS for JSPR, initiate a mentoring program, and have regular colloquia at Network conferences to allow students to present their work-in-progress informally to other students and faculty; the Network should facilitate interactions among graduate students by producing a list of graduate students or identifying them in the Annual Directory; the Network should offer discounted rates to students, perhaps reducing them even more than it does at present, increase the number of travel awards, introduce an award for the best Master's thesis, and publish its awards and criteria more often.

Comments: A graduate committee will be set up before Sept, the issue of annual conference (also recommended by two other committees) is the subject of a member vote, a number of the workshop/conference proposals have been incorporated into the planning for the workshop meeting in 1994, guidelines for reviewers are now available, mentoring program is discussed below, student rates are already below the cost of JSPR to the students but an affiliate rate also exists, awards are recommended by another committee, Master's thesis award procedure will be announced in September along with other awards.

Member Benefits committee recommendations (Julie Yingling reporting on behalf of the committee): JSPR or PRI (Personal Relationship Issues, Ed. Art Van Lear) should have occasional invited papers on specific topics and publish articles from various subdisciplines on the state of relationship research in those disciplines and also in various countries; Newsletters should publish job openings and funding opportunities and a "Swap column" of academic expertises; The Network should create a full spectrum of awards from early through middle to lifetime achievement/service, with periodic awards for an outstanding book and for public service. This committee also suggested an award for Master's thesis (see above), that the winner of the annual PhD dissertation award be given a slot on the annual conference program, and that the Network set up a Mentoring Program (See above). The committee considered the question of setting up a Life Member or a Fellowship category of membership but, after considerable discussion within the committee, decided not to recommend the Fellowship category on the grounds that they would be inconsistent with the Network's egalitarian goals.

Comments: PRI will seek to publish "symposia" on specific topics and summaries of research in different disciplines and countries [submit proposals to Art Van Lear]. The Newsletter will publish Job Opportunities and Swap items if people will kindly send them to Steve Duck (preferably on disc or over e-mail to cut down on retyping errors). Subject to Conference Committee approval (and subject to members voting that we set up a Conference Committee at all!), the dissertation awardee will be given a slot on the program and a Mentoring Program will be set up in due course. Volunteers? Other awards will be handled by the Awards Committee (recommended below by another committee). A suggestion from the floor by Ann Weber was that we set up a media referral list so that media personnel could come to see the Network as a resource for their stories and so that the Network could refer them to the members most active and most willing to discuss a given topic with the media. Volunteers?

Task Force on Bias (Larry Kurdek, Chair, reporting) pointed out three kinds of bias in the field: 1) Assumptions about constructs (as well as data about those constructs) are typically based on college students; 2) Gaps exist in knowledge about the effects of such social-contextual factors as age, race, gender, disability, and sexual orientation on the experience and processes of relationships; 3) There are deficits in current empirical work as concerns samples reflecting the age, race, and cultural structure of society as a whole, but also empirical reports too infrequently describe samples with respect to such factors. The Network should encourage research that emphasizes diversity, perhaps adding that idea to the Information to Contributors in JSPR, should raise consciousness about these issues in reviews of papers for publication as well as through discussion in PRI (Personal Relationship Issues, Ed. Art Van Lear) and other fora (e.g., conferences) and institute an award for contributions to understanding of diversity in relationships.

Comments: PRI welcomes (and has indeed already published) papers on these issues. Changes to JSPR Advice to Contributors will be made; reviewers are encouraged to heed the above advice when constructing their reviews; the award will be considered by the Awards Committee (if you vote to have one!).

Conferences and Workshops Committee recommendations (Dot Miell reporting on behalf of the Committee): The style of conferences should be modified to include more audience participation in discussion, the formation of interest groups, and workshops organized on top of the regular conference cycle; fees should be structured to allow for registration without food; conferences should be changed to an annual cycle with the graduate workshop expanded and added to the conference, allowing more student involvement in their own workshop but also attachment to the conferences, with stylistic differences each year. The annual conferences should not be held only in the Midwest. To facilitate international links, conferences should not be held in sites other than US every four years, but rather the fee structure for overseas attenders should be reduced to encourage attendance. Smaller international conferences in other countries should be sponsored by the Network in conjunction with other groups based at the site of the conference.

Comments: The next regular conference will be in Williamsburg VA in May/June 1995, but in the interim [and pending the vote of members about conference frequency], an expanded workshop is planned for May 1994, building on the normal graduate workshop but including sessions for other attenders and making allowance for competitive paper presentations and discussion. Fee structure for overseas (i.e., you come over a sea, not just from Canada or past Lake Michigan! Sorry!) attenders will be reduced and sponsorship of overseas conferences will be investigated by the conference committee for the next conference event. Frequency of regular conference cycle is the subject of member vote.

Publications committee recommendations (Mike Cunningham, Chair, reporting): It is time to rectify the anomaly created by the fact that JSPR began five years before the Network, and to bring JSPR under editorial control of the Network. The committee recommended a formal structure based on a Publication Committee of at least five members charged with overseeing Network sponsoring of publications, appointing editors of JSPR, PRI, and the Newsletters, terms of office of editors and the creation of editorial boards, along with transition arrangements from the present set up. The committee considered publication dynamics, such as whether to sponsor a monograph series, and recommended pursuing these ideas with various publishers if the membership is so inclined. The committee suggested increasing the usage of e-mail for announcements.

Comments: Steve Duck made clear to the meeting that he does not have and has never had a lifetime appointment as editor of JSPR. Steve Duck's contract with SAGE ends in 1997 at the latest and he is desirous of setting up a new procedure in consultation with SAGE and the Network so that we move to the system proposed by the Publications Committee with all deliberate speed. Other recommendations of the committee about monographs and series can be pursued by the new Publications Committee, if the membership as a whole votes to follow the recommendation to set one up.

Ways and Means Committee recommendations (Dan Canary, Chair, reporting): The Network should preserve its open, informal style by setting up the minimum of structure necessary to its efficient operation; a percentage of all committee members should be graduate students with representation from different disciplines and international membership on committees; members as a whole (rather than only those attending conferences) should vote on matters of importance, including the following substantive recommendations:

The Network should set up a Nominating Committee to coordinate elections, a Publications Committee to oversee and develop policies for publications, a Conference Planning Committee (with a separate local planning committee for each conference), a Membership Benefits Committee to increase membership and promote membership benefits, an Awards Committee to oversee awards, and a Committee of Mentors to help members in the early stages of their careers, such committees to be elected directly by the membership and not appointed by the President or Executive Committee (see below) [Terms of office and other details to be decided in due course after the membership votes on structure]. The Network should have as its Executive Council the chairs of the above committees, plus the Executive Secretary (see below), Presidential slate (See below) and At-large members. The Network should have an Executive Secretary (Membership Secretary) to oversee membership records and finances, with a three or four year term. The Network should have either (assuming annual conferences) a Vice-President, President, and Past President sequence, with the person elected by the full membership and moving through each office one year at a time (making three years on the presidential slate in all). The Vice-President should be ex officio chair of the Conference Planning Committee and organize the conference at the end of which he or she will assume the Presidency; the President shall be Chair of the Executive Council; and the Past President shall be Chair of the Nominating Committee. OR (assuming conferences only every two years) a Vice-President and President, each person thus serving for four years and here being no Past President role.

Comment: Steve Duck expressed his support for three person presidential slate to spread the work and for a Past President role as Chair of the Nominating Committee to ensure that no sitting President is ever responsible for elections during his or her own term of office as President. Support was also expressed for the shorter terms of office to ensure faster rotation, with more roles for good people to serve. However the issue is related to the issue of frequency of conferences and is one on which there are different views (the Ways And Means Committee voted only narrowly for [but did recommend] the annual sequence over the two year sequence) and the membership is the proper body to decide the issue.

Other matters: there was some discussion of the fate of the talks on a merger with ISSPR, with much being said on both sides, sometimes heatedly. While views of the history of the issue differ as a function of a number of factors, it remains true that talks held in good faith on both sides came to nothing. Therefore both ISSPR and the Network have moved to to consider the future directly and to continue to define themselves in the best interests of their own members. The meeting decided however to add a Liaison Committee to the slate of committees in due course and charge that committee with investigating constructive links with any and all other groups that share our goals and styles. The meeting voted to put various structural questions to the membership, and hence this Newsletter includes ballots for the purpose of registering your opinion on some of them (the exact form of the question for the rest of the questions will depend on the outcome of the present balloting and will follow later this year).

NEXT NETWORK WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE For the last six years the Network has held a Workshop in the years when it had not held conference. The next Network Workshop will be held in Iowa City May 26th-May 30th [Memorial Weekend] 1994. In accordance with the considerations mentioned above this will be a two tier workshop, the first part for graduate students and second part for anyone. The first part (Thurs through Sat morning) will be primarily for graduate students and the second part (Fri evening through Mon morning) will be for anyone at all to attend. By skilful management of the program it will be possible to ensure that graduate students are specially treated in the first part of the workshop yet can then present their work alongside other work on the Saturday morning if they so desire. Sessions of general interest will also occur on Friday and Saturday. This structure will allow the graduates time to get to know one another and get the feel of the workshop before everyone else shows up for the long weekend workshop meeting. Thus the structure should help the students to become inducted into things nicely while also giving everyone else the chance for a fix of relationship work. Everyone else can still benefit from the structure, meet and discuss and do all the usual things. The workshop will deal with some special topics of general interest (see enclosed flyer) including a session on getting grants to do relationship work, a workshop on publishing, a workshop on professional transitions, a Master Discussion Session on Love Research, and a RentaMentor session where participants can consult with persons willing to act in a mentoring capacity at the workshop (i.e., a chance to meet the famous human beings who used to be just like the rest of us). Poster session and paper sessions will also be accepted to help people to share their scholarship, add to their vitas and get the travel funds necessary to come. Overseas registrants will be offered a specially low registration fee (see above recommendation of conference committee). The normal Network atmosphere of collegial informality will be part of the meeting and the normal social activities will also be planned as well as sessions. If you have work that you would like to present or if you would like to participate in workshop events then please see the enclosed flyer.

DEATH Members of the Network will be saddened to learn of the death on 20th May 1993 of Gerald R. Miller, at the age of 61. A graduate of the University of Iowa, Miller spent a year at the University of Washington before moving to Michigan State University where he spent the rest of his outstandingly productive and energizing career. Rightly regarded as the founder of the systematic study of interpersonal communication, Miller was the driving force behind the development of a "Michigan State" school of research on interpersonal behavior that has produced some of the finest scholars in the communication discipline. In fact Miller himself was fellow of APA as well as of both the major communication associations and his work was recognised in many different disciplines and institutions across the world. In recognition of his contribution to the study of personal relationships, the International Network named its early Career Achievement Award for him in 1989. A memorial to GR by Judee Burgoon will appear in the August issue of JSPR while the comments of Pam Kalbfleisch at the Network conference in Milwaukee are reproduced below.

A Tribute to Gerald R. Miller .. as presented to the Fourth Conference of the International Network on Personal Relationships in Milwaukee, Wisconsin June 5, 1993 by Pamela J. Kalbfleisch, Department of Communication, University of Kentucky It came as a sadness but not a surprise that two weeks ago we lost Dr. Gerald R. Miller. Professor Miller, who was also lovingly known as G. R.. or Gerry to his friends and family died May 20, 1993 after a long battle with cancer. Professor Miller was a visible member of our network. I am sure that we all miss his hearty laughter at this conference. It is fitting that our young scholar's award bears Gerald R. Miller's name because G.R. very much believed that it is the young scholars who are the future of our combined areas of interest. Professor Miller was both a Fellow of the International Communication Association and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He was a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and was also a recipient of that university's distinguished faculty award for excellence in teaching and research. Professor Miller was one of the first and foremost scholars that can be attributed with bringing the study of Interpersonal Communication to the field of Communication. At a time when people were looking at Interpersonal Communication as face to face communication between two people, Miller advocated looking beyond the mere number of participants and looking instead at the unique information that the interactants shared with one another, and their usage of this information in communicating with one another. In this way he distinguished interpersonal relationships from broader more sociologically based relationships. Professor Miller contributed broadly across many areas of interpersonal concern. Perhaps two of the areas where he had the most impact are in the study of deceptive communication and in the study of compliance-gaining and influence. He received numerous awards for his study in these areas and his deception research was supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation. However, if you asked Professor Miller what he felt his greatest contribution was, he would tell you it was his students. Miller felt that producing a core of well trained scholars would do more to advance our understanding of interpersonal relationships that he alone could do in a lifetime. I am honored to have been one of Professor Miller's students. Although, I am but one of many. While Professor Miller influenced each of our lives, his influence continues through our students, and in the case of my older academic siblings, their student's students. Although, it would be wrong to conclude that we are the only ones whose lives were touched by Gerald Miller. It was not until his passing that I became aware of just how many people felt he had helped them in some way. When I was in graduate school, I could set my clock by Professor Miller's arrival in the building. It was always proceeded by the smell of his cigar, and the sound of his singing a tune, sometimes softly under his breath, sometimes loudly. In any event, he began his day by typing at his typewriter for about an hour. Every morning, every day, for as long as I can remember. When I would ask him what he was working on - he would tell me he was just catching up on his correspondence. It is only now that I have learned of the many people who received letters of kind encouragement from G. R.. Congratulations on awards, comments on recent publications, encouragement on numerous topics and endeavors. G. R.. began his day, every day, encouraging others in their research. Gerald Miller was a great scholar and kind human being. While he took his scholarship very seriously, he did not take himself or life seriously. In fact, Gerald Miller was the very embodiment of working hard and playing hard. At his memorial service the chapel was filled with the sound of weeping, but there was also the sound off laughter. The eulogies were filled with descriptions of G. R.. and his approach to life. While we were sad at his passing, his lighthearted spirit cheered us. He pursued fun and laughter with the same vigor that he pursued scholarship. So let us remember G. R.. as we pursue knowledge and the enjoyment of each other's company. And sometime raise a glass to toast G. R.. and all that he was and continues to be.

NEWS OF MEMBERS (IF YOU HAVE NEWS THAT SHOULD APPEAR HERE, SEND IT ALONG!) Rosemary BLIESZNER has a new e-mail address [email protected] Perri DRUEN has received an APA Dissertation Grant in addition to winning one of the Network's Student Travel Awards for her paper at the Milwaukee conference. Steve DUCK's new e-mail address ([email protected]) has caused some problems for people on Bitnet. If you have trouble getting through to the above address then try [email protected] BUT USE LOWER CASE (That also might help the easy address to work also) Toni FELICE has received the Univ of Louisville's Psi Chi Graduate Student Teaching Award. Mannfred HASSEBRAUCK has a new e-mail address: [email protected] Bob MILARDO has been elected Chair of the NCFR Theory and Research Section. Bill RAWLINS' book Friendship Matters (available at a special discount to Network members!) was recently selected as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1993 by Choice, the book review journal published by the American Library Association Pam REGAN has a new e-mail address, the catchy: [email protected] Ann WEBER has been awarded a big award on her campus, the Feldman Professorship for Scholarship and Service. Julia T. WOOD has joined the Advisory Board of Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

MEMBERS ON THE MOVE (ONWARDS AND UPWARDS) Art ARON will be at the Dept of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2130 September through December and then moves to Dept of Psychology, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2500. Mary BANSKI will be moving to the University of Houston, Texas from Fall 1993. Anita BARBEE has been appointed senior researcher on the Child Welfare Grant which conducts training assessments of all competency based trainings for workers in the state of Kentucky (Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, 502-588-6402, [email protected]) Nancy COLLINS will be moving to the SUNY-Buffalo Marcia DIXSON has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Communication Dept at Indiana University-Purdue University, Forty Wayne, Indiana. Frank FINCHAM has been promoted to Full Professor at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. Stanley GAINES has taken a position at the Dept of Psychology, Pomona College, Claremont CA 91711 Robin GOODWIN has been appointed to a position at Bristol University, UK and has also been elected to the committee of the Social Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society Mary GULLEY has taken a position at the Psych Dept of Clemson University. Bob MARTIN has taken a position at the Dept of Speech Communication, Ithaca College, New York Sandra METTS has been promoted to Full Professor at Illinois State University (see also Sue Sprecher, below) Carole PISTOLE has moved to the Dept of Education, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (908-932-7180) Bill RAWLINS has been promoted to Full Professor at Purdue University. Sue SPRECHER has been promoted to Full Professor at Illinois State University (see also Sandra Metts, above)

BOOKS BY MEMBERS Steve DUCK (Ed.)(1993) Individuals in relationships (Understanding relationship processes 1), SAGE: Newbury Park. Steve DUCK (Ed.)(1993) Learning about relationships (Understanding relationship processes 2), SAGE: Newbury Park. Steve DUCK (Ed.)(1993) Social contexts of relationships (Understanding relationship processes 3), SAGE: Newbury Park. Mannfred HASSEBRAUCK & Reiner Niketta (Eds.)(1993) Physiche Attraktivitaet [Physical attractiveness]. Goettingen: Hogrefe. E. James LIEBERMAN (1993) Acts of will: The life and work of Otto Rank Univ of Massachusetts Press: Amherst Michael Pfau & Roxanne PARROTT (1993) Persuasive Communication Campaigns Allyn & Bacon: Boston. Barry SCHNEIDER (1992) Children's' social competence in context: The contributions of family, school, and culture. Pergamon: Oxford and New York. Barry WELLMAN (with Scott Wortley & Marc Eliany) (1993) The use of alcohol and other drugs: Descriptive report of the national Canadian survey. Ottawa: Health and Welfare Canada.

ADDITIONS TO YOUR PUBLICATION LIST The following were omitted, by my error, from the publication list that was recently circulated to Network members: Barry Wellman and others (1992) Integrating individual, relational, and structural analysis. Social Networks (13) 223- 250. Barry Wellman (1992) Men in networks: Private community, domestic friendships. In P. Nardi (ed) Men's friendships, SAGE: Newbury Park Barry Wellman (1992) Community support networks. In E. Lawler, B. Markovsky, Cecilia Ridgeway & Henry Walker (Eds) Advances in group processes, JAI: Greenwich.

GRANTS WON BY MEMBERS Dawn BRAITHWAITE has been awarded a $3750 research grant by Arizona State University West to study "Public ritual as relational maintenance".

NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following new members who joined us since April: Alan ALDRICH, Godfrey T. BARRETT-LENNARD, Mordechai BLITTNER, Nancy L. BUERKEL, Vicki L. CAMPBELL, Dianna COOPER, Mark DAVIS, Jennifer DEBSKI, Jennifer DeWESTER, Fran DICKSON, Kori EGLAND, Sandra EYSTER, Kory FLOYD, Stephen FRANZOI, Liesbeth GERRITSEN, Nicholas HASLAM, Carole HODGE, Mahzad HOJJAT, Rachel HSIUNG, Campbell LEAPER, Wendy LEEDS-HURWITZ, Karin LETTNER, Carole LOGAN, Howard MARKMAN, Kristin MICKELSON, Melissa MONFRIES, Jason A. MOWERY, Ian G. MURRAY, Roxanne PARROTT, Medora PERLMAN, Norma Ann RAINEY, Lynda ROSS, Bobbi Elaine SCHULZ, Gert SOMMER, Digby TANTAM, Claudia THIELE, Julia TORQUATI, Erica L. WEINER, Lee WEST, Shirley WILLIHNGANZ, Elizabeth Ann YOST, Amy YOUNG, Vanda Lucia ZAMMUMER

...and who use the following methods Godfrey T. BARRETT-LENNARD, Barrett-Lennard Relationships Inventory. Mordechai BLITTNER, Locus of control attribution styles, Epistemic Authorities. Nancy L. BUERKEL, Parenting Styles Scale, Affinity-Seeking Scale. Mark DAVIS, Interpersonal Reactivity Index (empathy). Jennifer DEBSKI, Interviews, HICLAs Clustering Algorithm . Fran DICKSON, Quantitative, but now using narratives-stories. Kory FLOYD, JSDQ, Bem Sex Role Inventory, Qualitative Interviews. Stephen FRANZOI, Surveys. Liesbeth GERRITSEN, DeJong-Gierveld Loneliness Scale/UCLA Loneliness Scale, Comparing American & Dutch loneliness scales/measures & improvement. Carole HODGE, Adult Attachment Style Measures. Campbell LEAPER, Psychosocial Processes Coding Scheme, Above assesses communicative acts two-dimensionally in terms of assertion & affiliation. Wendy LEEDS-HURWITZ, Ethnography interviews, observation. Karin LETTNER, Self-Report-Questionnaire and structured interview. Carole LOGAN, Spanier's satisfaction scale; Rubin's liking scale, Lyon's self-orientation typology. Kristin MICKELSON, Cope, Social Support Measures, and EPAQ , Vicki Helgeson and I are developing a motives survey for social comparison. Melissa MONFRIES, sociometric techniques. Ian G. MURRAY, Value Survey (Milton Rokeach), 'Bridging' (not yet well enough developed, not circulated. Roxanne PARROTT, Burgoon & Hale's Relational Comm Scale, Iowa Communication Record , An adapted form of Iowa Comm Record - for current project on pregnancy. Norma Ann RAINEY, 11-item Loneliness Scale, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, Philadelphia Geriatric Centre Scale , Developed own Friendship Questionnaire comprising both quantitative and qualitative scales. Gert SOMMER, Social incompetence questionnaire (Ullrich): Social support Q. (Sommer). Claudia THIELE, Sonet, Computer-Aided Interaction Diary. Julia TORQUATI, Hazan/Shaver Attachment (Self-Report); UCLA Loneliness Scale; Int Mag Measure I developed., Developing an Intimacy measure for use w/multiple relationship types. Shirley WILLIHNGANZ, Role Category Questionnaires, Message Elicitation, Social Support Network Q. Vanda Lucia ZAMMUMER, Questionnaire on felt-communicated (verbally) emotions.

.....and who have the following INTERESTS Godfrey T. BARRETT-LENNARD, Working on a way to an increasingly systemic and broad-spectrum viewpoint on human association and relationship - a perspective that connects organisational life, community, etc. Mordechai BLITTNER, Epistemic authorities of smokers and the effectiveness of performance treatments associate with various authority sources. Nancy L. BUERKEL, Father-Son & Father-Daughter communication style similarity; use of metaphors in father-child dyads. Mark DAVIS, The role of empathy-dispositional and situational, cognitive and affective--in social relationships of various types. Jennifer DEBSKI, Development of conflict in heterosexual dating couples. Fran DICKSON, Researching those married for 50 yrs or more. Kory FLOYD, Gender-based differences in referents for intimacy; gender roles and self disclosure in TV characters Stephen FRANZOI, Looking at popular, controversial, rejected, neglected, and average students in high school and their loneliness, social relationships, and stability overtime. Liesbeth GERRITSEN, Relationship dissolution and loneliness among young adults in the Netherlands (longitudinal survey, 4 years, 2 main wares). Nicholas HASLAM, Elementary forms of social relationship. Carole HODGE, Examining the relationship between physical attractiveness and attachment styles. Rachel HSIUNG, Perceptions of influence and emotion in family purchase decision making. Campbell LEAPER, Gender and sociocultural influences on social interaction in peer and family relationships; social development Wendy LEEDS-HURWITZ, Wedding ceremonies between individuals of different cultural backgrounds - focus on several nonverbal aspects. Karin LETTNER, Negative aspects of social relationships, psychotherapy- documentation. Carole LOGAN, I have most recently been involved in looking at the relationship between message design logics (O'Keefe) and moral reasoning measures (developmental variables); also 'taboo topics' in close relationships and disclosure dilemmas faced by physicians. Kristin MICKELSON, Currently my work has two main focuses: 1) motives for social comparison and 2) chronic stressors and social support. Melissa MONFRIES, Self esteem: effects of ethnicity, sociobiology and development of sex differences, psychoanalytic perspective. Jason A. MOWERY, Effect of ambiguity and arousal on attitude change; communication competence w/in self- presentation; typologies and coping strategies of firefighters' stress accounts. Roxanne PARROTT, Working on Communication about women's health: The rhetoric of reproduction' an edited volume of Celeste Condit by University of Illinois Press. Medora PERLMAN, Interest in applying psychoanalytic, feminist and Jungian thought to interpersonal fields, dyadic and group, thesis topic for training as a Jungian analyst. Norma Ann RAINEY, The role of friendship in successful ageing - including personality factors, sense of control, and well-being. Lynda ROSS, Factors affecting adult attachment style. Claudia THIELE, Computer-aided interaction diary for measuring social support, interpersonal styles and interactions close to people's behavior. Julia TORQUATI, Two primary projects: 1) developing intimacy measure, and examining relation between intimacy, attachment, and emotion regulation. Lee WEST, Children's Self Disclosure of Sexual Abuse. Shirley WILLIHNGANZ, Social support networks in organizations as influenced by social cognitive factors such as differentiation and individual message strategies Elizabeth Ann YOST, Affect, attribution, and satisfaction with dating relationships among college students. Vanda Lucia ZAMMUMER, Discrepancies between felt of verbally communicated emotions (also cross-cultural project); children's emotional competence, naive theories of emotion.

....and who recently produced the following Publications Godfrey T. BARRETT-LENNARD, Barrett-Lennard, G.T. (1993). The phases and focus of empathy. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 66 (1). Barrett-Lennard, G.T. (1993). Toward a person-centered theory of community. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 33. Barrett-Lennard, G.T. (1991/92). A person centered systemic model of change. Paper presented to the Second International Conference on Client-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy, Stirling, Scotland. Mordechai BLITTNER, Blittner, M. Goldberg, J., & Merbaum, M. (1978). Cognitive self-control factors in the reduction of smoking. Behavior-Therapy, 9, 553-556. Blittner, M. (1982). Biofeedback and self-regulation, 7, 545-551. Blittner, M. (1992). Journal of Clinical Psychology. Mark DAVIS, Davis & Kraus (1991). Dispositional empathy & personal relationships. In Jones & Perlman (Eds), Advances in Personal Relationships, Vol. 3. Kraus, Davis, Bazzini, Church & Kinchman (1993). Personal and social influences on loneliness: The mediating effect of social provisions. SPQ, 56, 37-53. Davis & Oathout (1992). The effect of dispositional empathy on romantic relationship behaviors: Heterosocial anxiety as a moderating influence. PSPB, 18, 76-83. Fran DICKSON, The benefits of comm research: Intervention programs for couples & families. In Sourcebook of Family Theories & Methods by Boss, Doherty, LaRossa, Schumm, ?????, 1993. Social support and health among the elderly (1990). Journal of Applied Communication Research, 18, 49-63. Stephen FRANZOI, Franzoi, S. (1990). A motivational explanation for the existence of private self-consciousness differences. Journal of Personality, 58, 641-659. Franzoi, S. (1991). Stability and change in adolescent self-consciousness and empathy. Journal of Research in Personality, 25, 70-87. Franzoi, S. (1989). Gender differences in the experience of body awareness: An experiential sampling study. Sex Roles, 21, 499-515. Nicholas HASLAM, Haslam, N., & Fiske, A.P. (1992). Implicit relationships prototypes: Comparing five theories of the cognitive organization of social relationships. JESP, 28, 441-474. Fiske, A.P., Haslam, N., & Fiske, S. (1991). Confusing one person with another: What errors reveal about the elementary forms of social relations. JPSP, 60, 656-674. Carole HODGE, Hodge, C.N., Jackson, L.A., & Sullivan, L.A. (1993). The Freshman 15: Facts and fantasies about weight gain in college women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 17, 199-126. Jackson, L.A., Ervin, K., & Hodge, C.N. (1992). Narcissism and body image. Journal of Research in Personality, 26, 357-370. Jackson, L.A., Sullivan, L.A., & Hodge, C.N. (in press). The mediation of ingroup and outgroup evaluations: Cognitive complexity, attributions, affect, or aversive racism? JPSP. Campbell LEAPER, Leaper, C. (1991). Influence and involvement in children's discourse: age, gender, and partner gender effects. Child Deve, 62, 797-811. Leaper, C. (1989). Adolescent-parent interactions in relation to adolescents' gender and ego development pathway. Journal of Early Adol, 9, 335-361. Leaper, C. (1987). Agency, communion, and gender as predictors of communication style and being liked in adult male-female dyads. Sex Roles, 16, 137-149. Wendy LEEDS-HURWITZ, Leeds-Hurwitz, W. (1989). Communication in everyday life: A social interpretation. Ablex. Leeds-Hurwitz, W. (1992). Social Approaches to Interpersonal Communication in Communication Theory 2 (2) May 1992 and 2 (4) November 1992. Leeds-Hurwitz, W. (in press). Semiotics and communication: Signs, codes, cultures. Erlbaum. Carole LOGAN, Logan, C. (1993). Together: Communicating Interpersonally with John Stewart. New York: McGraw Hill. Kristin MICKELSON, Clark, M.S., Helgeson, V.S., Mickelson, K., & Pataki, S. (in press). Some cognitive structures & processes relevant to relationship functioning. In Srull & Wyler (Eds) Handbook of Social Cognition. Melissa MONFRIES, Loneliness and life satisfaction in Japan and Australia. The Journal of Psychology, 127, 65-71. Roxanne PARROTT, Parrott, R. (in press). Topic and person-centered 'sensitive subjects': Managing barriers to disclosure about health. In L.K. Fuller & L.M. Shilling (Eds), Communication about communicable diseases. Parrott, R. (1993). Pediatrician-parent conversation: A case of mutual influence. IN E.B. Ray (Ed) Case studies in health communication, pp49-59. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Parrott, R., Greene, K., & Parker R. (1992). Negotiation child health care routines through pediatrician-parent conversations. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 11, 35-45. Medora PERLMAN, Perlman, M. (1992). Toward a theory of the self in the group. In Stein & Hollwitz (Eds), Psyche at work: Workplace applications of Jungian analytical psychology. Wilmette, IL: Chrion Publications, Julia TORQUATI, Flannery, Bazsonyi, Torquati & Fridrich (in press). Ethnic and gender differences in risk for early adolescent substance use. Flannery, D.J., Montemayor, Eberly & Torquati (in press). Unraveling the ties that ind: Affective expression and perceived conflict in parent-adolescent interactions. JSPR Flannery & Torquati (in press). An elementary school substance prevention program: Teacher and administrator perspectives. Vanda Lucia ZAMMUMER, Zammumer, V.L., Frijda, N.H. (in press). Felt and communicated emotions: Jealousy and sadness. Cognition and Emotion. Frijda, N.H., Zammumer, V.L. (1992). L'etichettamento delle proprie emotioni. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 19 (3), 389-423. Zammumer, V.L. (1993). John Ruskin ovvero una teoria poco ingenua dell'emozione estetica. In A. Argenton (ed), L'Emotione Estetica, 103-128. Padova, Il Poligrafo. getting your relationship papers noticed SAGE has just told me that articles appearing in JSPR will now be abstracted or indexed in ALL of the following: ASSIA, Current Contents (Social and Behavioral Sciences), International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ), Inventory of Marriage and Family Literature (IMFL), PsychINFO, Psychological Abstracts, Sage Family Studies Abstracts, Social Science Citation Index, Sociological Abstracts, and Sociology of Education Abstracts..... and there are not many 10 year old Journals that can make that claim. Articles published in new journals particularly tend not to get much attention for this reason, but JSPR has been especially favored in its rankings recently and hence the accolade. member seeking help Liesbeth Gerritsen writes: I am a Dutch PhD-student, and Jenny de Jong-Gierveld is my supervisor. Currently I am working on my dissertation concerning relationship dissolution and loneliness among young adults in the Netherlands. I am comparing American and Dutch results regarding loneliness. Some results do not converge. So, for purposes of cross-validating two loneliness-measures, one of which is American and the other Dutch, I would like to ask who of my American colleagues is willing to help me collecting data among a (college) sample of American young adults of ages of (preferably) 18,, 22, 26, and/or 30. If this is not possible, any age from 18 to 30 will do. Data will be collected using a translation of a Dutch loneliness measure (the De Jong-Gierveld Loneliness Scale, De Jong-Gierveld & Kamphius, 1985) This Loneliness Scale consists of 11 statements, and it will not take too much time to complete it. In the Netherlands, first year psychology students have an obligation to participate as a subject in studies of senior- researchers. In about five afternoons, they must complete lots of different paper and pencil questionnaires in what we call a "test-battery". If this is the same in the USA, would it be possible to add my loneliness questionnaire to the test- battery? And if possible, could it be done in the summer or autumn of 1993? The best time is probably the start of the new semester. I will send enough copies to the colleague who is willing to have the students complete the questionnaire. After it is done, he or she can return the completed questionnaires to me. I would be very pleased if anyone is willing to do this. It is a important part of my research and it could be the final test to find out whether Dutch and American young adults are comparable. If there are any questions about this, please feel free to contact me any time. My address, fax and e-mail numbers are: Department of Social Research Methodology, Free University, Koningslaan 22, 1075 AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands FAX: 31-20-6769491, e-mail: V7OULIES@HASARA11 phone work: 31-20-6647131. phone home: 31-20-6848440.

Conferences and workshops NETWORK WORKSHOP -- CALL FOR PAPERS AND SUBMISSIONS The Network's regular Workshop, which will be partly extended for participants other than graduate students (as announced elsewhere), will be convened in beautiful downtown Iowa City, May 26-30, 1994. The enclosed workshop flyer contains fuller details about the special sessions and events.

======ICPR The 1994 ICPR will be held in Groningen, The Netherlands from July 4 to 8. Groningen is about 3 hours' travel northeast of Amsterdam, near the northeastern border of the country. Meetings will take place in the Academiegebouw, the central building of the University of Groningen, which, at nearly 400 years of age, is the second oldest university in the country. Groningen is an attractive city with numerous bars, restaurants, shops, museums, galleries, and hotels all within walking distance of the Academiegebouw. Attendees will also be able to choose a hotel in the beautiful countryside surrounding Groningen. Lakes in Friesland offer possibilities for sailing; woods for hiking and paths for biking abound in Drente. Groningen can be reached by a direct train connection from Amsterdam Airport in about 2 hours 45 minutes. Efforts are underway to coordinate the conference with the meeting of the ISSBD which will be held in Amsterdam. The timing of ICPR94 also enables those attending the ICA meeting in Australia to travel on to that conference after ICPR94. The Program Committee invites presentations in a variety of formats, including: symposium: 4 related papers and a discussant who integrates them debate or point-counterpoint discussion: two or more speakers who analyze a topic from diverse perspectives poster: visual display with opportunity for dialog among author(s) and participants paper: brief oral presentation in a session of other related papers interest group discussion/workshop: opportunity for informal dialog among organizers and participants who share a theoretical, topical, or methodological interest author meets critic: several speakers comment on a notable book, followed by the author's reply sequence of formats on a theme (multiple conference sessions): for example, an opening overview presentation, a series of papers or interest group sessions or a debate representing interdisciplinary perspectives on the topic, a wrap-up session In short, we invite you to think creatively and develop exciting conference program proposals! Proposals should be submitted electronically (or by FAX or mail if that is impossible) to Rosemary Blieszner by 22 October, 1993. Include preferred format; title; name, affiliation, address, e-mail address for all presenters/organizers; and an abstract no longer than 500 words (for posters, papers, debates, author/critic) or 1500 words (describing each component of a symposium, interest group, sequence of sessions). Rosemary Blieszner, Program Chair Electronic mail--note, new address: [email protected] Telephone with voice mail: 703-231-5437 Facsimile transmission (FAX): 703-231-7157 Mail: Department of Family & Child Development Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Blacksburg VA 24061- 0416, USA The Local Arrangements Chair is Bram Buunk: Electronic mail: [email protected] Telephone: + 31- 50-636380 Telefax: + 31-50-636304 Mail: Psychologisch Instituut Heymans Social and Organizational Psychology University of Groningen Grote Kruisstraat 2/1 9712 TS Groningen, The Netherlands ======Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Issue 10iii, August 1993

DIANE T. PRUSANK, ROBERT L. DURAN, & DENA A. DELILLO: Interpersonal relationships in women's magazines: Dating and relating in the 1970s and 1980s. This paper follows up Kidd's (1975) analysis of the rhetorical visions in popular magazine articles concerning personal relationships. Data were collected from articles appearing in women's magazines spanning the years 1974-1990. We ask which relational visions have dominated the popular magazines through the 1970s and 1980s. The use of content analytic methods focuses on the relational themes found in Kidd's analysis: togetherness vs. autonomy, self vs. other- orientation, and restricted vs. open communication. The findings indicate that in fact, a new vision has emerged. This vision focuses on the issues of knowledge of self and other, equality, relationship stages and time. Diane T. Prusank, Department of Communication, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117, USA.

LESLIE A. BAXTER & SALLY WIDENMANN: Revealing and not revealing the status of romantic relationships to social networks. The researchers conducted retrospective interviews with 101 university- level participants to determine what they did to make their developing romantic relationship known to social network members and what they did to keep their relationship from becoming known. The most frequent topic of both revelation and concealment was information on the relationship's status and progress. Strategic disclosure and manipulation of co-presence signals were the most frequent ways in which information was managed. The most frequent reasons for revelation were felt obligation to reveal based on the relationship with the target, the desire for emotional expression, and the desire for psychological support from the target. The most frequent reason to withhold information was the anticipation of a negative reaction from the target. Parents were more likely than others in the respondent's network to be the target of concealment acts, whereas close friends of the respondent were less likely than others to have information withheld. Parties in closer relationships were more likely than those in less close relationships to perform jointly-enacted acts and acts directed toward members of the partner's network or the joint network. Leslie A. Baxter, Department of Rhetoric and Communication, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.

SALLY PLANALP: Friends' and acquaintances' conversations II: Coded differences. This is the second of a pair of studies investigating differences between friends' and acquaintances' conversations. In Study I (Planalp & Benson, 1992), naive judges were asked to indicate whether they thought conversations were between friends or acquaintances and why. In Study II (reported here), the same conversations were analyzed to determine if the reasons given by judges in Study I did, in fact, discriminate between friends and acquaintances when coded from the conversations and analyzed statistically. Results indicated that the pattern of differences was consistent with Study I, although only a few differences were significant statistically due to low power. Discriminant analyses indicated that two variables alone, Mutual Knowledge and Content Intimacy, predicted friend/acquaintances differences as well as the entire set of variables and with the same level of accuracy (about 80%) as the judges in Study I. Sally Planalp, Department of Communication, Campus Box 270, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

PEARL A. DYKSTRA: The differential availability of relationships and the provision and effectiveness of support to older adults. Does information on the types of relationships composing older adults' networks provide an indication of the amount and effectiveness of network support? This question was addressed using data from a representative sample from the Netherlands of 160 non-institutionalized older adults between the ages of 65 and 75. Results showed first that different types of relationships differed in their supportiveness. These differences were linked with the degree of consanguinity of kin and the degree of friendship of nonkin. Second, consistent with a mechanism of compensation, the supportiveness of particular types of relationships depended upon the network in which they were embedded, namely upon the availability of an alternative source of support. For example, adult children were more supportive to parents who no longer had a partner than to parents who were still together. Third, the effectiveness of support in providing protection against loneliness varied according to the availability of a partner. Among the cohabiting, support from friends and adult children was unrelated to loneliness. Furthermore, support from the network, instrumental support in particular, was less closely associated with loneliness among the cohabiting than among the never married and the formerly married. Pearl A. Dykstra, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, P.O. Box 11650, 2502 AR The Hague, NETHERLANDS.

ROSE M. PERRINE: On being supportive: The emotional consequences of listening to another's distress. The present research explored supporters' feelings about giving emotional support to a person in distress. In a laboratory setting subjects talked with a confederate enacting a distressed role. The response of the confederate was manipulated, either "Improvement" or "No Improvement." Responses of the subject were categorized as either "Supportive," i.e., primarily listening or providing encouragement, or "Active," i.e., primarily problem solving. Subjects' affect, goal accomplishment, and feelings of responsibility were assessed. Three factors were significantly related to an increase in the subjects' anger and sadness: (1) when the confederate did not improve, (2) when the subject relied on "Supportive" responses, and (3) when subjects perceived that they had not accomplished their goal. In addition, the more responsible subjects felt for solving the problem the more negative affect they experienced after talking with a confederate who did not improve. Whether or not the confederate improved, subjects who relied on problem solving felt that they had helped more then did subjects who relied on listening. Implications and directions for future research are discussed. Rose M. Perrine, Department of Psychology, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 40475, USA.

KATHERINE A. McGONAGLE, RONALD C. KESSLER, & IAN H. GOTLIB: The effects of marital disagreement style, frequency and outcome on marital disruption. Studies of the relationship between marital conflict behaviors and marital functioning have focused almost exclusively on conflict resolution styles to the neglect of other components of marital conflict. The present study takes a first step toward addressing this limitation by examining the comparative and interactive effects of marital disagreement style, frequency, and outcome on the occurrence of marital disruption (separation or divorce) over a three year period. The study is based on a general population sample of 691 married couples. Results of exploratory factor analysis show that self-reports of frequency, style, and outcome of marital disagreements share a common underlying structure best described as Negativity. Logistic regression analysis documents that while each of the components of Negativity is a significant predictor of marital disruption, frequency and Negativity are more powerful than either style or outcome. Multivariate analyses reveal that disruption is most powerfully predicted by self-reported Negativity among the recently married and by self-reported disagreement frequency among the longer-married. The report closes with a discussion of the implications of these results for future research on marital functioning. Ronald C. Kessler, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, USA.

STEVEN R. H. BEACH & K. DANIEL O'LEARY: Marital discord and dysphoria: For whom does the marital relationship predict depressive symptomatology. The paper examines the ability of early and concurrent relationship satisfaction to predict newlywed's level of depression. The sample was composed of 241 couples, all of whom were white, responding to advertisements for couples about to marry. Both spouses were assessed prior to marriage, at six months after marriage, and at 18 months after marriage. Marital relationship variables were found to be predictive of later depressive symptomatology for all spouses, but a chronically dysphoric subsample was found to be more reactive to changes in marital adjustment. The results are taken as support for the hypothesis that those who are chronically dysphoric are more vulnerable to stresses within the marital relationship. There was no evidence that the prospective effect of marriage on later symptoms was moderated by gender. Steven R.H. Beach, Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.

SONIA MASCIUCH & KIM KIENAPPLE: The emergence of jealousy in children 4 months to 7 years of age. Children's expression of jealousy was studied in a cross-sectional sample of children. In the first study, 56 females and 56 males, ages 4.5 months to 4.5 years, were videotaped while their mothers paid exclusive attention to another child in a social situation thought to evoke jealousy. In the second study, ten girls and ten boys, ages 4.9 to 7.3 years, were videotaped while their mother praised another child's drawing. We present indications that the emotional state of jealousy can be reliably and validly inferred from the children's behaviour in these social settings. Jealousy emerged most intensely in the majority of children between approximately 1.1 and 2.3 years and at 3.5 years children distinguished between social situations which elicit jealousy. These findings are related to the cognitive developmental theories of Case et al. (1988) and Fischer et al. (1989). Sonia Masciuch, Coordinator, Graduate Education Programs in School Psychology, Department of Education, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3M 2J6, CANADA.

Program Overview JOSEPH VEROFF, LYNNE SUTHERLAND, LETHA CHAIDLA & ROBERT M. ORTEGA: Newlyweds tell their stories: A narrative method for assessing marital experiences. This paper describes three coding systems used to systematically analyze joint narratives told by 344 black and white newlywed couples about the 'story of their relationship', as part of a program of study of the early years of marriage. The first coding system of these accounts captures the affects mentioned in the stories; the second assesses husband- wife interactions in telling the stories; and the third identifies styles and themes characterizing both the overall story and specific sub-stories within the narratives. A summary of results based on these coding schemes is outlined. Several narrative measures were found to be related to marital quality over time. A number of these measures help clarify ways in which black couples (N=176) in comparison to white couples (N=167) are alike and ways in which they are different. We discuss the role of these coding schemes for capturing 'meaning-making' in story construction. In addition, we illustrate the possibility for analyzing changes in narrative memory and its connection to affective developing in people. Joseph Veroff, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

Brief Articles SUSAN S. HENDRICK & CLYDE HENDRICK: Lovers as friends. Account-making has generated considerable interest among relationship researchers and was employed in the present research. In Study I, 41 college student participants generated freeform accounts of a romantic love relationship. When coded for love themes, based on Lee's (1973) six love styles, the most frequent theme was Storge (friendship-love). Results were similar for Study II (N=18), and in addition, there was good correspondence between love themes in the freeform accounts and love style scores on the Love Attitudes Scale. In Study III, 25 participants generated freeform accounts of their closest friendship relationship. Some 44% of the participants named their romantic partner as their closest friend. Results of the three studies confirm the importance of friendship as well as passion in young adults' romantic relationships. These results also suggest the importance of freeform accounts as a methodology for studying the meaning of love. Susan S. Hendrick, Department of Psychology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA.

DANIEL J. WEIGEL & RANDY R. WEIGEL: Intergenerational family communication: Generational differences in rural families. The aging of our society creates increased opportunity for intergenerational communication between parents and adult children. While many researchers have studied the overall relationships within intergenerational families, few have examined communication within such families. This study explores generational differences in perceptions of communication problems, family communication resources and communication satisfaction in a specific intergenerational family system - the intergenerational farm family. Using repeated measures MANOVA, generational communication differences were examined with a sample of 284 adult family members. The younger generation saw significantly more communication problems in the intergenerational family, viewed fewer family communication resources, and had lower family communication satisfaction than the older generation. The discussion highlighted four factors that may account for these generational communication differences. Daniel J. Weigel, Western Area Cooperative Extension, University of Nevada-Reno, Box 11130, Reno, NV 89520- 2893, USA.

BERNARD E. WHITLEY: Reliability and aspects of the construct validity of Sternberg's Triangular Love Scale. This research investigated the factor structure, reliability, and aspects of the construct validity of Sternberg's Triangular Love Scale (TLS). Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the items of the TLS loaded on their designated factors of intimacy, passion, and commitment; however, the model fit was poor and the factors were highly correlated. Exploratory factory analysis revealed that numerous items loaded on more than one factor. The subscales had extremely high internal consistencies and adequate two month test-retest reliabilities. Scores on all three subscales were related to relationship exclusivity and survival over the two month period, but only commitment and passion were related to expectancy for relationship survival. Implications and limitations of the research are discussed. Bernard E. Whitley, Jr., Department of Psychological Science, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA.

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Submitted contents for November 1993 Issue 10iv

ZIPORA SHECHTMAN: Groups psychotherapy for the enhancement of intimate friendship and self esteem among troubled elementary school children Zipora Shechtman, School of Education, Univ of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel 31999

DANIEL J. FLANNERY, RAYMOND MONTEMAYOR, MARY EBERLY & JULIE TORQUATI: Unravelling the ties that bind: Affective expression and perceived conflict in parent-adolescent interactions Daniel J. Flannery, Division of Family Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721

F.SCOTT CHRISTOPHER, LAURA A. OWENS & HEIDI L STECKER: An examination of single men's and women's sexual aggressiveness in dating relationships F. Scott Christopher, Dept of Family Resources and Human Development, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287

MICHAEL MONSOUR, SAM BETTY, & NANCY KURZWEIL: Levels of perspectives and the perception of intimacy in cross-sex friendships: a balance theory explanation of shared perceptual reality Michael Monsour, Dept of Communication, BOX 176, Univ of Colorado @ Denver, PO BOX 173364, Denver, CO 80217-3364.

YOSHINORI KAMO: Determinants of marital satisfaction: A comparison of the United States and Japan. Yoshinori Kamo, Dept of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803

CATHERINE RADECKI BUSH, ALBERT D. FARRELL, & JOSEPH P. BUSH: Predicting jealous responses: The influence of adult attachment and depression on threat appraisal. Catherine Radecki-Bush, Dept of Psychology, PO BOX 2018, Virginia Commonwealth University, 806 West Franklin St, Richmond, VA 23284-2018

Brief Articles

SCOTT B. MCCABE & IAN H. GOTLIB: Interactions of couples with and without a depressed spouse: Self report and observations of problem-solving situations Scott B. McCabe, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2.

LAURA A. KING: Emotional expression, ambivalence over expression and marital satisfaction Laura King, Psychology Dept, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275

CAROL J. S. BRUESS & JUDY C. PEARSON: "Sweet pea" and "Pussy cat": An examination of idiom use and marital satisfaction over the life cycle Carol J.S. Bruess, School of Interpersonal Communication, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701.

SANDRA PARKER & BRIAN DE VRIES: Patterns of friendship for women and men in same and cross sex friendships Brian deVries, School of Family and Nutritional Sciences, 2205 East Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4

ROOS VONK & DORIEN VAN NOBELEN: Masculinity and femininity in the Self with an intimate partner: Men are not always men in the company of women Roos Vonk, Dept of Social Psychology, Wassernaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, Holland

Book Reviews

Index to Volume 10

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Journal of Marriage and the Family

The table of contents for the August issue of JMF as kindly supplied by Editor Marilyn Coleman, to whom enquiries should be addressed:

An Exchange on American Family Decline American family decline. 1960-1990: A review and appraisal --David Popenoe A plea for objective assessment of the notion of family decline -- Norval Glenn Good riddance to "The Family": A response to David Popenoe -- Judith Stacey The sky is falling, but Popenoe's analysis won't help us do anything about it -- Philip Cowan The national family wars -- David Popenoe

Family Caregiving Conceptualizing gender in marriage: The case of marital care -- Linda Thompson Generalized extended family exchange: A case from the Philippines -- Jean Treloggen Peterson Care of the elderly in Japan: Changing norms and expectations -- Naohiro Ogawa & Robert D. Retherford Kinkeeping and distress: Gender, recipients of care, and work- family conflict -- Noami Gerstel & Sally K. Gallagher Grandparents who parent their grandchildren: Effects on lifestyle -- Margaret Platt Jendrek Adult siblings as sources of social support for the seriously mentally ill: A test of the serial model -- Allan V. Horwitz

Parenthood Family rituals in the early stages of parenthood -- Barbara H. Fiese, Karen A. Hooker, Lisa Kotary, & Janet Schwagler A comparison of voluntarily childfree adults and parents ---Marsha D. Somers Infant affect and home environment -- Tom Luster, Robert Boger, & Kristi Hannan

Close Relationships Family of origin influences in late adolescent romantic relationships -- Mark J. Benson, Jeffry Larson, Stephan M. Wilson, David H. Demo Control in dating relationships -- Jan Stets

Divorce Female employment and first union dissolution in Puerto Rico -- Karen Price Carver & Jay D. Teachman Visitation frequency, child support payment, and the father-child relationship postdivorce -- Joyce A. Arditti & Timothy Z. Keith

Of General Interest Explaining women's double jeopardy: Factors that mediate the association between harsh treatment as a child and violence by a husband -- Ronald L. Simons, Christine Johnson, Jay Beaman, & Rand D. Conger Race differences in marital well-being -- Clifford L. Broman Concordance for depressive disorders and marital quality -- Jane D. McLeod & Deborah A. Eckberg Marital name change: Plans and attitudes of college students -- Laurie Scheuble & Yvonne Pittelkow Religious belief, transmission, and the family: An Australian study -- Bernadette C. Hayes & Yvonne Pittelkow Child Care in JOBS employment and training programs: What differences does quality make -- Marcia K. Meyers

Book Reviews Nonresidential parenting: New vistas in family living by Charlene E. Depner & James H. Bray Single-parent families by Kris Kissman & Jo Ann Allen Violent betrayal: Partner abuse in lesbian relationships by Claire M. Renzetti Men who beat the men who love them by David Island & Patrick Letellier The orphan trains: Placing out in America by Marilyn Irvin Holt Poor women and their families: Hard working charity cases, 1900-1930 by Beverly Stadum Street lives: An oral history of homeless Americans by Steven VanderStaay The power of clan: The influence of human relationships on heart disease by Stewart Wolf & John G. Bruhn ======FAMILY RELATIONS Table of Contents for July 1993 kindly supplied by Editor Mark A. Fine (For details of these papers and addresses of authors, please contact Mark Fine, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469-1430, USA)

Current Approaches to Understanding Family Diversity: An Overview of the Special Issue Mark A. Fine The Importance of Values in the Study of Culturally Diverse Families Peggy Dilworth-Anderson, Linda M. Burton, & William L. Turner Use of African-American Family Structures and Functioning to Address the Challenges of European-American Post- Divorce Families Margaret Crosbie-Burnett & Lawrence Helmbrecht Children Raised by Lesbian Couples: Does Context of Birth Affect Father and Partner Involvement? Jan Hare & Leslie Richards A Descriptive Empirical Study of Gay Male Stepfamilies Margaret Crosbie-Burnett & Lawrence Helmbrecht Race and Gender as Moderator Variables in Predicting Relationship Satisfaction and Relationship Commitment in a Sample of Dating Heterosexual Couples Bettie Sanderson & Lawrence A. Kurdek Parenting Behavior and Children's Social, Psychological, and Academic Adjustment in Diverse Family Structures - Phyllis Bronstein, JoAnn Clauson, Miriam S. Fankel, & Craig L.Abrams Problems and Strengths of Single-Parent Families: Implications for Practice and Policy Leslie N. Richards & Cynthia J. Schmeige Family Diversity in Youth Organization: Involvement of Single- Parent Families and Stepfamilies in 4-H Lawrence H. Ganong Family Adaptation of Single Parents in the U.S. Army: An Empirical Analysis of Work Stressors and Adaptive Resources Gary L. Bowen, Dennis K. Orthner, & Laura I. Zimmerman Noncustodial Mothers: Developing Strategies of Support Joyce A. Arditti & Debra A. Madden-Derdich Bridging the Gap: Clinical Applications of Research Findings on the Spouse and Stepparent Roles in Remarriage Kay Pasley, David C. Dollahite, & Marilyn Ihinger-Tallman Family Diversity and the Division of Domestic Labor: How Much Have Things Really Changed? David H. demo & Alan C. Acock A Profile of Familial Relations Among Three-Generation Black Families Robert Joseph Taylor, Linda M. Chatters, & James S. Jackson Teaching About Race, Gender, and Class Diversity in United States Families Alexis J. Walker Reflexivity in Teaching About Families Katherine R. Allen & Elizabeth B. Farnsworth A Serial Approach for Translating Family Science Instrumentation Ruth S. Herrera, Robert L. DelCampo, & Michael Ames

Book Reviews +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This Newsletter is compiled, edited, typed, and distributed by Steve Duck, 151-CSB, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 (319-338-3931 [email protected], to whom materials for inclusion should be sent.

**PLEASE REMEMBER TO VOTE****

NETWORK VOTING QUESTIONS, JUNE 1993 The answers to the following questions will determine the basic structure of the Network into the long term future and other important questions hang on their outcome but cannot be decided at the same time. This is therefore only a first but most important phase of the necessary and unavoidable transition to a new structure. PLEASE VOTE to ensure your wishes are heard.

1) Most societies (e.g, APA, APS, ASA, NCFR, ICA, SCA) have an annual slate of major officers, while some others have a less frequent rotation. Taking a broad and long-term view, do you favor having a Vice President, President, and Past President cycle where each office is held for one year in succession (making three years in all for a given person after election as VP)? This option implies providing conference opportunities annually (See Newsletter). Or do you favor having a two year term for each of the offices of VP and Pres, making four years in office for each person after election as VP? (This option implies restricting conferences to only every two years. See Newsletter for further discussion and implications)

ONE YEAR TERM for these offices (Three years in all) OR TWO YEAR TERM for these offices (Four years in all)

======2) Should the Network have an Executive Secretary (Membership Secretary) to oversee membership records and finances ?

======3) Should The Network set up the following committees:

Nominating Committee to coordinate elections

Publications Committee to oversee policies for publications

Conference Planning Committee to plan and oversee conferences. (This is not the same as the local arrangements committee that will be set up for each conference - see Newsletter)

Membership Benefits Committee to increase membership and promote membership benefits

Awards Committee to oversee awards

Committee of Mentors to help members in the early stages of their careers

Graduate Members Committee VOTE SEPARATELY FOR EACH COMMITTEE OR ELSE VOTE ONCE HERE FOR ALL OF THEM ======

Please return ballots to Steve Duck, 151 CSB, Communication Studies Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN 1ST SEPTEMBER, 1993. Completed ballots may be placed inside a blank envelope enclosed in the addressed envelope to ensure secrecy of your ballot...... INN24......

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INTERNATIONAL NETWORK NEWSLETTER NUMBER 24 SEPT 1993 Compiled and edited by Steve Duck, who is also responsible for the typing errors ======

TO RENEW MEMBERSHIP AT THE FAVORABLE DISCOUNTED RATES YOU MUST RETURN YOUR RENEWAL FORM (MAILED OUT TO YOU IN JULY) BY SEPT 30TH. IF YOU CANNOT FIND THE FORM THEN CONTACT STEVE DUCK FOR ANOTHER ONE.

Abstract Results of the voting on structure are reported .... Call for papers for the next May Meeting (Mark your calendar and make your plans for May 27th-30th 1994!) ... the Network's regular Graduate Workshop is planned to overlap and interleave with the May Meeting (26th-30th May 1994) .... Information about upcoming issue of Personal Relationships Issues... Time to submit nominations for the annual dissertation award ... Ever wanted to edit JSPR? See the Special Issue - Call for Proposals .... news of new members.

THE NETWORK'S MAY 1994 MEETING: FURTHER DETAILS ON THE PROGRAM A) The next Network meeting will be the May meeting previously announced for May 26th-30th (Memorial Day Weekend) 1994. In response to feedback after the Milwaukee conference, the program has a number of exciting new features designed to increase the audience participation and opportunities for discussion. On the Saturday and Sunday the whole of the afternoon session will be a Special Discussion Session at which major scholars working on a particular theme will initiate discussion about a key topic (Love on Saturday; Social Support on Sunday). For the Session on Conceptualisation of Love, the speakers are: Art Aron, Michael Hecht, Clyde & Susan Hendrick, and Phil Shaver. For the session on Social Support, the speakers are: Caroyln Cutrona, Stevan Hobfoll, Barbara Sarason and Alan Vaux. After an initial tee-up by each of the speakers the rest of the time will be handed over to discussion among the panellists and the rest of the audience. In the mornings there will be a competitively reviewed program of discussion papers in addition to the other events and the format here will also be designed to allow plenty of time for discussion and audience interaction. Please begin submitting papers for inclusion. They may be in any topic in the field and workshop symposia or roundtables may also be proposed around a central theme independently of the above. The key is to propose events that will generate audience involvement and allow time for such inclusion. Submit a 500 word abstract of the paper or program that you propose (details of timetable for submission below). There will also be SPECIAL SESSIONS ON TEACHING, ON PUBLISHING AND ON FUNDING FOR RESEARCH Mark your calendar!!

B) As previously announced, the Network's regular Graduate Workshop has been arranged to overlap with the above meeting so that the graduates get best chances to do their own thing and also become integrated into the other events. There is a program of speakers at the workshop covering qualitative, experimental, survey, and inter-ethnic work on relationships (Linda Acitelli, Art Aron, Leslie Baxter, Michael Hecht) and there will be opportunities for graduates to share their work also. Submit your proposals in the form of a 500 word abstract about the work (for details of submission, see below).

THE NETWORK'S MAY MEETINGS: COMPETITIVE DISCUSSION PAPERS AND ROUNDTABLES CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline for submission of paper proposals is NOVEMBER 30th 1993. Paper/Symposium Proposals will be competitively reviewed for inclusion in the program and should be submitted to either Garth Pittman (for the Graduate Workshop) or Steve Duck, 151-CSB, Communication Studies Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA (Four copies), by November 30th 1993.

JSPR SPECIAL ISSUE: CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND EDITORS JSPR is planning to publish a special issue in the general area of family relationships for 1995 or 1996 and invites proposals for a specific theme from candidate guest-editors and regular submitters. Candidates for the editorship of the special issue should submit a proposal for the topic to be featured, along with proposals for any invited papers, and criteria for the inclusion and selection of papers submitted in response to the general call for papers that will be issued in early 1994 after the winning proposal is selected. A draft timetable for the process should also be proposed. Any topic in family relationships, broadly construed, may be proposed. Proposals should be submitted to Steve Duck, Editor JSPR, 151-CSB, Communication Studies Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA (Four copies), by November 20th 1993. [email protected]

FORTHCOMING ISSUE OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP ISSUES Art Van Lear is getting together a future issue of PRI on Graduate Programs in Personal Relationships and seeks input form people who would be interested in letting us know about their programs. There is a flyer enclosed in with this Newsletter about that. Please complete and return the questionnaire to him.

CHANGES TO THE NETWORK: RESULTS OF VOTING Thanks are expressed to our intrepid team of vote counters and assessors: Garth Pittman and Melanie Barnes. Watch for more news of future developments as a result of the recent voting. The results of the voting are as follows: Major terms of office: One year, with annual conferences: 136 Two years with biennial conferences: 63 Executive Secretary: Yes 194; No 3; Abst 2 Network Standing committees: Nominating Committee: Yes 189; No 9; Abst 1 Publications Committee: Yes 190; No 7; Abst 2 Conference Planning C'tee: Yes 184; No 13; Abst 2 Membership Benefits C'tee: Yes 169; No 24; Abst 6 Awards Committee: Yes 178; No 20; Abst 5 Committee of Mentors Yes 160; No 34; Abst 5 Graduate Members Committee: Yes 175; No 21; Abst 3 Executive Council composition Chairs of Standing Committees: Yes 179; No 9; Abst 11 Pres/Vice Pres[/Past Pres] Yes 183; No 6; Abst 10 Executive Secretary Yes 185; No 4; Abst 10 At-large members Yes 174; No 15; Abst 10

DISSERTATION AWARD The Network has created an Annual Dissertation Award, as you will know, dating back to 1987. On the recommendation of a past committee on the Dissertation Award, the award for dissertations completed in 1992 (defended by December 31st 1992) will be now be made, and judgements will be made, in the first instance, on the basis of a paper derived from the dissertation. Submit nominations (or self nominations) which include the paper to be evaluated, to Steve Duck by November 30th 1993.

BOOKS BY MEMBERS Robert A. BROWN & Joan Roberts Field (Eds) Treatment of sexual problems in individual and couples therapy PMA Pub Corp Thomas O. BLANK (1993) Topics in Gerontology: Selected annotated bibliographies Greenwood Press: Westport, CT. Robert A. Baron & Donn BYRNE (1993) Social Psychology: Understanding Human Interaction (Seventh Edition) Allyn & Bacon: Boston, MA Dan CANARY & Laura STAFFORD (1993) Communication and relational maintenance Academic Press: New York (Due later in the year) Bill CUPACH & Brian SPITZBERG (Eds) (In press) The dark side of interpersonal communication Erlbaum: Hillsdale. Larry DAVIS (1993) Black and Single: Meeting and choosing a partner who's right for you. Noble Press. Val DERLEGA, Sandra METTS, Sandra PETRONIO, & S. Margulis (1993) Self Disclosure. SAGE: Newbury Park. Joe DEVITO (1993) Essentials of Human Communication New York: Harper Collins. Joe DEVITO (1993) Messages: Building Interpersonal Communication Skills, Second Ed, New York: Harper Collins. Joe DEVITO (1994) Human Communication: The basic course, sixth edition New York: Harper Collins. Steve DUCK (1993) Social contexts of relationships (Understanding relationship processes 3) SAGE: Newbury Park. Michael HECHT, Mary Jane Collier & Sidney A. Ribeau (1993) African American Communication: Ethnic identity and cultural interpretation. SAGE: Newbury Park Erich KIRCHLER (1993) [Unemployment] Goettingen: Hogrefe (In German). Sandra PETRONIO, Jess Alberts, Michael HECHT, & Jerry Buley (1993) Contemporary Perspective on Interpersonal Communication WCBrown & Benchmark M. S. Stroebe, W. Stroebe, & Robert O. HANSSON (1993) Handbook of Bereavement: Theory research and intervention Cambridge. Julia T. WOOD (1993) Gendered Lives: Communication, Gender, and Culture. Wadsworth: Belmont.

NEWS OF MEMBERS Norman BROWN has developed a new method: the Relational History Grid. Bram BUUNK has begun a new project on the role of intimate relationships of heart patients in recovery after heart failure, with Marike Berkhuyzen and Robbert Sanderman. Steve HOBFOLL is the Director, Organizing Committee, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Stress and Communities, to be held in June 1994 in France. Erich KIRCHLER has developed a questionnaire on partners' influence tactics in purchase decisions. Kathleen McKINNEY will soon begin a term as Editor of Teaching Sociology. She has also begun a book for Erlbaum on Sexual Harassment in Higher Education: The victimization of faculty and students. Luciano L'ABATE has begun a project on programmed writing and depression. Phil SHAVER has become the Chair of the Dept of Psychology at UC-Davis and is already quite attached to the role Brian SPITZBERG has begun a new project collecting research and data on the social skills of date rapists and victims. He has also started a project developing materials relevant to interpersonal competence as an ideological phenomenon. Chuck TARDY has been quick to change his e-mail to [email protected] Julia WOOD has been converted to Internet: [email protected] Jan YAGER writes that she is continuing to get publicity for her book Business Protocol: How to survive and succeed in business (Wiley), has had coverage in NEW WOMAN magazine and had a number of invitations to speak at several different fora.

MEMBERS ON THE MOVE (ONWARDS AND UPWARDS) Nancy COLLINS has moved to the Dept of Psychology at SUNY Buffalo Keith DAVIS has assumed a new role (for 93-94 only) as Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Univ of South Carolina and also Associate Editor of Personal Relationships Val DERLEGA and Barbara WINSTEAD will be spending Fall 1993 as a Semester at Sea. In a different sense, so, probably, will I. They however will have a better location: on the SS Universe sailing from Vancouver around the world to Florida. Leesa DILLMAN has moved to Dept of Communication Studies, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5007 Doctor Marcia DIXSON (PhD) has successfully defended her dissertation and taken a position as Assistant Professor at Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. Mark FINE has been promoted to Full Professor at the Psych Dept of Univ of Dayton, OH. Fine news indeed. Daena GOLDSMITH will be moving to the Dept of Communication at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Robin GOODWIN has moved to Bristol University Shelley HYMEL has moved to the Dept of Educational Psychology and Special Education at UBC, Vancouver, Canada and has a new e-mail: [email protected]. and a new FAX: 604-822-9097. Carole LOGAN has been promoted to Associate Professor at the University of San Diego and granted tenure. Valerie MANUSOV has moved to the University of Washington, Dept of Speech Communication Pat PARMELEE is now Associate Director of Research at the Phila Geriatric Ctr. Linda PLEDGER has been promoted to Associate Professor and granted tenure at Univ of Arkansas-Little Rock. Deborah RICHARDSON has been promoted to Full Professor Suzanna ROSE has started the St Louis Lesbian and Gay Research Project to study L/G relationships, sexuality, and hate crimes victimization. Constantine SEDIKIDES has moved to a position in the Dept of Psychology at UNC-Chapel Hill, and his new phone number is (919) 962-1405. Ted SPENCER has moved to the Speech Communication Dept of the University of Maryland

MEMBERS SEEKING HELP Norman BROWN would like to hear from people who would like to collaborate collecting relational histories from adults 35-60. Val DERLEGA is interested in communicating with others interested in studying the social impact of the HIV epidemic. Perri DRUEN would like to obtain (p)reprints dealing with the number of past dating/marital relationships a person has had. Susan DUBITSKY is hoping to hear from members interested in the role of spirituality in creating healthy relationships and how healthy relationships promote mental and physical health. Elaine HATFIELD is summarizing recent research on cross-cultural and ethnic group differences in passionate love and sexual desire for Annual Reviews of Sexual Behavior. She would like to hear from anyone who has conducted recent work on courtship, passionate love, sexual behavior or breakups of love relationships. Thomas HOLMAN is interested in contacting people who are working on dating mate selection and qualitative research. He is interested in starting with a group of young (Mormon) people who are not in a dating situation and following them through the relationship development into the transition to marriage. He is interested in working with anyone who finds this project appealing and has a much larger set of details for anyone who would like to contact him. T. B. Holman, 1042 SWKT BYU, Dept of Fam Studs, Provo UT 84602 (801) 378-6704 ([email protected]). Carol MASHETER would like to obtain (p)reprints in Intimacy, Sex and Intimacy, adult attachment, Post divorce adjustment, and or narrative methods. Rowdie MILLER has started to write a book on Embarrassment for the Guilford series on Emotions and social behavior and would like to hear from anyone who is working on this topic. He has a new fax number: 409-294-3798. Rose PERRINE would like to hear from any members working on the topic of college teachers' social support for students and also on the topic of adult attachment and childhood abuse

GRANTS WON BY MEMBERS Pat FRAZIER has won two grants, one from NIMH (a FIRST award) The role of causal attributions in post-rape recovery ($347,255) and from NIH on Psychosocial correlates of compliance and adjustment in renal transplant recipients ($133,279). Pat PARMELEE has won a grant on Depression, Disability and Pain in osteoarthritis (MH 51800, to begin in 1/94) Linda PLEDGER has been awarded a $10,000 grant to develop faculty workshops promoting Oral Communication across curricula. Pam REGAN has received a University of Minnesota Doctoral dissertation Fellowship and a Doctoral Dissertation special grant to study the perceived impact of sexual desire on romantic love and romantic relationships ("Yay!", she adds)

JOURNAL OF NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR: SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS The Journal of Nonverbal Behavior (Editor: Judith A. Hall) is pleased to announce a special issue on "Health, Health Care and Nonverbal Behavior". The Guest Editor will be Dr. Valerian J. Derlega of Old Dominion University. Articles should present theory and/or research on the role of nonverbal behavior in health and health care. Please send a two-page prospectus by March 1, 1994 to Dr Derlega at the Dept of Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529-0267, USA. Preliminary feedback will be provided by April 15 1994. Completed MSS are expected by September 1, 1994, at which time they will be sent out for peer review.

FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 6-9 JULY 1994 BRISBANE AUSTRALIA -- INFORMATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS The Fifth International Conference on Language and Social Psychology will be held in Brisbane, Australia, July 6-9 1994. Keynote speakers include Joseph Cappella, Ellen Bouchard Ryan, and Gun Semin. Symposia will be held on Language and gender, intercultural interaction, intergroup language and power, and language and health care, among other things. The conference has been coordinated to precede the International Communication Association meeting in Sydney Australia the following week. Abstracts (max 250 words) must be received by Feb 1 1994, but earlier submissions are encouraged. Suggestions for symposia are also welcomed. For further details on conference arrangements, contact Ann Dellow, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia ([email protected]).

NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following new members since the beginning of August: Jennifer ANDERSON; Mark BALDWIN; Ellen BEGLEY; Robert A. BROWN; Bonnie BURMAN; Joseph DeVITO; Jennifer DeWESTER; Dorothy FAULKNER; Daniel FLANNERY; Michelle JOHNSON; Benjamin KARNEY; Tamami KIMURA; C. Raymond KNEE; Zoltan KOVECSES; Mary Lynn MILLER; Melissa MONFRIES; Colleen MURRAY; Jamie S. OSTROFF; Donna PAWLOWSKI; Joanne STURGEON; Melodie WENZ-GROSS.

....WHO HAVE THE FOLLOWING INTERESTS Jennifer ANDERSON, Initiation of dating Mark BALDWIN, The impact of relational schemas on self-evaluation and interpersonal perception. Ellen BEGLEY, Comparison of elicitation methods for personal constructs - masters thesis (And I plan to explore the idea that personal constructs can be construed as personal stories for my dissertation). Robert A. BROWN, Interested in primary prevention of marital distress thru communication training, mechanisms of change introduced through communication training. Bonnie BURMAN, Effect of marital conflict on children's adjustment; family environment & children's adjustment; developmental psychopathology. Joseph DeVito, Summarizing/Synthesizing the research and theory in communication. Dorothy FAULKNER, With Dot Miell -- Our research investigates the effects of children's long-term friendships on their developing social and communicative competence. Daniel FLANNERY, Measuring affective expression as it related to relationship satisfaction (i.e. conflict) in Parent- Adolescent dyads and in marital dyads in the transition to parenthood. Michelle JOHNSON, Studying similarity and relational maintenance issues within friendships and marital relationships. Benjamin KARNEY, Investigating predictors of change and stability in the early years of marriage. Tamami KIMURA, Measurement of emotions in adult love relationships C. Raymond KNEE, Within-subject regression analysis of closeness; mental models of relationships. Zoltan KOVECSES, Conceptualization of friendship and love Mary Lynn MILLER, Paul Mongeau and I are investigating how love styles correlate to self-monitoring behaviors. Melissa MONFRIES, Self-esteem: effects of ethnicity, sociobiological development of, sex differences, psychoanalytic perspective. Colleen MURRAY, Studying the life experiences of adolescent females and their at risk behaviors. Bereaved parent- surviving sibling interaction. Jamie S. OSTROFF, Examine family context of health promotion and psychosocial rehabilitation of adolescent and adult cancer patients. Donna PAWLOWSKI, Analyzing individuals' use of metaphors in their family and interpersonal relationships; also interested in media effects of audience members; I use quantitative and interpretive methods Melodie WENZ-GROSS, Currently adapting the 'My Family & Friends' interview for use with children with disabilities.

... AND USE THE FOLLOWING METHODS Ellen BEGLEY, Interpersonal Repertory Grid, Self Characterization Sketch Robert A. BROWN, Variety-attributional measures, DAS Dorothy FAULKNER, Sociometric Interviews, Participant & Nonparticipant Observation Daniel FLANNERY, CBQ by Prinz et al; YSR by Achenbach Benjamin KARNEY, MAT, QMI, KMS Tamami KIMURA, SAS, MDS for analyses Zoltan KOVECSES, Language Mary Lynn MILLER, Hendrick & Hendrick Love Styles; Burgoon & Hale Relational Meanings; Lennox & Wolfe Self-Monitoring Melissa MONFRIES, Sociometric Techniques Donna PAWLOWSKI, Olson's family scales; thematic analysis Melodie WENZ-GROSS, My Family & Friends (Ried et al, 1989), The Friendship Interview (Berndt & Perry, 1986).

.. AND HAVE THE FOLLOWING PUBLICATIONS Mark BALDWIN, Baldwin, Fehr, Keedian, Seidel & Thomson (in press). An exploration of the relational schemas underlying attachment styles: Self-report and lexical decision approaches. Pers Soc Psych Bulletin, Baldwin, M.W. (1992). Relational schemas and the processing of social information. Psychological Bulletin, 112, 461- 484. Ellen BEGLEY, Leitner, L.M., Begley, E.A., & Faidley A. J. Sociality, commonality, individuality, and mutuality: A personal construct approach to nondominant groups. In B. Walker & D. Kalebin-Fishman (Eds). The Construction of Group Reality: Personal Construct Theory, Groups, Culture and Society. Melbourne, FL: Krieger. Bonnie BURMAN, Margolin, G., & Burman, B. (1993). Wife battering and marital violence: Different terminologies, explanations, and solutions. Clinical Psychology Review, 13, 59-73. Burman, B., Margolin, G., & John, R.S. (1993). America's angriest home videos: Behavioral contingencies observed in home reenactments of marital conflict. Journal of Consult & Clinical Psyc, 61, Burman, B., & Margolin, G. (1992). An analysis of the association between marital relationships and health problems: An interactional perspective. Psychological Bulletin, 112, 39-63. Joseph DeVITO, DeVito, J. (1993). Message: Building Interpersonal Communication Skills, 2nd Edition. New York: Harper Collins). DeVito, J. (1993). Essentials of Human Communication. New York: Harper Collins. DeVito, J. (1994). Human Communication: The Basic Course, 6th Edition. New York: Harper Collins. Dorothy FAULKNER, Faulkner, D.M., & Miell, D. (1993). Settling into school: The importance of early friendships for the development of children's social understanding. International Journal of Early Education, 1, 23 Daniel FLANNERY, Flannery, D. (1993). Guest editor, Special Issue on Affective Expressions & Emotions in Early Adolescence. Journal of Early Adolescence. Flannery, D. et al (in press). Ethnic and gender differences in risk for early adolescent substance use. Journal of Youth & Adolescence. Flannery, D. et al (in press). The meaning & method of affective expression and emotions in adolescence. Journal of Adolescent Research. Benjamin KARNEY Bradbury, T.N., & Karney, B.R. (1993). Longitudinal study of marital interaction and dysfunction: Review and analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 13, 15-27. Karney, B.R., Bradbury, T.N., Fincham, F.D., & Sullivan, K.T. (in press). The role of negative affectivity in the association between attributions and marital satisfaction. JPSP. Zoltan KOVECSES, Friendship - preliminary paper, 1993. Kovecses, Z. (1991). A linguists quest for love. JSPR. Melissa MONFRIES, Monfries, M. Loneliness and life satisfaction i Japan and Australia. The Journal of Psychology, 127 (1), 65-71. Colleen MURRAY, Murray, C.I. (in press). Family experiences with death, dying, and bereavement. In P.C. McKenry & S. Price (Eds), Contemporary American Families: Coping with problems and change. Sage. Murray, C.I. (in press). Enhancing family science research through the inclusion of feminist principles. Family Science Review. Brooks/Cole. Murray C., & Leigh, G. (in press). Families and sexuality. In R.D. Day et al (Ed), Advanced Family Science." Jamie S. OSTROFF, Rait, D., Ostroff, J., Smith, K. et al (1992). Loves in a Balance: Perceived Family Functioning and the Psychosocial Adjustment of Adolescent Cancer Survivors. Family Process, 31, 383-397. Melodie WENZ-GROSS, Schneider-Rosen, K., & Wenz-Gross, M. (1990). Patterns of compliance from 18 to 30 months of age. Child Development, 61, 104-112. Siperstein, G.N., & Wenz-Gross, M. (1991). Stress in mentally retarded children and adolescents. In M.E. Colten & S. Gore (Eds), Adolescence and Stress: Causes and Consequences. Hawthorne, NY: Al

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ZIPORA SHECHTMAN: Group psychotherapy for the enhancement of intimate friendship and self-esteem among troubled elementary school children. The effect of group psychotherapy on self-esteem and close friendship was examined by a pre-/post-test comparison group design. The study included 52 experimental students (in six small therapy groups) from one elementary school and 52 control students matched by age, gender and similarity of problems, from a school in the same neighborhood. Treatment consisted of approximately twenty weekly 45-minute sessions. Results indicate significant gains for the counseling group on two variables studied: intimacy in a close friendship and self-esteem. No significant gender-by- treatment interaction effect was revealed. Intimate friendship and self-esteem were found to be intercorrelated, both in the pre-scores of control and experimental groups, and in the gains of the treated children. Zipora Shechtman, School of Education, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel 31999

DANIEL J. FLANNERY, RAYMOND MONTEMAYOR, MARY EBERLY & JULIE TORQUATI: Unraveling the ties that bind: Affective expression and perceived conflict in parent-adolescent interactions. The purpose of this observational study was 1) to examine the process of parent-adolescent relationship change across puberty, and 2) to examine the relationship between affective expression in interactions and perceived relationship conflict. Data were collected on 85 intact families with adolescents in grades 5 to 9 (N = 44 males, 41 females). Each parent and adolescent took part in two eight-minute conversations -- one about an activity they reported enjoying together and one about a disagreement or area of conflict. Conversations were coded by speaker turn for positive, negative, neutral, mixed, and altered affect (kappa = .76). Regression analyses indicated that parents and adolescents expressed more negative and less positive affect in interactions as adolescents physically matured. In addition, adolescents' perceptions of relationship conflict were consistently related to parents' expressed emotions in interactions and paralleled trends for positive and negative affect across puberty. Findings are discussed in terms of understanding of the process of transforming parent-adolescent relations and family communication patterns across puberty. Daniel J. Flannery, Division of Family Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA.

F. SCOTT CHRISTOPHER, LAURA A. OWENS, & HEIDI L. STECKER: An examination of single men and women's sexual aggressiveness in dating relationships. This study focused on two forms of sexual aggression used in dating: pressure and manipulation, and antisocial acts. Two research questions were addressed using the responses of 463 males and 455 females. First, single men and women, and individuals with different commitment levels, and different sexual motivations were compared in their use of sexual aggression. Significant interactions demonstrated these variables' importance. Second, the sexual aggression measures were regressed on individual and relationship conflict were significant predictors of both forms of aggression, while feeling of hostility towards women was predictive only for pressure and manipulation. For women, attitudes, number of coital partners, and anger turned inward were predictive of both forms of aggression. Additionally, holding adversarial sexual beliefs and relationship ambivalence were predictive only for pressure and manipulation while relationship conflict was predictive only for antisocial acts. The importance of considering male and female sexual aggression in dating is discussed. F. Scott Christopher, Department of Family Resources, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.

MICHAEL MONSOUR, SAM BETTY, & NANCY KURZWEIL: Levels of perspectives and the perception of intimacy in cross-sex friendships: A balance theory explanation of shared perceptual reality. Higher levels of interpersonal perception in personal relationships have been relatively ignored over the last decade, as well as the role played by those perceptions in the creation of a relationship. Through utilization of Balance Theory and a variation of Laing's Interpersonal Perception Method, this study investigated multiple levels of interpersonal perception in cross-sex friendships, and how those perceptions help create a shared perceptual reality among cross-sex friends. One hundred and three pairs of cross-sex friends completed a survey examining direct perspectives (DPs), metaperspectives (MPs), and meta-metaperspectives (MMPs), on various manifestations of intimacy, the importance of the friendship, and the definition of the relationship. As predicted by Balance Theory, there was significant agreement, understanding, and realization of understanding between cross-sex friends concerning intimacy in the relationship and the importance of the friendship. Results also reveal that perceived agreement and perceived understanding in those friendships was significantly greater than actual agreement and understanding. In addition, there was strong evidence that individuals in cross-sex friendships use their own attitudes as a basis for predicting the attitudes of their partner - that they create their partner's perspectives so that they more closely agree with their own (i.e., they assimilate). These results question the acceptability of higher-order perspectives as fully validated constructs, and suggest that the location of explanatory force in POX systems may reside in individual level variables - as opposed to dyadic level measurements. Michael Monsour, Department of Communication, Box 176, University of Colorado, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217-3364, USA.

YOSHINORI KAMO: Determinants of marital satisfaction: A comparison of the United States and Japan. Past literature, mostly based on U.S. data, indicates that one's satisfaction with marriage is determined by each spouse's rewards from marital interactions but no by socio-economic characteristics. To examine the differences and similarities between American and Japanese spouses in the determinants of marital satisfaction, comparative survey data are analyzed in this study. It was expected that expressive (interaction) aspects of marriage are more important in the United States and instrumental (socio-economic) aspects more in Japan. Results indicate that determinants are similar between husbands and wives within each country and somewhat different between the two countries, largely in the expected way. The husband's income is important for Japanese spouses but not for the American. Age has a negative relationship to marital satisfaction in the United States but not in Japan. Rewards from marital interactions are equally important in the two countries contrary to the expectation. Different ideals and conceptions about marriage in each country partly explain these differences. Yoshinori Kamo, Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA

CATHERINE RADECKI-BUSH, ALBERT D. FARRELL, & JOSEPH P. BUSH: Predicting jealous responses: The influence of adult attachment and depression on threat appraisal. This study tested a model of romantic jealousy based on cognitive-motivational theory (White & Mullen, 1989) and formulations from adult attachment studies (Hazan & Shaver, 1987). A causal model was tested in which attachment, depression, and situational threat were hypothesized to predict jealous responses through their effects on appraisal of threat. Imagery scenes, depicting varying levels of threat by a romantic relationship rival, were presented to 135 undergraduates. The model fit the data very well. Threat appraisal was predicted by attachment, depression, and level of situational threat. Appraisal, in turn, predicted positive and negative relationship perceptions and emotions reported in response to jealousy-evoking situations. Results were interpreted as suggesting that attachment style and depression indirectly influence affective and cognitive responses to jealousy evoking situations by functioning as schemas which influence the appraisal of a rival relationship. Insecure attachment and depression were also found to be related to less effective coping strategies. Findings regarding depression and ineffective coping suggested implications for the personal and relationship adjustment of persons with secure and insecure attachment. Catherine Radecki-Bush, 1447 Cresline Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105 USA.

SCOTT B. MCCABE & IAN H. GOTLIB: Interactions of couples with and without a depressed spouse: Self-report and observations of problem- solving situations. Couples in which the wife was either clinically depressed (depressed couples) or nondepressed (nondepressed people) participated in a videotaped problem-solving interaction and completed a number of self-report measures of mood, family life, and perceptions of the marital interaction. Depressed couples, and particularly depressed wives, perceived their family life to be more negative than did nondepressed couples. Depressed wives also became increasingly negative in their verbal behaviour over the course of the interaction. Depressed couples perceived the marital interactions to be more hostile, less friendly, and more dominated by their partners than did nondepressed couples. Interestingly, further analyses indicated that only the depressed couples appeared to be immediately reactive to their spouses' behaviours in the interactions. These results are discussed with respect to interpersonal models of depression, and directions for further research are advanced. Scott B. McCabe, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C2 CANADA.

Brief Articles LAURA A. KING: Emotional expression, ambivalence over expression, and marital satisfaction. This study examined the relations among emotional expression, ambivalence over expression, and marital satisfaction. Fifty married couples completed 2 mail-in surveys containing the Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire and the Ambivalence Over Emotional Expression Questionnaire as well as measures of marital satisfaction. Subjects also rated their spouses' emotional expressiveness. Emotional expressiveness was positively correlated with marital satisfaction. Spouses' ratings of each other's expressiveness correlated with marital satisfaction, independent of spouses' self- reported expressiveness. Only husbands' ambivalence over expression was negatively correlated with wives' satisfaction. Results are discussed in terms of the importance of emotional expressiveness to close interpersonal relationships, particularly for men, and the relation between intrapsychic inhibitory processes and social relationships. Laura A. King, Psychology Department, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA.

CAROL J.S. BRUESS & JUDY C. PEARSON: "Sweet Pea" and "Pussy Cat": An examination of idiom use and marital satisfaction over the life cycle. One hundred and fifty four couples participated in this study to assess the relationship between their recalled use of idiosyncratic communication and marital satisfaction over the life cycle. Couples ranged from "newly married" to "married over 50 years". Each couple was given the satisfaction subscale of Spanier's Dyadic Adjustment scale and were asked to recall idioms they use within their marriage. The hypothesis that satisfied husbands and wives report more idioms than unsatisfied spouses was supported. Results also suggest that spouses' use of idioms declines over the life cycle. Couples married less than five years with no children reported using the most idioms; couples in later stages recalled using the fewest number of idioms. The notion that idioms are developed and used in the early stages of relationships was supported by these findings. Carol J.S. Bruess, Ohio University, School of Interpersonal Communication, Athens, OH 45701, USA.

SANDRA PARKER & BRIAN de VRIES: Patterns of friendship for women and men in same and cross-sex relationships. Ninety-five women and 95 men undergraduates rated each of their closest friends, and rated themselves with each of those friends on a Relationship Grid evaluating both "structural" dimensions (i.e., age, sex, duration of friendship and frequency of contact) and "affective" dimensions (i.e., self-disclosure, appreciation, assistance, empathic understanding, deepening others' self-awareness, shared activity, authenticity, trust, control, responsibility, connectedness, empowerment of others and satisfaction). Results indicated similarity in the rankings of the importance of those dimensions in the friendships of men and women, and that same-sex friendships were more common and of longer duration than cross-sex friendships. Two broad patterns of differences emerged on the "affective" dimensions: 1) relationships with men friends were less reciprocal than relationships with women friends; and 2) men's same-sex relationships were characterized by less giving and receiving. This study suggests similarities and differences in the nature, meaning, and perceived function of friendship for women and men, and illustrates the importance of studying people's conceptions of themselves and their friendships in the context of their specific real-life relationships. Brian de Vries, School of Family and Nutritional Sciences, 2205 East Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, CANADA.

ROOS VONK & DORIEN van NOBELEN: Masculinity and femininity in the self with an intimate partner: Men are not always men in the company of women. Males and females from 30 intimate couples described their self in general, self with their partner, and their partner. With respect to masculinity and femininity, females' impressions of their male partners corresponded with males' perceptions of self-in-general, while males' impressions of their female partners corresponded more with females' perceptions of self-with-partner. Higher levels of femininity and lower levels of masculinity in the descriptions of self- with-partner were associated with more relationship satisfaction. Further, descriptions of self-with-partner reflected more feminine and less masculine attributes than descriptions of self-in-general. These findings suggest that people behave in a more feminine way toward their intimate partner than toward others, and that this is beneficial for an intimate relationship. Roos Vonk, Leiden University, Department of Social Psychology, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, HOLLAND.

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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Submitted contents for Issue 11i, FEBRUARY 1994

STANLEY O. GAINES, Jr: Exchange of respect-denying behaviors among male-female friendships Stanley Gaines,Dept of Psychology,Pomona College,Claremont,CA 91711,USA,38,48,59,61,72

MICHAEL L. HECHT, PETER J. MARSTON, & LINDA KATHRYN LARKEY: Love ways and relationship quality Michael Hecht, Communication Research Consortium, Department of Communication, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1205, USA

KRISTA K. TROBST, REBECCA L. COLLINS & JAYNE M. EMBREE: The role of emotion in social support provision: Gender, empathy, and expressions of distress Rebecca Collins, Dept of Psychology,University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall,Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4

ANISA M. ZVONKOVIC, DARREN C. PENNINGTON, & CYNTHIA J. SCHMIEGE: Work and courtship: How college workload and perceptions of work environment relate to romantic relationships among men and women. Anisa Zvonkovic, Dept of Human Devel and Fam Studies, Milam Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA

JOHN D. CUNNINGHAM & JOHN K. ANTILL: Cohabitation and marriage: Retrospective and predictive comparisons John D. Cunningham, School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

MARK A. FINE & LAWRENCE A. KURDEK: Parenting cognitions in step-families: Differences between parents and step-parents and relations to parenting satisfaction Mark A. Fine, Psychology Dept, Univ of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469-1430, USA

ANITA L. VANGELISTI: Family secrets: Forms, functions and correlates Anita L. Vangelisti, Department of Speech Communication, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA

Brief Articles LES B. WHITBECK & DANNY R. HOYT: Social prestige and assortive mating: A comparison of students from 1956 and 1988 Les Whitbeck, Dept of Sociology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

E.STRYKER DUGGAN & KELLY A. BRENNAN: Social avoidance and its relation to Bartholomew's adult attachment typology E. Stryker Duggan, Dept of Psychology, 6 Washington Place (4th Flr), New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA

Book Reviews Reohr: Friendship: An exploration of structure and process [reviewed by JoAnn Mooney] O'Connor: Friendships between women [reviewed by Barbara Bank] Cate & Lloyd: Courtship [reviewed by Beth C. Emery] Blieszner & Adams: Adult friendship [reviewed by Alberta Contarello] The Janus Report on Sexual Behavior [reviewed by F. Scott Christopher]

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Caregiving Marital History and the Prior Relationship as Predictors of Positive and Negative Outcomes Among Wife Caregivers Betty J. Kramer

Decision Making Influence Strategies of Caregiving Daughters and Their Elderly Mothers Clara C. Pratt, Laura Jones- Aust, and Darren Pennington

Expanding the Conceptualization of Caregiver Coping: The Importance of Relationship-Focused Coping Strategies Betty J. Kramer

Pregnancy Prevention Programs Impact Evaluation of FACTS & feelings: A Home-Based Video Sex Education Curriculum Brent C. Miller, Maria C. Norton, Glen O. Jenson, Thomas R. Lee, Cynthia Christopherson, and Pamela K. King

Project Taking Charge: Six-Month Follow-Up of a Pregnancy Prevention Program for Early Adolescents Stephen R. Jorgensen, Vicki Potts, and Brian Camp

Resources for Students Teaching Students How to Evaluate Family Research Lawrence H. Ganong and Marilyn Coleman

Small Research Grants and Academic Fellowships: How Students Can Compete D. Terri Heath, Rebecca A. Adams, and Deborah Lewis Fravel

General Interest The Validity of the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator for Predicting Expressed Marital Problems Frazier M. Douglass, IV, and Robin Douglass

Intervention Strategies for Treating Women in Violent Dating Relationships Karen H. Rosen and Sandra M. Stith

Cultural Variations in Parenting: Perceptions of White, African-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American Parents Teresa W. Julian, Patrick C. McKenry, and Mary W. McKelvey

Stressors and Enhancers in the Marital/Family Life of Family Professionals and Their Spouses Stephen F. Duncan and H. Wallace Goddard

Maternal Employment Plans and Outcomes after the Birth of an Infant in a Canadian Sample Douglas K. Symons and Peter J. McLeod

Adapting Parent Education Programs to Meet the Needs of Fathers: An Ecological Perspective Steven A. Meyers

Child Support Guidelines and the Economic Well-Being of Children in the United States Maureen A. Pirog-Good

The Relation Between Family Differentiation Levels in Families With Adolescents and the Severity of Presenting Problems Stephen M. Gavazzi

Rural and Urban Families' Use of Child Care Alice M. Atkinson

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INTERNATIONAL NETWORK NEWSLETTER NUMBER 25 DECEMBER 1993 Compiled and edited by Steve Duck, who is also responsible for the typing errors ======ABSTRACT Details of the all-comers May Meeting (which is preceded by a Graduate Workshop) are enclosed with this Newsletter [You may still submit late poster submissions for the program] ... Special offer from SAGE about 40% discounted rates for adding JSPR back issues to your personal or institutional library ... First issue of the second volume of the Network's new regular journal Personal Relationship Issues enclosed ...

LIBRARY SUBSCRIPTIONS TO JSPR AT 40% OFF

As a most generous recognition of the success of JSPR and the fact that it is entering its second decade next year, SAGE Publications Ltd (London) is offering to supply Network members and Network members' libraries with back issues of JSPR at 40% off. You can enter a new library subscription and get the whole lot back to 1984 (see below), or fill out your collection back to 1984 at the above discount. *This offer is available only to persons who are current members of the International Network on Personal Relationships by Feb 28, 1994* and is a wonderful opportunity for you and your libraries to make best use of dwindling budgets. In just ten years JSPR has established itself as a premier social science journal that is fully abstracted and indexed worldwide and has a very high Impact Factor in Social Sciences Citation Index -- and it has done this at a time when increasing numbers of new journals fail within the first three years. Your librarian may be especially interested in this offer (even if the librarian was not interested when the journal was first launched, for the reason given above. With a deal like this your institution ought to consider paying for your membership of the Network!!). There are a couple of provisos: Some issues have completely sold out already. These are 4iii, 4iv, 5ii, 6i, and 6ii. Second, the order must be initiated through a certified Network member as listed on SAGE's list of current members. Third, the library must deal directly with SAGE LONDON and not through a subscription agency (Note that SAGE Inc, California, a separate but related company, does not handle JSPR directly).

*Persons who are current members of the International Network on Personal Relationships or who join by Feb 28th 1994 will qualify for this special offer. Membership currently stands at just over 1000 members.

MAY MEETING Details of the outline program for the May Meeting are enclosed in this circulation of the Newsletter along with information about fees and deadlines. Several people have written to me and asked if they can come even though they are not graduate students. YES. This is a meeting for all comers, not only graduate students, although the full meeting is preceded by a graduate workshop. The meeting thus moves us towards the annual conference pattern that Network members voted for in the September ballot. As in previous years, however, persons other than graduate students are welcome to apply for a limited number of non-student places at the graduate part of the workshop, and graduate students are welcome to attend the non-graduate part of the meeting. Graduate fees include attendance at the full meeting, as a special bonus.

BOOKS BY MEMBERS Stephen ANDERSON & Ronald SABATELLI (in press) Family interaction: A multi-generational developmental perspective. Allyn & Bacon. John BIRTCHNELL (1993) How humans relate: A new interpersonal theory. Westport, CT: Praeger. John G. Carlson & Elaine HATFIELD (1992) Psychology of Emotion. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: Orlando, FL. Richard CONVILLE (1993) Uses of structure in communication studies. Praeger: New York. Alan FOGEL (1993) Developing through relationships: Origins of communication, self, and culture Harvester- Wheatsheaf: New York etc. B. S. Greenberg, J. D. Brown & Nancy BUERKEL-ROTHFUSS (1993) Media, sex and the adolescent. Hampton Press: Cresskill, NJ. Elaine HATFIELD, John T. Caccioppo & Richard L. Rapson (1994) Emotional Contagion. CUP: Paris. Elaine HATFIELD & Richard L. Rapson (1993) Love, sex and intimacy: Their psychology, biology and history Harper Collins: New York. Karen KAYSER (1993) When love dies: The process of marital disaffection. Guilford: New York. Luciano L'ABATE [Ed] (1994) Handbook of developmental family psychology and psychopathology. New York: Wiley. Luciano L'ABATE (1994) A theory of personality development. New York: Wiley. Luciano L'ABATE (1994) Family evaluation: A psychological interpretation. Newbury Park: SAGE. Anton LAIREITER (Ed., 1994) Selbsterfahrung in der Verhaltenstherapie: Konzepte und Praktische Erfahrungen (The personal therapy of behavior therapists: Concepts and practical experiences). DGVT-Verlag: Tuebingen. J.E. Marcia, A. S. Waterman, D. R.Matteson, Sally L. ARCHER, & J. L Orlofsky (1993) Ego Identity: A handbook for Psychosocial Research Springer Verlag: New York. Suzanne SALZINGER, John Antrobus & Muriel Hammer (1988) Social Networks of children, adolescents and college students Erlbaum: Hillsdale, NJ. Kathleen Gilbert & Laura SMART (1992) Coping with infant or fetal loss Brunner/Mazel: New York.

NEWS OF MEMBERS Graham ALLAN has a new e-mail address: [email protected] Annie BEALL has had some subtle changes made to her address and e-mail at Yale; the address is now Dept of Psychology, PO BOX 208205, New Haven, CT 06520-8205. The new e-mail address is [email protected] Cindy CARLSON has a new e-mail: [email protected] Nancy GENERO has a new phone number: 617-283-3004. Robin GOODWIN, who recently moved to the University of Bristol in the UK, has acquired a new e-mail address: [email protected] Terry HENDRIX has acquired a new e-mail address: [email protected] and a new FAX number: 805-499- 0871 Chris INMAN has moved to the University of South Florida and acquired a new e-mail: [email protected] He has also completed a thesis on experiences of male friendships. Pat KEELAN is now working as a Research Associate with Mark BALDWIN at the University of Winnipeg, studying the nature and effects of relational schemas [[email protected]]. Anton LAIREITER has a new e-mail: [email protected] Anton LAIREITER has also translated three Social Support scales from English into German (ISEL - Cohen & Hoberman, 1983); ISSB (Barrera, 1981), and the SSA Scale (Vaux, 1981). Catalin MAMALI has been using and developing a graphical technique that allows an individual to visualize his or her own images of interpersonal relationships, group structures, and social networks, called the technique of the social auto-graph. In contrast to other such techniques, this one provides access to the "natural images" produced by social actors themselves. Catalin has also finished a book manuscript entitled "The Pythia Sphinx complex: Oedipus quest for truth and love". Steve MARKS has a new e-mail: [email protected] Sandra METTS has been awarded the Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award in recognition of teaching excellence. Al SILLARS has been elected Chair of Faculty Senate at the University of Montana. Albert TUSKENIS has acquired a new e-mail: U23114@UICVM

MEMBERS ON THE MOVE --- ONWARDS AND UPWARDS Sandra COTTON has been promoted to Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University. Daena GOLDSMITH has moved to Dept of Speech Comm, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801. Valerie MANUSOV has moved to the University of Washington and has a new e-mail: [email protected] Julie YINGLING is Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, Communication Studies Dept, for the 1993-94 session.

MEMBERS SEEKING HELP Anton LAIREITER would like to get in touch with anyone working on the therapist-patient relationship in psychotherapy and would like to receive reprints from anyone who has published in the matter. He is also seeking a person or research group working on the topic with whom he could work (self-financed) during 1995/96. [See above for his e-mail address] Catalin MAMALI is working on a scale on non-violent behaviors, attitudes and values, called the AHIMSA scale (from the original name for non-violence inspired by Gandhi). If you are interested in knowing about the validation process for this scale please contact Catalin. Greg MORROW would like to hear from people working on long distance relationships and or use of social interaction diaries, especially those who have preprints of their work. Albert TUSKENIS is looking for a means of measuring intimacy/closeness as distinct from dependency (e.g., help- seeking; protection-seeking. He would also like to hear from people working on adult attachment and psychopathology and would like to collaborate with others on psychometric /validity work with reciprocal attachment questionnaire (Exploratory/confirmatory factor analysis, convergent and discriminant validity) Julie YINGLING has started a new project on explaining illness to children: who does it and with what results. She is interested in hearing form anyone who would be able to help with contacts in hospitals, especially pediatric oncology, during 1993-4 in the Midwest (See "Members on the move" section) and in 1994-5 on the west coast (See Members on the move back again, INN 28, in press), Julie's FAX number is 319-335-2930.

GRANTS WON BY MEMBERS Garth FLETCHER has won a grant of $270000 from FRST (Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, NZ), for studies on Cognition in marital interaction. Vicki HELGESON has won a FIRST Award on Determinants of adjustment to chronic illness. Roxanne PARROTT has received a grant of $1036085 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to study "Cancer control for Georgia Farm and Migrant families". Her proposal was ranked absolute top proposal, incidentally.

ASA SOCIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS SECTION: GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD COMPETITION Submissions should be single-authored and the author should be a graduate student at the time of submission. Papers should represent original research or conceptual work in the sociology of emotions. All methodologies are welcome. Papers which are published or which have been accepted for publication are ineligible. Maximum length 40 pages. The winner will receive a certificate and $100 to defray the costs of attending the ASA meeting in Los Angeles where the award will be presented. Send THREE COPIES to the Chair of the Sociology of Emotions Section Graduate Student Paper Award Committee no later than June 1, 1994: Lyn Lofland, Dept of Sociology, Univ of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616.

NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following long list of new members who have joined us since October [Membership now stands at around 1000 members]: Lisa Marie ALLARD, Debra L. BERKE, John BIRTCHNELL, Gary BOWEN, Inge BRETHERTON, Colleen CAREY, David Anthony CARLONE, David CHEAL, Rueyling Beatrice CHUANG, Will CUPCHIK, E. Stryker DUGGAN, Michelle DUMONT, Barry FALLON, Jean R. FISCHER-SCHNIEDER, Alan FOGEL, Raymond FONTAINE, Jim FUENDELING, Barry GINSBERG, Mindi GINSBERG, Lauren Heim GOLDSTEIN, Judy HOLLINGSHEAD, Debra HOLT, Alicja KUCZYNSKA, Adrianne KUNKEL, Megan LEWIS, Malka MARGALIT, Shirley McGUIRE, Mary B. McPHERSON, Susan McWILLIAMS, Miguel MOYA, Sharon PRICE, William ROGERS, Lisa ROGHAAR, Lynda M. SAGRESTANO, Suzanne SALZINGER, Erich SCHICKER, Cheryl SLOMKOWSKI, Laura S. SMART, Marjorie E. STARRELS, Agnes UTASI, Marilyn Van LEEUWEN, Jacqueline WEINSTOCK, Mari WILHELM, Donald WRIGHT.

...WHO HAVE INDICATED THE FOLLOWING INTERESTS Jennifer ANDERSON, Female initiation of dating. John BIRTCHNELL, Examining the relating patterns of: patients in various diagnostic groups, subjects in psychotherapy, married couples. Gary BOWEN, The effects of work culture and economic participation/performance on marital and parental values, processes, performance, and satisfaction Colleen CAREY, Trying to determine if communication dispositions and conflict management strategies can be used to predict the incidence and severity of dating violence. David Anthony CARLONE, Compliance gaining across contexts; community in organizations David CHEAL, Changes in family relationships, and changes in relationships between families and the socio-economic environment. Will CUPCHIK, Assessing and altering relationships past, present and future. Michelle DUMONT, Verbal discussions about normal dilemmas between friends and topic; Marital health and buffer protection factors at the pre-adolescence period. Alan FOGEL, Development of relationship in infancy, emotions, games, social systems. Jim FUENDELING, Looking for info processing braces as a function of attachment style. Lauren Heim GOLDSTEIN, Evaluating a peer-support intervention for mothers of young children -- can mutual confiding relationships promote well-being in high risk mothers. Debra HOLT, Parental power structures and their potential influence on young adults' close personal relationships. Alicja KUCZYNSKA, Bonding behaviours in the process of creating close-relationships between man and woman. Adrianne KUNKEL, Gender and the communication of emotional support (MA thesis topic) Megan LEWIS, Investigating the role of social influence and regulation as related to health behavior. Malka MARGALIT, Loneliness of children with special needs. Shirley McGUIRE, Recent work: Links between maternal differential treatment and sibling's adjustment over time. Current work: sibling differences in peer and friend relations and children's temperament. Mary B. McPHERSON, Embarrassment in classroom context, long distance relationships (re-initiation and maintenance), mentoring relationships. Susan McWILLIAMS, Dissertation - Experimental investigation of effects of confident and group-oriented demeanors on minority influence and status in small groups. Sharon PRICE, Remarriage, Divorce William ROGERS, I am investigating differences between those who relocate frequently and those who do not, and I am interested in the effects of relocations upon relationships. Lisa ROGHAAR, Dissertation: Acceptable and taboos topics in adult sibling interaction. Lynda M. SAGRESTANO, I have been looking at gender and power and the use of influence tactics in peer and marital relationships. Suzanne SALZINGER, Effect of physical abuse on school children's sociometric status and social cognition. Cheryl SLOMKOWSKI, Maternal interviews of quality of sibling relationships (1 brother conduct disordered); individual differences in sibling relationship and friendship quality and how measures of social cognition predict those differences in young children's conflict. Laura S. SMART, Parental bereavement following infant death or pregnancy loss: contemporary, historical, retrospective. Marjorie E. STARRELS, Work family linkages; intergenerational relations Agnes UTASI, Networks, family life styles, family relationships, friendship. Jacqueline WEINSTOCK, Conflicts in close friendships; Lesbians' and heterosexual women's friendships; parent-child relationships ...and who use the following methods John BIRTCHNELL, Person's Relating to Others (PROQ); Couples Relating to Each Other (CREOQ) Gary BOWEN, Organizational culture, Social Support, Marital Outcome Measures , Value-Behavior Congruency Measure of Marital Satisfaction Colleen CAREY, Conflict Tactics Scale (Straus, 1979), Verbal Aggressiveness Scale , Revising Conflict Tactics Scale to include questions about # occurrences, amount of force, and David CHEAL, Typologies of Family Economics. Will CUPCHIK, Relationship Questionnaire; Reintrojection Therapy; Rope Trick, Further developments of above, which are my own developments Michelle DUMONT, Observational and questionnaire tools. Alan FOGEL, Observational Coding. Jim FUENDELING, Bartholomew's 4 and 30 item self report measures (R & RSQ). Alicja KUCZYNSKA, paper and pencil methods and experimental ones, Polish version of inventory for estimating gender stereotyping process Adrianne KUNKEL, RCQ, CFQ, Applegate's hierarchy of comforting strategies . Malka MARGALIT, Aster's loneliness scale; Moos Family Climate, Sense of Coherence Antonovsky , Sense of Coherence - using the coherence model Shirley McGUIRE, Buhrmester & Furman's Network of Relationships Inventory; Stocker & McHale's Sibling Relationship. Miguel MOYA, UCLA Loneliness Scale; WOFO. Donna PAWLOWSKI, Olson's Family Scales; Thematic Analyses. William ROGERS, ANSIE, Tenn Self Concept, Harter for Children and Adolescents, Spence's PAQ. Also developing a Home Concept Questionnaire for work comparing persons who relocate frequently with those who do not. Suzanne SALZINGER, Sociometry, Friendship Questionnaire, Means-End Problem Solving, Hostile Attribution , Social Networks of Children & Adolescents (Interview) Cheryl SLOMKOWSKI, Coded transcripts of audiotape naturalistic observations; direct interviews, Modification of John Gottman's communication connectedness from discourse transcripts Laura S. SMART, Qualitative research. Marilyn Van LEEUWEN, Collins & Read (1990) Adult Attachment Measures. Jacqueline WEINSTOCK, Open-ended interviews.

...AND WHO HAVE PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING WORKS John BIRTCHNELL, Birtchnell, J.A. (1993). How humans relate: A new interpersonal theory. Praeger: Westport. Birtchnell, J.A. (1993). The interpersonal octagon: An alternating to the interpersonal circle. Human Relations. , Birtchnell, J.A. (1993). Does recollection of exposure to poor maternal care in childhood affect later ability to relate? British Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 335-344. Gary BOWEN, Bowen, G.L., Orthner, D.K., & Zimmerman, L.I. (1993). Family adaptations of single parents in the United States Army: An empirical analysis of work stressors and resources. Family Relations, 42, 29 Bowen, G.L. (1991). Navigating the marital journey map: A corporate support program for couples. New York: Praeger. David CHEAL, Cheal, D. Changing household financial strategies: Canadian couples today. Cheal, D. Unity and difference in postmodern families. Cheal, D. Family and the state of theory. Will CUPCHIK, Cupchik, W. Reintrojection therapy. Psychotherapy, 158+. E. Stryker DUGGAN, Brennan, & Duggan, E.S. (in press). Social avoidance and its relation to Bartholomew's Adult Attachment Typology. JSPR Michelle DUMONT, Moss, E., Parent, S., Cooselin, C., & Dumont, M. (in press). Attachment and the development of metacognitive and collaborative strategies. International Journal of Educational Research. Dumont, M., & Moss, E. (1992). Influence de l'affectionnite sur l'activite cognitive des enfants. Enfance, 46 (4), 375- 404. Dumont, M., etal (1990). A la solitude chez les jeunes et recension descaits. Sante mentale au Quebec, Vol XV (2) 129-148. Alan FOGEL, Fogel, A. (1993). Developing through relationships. Chicago: University of Chicago Press & London: Harvester-Wheatsheaf. Fogel, A., etal (1992). Social process theory of emotion. Social Development, 1, 122-142. Fogel, A. (1993). Two principles of communication: Co-regulation and framing. In J. Nadel & L. LaMaioni (Eds) New Perspectives in early communicative development. London: Routledge. Barry GINSBERG, Ginsberg, B. (1993). Catharsis: The therapeutic powers of play. ,. Lauren Heim GOLDSTEIN, Genero, Baldwin, Miller, Angiollillo, Surrey, & Goldstein. Maternal depression: Risk factors in cultural context. Paper presented at APA, Toronto. Genero, Goldstein, Unger, Baker & Angiollillo (1993). Evaluating and implementing a peer support intervention. Paper to be presented at New England Psychological Association, October 1993. Goldstein, L.H. (1993) Assoc among pre-birth maternal characteristics during the transition to parenthood & maternal behavior at 3-months post partum: Importance of social support. SRCD, New Orleans Alicja KUCZYNSKA, The bonding rite courting behaviour and willingness of people to make acquaintance. Proceedings of EABT, Oslo, 1991. Influence of the script of bonding behaviours on formation of interpersonal bonds. Prac Psycgologiczne XV, Wroclaw, 1992. Plec psychologiczna. Podstawy teoretyczne, dane empiryczne oraz narzedzie pomiaru. Przeglad Psychologiczny, 2, 1992. Adrianne KUNKEL, Burleson, B., Kunkel, A., Birch, J. (under review). Thoughts about talk in romantic relationships: Similarity makes for attraction and happiness too. ,. Megan LEWIS, Lewis, M.A., etal (in press). Social support, social control and health among the elderly. In G.N. Penny, P. Bennett, & M. Herbert (Eds), Health psychology: A life span perspective. London: Harwo , Evans, G.E., Shapiro, D.H., & Lewis, M.A. (1993). Specifying dysfunctional mismatches between different control dimensions. British Journal of Psychology, 84, 255-273. Rook, K.S., Thuras, D.D., & Lewis, M.A. (1992). Social control health risk taking, and psychological distress among the elderly. Psychology and Aging, 5, 327-334. Malka MARGALIT, Margalit, M. (in press). Loneliness in children with special needs: Theory, research, coping and intervention. New York: Springer-Verlag. Margalit, M. (in press). Learning disability subtyping, loneliness and classroom adjustment. Learning Disability Quarterly. Margalit, M. (1993). Social skills and classroom behavior among adolescents with mod mental retardation. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 97, 6, 685-691. Shirley McGUIRE, Dunn, J., & McGuire, S. (1992). Sibling and peer relations. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 33, 67-105. McGuire, S., & Dunn, J. (in press). Nonshared environment in middle childhood. In J.C. Defries, R. Plomin, & D.W. Fuller (Eds), Nature and Nurture during Middle Childhood. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell McGuire, S., Reiss, D., Hetherington, E.M., & Plomin, R. (in press). Genetic and environmental influences on perceptions of self-worth and competence in adolescence. A study of twins, full siblings, Susan McWILLIAMS, McWilliams, S. Solidarity & hierarchy in cross-sex friendships, with J. Howard. Journal of Social Issues, 49, 3, 191-202. Evaluative Hierarchy in personal relationships, with P. Blumstein, Advances in group processes, 8, 67-88. . Sharon PRICE, McKenry, P.C., & Price, S.J. (in press). Contemporary family issues: Coping with problems & change. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. McKenry, P.C., & Price, S.J. (in press). Divorce & remarriage. In B. Inglesby & S. Smith (Eds), Families in cross- cultural context. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. McKenry, P.C., Price, S.J., & Serovich, J. (1992). Predictors of single noncustodial father's physical involvement with their children. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 153/3, 305-319. Lisa ROGHAAR, Vangelisti, A.L., & Roghaar, L.A. (in press). Images of family interaction: An integrative perspective. In M.A. Fitzpatrick & A.L. Vangelisti (Eds), Perspectives on family communication. Sage. Lynda M. SAGRESTANO, Sagrestano, L.M. (1992). Power strategy in interpersonal relationships: Effects of expertise and gender. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 16, 481-496. Sagrestano, L.M. (1992). The use of power & influence in a gendered world. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 16, 439-448. Suzanne SALZINGER, Salzinger, S. (1993). Effects of physical abuse on children's social relationships. Child Development, 64, 169-187. Salzinger, S. 1991). Constellations of family violence and their differential effects on children's behavioral disturbance. Criminal Justice & Behavior, 18, 64-81. Salzinger, S., Antrobus, J., & Hammer, Muriel (Eds) (1988). Social Networks of children, adolescents, and college students. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Cheryl SLOMKOWSKI, Slomkowski, C.L., & Dunn, J. (1992). Argument and relationships: Differences in young children's disputes with mother and sibling. Developmental Psychology, 28, 484-49. Slomkowski, C.L., & Killen, M. (1992). Young children's conceptions of transgressions: With friends and nonfriends. Int'l Journal of Behavioural Development, 15, 247-25?. Dunn, J., Slomkowski, C.L., & Beardsall, L. (in press). Sibling relationships from the preschool period through middle childhood and adolescence. Laura S. SMART, Smart, L.A. (in press). Parental bereavement in Anglo-American history. Omega. Smart, L.S. (1992). The marital helping relationship following pregnancy loss and infant death. J of Family Issues, 13, 81-98. Gilbert, K.R,. & Smart, L.S. (1992). Coping with infant or fetal loss: The couple's healing process. New York: Brunner/Mazel. Marjorie E. STARRELS, Starrels, M.E. (1992). Attitude similarity between mothers & children regarding maternal employment. Journal of Marriage and the Family. Starrels, M.E. (in press). Gender differences in parent-child relations. Journal of Family Issues. Starrels, M.E. (in press). The fetal protection policy debate. Research in Social Policy. Agnes UTASI, Utasi, A. (1990). Friendships. In Andorka, Kolosi, Vukovich (Eds), Social Report. Budapest. Utasi, A. (1990). Von der elite biz zu den heruntergekommenen. Lebensstile, im Ungarn der achtziger Jahre. In Manicke-Gyongyosi & Rytlewki (Eds), Lebensstile und Kulturmuster. Verlag, Berlin. Utasi, A. (1991). Az interperszonalis kapcsolatok nehany nemzeti sajatos-sagarol. In T. Kapcsolatok. Gondolat, Budapest. Jacqueline WEINSTOCK, Bond, L.A., Belenky, M.F., Weinstock, J.S., & Monsey, T.V.C. (1992). Self-sustaining powers of mind and voice: Empowering rural women. Weinstock, J.S. (1993). College women's conceptions of close friendship, conceptions of conflicts with close friends, and epistemological perspectives. .

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS February 1994, Issue 11i STANLEY O. GAINES, Jr. Exchange of respect-denying behaviors among male-female friendships. The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that between-gender friendships are characterized primarily by behavioral exchanges involving respect but not affection (i.e., correlations between men's and women's behaviors would reach significance only for respect-related behavior). A total of 62 pairs of male-female pairs completed a twelve-item version of the Role Behavior Test (Foa & Foa, 1974), designed to measure partners' frequency of affection-giving, affection-denying, respect-giving, and respect-denying behaviors; individuals reported the extent to which partners enacted each of the behaviors during the two weeks prior to participation in the study. Canonical correlation analyses of the behavioral data revealed that, as expected, no consistent pattern emerged regarding reciprocity of affection-giving or affection-denying behavior (i.e., males' and females' affection-related behaviors were not correlated significantly). In contrast, as expected, a clear pattern of reciprocity of respect-related exchange did emerge (i.e., males' and females' respect-related behaviors were correlated significantly). However, behavioral exchanges relevant to respect appeared to be limited to respect-denying (and not respect-giving) actions. Comparisons with male-male (n = 62 pairs) and female-female (n = 65 pairs) friendships indicated that only among the male-female pairs did any consistent pattern of resource exchange occur. Implications for the study of male-female friendships are discussed. Stanley O. Gaines, Jr., Department of Psychology, Pomona College, Claremont, CA 91711, USA.

MICHAEL L. HECHT, PETER J. MARSTON, & LINDA KATHRYN LARKEY. Love ways and relationship quality. This study reports the creation of the Love Ways Inventory and an investigation of the relationship between the subjective experience of romantic love and relationship quality. Based on the results of two previous studies, items were written to measure the various ways people experience love. Factor analyses resulted in five factors: intuitive love, secure love, traditional romantic love, committed love, and companionate love. These "love ways" were then correlated with relational quality in two separate samples, leading to three general findings. First individuals experiencing committed love have higher quality relationships. Second, couples jointly experiencing high levels of companionate love have higher quality relationships. Third, couples experiencing similar levels of secure love and/or companionate love have higher quality relationships. Michael L. Hecht, Department of Communication, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1205, USA.

KRISTA K. TROBST, REBECCA L. COLLINS, & JAYNE M. EMBREE. The role of emotion in social support provision: Gender, empathy, and expressions of distress. Two studies examined the association between emotion-related factors and intentions to provide social support to a distressed peer. In both studies, providers' gender and their level of dispositional empathy were related to anticipated support provision. Women and persons high in trait empathy were more supportive than men and persons low in empathy. Consistent with predictions, the gender effect was largely mediated by that of empathy. Study Two extended these findings by demonstrating that state empathic responses are also substantially associated with support provision, and by exploring the impact of recipients' expression of emotion on empathy and support. As a whole, the studies indicate that emotion plays an important role in support provision, in that providers' feelings of concern are a strong determinant of their supportive responses. Rebecca L. Collins, Dept of Psychology, Univ of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, CANADA.

ANISA ZVONKOVIC, DARREN PENNINGTON & CYNTHIA J. SCHMIEGE. Work and courtship: How college workload and perceptions of work environment relate to romantic relationships among men and women. This longitudinal study of 96 students in exclusive dating relationships focused on how workload relates to romantic relationships. Respondents completed questionnaires at three points in time during an academic term. Workload, perceptions of the college environment, and relationship dimensions of love, conflict, maintenance, and ambivalence were measured at each wave. Workload and the subjective perception of the college environment of respondents were correlated with the relationship dimensions, in different ways for men and women. Correlations between college and environment and relationship dimensions varied according to the time of the term and hence the intensity of the workload. A subsample of respondents ended their dating relationships during the term. These respondents differed in their attitudes about their schoolwork from respondents who maintained their relationships. This study demonstrated the interdependence of workload, students' orientation to their college environment, and their dating relationships. Anisa Zvonkovic, Dept of Human Development & Family Sciences, Milam Hall, Oregon State University Corvallis OR 97331 USA.

JOHN D. CUNNINGHAM & JOHN K. ANTILL. Cohabitation and marriage:Retrospective and predictive comparisons. A nationwide Australian survey was conducted in order (1) to distinguish between married couples who either had or had not cohabited prior to marriage and (2) to distinguish between cohabiting couples who either did or did not marry subsequently. Ninety-six cohabiting couples and 117 married couples completed an omnibus 16-page questionnaire covering a variety of demographic, attitudinal, behavioral, and personality domains. Couples were recontracted after an interval of 1 1/2 years to identify the kind and extent of changes during the intervening period. In general, as predicted, marrieds with cohabiting experience and cohabitors who avoided marriage revealed a less traditional pattern of responses (e.g., higher feminism scores, wider sexual experience, less stereotyped division of chores, etc.) than their respective counterparts. It was predicted, and found, that the former couples showed greater evidence of autonomy needs and less evidence of attachment needs than the latter. John Cunningham, School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, AUSTRALIA.

MARK A. FINE, & LAWRENCE A. KURDEK. Parenting cognitions in stepfamilies: Differences between parents and stepparents and relations to parenting satisfaction. This study examined the parenting cognitions of both spouses of married couples recruited from the Stepfamily Association of America. Spouses in 115 of these couples were fathers/stepmothers of a 5-15 year old target child and 100 were mothers/stepfathers of such a target child. Participants completed measures of cognitions (perceptions, assumptions, and standards) related to their control and warmth parenting behaviors, as well as parenting satisfaction. Biological parents, in contrast to stepparents, generally reported that they more frequently engage in parenting behaviors (perceptions), that typical parents engage more frequently in parenting behaviors than typical stepparents (assumptions), and that they should engage more frequently in parenting behaviors (standards). After controlling for demographic variables, parents' appraisals of their parenting performance, but not interparent cognitive discrepancies, accounted for significant portions of variability in their parenting satisfaction. Mark A. Fine, Department of Psychology, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, 45469-1430, USA.

ANITA L. VANGELISTI. Family secrets: Forms, functions, and correlates. What types of information do families keep secret? What are the functions that family members perceive secrets to serve? Is secrecy associated with family satisfaction? Two studies were conducted to examine such issues. The first study revealed that family secrets fall into one of three categories: taboos, rule violations, and conventional secrets. Functions of secrets involve bonding, evaluation, maintenance, privacy, defense, or communication problems. In the second study, the number of secrets that family members perceived their family to hold in comparison to other families was inversely correlated with family satisfaction. In addition, individuals' perceptions that some of their family members held secrets concerning taboo topics from other members was negatively related to satisfaction. Overall, results suggest the association between secrecy and family satisfaction is influenced by the form, topic, and function of the secret. Anita L. Vangelisti, Department of Speech Communication, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.

Brief Articles LES B. WHITBECK & DANNY R. HOYT. Social prestige and assortive mating: A comparison of students from 1956 and 1988. The current patterns and trends in assortive mating among college students were examined in a replication and extension of Rogers & Havens' (1960) study of campus prestige and mate selection. Log-linear models of association were used to consider the effects of prestige, sex-ratio, and propinquity on assortive mating. The tendency to date within group was found to have increased within the past thirty years. After adjusting for the over time shifts in sex- ratio and propinquity, the pattern of assortive mating was found to be most consistent with interpretations of the increasing salience of prestige for assortive mating among college students. Les B. Whitbeck, Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA.

E. STRYKER DUGGAN & KELLY A. BRENNAN. Social avoidance and its relation to Bartholomew's adult attachment typology. In her four-fold model of attachment, Bartholomew (1990) distinguished two socially avoidance attachment styles, fearful and dismissing, in terms of self-esteem and social avoidance. Unfortunately, her measure of social avoidance (sociability) cannot discriminate sociability from shyness, an important aspect of social avoidance. The association of shyness and sociability with Bartholomew's attachment-style groups was assessed in a sample of 676 participants. Fearful subjects differentiated themselves from dismissing subjects on ratings of sociability and shyness, suggesting that dismissing subjects' social avoidance is due to low sociability, whereas the fearful subjects' social avoidance is due to shyness. Results are discussed in terms of the maintenance of avoidant attachment styles and of their implications for the study of social avoidance. E. Stryker Duggan, Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place (4th Floor), New York, NY, 10003, USA.

Book Reviews ======JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Issue 11ii, May 1994 REBECCA G. ADAMS & ROSEMARY BLIESZNER: An integrative conceptual framework for friendship research. Rebecca G. Adams, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27412- 5001, USA.

PETER M. NARDI & DRURY SHERROD: Friendship in the lives of gay men and lesbians. Peter M. Nardi, Pitzer College, 1050 North Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711-6110, USA.

J. PATRICK R. KEELAN, KENNETH L. DION, & KAREN K. DION: Attachment style and heterosexual relationships among young adults: A short term panel study. Patrick Keelan, Department of Psychology, University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2E9, CANADA.

LOUISE BOWERS, PETER K. SMITH & VALERIE BINNEY: Perceived family relationships of bullies, victims, and bully/victims in middle childhood. Peter K. Smith, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.

PATRICIA NOLLER, JUDITH A. FEENEY, DENISE BONNELL & VICTOR J. CALLAN: A longitudinal study of conflict in early marriage. Pat Noller, Department of Psychology, University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, AUSTRALIA.

STEVE DUCK, KRIS POND & GEOFF LEATHAM: Loneliness and the evaluation of relational events. Steve Duck, Department of Communication Studies, 151 Becker Communication Studies Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52247, USA.

EDWINA UEHARA: The influence of the social network's "second-order zone" on social support mobilization: A case example. Edwina S. Uehara, School of Social Work, 4101 15th Avenue BE JH-30, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

Program Overview IRWIN G. SARASON, BARBARA R. SARASON & GREGORY R. PIERCE: Social support: Global and relationship-based levels of analysis. Irwin G. Sarason, Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. ======FAMILY RELATIONS Table of Contents for January 1994 * Volume 43 * Number 1 kindly supplied by Editor Mark A. Fine (For details of these papers and addresses of authors, please contact Mark Fine, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469-1430, USA)

Caregiving Continuities and Discontinuities in Family Members' Relationships with Alzheimer's Patients. Catherine Chesla, Ida Martinson, & Marilou Muwaswes Out-of-Home Placement for Children with Retardation: Family Decision Making and Satisfaction Jan Blacher & Bruce L. Baker Rural and Urban Families' Use of Child Care Alice M. Atkinson

Parenting and Family Processes Economic Socialization in the American Family: The Prevalence, Distribution, and Consequences of Allowance Arrangements Jeylan Mortimer, Katherine Dennehy, Chaimun Lee, & Michael D. Finch Cultural Variations in Parenting: Perceptions of Caucasian, African- American, Hispanic, and Asian- American Parents. Teresa W. Julian, Patrick C. McKenry, & Mary W. McKelvey Family Processes as Mediators of Depressive Symptomatology among Rural Adolescents. Eric R. Stewart, Patrick C. McKenry, Nancy M. Rudd, & Stephen M. Gavazzi

Premarital Couples The Development and Predictive Validity of a New Premarital Assessment Instrument: The Preparation for Marriage Questionnaire. Thomas B. Holman, Jeffry H. Larson, & Stacy L. Harmer Sexual Meaning Systems of Engaged Couples Catherine F. Lally & James W. Maddock

General Interest Fathers' Perspectives of Their Co-parental Relationships Postdivorce: Implications for Family Practice and Legal Reform Joyce A. Arditti & Michaelena Kelly Exploration of Perceptions of Alternative Family Structures among University Students Donna Ford-Harris A Framework for (Developing) Family Life Education Programs Robert Hughes, Jr. The Need for Child Representation Reform: Policy Issues and New Roles for Family Specialists Jennifer Dziuba- Leatherman & Elizabeth M. Dolan Public and Private Adoption: A Comparison of Service and Accessibility Kerry J. Daly & Michael P. Sobol

Exchange on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator A Response to the Article on "The Validity of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator for Predicting Expressed Marital Problems" Ruth Sherman & Jane Hardy Jones Reply to Sherman and Hardy Jones' Response Frazier M. Douglass, IV & Robin Douglass

Literature and Resource Review Essay 1993 - Twenty-Fifth Annual National Council on Family Relations Videotape Competition Deborah Gentry, Glen Martin, Angela Belford, Karry Valela, & Ollie Pocs

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INTERNATIONAL NETWORK ON PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS -- MAY MEETING -- MAY 26-30, 1994

INPR's 1994 May meeting will be held in Iowa City and the emphasis will be not only on active discussion of presented work but also on professional development. In all cases fees will be specially reduced for overseas registrants.

The Professional Development Workshop will begin May 27th and continue till May 30th and will be preceded by a Graduate workshop (May 26th and 27th). The Graduate Workshop will have four plenary sessions where invited speakers will expound on the techniques that they have developed for studying aspects of relationships. The rest of the workshop will have a program of presentations of competitively reviewed discussion papers, and afternoons will be devoted to special master discussion sessions on love (Saturday) and on social support (Sunday). There will also be special sessions on 1) teaching, 2) publication, 3) funding for research, and 4) professional transitions. The graduate part of the program will have roundtable discussions and opportunities for poster presentations of work in progress, including graduate student work, and a variety of social events. It is specifically intended to instigate or strengthen graduate student relationships with their future colleagues in the field, as at previous Network Workshops

INVITED SPEAKERS AND SESSION LEADERS ARE

Graduate workshop

LINDA ACITELLI: Constructing a survey on thinking and talking about relationships ART ARON: Experimental methods for studying closeness LESLIE BAXTER: Working with qualitative data MICHAEL HECHT: Studying interethnic relationships and identity

All-comers professional development workshop

SOCIAL SUPPORT LOVE CAROLYN CUTRONA ART ARON STEVAN HOBFOLL MICHAEL HECHT BARBARA SARASON SUSAN & CLYDE HENDRICK ALAN VAUX PHIL SHAVER

For registration and program details, contact Steve Duck. Communication Studies Building (151-BCSB), University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA 319-338-3931 [FAX 319-335-2930], [email protected]. Registration fees for graduates include participation in the rest of the meeting as well as the preceding graduate workshop. Overseas registrant fees are specially reduced.

INTERNATIONAL NETWORK ON PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS -- MAY MEETING -- MAY 26-30, 1994 provisional program thursday may 26th 1.30 Meeting opens with graduate workshop 2.00- 4.00 Michael Hecht 4.30- 6.30 Linda Acitelli 7.30 Informal gathering friday may 27th 8.30- 10.00 Roundtable discussion of graduate student work 10.30- 12.30 Art Aron 12.45- 2.15 Lunch and poster sessions 2.30 - 4.30 Leslie Baxter

All-comers meeting begins 5.30 - 7.30 Reception 7.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Stevan Hobfoll saturday may 28th 8.30 - 10.00 a) Poster sessions and book display b) Special session on publishing Journal articles, book proposals, chapters in books (Steve Duck) 10.30 - 12.30 Special session on Grants Linda Acitelli, Michael Hecht, Stevan Hobfoll 12.45 - 2.00 Lunch and poster sessions and book display 2.00 - 5.00 Special Master Session on Love research. An audience discussion with ART ARON, MICHAEL HECHT, SUSAN & CLYDE HENDRICK, PHIL SHAVER sunday may 29th 8.30 - 10.00 Parallel discussion paper sessions*** 10.30 - 12.30 Parallel discussion paper sessions*** 12.45- 2.00 Lunch and poster sessions 2.00 - 5.00 Special Master Session on Social Support research An audience discussion with CAROLYN CUTRONA, STEVAN HOBFOLL, BARBARA SARASON, ALAN VAUX 6.30 - ???? Social program monday may 30th 8.30 - 10.00 Parallel discussion paper sessions*** 10.30 - 12.30 Parallel discussion paper sessions*** Conference ends

***DISCUSSION PAPER SESSIONS INCLUDE: Relational conflict; Love and love styles; Conceptual and methodological issues; Parent-child relationships; Self disclosure; Attraction, Intimacy, and Closeness; and Relationship breakdown.

Thanks are expressed to the panel who reviewed submissions for the May Meeting: Tara Emmers, Pam Regan, and John Sylvestre.

SPECIAL FEATURE THIS YEAR: Late poster sessions. You may still submit papers for presentation at poster sessions. These will be listed on the program as posters, which may help you to obtain travel support. Submit three copies of your 400 word abstract on relationships by March 31st 1994.

SOCIAL PROGRAM AND MEALS Registration fees include meals, a social program, a reception, and a special event on the Sunday night, as well as full participation rights, a list of attenders, a full program booklet and an abstract booklet.

INFORMATION FOR MEETING ATTENDERS The accent of the workshop is on informality and although there will be formal leading of discussion or presentation of papers by the participants, it is likely -- and indeed encouraged -- that the meeting will be highly interactive and that structure will break down as a function of meeting length. Participants are encouraged to bring informal information about their own work for distribution to, and discussion with, others, but this is not demanded or expected. Just do it if you have something you want to pass around, but don't feel you have to do a lot of work or to make something up to bring.

Participants should plan to arrive around 4.00pm on the early afternoon of Friday, May 27th, and to depart around lunchtime on Monday 30th.(Those attending the Graduate Workshop preceding the meeting should arrive for about 1.00pm on Thurdsday May 26th). This time scale permits you to take advantage of the pricing policies of the airlines which give special deals for trips that cross a Saturday night.

Location: The conference meetings will be held in the Becker Communication Studies Building (BCSB) at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and accommodation will be provided in the Iowa Memorial Union about one block away from BCSB. The full registration costs are inclusive of meals during the conference except for Saturday night. Coffee will be provided during the days of the workshop.

Transportation: Iowa City is served by the Cedar Rapids airport (CID) (this is NOT Cedar Falls, Iowa, a point that occasionally escapes travel agents. The airport code is CID). Cedar Rapids airport is some 15 miles to the North of Iowa City and is serviced by United, American, TWA, Northwest, and several other airlines. There are regular flights from Chicago O'Hare, Des Moines, Kansas City, Madison, Minneapolis, and Missouri-St Louis with connections also from Denver, Detroit, Milwaukee and several other major cities. Limousine service is available from the Cedar Rapids Airport to Iowa City and reservations can be made for you by us if you so desire; roundtrip fare is about $20. Car rentals are also available at the Cedar Rapids Airport and personal reservations are advisable. Iowa City can be reached by road on I-80 from Chicago or Des Moines. The trip from Chicago takes about 4 hours and from Des Moines takes about 2 hours.

PAPERS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE PROGRAM

INVITED SPEAKERS ACITELLI, LINDA: Constructing a survey on thinking and talking about relationships The primary task of this workshop will be to examine the process of transforming research ideas into research methods. Although the formal steps in constructing surveys will be included, there will be a greater emphasis on the informal thought processes involved in clarifying ideas, creating testable hypotheses, and constructing measures of relevant concepts. Ways of including multiple methods (both qualitative and quantitative) of the same construct will be explored. To model the process, I will outline the steps I took in constructing my survey of unmarried and married couples. While the research topic is thinking and talking about relationships, this workshop is designed to be helpful to anyone who is interested in translating research questions into testable hypotheses. GENERAL OUTLINE: 1. Clarify the primary research questions; 2. Conduct a literature review to examine the relevant variables, relations between variables, moderating and mediating variables; 3. Determine whether there are existing measures that already tap into these variables; 4. Critically evaluate these measures for use on the particular study population and revise accordingly; 5. When necessary, construct new methods of measuring the variables of interest. Whenever possible, devise multiple ways of measuring the same concept.

ARON, ART Experimental methods for studying closeness This workshop focuses on a technique for creating closeness in a laboratory setting--research to date using the technique, possible applications, and practical and ethical considerations will be discussed; those attending will also participate in the procedure themselves. By the end of the session, participants will be fully prepared (including having copies of all the necessary materials) to employ the technique themselves at their own institutions. Contribution to the discussion session on love. I gather you wanted a summary of my view of what is love--so here it is: Love is the desire to expand the self by including another person in the self through a close relationship with that other person (or to maintain the perceived expanded self once the close relationship has been achieved).

BAXTER, LESLIE BAXTER: Working with qualitative data The title's reference to "working with" data is significant in two respects. First, qualitative data analysis can be described as an iterative process in which the researcher works "with" (as opposed to "on") his or her text-based data. This process will be examined at both abstract and concrete levels. At the abstract level, we will discuss the criteria by which to assess "good" qualitative work, the issue of unitizing or "chunking" the textual stream, and how to execute inductively-based, or "grounded" analysis. In addition, some statistical procedures useful in detecting patterns in qualitative data will be briefly discussed. At the concrete level, we will work with some audio-tapes and transcripts from one of my current research projects, gaining some "hands-on" practice in the constant comparative method. A selected bibliography will be distributed.

CUTRONA, CAROLYN: Optimal matching in social support

DUCK, STEVE: Special session on publishing This session will outline some of the processes necessary to submit a successful book proposal or journal article. The session will cover some of the specific steps involved in preparing such items and following them through to eventual publication. Some points of etiquette and advice in respect of journal referees and editors will be offered and there will be some discussion of the different pitfalls of the various enterprises and how to avoid them.

HECHT, MICHAEL : Studying interethnic relationships and identity This workshop will focus on work ing with African American and Mexican American ethnic cultures. I will bring examples of interviews, open-ended instruments, and closed ended instruments and compare the kinds of results obtained from each. The workshop will explore the use of the se techniques in answering such questions as what is ethnicity/race? and What are the methodological implications of ethnicity? In treating interethnic relationships as "a problematic", I will also explore identity as a frame for understanding inter-ethnic relationships and I will present my theoretical approach to identity. I will also consider some improvement strategies that can be employed to deal with these issues. HECHT, MICHAEL : Master discussion session on love I will focus on love as a subjective experience and try to lay out the assumptions and implications of the Love Ways approach. I will also cover our "in process work" on gender differences in the social construction of turning points, interpretations of commitment, intimacy, and passion and the metaphorical construction of love in couples' talk. HECHT, MICHAEL : Grant writing session I will discuss some of the advantages and pitfalls of getting grants as well as some of the steps we have taken in obtaining funding. I will focus on the funding for drug prevention, treatment and program evaluation and include discussion of support for both qualitative and quantitative methods.

HENDRICK, SUSAN & CLYDE: Special master Discussion Session on Love: The love styles Research on the love styles, using the Love Attitudes Scale, has produced a substantial body of work, ranging from demographic correlates of love to sociobiological interpretations. We summarize our research program selectively and indicate some directions for future work.

HOBFOLL, STEVAN: KEYNOTE ADDRESS: A MORE SOCIAL VIEW OF COPING BEHAVIOR Coping has often been presented as a study of the behaviors and thought strategies that people use in order to manage their confrontation with stressful circumstances. However what has actually been studied are particulate coping behaviors and not general strategies. A coping strategy is the general plan of action or guide that individuals follow in deciding on what behaviors to follow. This plan of action or strategy, considers both the individual and the social- environmental context. In other words, coping is more social than has been assumed. A tripartite theoretical model was developed for understanding coping strategies. The three axes of the model are (1) an active-passive dimension, (2) a prosocial-antisocial dimension, and (3) a direct-indirect dimension. Coping strategies can be mapped within this three-dimensional structure. For example, an individual may actively address a problem, be sensitive to others in their actions and proceed indirectly using "behind the scenes" approaches. This model's major contribution may be its greater sensitivity to gender and cultural differences. In this regard, we found that although problem focused coping may be a preferred coping style on the individual level, it is often practised by men in an antisocial manner. Women may in contrast solve problems by actively building coalitions and seeking compromise solutions that fulfil the needs of many people involved. Findings from initial studies suggest that people have definable overall coping strategies that are related to gender, gender orientation (i.e., traditional/non-traditional), mastery, and their situational context. How this may affect our thinking and future research on coping will be discussed. HOBFOLL, STEVAN: Master session on social support An ecological approach to social support will be outlined and the benefits of closer attention to the truly social aspects of support and coping will be presented. HOBFOLL, STEVAN: Special session on winning Grants for relationship work This presentation will discuss some of the major issues involved in winning (and keeping and running) substantial grants from health related funding agencies.

SARASON, BARBARA: The role of personality and relationship in perception of social support

SHAVER, PHIL: Attachment and adult romantic relationships

VAUX, ALAN: Social support: An ecological approach The main points of an ecological approach to social support are presented, specifically the importance of distinguishing the constructs of social support orientation, resources, incidents, behavior, and appraisals, and (b) viewing support processes as embedded in a social ecological context. Some recent research will be examined from this perspective. Important issues for future research will be briefly discussed, such as the incorporation of negative aspects of social ties, links to relevant theory in social and personal psychology, and potential for intervention.

PROGRAMMED DISCUSSION PAPERS

AFIFI, Walid, JOHNSON, Michelle, & DUCK, Steve Everything you wanted to know about social attraction but were afraid to ask II: This time it's gender differences.... or is it? ALLEN, Mike & BURRELL, Nancy Comparing the impact of homosexual and heterosexual parents on children: Meta-analysis of existing research BARBEE, Anita The development of behavioral coding systems for support giving and support seeking BARON, Lisa "I think I can ...." Parental beliefs about responding to sibling conflict. BIGELOW, Brian, LEVIN, Elizabeth, & CUNNING, Sandra Support and control in parent-child relations from childhood to early adolescence: The Maccoby-Minuchin hypothesis CAREY, Colleen & MONGEAU, Paul Using communication dispositions and conflict management strategies to predict the incidence and severity of dating violence CASTENADA, Mayela Potentials of dissolution in abusive relationships CHO, WenChun & CROSS, Susan Love styles of contemporary Chinese: A cross-cultural study of Lee's typology of love DEBSKI, Jennifer, & KRAMER, Deirdre The development of conflict in heterosexual couples and the role identity plays in it DILLMAN, Leesa Intimacy and its development DIXSON, Marcia Love styles as a determinant of production of flirtation behaviors: Does the difference make a difference? GORGENS, Kim & VAUX, Alan Psychopathic personality: Implications for intimate relationships GRADY, Dennis Deceptive communication in close relationships: An agenda for future research GUERRERO, Laura & AFIFI, Walid Maintenance behaviors in same-sex friendships: Connections to gender, relational closeness and equity issues GULLEY, Mary Seeking and giving social support during realistic supportive interactions GUNN, Diana Odom The Progressive Family Scale HODNE, Carol You are my sunshine: Metaphors in accounts of romantic relationships and attitudes toward love KELLAR, Yvonne An alternative explanation for why one chooses not to "know your partner" KELLAR, Yvonne & MATTSON, Marifran "I'm busy now Mom. We'll talk..uhhh.. later!": Examining the correlation between adolescents' satisfaction with amount of responsibility in family decision making structures and self disclosure to their mothers LEATHAM, Geoff Resurrecting "mere presence" as an alternative to functional or psychological models of social support. LEICHTY, Greg Factors affecting friendship choice at work LEMIEUX, Robert An exploration of behavioral love: The routine behaviors MAMALI, Catalin Temporal and spatial records and representations of human relationships: Future oriented records and social auto- graphs MAMALI, Catalin Crucial experiences and the dynamics of interpersonal motives and metamotives MATTEN, Amy Student-teacher conflict in college classrooms MEINHOLDT, Connie Predicting dating satisfaction and break-up from attributions about distressing events MICKELSON, Kristin The common bond motive in social comparison MILLER, Mary Lynn & MONGEAU, Paul The impact of parental divorce on love styles, loneliness and relational message interpretation NARDI, Deena Description of parent-child interaction during perinatal addiction treatment OMOTO, Allen & GUNN, Diana Odom The effect of relationship closeness on encoding and incidental recall of relationship-irrelevant information PARKS, Malcolm & FLOYD, Kory Defining closeness in same- and opposite-sex friendships REICH, Warren The analysis of free-response set-theoretical data in relationships research SHORTT, Joan Wu Sibling relationships in early adulthood and affective aspects of actual sibling conversations WEINSTOCK, Jacqueline College women's conceptions of close friendship and conflict WERKING, Kathy Barriers to the formation of close cross-sex friendships WHITE, Cindy & EBESU, Amy A dialectical approach to the role of conflict in relational dissolution ======INTERNATIONAL NETWORK ON PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS MAY MEETING MAY 26-30, 1994 Registration form

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INTERNATIONAL NETWORK NEWSLETTER NUMBER 26 MARCH 1994 Compiled and edited by Steve Duck, who is also responsible for the typing errors ======ABSTRACT The deadline for registering for the Network's May Meeting is April 30th ... SSCI impact rankings place JSPR in top 10 of most social science categories ... Network dissertation prize winners announced ... Call for papers for the Special Issue of JSPR on "Different Paths, Different Voices: Rethinking the Development of Families over the Life Course" ... List of new members.

ANNUAL DISSERTATION AWARD The Network's Annual Dissertation Award has been made to Nick Haslam (now at New School for Social Research, New York) for his dissertation work on "Categories of social relationships" completed at the Univ of Pennsylvania under Alan Fiske. Unusually, the Committee also awarded an Honorable Mention to Kathy Werking (now at Univ of Louisville, Kentucky) for her dissertation on "The communicative management of cross-sex friendships" completed under Bill Rawlins at Purdue University. Our thanks are due to the committee of Nancy Collins, Leesa Dillman, Tara Emmers, Daena Goldsmith, Carole Logan, and Walter Zakahi. may meeting Deadline for Registrations is April 30th. Please return your forms early to ensure a place, particularly if you wish us to make arragnements for your accommodation. Arranged accommodation is available first come, first served.

NEW JSPR ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY Greg PETTIT has agreed to become the new Associate Editor of JSPR for Developmental Psychology following Barry Schneider's completion of his duties.

BOOKS BY MEMBERS Kathy ADAMS (1994) Instructors manual to accompany Ellis/Fisher Small Group Decision Making: Communication and the Group Process (4th Edn) McGraw-Hill. Kathy ADAMS & Cabral, K. (1994) Instructors manual to accompany Fisher/Adams Interpersonal Communication: Pragmatics of human relationships McGraw-Hill. Art and Elaine ARON (1994) Statistics for psychology. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall David BUSS (1994) The evolution of desire: Strategies of human mating. Basic Books Helen COWIE & Andrea Pecherek (1994) Counselling: Approaches and issues in education. Fulton Publishers. Steve DUCK (1994) Meaningful Relationships: Talking, Sense, and Relating, SAGE: Newbury Park Steve DUCK [Ed] (1994) Dynamics of Relationships [Understanding Relationship Processes 4] SAGE: Newbury Park. Robert A. Baron & Deborah RICHARDSON (1994) Human aggression Plenum: New York. Fisher, B. A. & ADAMS, K. L. (1994) Interpersonal Communication: Pragmatics of human relationships (2nd Edn) McGraw-Hill. Peter K. SMITH & David Thompson (1994) Practical approaches to bullying. Fulton Publishers. Peter K. SMITH, Helen COWIE, Rema Laver & Michael Boulton (1994) Cooperation in the multiethnic classroom: The impact of cooperative group work on social relationships in middle schools. Fulton Publishers.

NEWS OF MEMBERS Mara ADELMAN is presently teaching in Shanghai China for the year and can be contacted at dept of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Second Institute of Education, 195 Zhengfa Rd, 200433 Shanghai China. Her videotape about a community of people with AIDS was shown on PBS on January 15th and copies are available from Larry Frey [email protected]. Anne BEALL has successfully defended her thesis and is now Dr Beall (Ph.D.) Tom BOHMAN is now focusing his interests on parents' work and its effects on the parent-child relationship. Dudley (Lee) CAHN, Dept. of Communication, SUNY New Paltz, recently received certification as a trainer in the "Alternatives to Violence Project" (AVP) which included 4 weekends of training (basic, advanced, training for trainers, apprenticeship) in which 2 weekends were conducted in two different NY state prisons with 20 violent offenders. Lee intends to integrate the training into his courses in interpersonal communication and conflict. Leesa DILLMAN has successfully defended her thesis and is now Dr Dillman (Ph. D.) Tonya SCHUSTER is now working as NIA Individual National Research Service Awardee (postdoctoral) on Network Relationships: Survival and health in later life. The project is funded through the school of Social Ecology at the Univ of California-Irvine, and Karen Rook is the sponsor for two years. Julia WOOD has been awarded a Nelson R. Hairston Distinguished Term Professorship, an endowed chair which recognises her distinguished research and teaching.

MEMBERS ON THE MOVE --- ONWARDS AND UPWARDS Art ARON has now moved to Psychology Dept, SUNY Stony Brook, NY 11794-2500, email: [email protected], phone 516-632-7800, FAX: 516-632-7876. Melanie BARNES has accepted a position at Dept of Communication, DePauw University, Indiana. Leslie BAXTER will be joining the faculty of the Communication Studies Dept, University of Iowa, in the Fall of 1994 as a tenured Full Professor. YAY! Maureen KEELEY has accepted a position at the Dept of Communication, St Cloud State University, St Cloud, Minnesota. Doug KELLEY has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Dept of Communication, Arizona State University West Dirk SCHEERHORN has been appointed chair of the Hemophilia and AIDS Network for the dissemination of information and the communication taskforce, both of the National Hemophilia Foundation.

MEMBERS SEEKING HELP Albert TUSKENIS would like to look at syllabus for introductory undergraduate courses on interpersonal/intimate/close/personal relationships. email u23114@uicvm

GRANTS WON BY MEMBERS Dawn BRAITHWAITE, Arizona State University West, was awarded an ASU West Scholarship, Research and Creative Activities Grant of $4,200 to study "How persons with disabilities communicate to manage helping situations with able-bodied persons" Michael HECHT is part of a team receiving a $425,000 four year grant from the Center For Substance Abuse Treatment. He received a $160,000 subcontract to conduct evaluation research. Douglas KELLEY, Arizona State University West, was awarded an ASU West Scholarship, Research and Creative Activities Grant of $4,800 to study "The effects of relational expectations and behaviors on marital satisfaction over time" Lynn C. MILLER and Patricia Riley (USC) have won a $125000 grant from AT&T to develop a computer lab to explore the interface between users and technology. Dirk SCHEERHORN received a $24,000 Ameritech Fellowship for his project on "Good Health and Computer mediated social support among persons with Hemophilia: A case study".

JSPR RANKING FIGURES Each year SSCI compiles a rank order of journals that it lists (and of course even getting listed in SSCI is an honor that is not automatic. If you are up for tenure, be sure your publication outlets are listed there since administrations often consult this source). The list for 1992 has just been released on microfiche as the Journal Citation Report. JSPR's Impact Factor now ranks 237th of all the social science journals that are listed (some 1400, and many are not listed for the first three years and some not listed at all even after that, of course). For purposes of comparison, in 1991 figures JSPR ranked 301, so it improved quite a bit. JSPR has now been stabilised in this range since 1990, after being in the 500-600 range in 1988 and unranked before that. This is extremely respectable and compares well with other surviving journals founded in the same year. SSCI also compiles comparative lists within disciplines and although I wrote to them asking them to classify JSPR in several different categories because it is multi-disciplinary, they classified it in 1992 figures under only social psych again. JSPR ranked 8th out of 29 listed, about where it has been for the last three years. [For comparison, PSPB ranks 9th and the 7 above JSPR are predominantly well established APA journals that have been going for about 30 years or so.] Because SSCI gives an absolute Impact Factor score to all the journals that it ranks, it is possible to work out where JSPR would come in other categories even though SSCI does not include it in them. In Developmental Psychology JSPR would be 7th out of 27; in Communication Studies 2nd out of 19 (below Comm Monographs and above Human Comm Research for the second year running); in Sociology it would be 9th out of 72; in Clinical Psych 12th out of 45; and in Family Studies 6th out of 20. So it remains true, as it has done for three years, that although this is quite untypical for a young journal, JSPR is now comfortably and stably established in the top ten of all social science categories for which we have an Associate Editor.

NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following list of new members who have joined us since January: Lisa ALLARD, Marsha ASHURST, Nils BECKER, WenChun CHO, Michael J. CODY, Timothy COLE, Steve DePAOLA, Elizabeth DOUVAN, Bruce J. ELLIS, Ruth GREEN, Barbara Theresa HADRANYI, Amy HALBERSTADT, Kimberley HAUSE, Marilyn MENDOLIA, Susan MESSMAN, Jacquelyn MIZE, Deena NARDI, Katherine NELSON, Debora A. PATERNITI, William S. ROGERS, Laura L. SEKLEMIAN, Heather UYEHARA, Denise VOSKUIL, Brian WELBORN, William WILMOT ...who have indicated the following interests Marsha ASHURST, Developing dissertation on close female friendships. Nils BECKER, Verbal/conversational strategies during flirtation and courtship WenChun CHO, Chinese love styles and their relationship to relationship quality. Michael J. CODY, Mistakes in flirting, nonverbal miscommunications. Timothy COLE, Deception in close relationships Steve DePAOLA, Long marriages and sexuality Elizabeth DOUVAN, Adaptation in first years of marriage; gender and peacemaking. Bruce J. ELLIS, Centrally concerned with identifying and predicting major forms of investment in dating relationships. Ruth GREEN, Currently are in the preliminary stages of the creation of a research group looking at working relationships (myself & 2 P.G.s). Specific areas are: 1) relationships between driving instructors and pupils; 2) friendships at work and the impact of information technology. Barbara Theresa HADRANYI, The importance of breast development to young girls - perceived development - social comparisons Amy HALBERSTADT, Most recent project concerns adult daughters (& sons) relationships with their parents. Kimberley HAUSE, My most recent research has been in the area of Dialectics in Marital Maintenance and Maintenance of Cross-Sex Friendships Marilyn MENDOLIA, A social-communicative function of verbal expression of emotion. Susan MESSMAN, Dissertation on competition in close relationships - also differentiating friendship from romantic rels. Jacquelyn MIZE, Parent socialization of children's peer competence Katherine NELSON, "Codependence; 12-step programs; cybernetics, trust, listening; self-esteem" Debora A. PATERNITI, Socialization of medical students and student networks William S. ROGERS, I am investigating differences between those who relocate frequently and those who do not which lead to relocations effects on relationships. William WILMOT, Rejuvenation in PRs. ...and who use the following methods Marsha ASHURST, Qualitative analysis, Nils BECKER, Discourse analysis WenChun CHO, Love Attitudes Scale (Hendrick & Hendrick, 1986), Steve DePAOLA, Social Skills Inventory, Elizabeth DOUVAN, Interviews' Rotter, Life events, open questions Bruce J. ELLIS, Developing an instrument for measuring different focus of investment in close relationships. Amy HALBERSTADT, Questionnaires (I designed the Family Expressions Questionnaire) Kimberley HAUSE, Relationship Closeness Inventory, PAQ, Equity Scales, Maintenance Behaviors Marilyn MENDOLIA, Panas, Facial Expression Jacquelyn MIZE, Observations of interaction (ratings, time sampling); sociometrics questionnaires, maternal beliefs questionnaire Debora A. PATERNITI, Fieldwork/Surveys/Interviews, William S. ROGERS, SNSIE Tenn Self-Concept Harter for Children and Adolescents; Spence's PAQ, Working on a Home Concept Questionnaire

...AND WHO HAVE PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING WORKS Steve DePAOLA, Lupfer, DePaola, Brock & Clement (in press). Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. BuDeschein & DePaola (in press). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin., DePaola, Neimeyer, Lupfer & Fiedlu (1992). Death concern and attitudes toward the elderly in nursing home. Personal Death Studies, 16, 537-555." Elizabeth DOUVAN, Veroff, J., Douvan, E., & Hatcher. (1993). Marital interaction and marital quality in the first years of marriage. Advances in Personal Relationships, V. 4, 103-137. Acitelli, L., Douvan, E., & Veroff, J. (1993). Perceptions of conflict in the first year of marriage. JSPR, 10, 5-19., Veroff, J., Hatcher, S., & Douvan, E. (1992). Consequences of participating in a longitudinal study of marriage. Public Opinion Quarterly, 56 (3), 315-327." Amy HALBERSTADT, Halberstadt, A.G., & Green, L.R. (1993). Social attention and placatia theories of blushing. Motivation and Emotion, 17, 1-12. Halberstadt, A.G., Fox, N.A., & Jones, N.A. (1993). Do expressive mothers have expressive children? The role of socialization and physiological factors on children's affect expressive. Social Devel Halberstadt, A.G., Grotjohn, D.K., Johnson, C.A., Furth, M.R.S., & Greig, M.M. (1992). Children's facial management of affect. Jrnl of Nonverbal Behavior, 16, 215-230. Kimberley HAUSE, Canary, D.J., & Hause, K.S. (1993). Is there are reason to research sex differences in communication? Communication Quarterly, 41, 129-144. Canary, D.J., Stafford, L., Hause, K.S., & Wallace, L. (1993). An inductive analysis of relational maintenance strategies: Comparisons among lovers, relatives, friends, and others. Com Research Reports Marilyn MENDOLIA, Mendolia, M., & Kleck, R.E. (1993). Effects of talking about a stressful event on arousal: Does what we talk about make a difference? J of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 283-292. Mendolia, M., & Kleck, R.E. (1991). Watching people talk about their motions: Influences in response to full-face versus profile expressions. Motivation and Emotion, 15, 229-242. Jacquelyn MIZE, Mize, J. (in press). Coaching preschool children in skills for peer interaction: A cognitive-social learning curriculum. In G. Carteledge & J.F. Milloum (Eds), Teaching Social Skill to Children. Pettit, G.S., & Mize, J. (1993). Substance and style: Understanding the roles that parents play in teaching children about social relationships. In S.W. Duck (Ed), Learning about relationships [Understanding relationship processes 2] Newbury Park: SAGE Mize, J., & Ladd, G.W. (1990). Toward the development of successful sound skill training for preschool children. In S.R. Asher & J.D. Coie (Eds), Peer rejection in childhood, 338-361. William WILMOT, Wilmot, W. (in press). Interpersonal Conflict, 4th Edition. W.C. Brown. Wilmot, W. (in press). Relational Communication. McGraw Hill. Wilmot, W. (in press). Mediation at Work. Boulder, Co.

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Issue 11ii, May 1994 REBECCA G. ADAMS & ROSEMARY BLIESZNER: An integrative conceptual framework for friendship research. In light of the increase in the number and rigor of studies on adult friendship and the tendency of kin and neighbour relationships to have become more structurally similar to friendship, this is a crucial juncture at which to pause and assess what we know and do not know about adult friendship, to begin a needed theoretical synthesis, to identify gaps in the literature, and to produce guidelines for future research. The purpose of this paper is to present an integrative conceptual framework, incorporating both sociological and psychological perspectives, for use in these endeavours. The framework posits that the social structural and psychological aspects of individual characteristics operate together to shape behavioural motifs which, in turn, influence friendship patterns (dyadic and network structure and phases). Furthermore, dyadic and network structure and phases affect one another through interactive friendship processes. The elements of this integrative framework and the relationships among them vary by structural and cultural context. Rebecca G. Adams, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27412- 5001, USA. PETER M. NARDI & DRURY SHERROD: Friendship in the lives of gay men and lesbians. Results from a survey of 283 gay men and lesbians contradict some of the findings of earlier research on gender differences in same-gender friendships. Data from a variety of scales and items indicate that, while gay males and lesbians value casual, close, and best friendships equally (similar to research findings on heterosexual men and women), their definitions and enactments of friendship also were similar (unlike other research which supports differences along gender lines). However, some gender differences did persist in the ways gay men and lesbians dealt with conflict and sexuality within friendships. The implications of considering sexual orientation and gender in the study of friendship are discussed in terms of theoretical, methodological, and socio-political issues. Peter M. Nardi, Pitzer College, 1050 North Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711-6110, USA. J. PATRICK R. KEELAN, KENNETH L. DION, & KAREN K. DION: Attachment style and heterosexual relationships among young adults: A short term panel study. We investigated whether the relationship advantages reported for individuals with a secure attachment style persisted over a four-month time period. The temporal stability of two self-report measures of attachment style was also investigated. "Secures" reported consistent levels of relationship satisfaction, relationship costs, relationship commitment, trust for their partners, and ratings of the quality of alternatives to their partners. "Insecures" (i.e., avoidants and anxious/ambivalents) reported decreasing levels of satisfaction, commitment, and trust along with increasing relationship costs and increasingly positive ratings of alternatives to their partners over time. Insecurely attached individuals from ended relationships characterized their relationships more negatively than insecures from intact relationships. Both self-report measures of attachment style were characterized by considerable short-term temporal stability. Patrick Keelan, Department of Psychology, University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2E9, CANADA. LOUISE BOWERS, PETER K. SMITH & VALERIE BINNEY: Perceived family relationships of bullies, victims, and bully/victims in middle childhood. A multi-theoretical perspective was used to identify family patterns as perceived by children who bully others at school, are victims of such bullying, or (bully/victims). A sample of 20 bullies, 20 victims, 20 bully/victims, and 20 control children was selected from 3 middle schools by peer nomination. Four assessment measures, the Family Relations Test, the Parenting Style Questionnaire, the Family Systems Test, and the Separation Anxiety Test, were used. The four subgroups yielded quite distinct profiles on the first three of these tests. The results show the importance of treating bully/victims as a separate subgroup, and the utility of considering the child's perspective on family relations. Results for the Separation Anxiety Test were non-significant and the implications of this are discussed. Peter K. Smith, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK. PATRICIA NOLLER, JUDITH A. FEENEY, DENISE BONNELL & VICTOR J. CALLAN: A longitudinal study of conflict in early marriage. Thirty-three couples were assessed in terms of their communication and relationship satisfaction, just before marriage and twice during the first two years, using questionnaire and interaction-based methods. There were few changes over time, except that couples lower in relationship satisfaction temporarily decreased their use of negative strategies and increased their use of positive strategies after one year. Spouses high in satisfaction after two years of marriage were less likely to manipulate the partner, to avoid dealing with conflict, to behave coercively, and to engage in destructive patterns such as demand-withdraw. There were moderately strong effects of communication behaviors on concurrent relationship satisfaction. Communication behaviors predicted later satisfaction for wives only. Relationship satisfaction also predicted later communication behaviors for both husbands and wives, indicating a reciprocal relationship between these variables. Pat Noller, Department of Psychology, University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, AUSTRALIA. STEVE DUCK, KRIS POND & GEOFF LEATHAM: Loneliness and the evaluation of relational events. If loneliness inclines people to a general hostility towards others and to a disparaging style about social interaction, then the style should appear in studies of lonely people interacting with their friends, as well as observing other persons they do not know. We conducted a study with 4 features: it compared (a) lonely and non-lonely persons' evaluation of (b) their own and other people's conversations with friends, using (c) both free evaluation and videotape-prompted evaluation (d) both immediately after the interaction and 6 weeks later. Lonely persons did not consistently evaluate their or others' conversations negatively, though they tended to rate communication quality lower. They did, however, draw negative global conclusions about their own relationships, especially after reviewing a videotape of their own interaction six weeks later. We conjecture that lonely people are negative about interactions when they focus on their own communicative performance, and that they also have characteristic ways of evaluating and generalizing from their own interactions that feed into general patterns of dissatisfaction with their own social performance in relationships as a whole. Steve Duck, Department of Communication Studies, 151 Becker Communication Studies Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52247, USA. EDWINA UEHARA: The influence of the social network's "second-order zone" on social support mobilization: A case example. Although social support researchers have long acknowledged the utility of social network analysis, few have shown the scope of analysis that is most useful to understanding how our social ties "buffer" us from adversity and "channel" us to other resources in times of trouble or transition. For the most part, researchers have limited their analyses to what Barnes & Mitchell call the "primary zone" (the links among and between the support receiver and those persons directly linked to him or her). In this paper, it is suggested that expanding analysis to the network's "second order zone" (the primary zone plus the ties between persons tied directly to support providers, but not to the receiver) enhances understanding of social support outcomes. To explore this thesis, the papers examines social support and social network data from a field study of social support mobilization among low income African American women households head in Chicago. I first attempt to explain observed social support outcomes by reference to primary zone variables (density and percent of ties of "high" versus "low" intensity). These are found to be only partially successful. Next, certain second order zone variables are added to the analysis. This improves our ability to explain outcomes. It is suggested that future social support analysis should encompass the second order zone. Edwina S. Uehara, School of Social Work, 4101 15th Avenue BE JH-30, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW IRWIN G. SARASON, BARBARA R. SARASON & GREGORY R. PIERCE: Social support: Global and relationship-based levels of analysis. This article reviews the development of a program of research on social support. It began with construction of an instrument to assess overall support and determination of its correlation with various indicators of adjustment and performance. This led to inquiries into how people at different support levels behave socially and how they perceive the behavior of others. The results of these studies led, in turn, to focusing attention on the relative contributions to outcomes of both global and relationship-specific perceived support. We provide examples of studies that characterize each phase of the research and discuss needs for future research, with special emphasis on the need for closer integrations of research on social support and personal relationships. Irwin G. Sarason, Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

Brief Article RUTH ANNE CLARK: Children's and adolescents' gender preferences for conversational partners for specific communication objectives For eight hypothetical situations involving different communicative objectives, fourth, sixth, eighth, and tenth graders indicated whether the person they most wanted to talk with was male or female. As expected, younger children preferred a same sex partner, but by eighth grade more cross sex preferences emerged, particularly when wanting to pass time or feel included. Boys were generally preferred for telling jokes and stories. By eighth grade, female partners were preferred when the participant wanted to be cheered up or needed advice in persuading or explicating a complicated idea. Ruth Anne Clark, Dept of Speech Communication, University of Illinois, 244 Lincoln Hall, South Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801, USA ======JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Issue 11iii, AUGUST 1994 SPECIAL ISSUE ON CHILDREN'S FRIENDSHIPS Edited by Barry H. Schneider

BARRY H. SCHNEIDER, JUDITH WIENER, & KEVIN MURPHY: Children's friendships: The giant step beyond peer acceptance Barry H. Schneider, Applied Psychology, OIES, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6 CANADA. SHMUEL SHULMAN, JAMES ELICKER, & L. ALAN SROUFE: Stages of friendship growth in preadolescence as related to attachment history Shmuel Shulman, Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, 52900 Ramat Gan, ISRAEL.

ANNA BETH DOYLE, DOROTHY MARKIEWICZ, & CINDY HARDY: Mothers' and children's friendships: intergenerational associations Anna Beth Doyle, Centre for Research in Human Development, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal H4B 1R6, CANADA. KATHRYN A. KERNS: Longitudinal examination of links between mother-child attachment and children's friendship in early childhood Kathryn A. (Park) Kerns, Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA.

KIMBERLEE L. WHALEY & TAMERA S. RUBENSTEIN: How toddlers "do" friendship: A descriptive analysis of naturally occurring friendships in a group child care setting Kimberlee L. Whaley, Ohio State University, 129 Campbell Hall, 1787 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. CARROLLEE HOWES, KRISTIN DROEGE & CATHERINE C. MATHESON: Play and communicative processes within long and short term friendship dyads Carollee Howes, Graduate School of Education, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024- 1521, USA.

JULIE YINGLING: Constituting friendship in talk and metatalk Julie Yingling, Department of Speech Communication, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 95521, USA.

SHERRI PAINTER PATAKI, CHERYL SHAPIRO & MARGARET S. CLARK: Children's acquisition of appropriate norms for friendships and acquaintances Peggy Clark, Department of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.

ZIPORA SHECHTMAN, NAOMI VUREMBRAND & RACHEL HERTZ-LAZAROWITZ: A dyadic and gender- specific analysis of close friendships of preadolescents receiving group psychotherapy Zipora Schechtman, School of Education, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31999, ISRAEL.

RUTH SHARABANY: Intimate Friendship Scale: Conceptual underpinnings, psychometric properties, and construct validity Ruth Sharabany, Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, ISRAEL. WILLIAM M. BUKOWSKI, BETSY HOZA, & MICHEL BOIVIN: Measuring friendship quality during pre- and early adolescence: The development of the Friendship Qualities Scale William M. Bukowski, Concordia University, 1455 boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, CANADA.

WILLIAM M. BUKOWSKI, BETSY HOZA & ANDREW F. NEWCOMB: Using rating scales and nomination techniques to measure friendship and popularity William M. Bukowski, Concordia University, 1455 boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, CANADA.

======FAMILY RELATIONS Table of Contents for April 1994 kindly supplied by Editor Mark A. Fine (For details of these papers and addresses of authors, please contact Mark Fine, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469-1430, USA)

Work, Stress, and Families: A Special Collection Introduction to the Special Collection Robert L. DelCampo The Changing American Workplace: Implications for Individuals and Families Ann C. Crouter & Beth Manke Family Ranching and Farming: A Consensus Management Model to Improve Family Functioning and Decrease Work Stress Toni Schindler Zimmerman & Robert J. Fetsch Daughters-In-Law and Stress in Two-Generation Farm Families Ramona Marotz-Baden & Claudia Mattheis The Impact of Job Insecurity on Marital and Family Relationships Jeffry H. Larson, Stephan M. Young, & Rochelle Beley Impact of Life-Cycle Stage and Gender on the Ability to Balance Work and Family Responsibilities Christopher Higgins, Linda Duxbury, & Catherine Lee Maternal Employment and Perceived Stress: Their Impact on Children's Adjustment and Mother-Child Interaction in Young Divorced and Married Families Marjorie A. Pett, Beth Vaughan-Cole, & Bruce Wampold Is Small Beautiful? Work-Family Tension, Work Conditions, and Organizational Size Shelley M. MacDermid, Margaret Williams, Stephen Marks, & Gabriela Heilbrun The Role of Workplace Support in Facilitating Self- Sufficiency Among Single Mothers on Welfare Louise Parker All in a Day's Work: Job Experiences, Self-Esteem, and Fathering in Working-Class Families Karen Grimm & Maureen Perry-Jenkins Influence Strategies Used When Couples Make Work-Family Decisions and Their Importance for Marital Satisfaction Anisa M. Zvonkovic, Cynthia J. Schmiege, & Leslie D. Hall The Influence of Work-Related Stressors on Clergy Husbands and Their Wives Michael Lane Morris & Priscilla White Blanton Work and Well-Being in the Two-Person Career: Relocation Stress and Coping Among Clergy Husbands and Wives Marsha Wiggins Frame & Constance L. Shehan General Interest Benefits of a Parent Education and Support Program in the First Three Years Margaret Tresch Owen & Beverly A. Mulvihill An Evaluation of a Program to Help Dual-Earner Couples Share the Second Shift Alan J. Hawkins, Tomi-Ann Roberts, Shawn L. Christiansen, & Christina M. Marshall Views About Planning for the Future Among Parents and Siblings of Persons With Mental Retardation Diane Lynn Griffiths & Donald G. Unger Applied Literature Review Premarital Predictors of Marital Quality and Stability: An Applied Literature Review Jeffry H. Larson & Thomas B. Holman BOOK REVIEWS

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This Newsletter is compiled, edited, typed, and distributed by Steve Duck, 151-CSB, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 (319-338-3931 [email protected]), to whom materials for inclusion should be sent.

INTERNATIONAL NETWORK ON PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS -- MAY MEETING -- MAY 26-30, 1994

INPR's 1994 May meeting will be held in Iowa City and the emphasis will be not only on active discussion of presented work but also on professional development. In all cases fees will be specially reduced for overseas registrants.

The Professional Development Workshop will begin May 27th and continue till May 30th and will be preceded by a Graduate workshop (May 26th and 27th). The Graduate Workshop will have four plenary sessions where invited speakers will expound on the techniques that they have developed for studying aspects of relationships. The rest of the workshop will have a program of presentations of competitively reviewed discussion papers, and afternoons will be devoted to special master discussion sessions on love (Saturday) and on social support (Sunday). There will also be special sessions on 1) teaching, 2) publication, 3) funding for research, and 4) professional transitions. The graduate part of the program will have roundtable discussions and opportunities for poster presentations of work in progress, including graduate student work, and a variety of social events. It is specifically intended to instigate or strengthen graduate student relationships with their future colleagues in the field, as at previous Network Workshops

INVITED SPEAKERS AND SESSION LEADERS ARE

Graduate workshop

LINDA ACITELLI: Constructing a survey on thinking and talking about relationships ART ARON: Experimental methods for studying closeness LESLIE BAXTER: Working with qualitative data MICHAEL HECHT: Studying interethnic relationships and identity

All-comers professional development workshop

SOCIAL SUPPORT LOVE CAROLYN CUTRONA ART ARON STEVAN HOBFOLL MICHAEL HECHT BARBARA SARASON SUSAN & CLYDE HENDRICK ALAN VAUX PHIL SHAVER

For registration and program details, contact Steve Duck. Communication Studies Building (151-BCSB), University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA 319-338-3931 [FAX 319-335-2930], [email protected]. Registration fees for graduates include participation in the rest of the meeting as well as the preceding graduate workshop. Overseas registrant fees are specially reduced.

INTERNATIONAL NETWORK ON PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS -- MAY MEETING -- MAY 26-30, 1994 PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

Thursday May 26th 1.30 Meeting opens with graduate workshop 2.00- 4.00 Michael Hecht 4.30- 6.30 Linda Acitelli 7.30 Informal gathering friday may 27th 8.30- 10.00 Roundtable discussion of graduate student work 10.30- 12.30 Art Aron 12.45- 2.15 Lunch and poster sessions 2.30 - 4.30 Leslie Baxter

All-comers meeting begins 5.30 - 7.30 Reception 7.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Stevan Hobfoll saturday may 28th 8.30 - 10.00 a) Poster sessions and book display b) Special session on publishing Journal articles, book proposals, chapters in books (Steve Duck) 10.30 - 12.30 Special session on Grants Linda Acitelli, Michael Hecht, Stevan Hobfoll 12.45 - 2.00 Lunch and poster sessions and book display 2.00 - 5.00 Special Master Session on Love research. An audience discussion with ART ARON, MICHAEL HECHT, SUSAN & CLYDE HENDRICK, PHIL SHAVER sunday may 29th 8.30 - 10.00 Parallel discussion paper sessions and roundtables: Relational conflict; and Relationship breakdown. 10.30 - 12.30 Parallel discussion paper sessions and roundtables: (Self disclosure; Attraction, Intimacy, and Closeness) 12.45- 2.00 Lunch and poster sessions 2.00 - 5.00 Special Master Session on Social Support research An audience discussion with CAROLYN CUTRONA, STEVAN HOBFOLL, BARBARA SARASON, ALAN VAUX 6.30 - ???? Social program monday may 30th

8.30 - 10.00 Parallel discussion paper sessions and roundtables: Love and love styles; Parent-child relationships. 10.30 - 12.30 Parallel discussion paper sessions and roundtables: Conceptual and methodological issues 12.30-??? Book sale, Distribution of papers and Conference ends

Thanks are expressed to the panel who reviewed submissions for the May Meeting: Tara Emmers, Pam Regan, and John Sylvestre.

SPECIAL FEATURE THIS YEAR: Late poster sessions. You may still submit papers for presentation at poster sessions. These will be listed on the program as posters, which may help you to obtain travel support. Submit three copies of your 400 word abstract on relationships by April 30th 1994.

SOCIAL PROGRAM AND MEALS Registration fees include meals, a social program, a reception, and a special event on the Sunday night, as well as full participation rights, a list of attenders, a full program booklet and an abstract booklet.

INFORMATION FOR MEETING ATTENDERS The accent of the workshop is on informality and although there will be formal leading of discussion or presentation of papers by the participants, it is likely -- and indeed encouraged -- that the meeting will be highly interactive and that structure will break down as a function of meeting length. Participants are encouraged to bring informal information about their own work for distribution to, and discussion with, others, but this is not demanded or expected. Just do it if you have something you want to pass around, but don't feel you have to do a lot of work or to make something up to bring.

Participants should plan to arrive around 4.00pm on the early afternoon of Friday, May 27th, and to depart around lunchtime on Monday 30th.(Those attending the Graduate Workshop preceding the meeting should arrive for about 1.00pm on Thursday May 26th). This time scale permits you to take advantage of the pricing policies of the airlines which give special deals for trips that cross a Saturday night.

Location: The conference meetings will be held in the Becker Communication Studies Building (BCSB) at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and accommodation will be provided in the Iowa Memorial Union about one block away from BCSB. The full registration costs are inclusive of meals during the conference except for Saturday night. Coffee will be provided during the days of the workshop.

Transportation: Iowa City is served by the Cedar Rapids airport (CID) (this is NOT Cedar Falls, Iowa, a point that occasionally escapes travel agents. The airport code is CID). Cedar Rapids airport is some 15 miles to the North of Iowa City and is serviced by United, American, TWA, Northwest, and several other airlines. There are regular flights from Chicago O'Hare, Des Moines, Kansas City, Madison, Minneapolis, and Missouri-St Louis with connections also from Denver, Detroit, Milwaukee and several other major cities. Limousine service is available from the Cedar Rapids Airport to Iowa City and reservations can be made for you by us if you so desire; roundtrip fare is about $20. Car rentals are also available at the Cedar Rapids Airport and personal reservations are advisable. Iowa City can be reached by road on I-80 from Chicago or Des Moines. The trip from Chicago takes about 4 hours and from Des Moines takes about 2 hours.

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Please send this form with a check (made payable to "INPR") by April 30th 1994 to: Garth Pittman or Steve Duck, 151-BCSB, Dept of Communication Studies, Becker Communication Studies Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. ======CALL FOR PAPERS

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Special Issue

Different Paths, Different Voices: Rethinking the Development of Families over the Life Course

The theme of the special issue, "Different Paths, Different Voices", refers to the need to examine the diverse roads that families travel through the life course and the different ways they describe their experiences. Society has vastly changed since key theoretical perspectives were first advanced. Little is known about the relevance of these theoretical formulations to families who differ in terms of structure, ethnicity, or social class. The objective of the special issue is to expand the traditional focus on family adaptation to life transitions by exploring issues of cultural diversity, multiple family forms, and contextual variables. In addition to better representing the experiences of present day families, a major goal of the special issue is to inform the refinement of existing theories and the development of new theoretical models.

We encourage submissions that focus on issues of ethnicity, social class, gender or sexual orientation, or consider community, neighborhood or social context or examine aspects of kinship structure in describing family adaptation at various stages of the life course. Of most interest are studies that give voice to families not typically considered by researchers and in ways that recognize adaptive coping and strengths, and do not simply document deficits. Papers should contain critical discussions of existing research and theory, and should provide specific suggestions for future research and theory development. The relevant types of critical transitions appropriate for the issue include, but are not limited to, transitions related to marriage, parenthood, divorce, single parenthood, shared custody, and remarriage. Articles need not be wedded to a particular academic discipline or set of research methods; in fact, we desire to collect papers that use a variety of methods of data collection and analysis.

Authors are referred to unbound copies of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships for instructions for preparing manuscripts. Four copies of the manuscript should be submitted by August 30, 1994 to either of the issue editors:

Catherine H. Stein, Ph.D. Laurie Kramer, Ph.D. Dept. of Psychology Human Development & Family Studies Bowling Green State University University of Illinois Bowling Green 1105 W. Nevada OH 43403-0228, USA Urbana, IL 61801, USA

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INTERNATIONAL NETWORK NEWSLETTER NUMBER 27 JUNE 1994 Compiled and edited by Steve Duck, who is also responsible for the typing errors ======

**FIRST ADVANCE NOTICE THAT IT IS TIME TO RENEW** **MEMBERSHIP. DISCOUNTED RATES APPLY UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30TH** **1994 WHEN MEMBERSHIP EXPIRES. RENEWAL FORM ENCLOSED** **WITH THIS MAILING.***************

ABSTRACT Preliminary notice of next year's INPR conference in Williamsburg, VA ... time to submit nominations for the Network's annual dissertation award ... preliminary announcement for the annual conference in 1995 The 1995 INPR CONFERENCE will be held on the campus of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia on June 1 - June 5. Your co-hosts will be Constance Pilkington, Lee Kirkpatrick, and John Nezlek. Conference Program: In response to your comments about previous conferences, we are instituting a few changes in emphasis in the submission process and construction of the program. (1) Proposals for organized symposia are strongly encouraged; we would like the program to feature more coherent, well-organized sessions and fewer post-hoc- organized paper sessions. (2) Submissions for poster presentations are also encouraged, particularly for empirical research reports. This format allows us to accommodate more presentations and provides greater flexibility for the audience. Please note that we intend to highlight the poster session as a major conference event and encourage you to participate in it. (3) Suggestions for roundtable discussions -- open discussion sessions on topics of interest (e.g., particular theoretical or methodological approaches) led by one or two facilitator -- are also encouraged. (4) Submission of promissory abstracts, i.e., proposed reports on empirical research not yet completed, is strongly discouraged. Important Note: Submissions must be accompanied by a submission form (standardized cover sheet similar to that used by many other conferences). Forms will be included with the September INN (INPR newsletter number 28), or can be requested directly from the organisers listed above. Deadline for receipt of submissions will be November 15, 1994. Facilities and lodging. The campus is located adjacent to the Colonial Williamsburg historical area, and within a short drive of other important historical sites in Yorktown and Jamestown. Richmond and Norfolk are each less than an hour away. Inexpensive dormitory housing will be available on campus along with dining facilities. Accommodations at nearby hotels will also be available (but be advised that hotel space is a bit pricey during tourist season in Williamsburg). A variety of restaurants and bars, including several historic taverns in Colonial Williamsburg, are within walking distance of campus. Bring the family and make a vacation out of it! For more information or to voice your comments and concerns, contact us by e-mail at [email protected]. Snail-mail can be addressed to any of us at Department of Psychology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 23187-8795. Telephone inquiries should be directed to Connie at 804-221- 3898.

MAY MEETING The Network's May Meeting (May 26th-30th 1994) attracted 129 registrations, about 2.5 times the number of people who normally come to the "even year" conference event, at least before the conferences became annual events. So this transitional conference, mostly for graduates but with a few new ideas for meetings, was an extremely healthy sign for the future of the Network.

NETWORK'S ANNUAL DISSERTATION AWARD: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Network has created an Annual Dissertation Award, as you will know, dating back to 1987. On the recommendation of a past committee on the Dissertation Award, the award for dissertations completed in 1993 (defended by December 31st 1993) will be now be made, and judgements will be made, in the first instance, on the basis of a single-authored paper (either published or unpublished) derived from the dissertation. Submit nominations (or self nominations) which include the paper to be evaluated, to reach Steve Duck by November 30th 1994.

BOOKS BY MEMBERS Steve DUCK (1994) Meaningful relationships: Talking, sense, and relating. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Pepper SCHWARTZ (1994) Peer Marriage: How Love Between Equals Really Works. Free Press Patricia Keith-Speigel, Arno F. Wittig, David V. Perkins, Deborah Ware Balogh & Bernard WHITLEY (1994) The ethics of teaching: A Casebook. Muncie IN: Ball State University Press [enquiries about purchasing the book should be address to Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology, Dept of Psychological Science, Ball State Univ., Muncie, IN 47306]

NEWS OF MEMBERS Linda ACITELLI's e-mail address has been changed to [email protected] James APPLEGATE has been elected Fellow of the American Council on Education. Steve DUCK has been awarded an Honorary Research Fellowship at the University of Wales, Cardiff. Kathleen GALVIN has been appointed to a two-year term on the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

MEMBERS ON THE MOVE --- ONWARDS AND UPWARDS Diane BADZINSKI has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln Lyn BENDTSCHNEIDER has successfully defended her PhD on Couple friendships. Rosemary BLIESZNER has been promoted to Full Professor. Steve DUCK has been appointed Acting Chair of the Dept of Communication Studies, University of Iowa, for AY 1994-95. Luck--eeeee! Mark FINE has been awarded the University of Dayton Alumni Award in scholarship for his distinguished contributions to scholarly work. Tovah KLEIN has now successfully defended her dissertation and is DR Klein, PhD Pam KALBFLEISCH has been appointed Associate Professor in the Dept of Communication and Mass Media in the Univ of Wyoming at Laramie. Maureen KEELEY has successfully defended her PhD on the development of a Non-Verbal Perception Scale for use in relationship work. Mary Lynn MILLER has accepted an offer of an assistantship in the doctoral program in Communication at the University of Wisconsin. Norma RAINEY has successfully defended her PhD Thesis at the Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Facta, non verba. Jan STETS has been awarded promotion to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. She and Peter BURKE will begin a sabbatical visiting the Dept of Sociology, University of Iowa, in August 1994.

MEMBERS SEEKING HELP Nobody wanted any help this time

GRANTS WON BY MEMBERS Beverley FEHR has been awarded a grant of C$69129 Barry WELLMAN has just received a C$114K three-year grant from the Social Sciences & Humanities research Council of Canada to study "The Personal Networks of Communities and Workgroups." Barry WELLMAN and Laura Garton have received C$12,500 from the Centre for Information Technology Innovation, Ministry of Science & Technology to study virtual workgroups and communities. Looks like Canada has the big bucks.

WINNERS OF 1993-1994 STEVE DUCK NEW SCHOLAR AWARD ANNOUNCED Brian Spitzberg writes: In 1991 the Steve Duck New Scholar Award was inaugurated to encourage new scholars in the field of personal relationships and to give recognition to Steve Duck for his service to our field. In its third year, this award was administered by a committee of researchers who are associated with either the International Network on Personal Relationships, ISSPR or both. The funds for the awards were donated by individuals. Two types of award were given: one for faculty and post-docs in their first three years past the Ph.D., and a second for graduate students. An interdisciplinary committee of 8 scholars evaluated 22 proposals that were submitted. The winners for this year are: Student New Scholar: Lauri Pasch (UCLA): Observation of social support transitions in marriage; Faculty New Scholar Megan Lewis (UC-Boulder) Social control in marital relationships. The committee wishes to extend its congratulations not only to the winners but to all the applicants for this award. The committee was consistently impressed with the quality of the submissions and looks forward to seeing the programs of research carried to their fruition. The 1993- 1994 committee was composed of Anita Barbee, F, Scott Christopher, Beverley Fehr, Renee Lyons, Sandra Metts, John Nezlek, Daniel Perlman, L. Edna Rogers, Julie Yingling, and Brian Spitzberg (Chair).

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS COMMUNICATION YEARBOOK, Volume 19 Editor Brant Burleson is soliciting manuscripts and proposals for CY 19. Sponsored by the International Communication Association and published through an arrangement with Sage Publications, Communication Yearbook seeks to feature the very best in communication scholarship. With Volume 19, Communication Yearbook initiates a new format, publishing 10-12 state-of-the-art literature reviews in each volume. Thus, CY 19 seeks articles providing comprehensive syntheses of literature (i.e., articles that summarize, review, critique, and integrate a large body of literature that has appeared on a specific, relatively narrow topic). Reviews should not only survey avenues previously traveled in a research area, but should also identify where new roads need to be built. Literature reviews employing both narrative and quantitative (i.e., meta-analytic) methodologies are sought. Reviews from all areas of the communication discipline are welcome; CY seeks to represent the diverse range of philosophical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives informing contemporary communication scholarship. Contributions from scholars residing outside the United States are especially welcome. Proposals or completed reviews will be considered by the Editor. Submissions should (a) identify a specific topic area on which an extensive body of material has been published, (b) develop a rationale for the review of this literature, (c) delineate the approach and methodology to be used in the review, (d) provide a detailed outline of the review, and (e) describe the qualifications of the author(s). All submissions to CY undergo blind review by at least two experts in the field. Complete manuscripts or 5-10 page proposals are due August 1, 1994. Inquiries may be made via FAX or e-mail, but all submissions must be made with hardcopy transmitted via surface mail. Send three high-quality copies to:

Brant R. Burleson, Editor Communication Yearbook, Department of Communication, 1366 LAEB 2114, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1366, USA Phone: (317) 494-3321 FAX: (317) 496-1394 Bitnet: XWXF@PURCCVM Internet: [email protected]

NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following list of new members who have joined us since April: Aaron AHUVIA, Steve BACKHAUS, Lisa Ann BARON, Nils BECKER, Kelly BISHOP, Sarah BRUNER, M. Mayela CASTENADA, Tim COLE, Susan CROSS, Sandra CUNNING, Jennifer DEBSKI, Desiree DENTON, Amy EBESU, Nancy A. EMOND, Meredyth G. FELLOWS, Debra FINKLESTEIN, Barbara J. FRALEY, Yvonne FREELAND, Kimberly GORGENS, Jeff HAIG, Craig H. HART, Laurel HUMPHREYS, Chris KEYS, Russell KIVATISKY, Deidre KRAMER, Lisa KUCHARSKI, Raimo J. LAASONEN, Maria K. LAPINSKI, Elizabeth LEVIN, Susan LOLLIS, Heather MANNS, Denise MARTIN, Amy MATTEN, Ann MOYER, Christina NORMAN, Lauri Pasch, Susan SARIS, Rebecca TARDY, Maureen Wilson ...who have indicated the following interests Nils BECKER, Verbal/Conversational strategies during flirtation and courtship Tim COLE, Deception in close relationships Nancy A. EMOND, CLA, Psy, Speech Communication, Women's Studies Sr. Program - heterosexual communication in intimate relationships." Craig H. HART, Parenting styles and children's social development/peer relations; the effects of developmentally appropriate/inappropriate practices in Early Childhood Education on children's stress behaviors and later developmental outcomes. Raimo J. LAASONEN, An educational angles at social ????, social interaction, public and private behavior in 15-16 years of age, a dynamical study." Susan LOLLIS, Family interactions and the socialization of moral orientation. Rebecca TARDY, Children & conflict, integrating gay & lesbian issues in curriculum, health information-seeking in social support networks"

...and who use the following methods Nils BECKER, Discourse Analysis, Tim COLE, Survey Research, Craig H. HART, Parenting style, children's consequential thinking, social problem solving, behavioral observation, Developing new parenting style measure; new teacher assessment of children's social behavior Raimo J. LAASONEN, My own questionnaires and tests; in near future videotapes and own classifications, Actually until now I have evaluated the reliabilities and validities of the measures Susan LOLLIS, Work is observational in native supplemented with open ended interviews & hypothetical vignette, Rebecca TARDY, Interviews, Focus Groups

...and who have published the following works Tim COLE, Kellermann & Cole (1994). Classifying compliance gaining messages: Taxonomic disorder and strategic confusion. Communication Theory, 4, 3-60. Craig H. HART, Hart, C.H. et al (1992). Maternal and paternal disc styles. Child Development, 63, 879-92. Ladd & Hart (1992). Creating informal play opportunities: Parent's and preschoolers; initiations... Developmental Psychology, 28, 1179-1187. Charlesworth, Hart, et al (1993). Measuring developmentally appropriate/inappropriate instructional practices in EKE. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 8, 255-276. Raimo J. LAASONEN, Laasonen, R. Modeling system operators affecting the information organized of an individual self-identification of personality in social environment. ERIC. Susan LOLLIS, Kuczynski, L. & Lollis, S. (in press). Bidirectional models of parenting. Guilford Publications. Ross, H. Finyer, R. Lollis, S. Perlman, M. & Martin, J. (in press). Administering justice in the family. Family Psychology. Lollis, S. & Ross, H. & Tate, E. (1992). Parents' regulation of children's peer interactions: Direct influences. In R. Parke & G. Ladd (Eds), Family-Peer Relationships. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Issue 11iii, AUGUST 1994 SPECIAL ISSUE ON CHILDREN'S FRIENDSHIPS Edited by Barry H. Schneider

BARRY H. SCHNEIDER, JUDITH WIENER, & KEVIN MURPHY: Children's friendships: The giant step beyond peer acceptance Differences and similarities between the constructs of friendships and global peer acceptance in childhood are considered. Research to date has identified the features of children's friendships. Children appear to be capable of forming stable, close friendships at younger ages than was once thought. Gender differences in children's friendships have received considerable attention, but other types of individual difference have not been studied extensively. The synthesis of findings obtained using diverse methodologies in testing constructs derived from different theories has contributed to appreciation of the distinct and complex nature of children's friendships. Barry H. Schneider, Applied Psychology, OIES, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6 CANADA.

SHMUEL SHULMAN, JAMES ELICKER, & L. ALAN SROUFE: Stages of friendship growth in preadolescence as related to attachment history A process model of friendship formation in preadolescence is proposed in this article, and the continuity of early parent-child relationships (quality of attachment) with later friendship processes and peer competence is explored. Thirty-two preadolescents, subjects in a longitudinal study of attachment and subsequent social development, were observed in four-week summer day camps. Those who had been securely attached with their caregivers as infants revealed a higher level of peer competence than did those with anxious attachment histories. However, preadolescents of both types of attachment reported and were observed to form friendships. Indepth case studies of 4 friendship pairs of preadolescents with different attachment histories suggested that there are corresponding differences in the quality and growth processes of those pairs of friendships. A three-stage model of preadolescent friendship growth is proposed, based on relationship dimensions and reflective of earlier relational patterns. Shmuel Shulman, Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, 52900 Ramat Gan, ISRAEL.

ANNA BETH DOYLE, DOROTHY MARKIEWICZ, & CINDY HARDY: Mothers' and children's friendships: intergenerational associations We assessed predictability of the friendship participation and quality, as well as the popularity, of 154 children 8 to 12 years of age from measures of their mothers' social relationships. Measures included questionnaires assessing qualities of the mothers' best friendships and the quality of the marital relationship, and an interview measure of maternal acceptance of the child. Results indicated that qualities of the mothers' best friendship, in particular self-referent reward qualities, significantly predicted child friendship status, the closeness and helpfulness of children's friendships, child popularity, and maternal acceptance. Marital status was an important predictor, and marital quality a lesser predictor, of child friendship quality but not of popularity. Results suggest domain-specific parental influences on children's friendships which are distinct from peer popularity. Anna Beth Doyle, Centre for Research in Human Development, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal H4B 1R6, CANADA.

KATHRYN A. KERNS: Longitudinal examination of links between mother-child attachment and children's friendship in early childhood A longitudinal study examined associations between child-mother attachment security and children's friendship at two points in early childhood. Comparisons of secure-secure and secure-insecure friend pairs revealed that the interactions of secure-secure pairs were more positive at age 4 and more positive and coordinated at age 5. Kathryn A. (Park) Kerns, Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA.

KIMBERLEE L. WHALEY & TAMERA S. RUBENSTEIN: How toddlers "do" friendship: A descriptive analysis of naturally occurring friendships in a group child care setting Researchers examining friendship between peers often begin to study children during the preschool years. While research has indicated that toddlers interact with peers, very little is known about how they negotiate friendships. This study uses qualitative methodology to examine how a group of toddler friends interact with each other -- how they "do" friendship. Children were videotaped as they went about their daily interactions in a mixed-age, infant-toddler child care setting. Data was collected over a ten month period, resulting in 200 hours of videotape. Interactions between four toddler friendships dyads (age 22-36 months) were coded using dimensions of friendship as used by Rizzo (1989). Results indicate that five of eight coded dimensions are present in these toddler friendships. Further, results suggest that toddlers engage in much more complex relationships than has been previously indicated. A developmental theory of friendship is presented. Kimberlee L. Whaley, Ohio State University, 129 Campbell Hall, 1787 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.

CAROLLEE HOWES, KRISTIN DROEGE & CATHERINE C. MATHESON: Play and communicative processes within long and short term friendship dyads Twenty-four dyads of four-year-old children participated in this study. Six of the dyads were long-term friends (children who had been friends for three years), twelve dyads were short-term friends (friendships formed within the previous six months) and six of the dyads were never-friends. Children's joint play and communications were coded from videotapes. Dyads who more often used communicative behaviors to extend and clarify play also more often played in more complex ways. Long-term friendship dyads were more likely to use communicative behaviors that extended play and to play in a more complex way than either of the other two dyad types. Carollee Howes, Graduate School of Education, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024- 1521, USA.

JULIE YINGLING: Constituting friendship in talk and metatalk This work sets forth a relational perspective on developing friendships. It examines the interface between children's talk in conversations with their friends and what they say about that talk in interviews following the conversations. Five configurations emerged in the interface between friends' conversational control and their expectations for control. Two patterns were fairly static and described older, long-term or less-than-best friends. In these configurations, partners either agreed that one partner controlled the conversation when actually they shared control, or else, both of them failed to perceive that one partner controlled the talk. The other three configurations revealed change and/or disagreement between best friends. In these cases, partners consistently disagreed in their perceptions of control, but one partner accurately perceived the controller. These latter patterns may describe the kinds of relational talk that constitute developing models of friendships. Julie Yingling, Department of Speech Communication, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 95521, USA.

SHERRI PAINTER PATAKI, CHERYL SHAPIRO & MARGARET S. CLARK: Children's acquisition of appropriate norms for friendships and acquaintances Research with adults demonstrates the existence of distinct norms governing the intentional giving and receiving of benefits within the context of different types of relationships. This study focuses on the development of children's adherence to these norms. We examined first and third grade children's allocation of jointly earned rewards after they had worked on a task with either an acquaintance or a friend. In both grades, more children working with friends than with an acquaintance divided the reward equally. In both grades acquaintances tended to use an equity norm more often than did friends. This effect was not significant among first graders but was significant among third graders. Moreover, third grade pairs of friends were significantly more likely than first grade pairs of friends to divide rewards equally. These results provide evidence of children's increasing use of communal norms in their friendships. Peggy Clark, Department of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.

ZIPORA SHECHTMAN, NAOMI VUREMBRAND & RACHEL HERTZ-LAZAROWITZ: A dyadic and gender- specific analysis of close friendships of preadolescents receiving group psychotherapy The study investigated the effect of therapy/counseling groups on friendships of latency-age children lacking in social efficacy, referred for counseling by their homeroom teachers. Experimental students underwent weekly therapy in six small groups, whereas control students received routine academic counseling services over the same period (an entire school year). Self- and other-reported data confirmed significant gains in intimacy in friendships (with best and second-best friends) among experimental students, particularly the boys. Zipora Schectman, School of Education, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31999, ISRAEL.

RUTH SHARABANY: Intimate Friendship Scale: Conceptual underpinnings, psychometric properties, and construct validity The Intimate Friendship Scale is reviewed based on 16 studies relevant to children and preadolescents. The conceptual background is presented. Intimate friendship is considered a configuration of diverse but coherently related quantitatively commensurate elements, specified here. The structure of the original scale is described, as well as its eight dimensions of content. Data on the scale's reliability, content validity (through the use of judges), criterion validity (using reciprocity of choice), predictive validity (through follow-up comparisons after seven years), construct validity (through comparisons involving kibbutz and city, social class, divorce, twins, defense mechanisms, and group interventions), and discriminant validity (through comparisons with comradeship, popularity, role taking, I.Q., and social- desirability) are presented. The discussion addresses questions regarding the scale, and suggests directions for future research. Ruth Sharabany, Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, ISRAEL.

WILLIAM M. BUKOWSKI, BETSY HOZA, & MICHEL BOIVIN: Measuring friendship quality during pre- and early adolescence: The development of the Friendship Qualities Scale The Friendship Qualities Scale is a theoretically grounded, multidimensional measurement instrument to assess the quality of children's and early adolescents' relationships with their best friends according to give conceptually meaningful aspects of the friendship relation. These dimensions are companionship, conflict, help/aid, security, and closeness. A confirmatory factor analysis, used to evaluate the factor structure of this instrument, demonstrated that these scales represented distinct, but related, domains of friendship. Assessments of reliability indicated the high level of internal consistency within each dimension. The validity of the scale was indicated by the observation of higher ratings for (a) mutual friends than for nonmutual friends, and (b) for stable friends than for nonstable friends. These findings are discussed according to the theoretical and practical issues related to the measurement of friendship quality. William M. Bukowski, Concordia University, 1455 boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, CANADA.

WILLIAM M. BUKOWSKI, BETSY HOZA & ANDREW F. NEWCOMB: Using rating scales and nomination techniques to measure friendship and popularity The associations between measures of friendship and popularity derived from nomination and rating scales procedures were studied with a sample of school-age and early adolescent boys and girls. Confirmatory factor analyses and comparisons of the correlations among these measures showed that each of these techniques can provide parallel measures of popularity (i.e., sociometric preference) and friendship (i.e., whether the child is participating in a mutual friendship). These findings are discussed in regard to measurement issues in the study of friendship and popularity. William M. Bukowski, Concordia University, 1455 boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, CANADA. ======JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Issue 11iv, November 1994

JUDY-ANNE CRAIG, RICHARD KOESTNER, DAVID C. ZUROFF: Implicit and self-attributed intimacy motivation. Judy-Anne Craig, Psychology Department, McGill University, 1205 Dr. Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1B1, CANADA.

DONNA H. HENDERSON-KING & JOSEPH VEROFF: Sexual satisfaction and marital well-being in the first year of marriage. Donna Henderson-King, Department of Psychology, Loyola University of Chicago, 6525 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL 60626, USA.

LEANNE K. LAMKE, DONNA SOLLIE, ROBIN G. DURBIN & JACKI A. FITZPATRICK: Masculinity, femininity and relationship satisfaction: The mediating role of interpersonal competence. Leanne K. Lamke, Department of Family and Child Development, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.

PAMELA A. GELLER & STEVAN E. HOBFOLL: Gender differences in job stress, tedium, and social support in the workplace. Stevan Hobfoll, Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242-0001, USA.

CHERYL-JEAN CHAN & GAYLA MARGOLIN: The relationship between dual-earner couples' daily work mood and home affect. CJ Chan, Forest Institute of Professional Psychology, 845 22nd Ave., Honolulu, HI 96816, USA.

JEAN E. RHODES, LORI EBERT & ADENA B. MEYERS: Social support, relationship problems and the psychological functioning. Jean E. Rhodes, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, 603 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USA.

ANAT SHER & OFRA MAYSELESS: Mothers' attachment with spouse and parenting in the first year. Anat Sher, School of Education, University of Haifa, Haifa, 31905, ISRAEL.

ALAN L. SILLARS, ANNETTE L. FOLWELL, KRISANN C. HILL, BOBBIN K. MAKI, ANTHONY P. HURST & ROSEMARY A. CASANO: Marital communication and the persistence of misunderstanding. Alan L. Sillars, Department of Communication Studies, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA.

RAND J. GRUEN, MARYA GWADZ & DIANA MORROBEL: Support, criticism, emotion, and depressive symptoms: Gender differences in the stress-depression relationship. Rand J. Gruen, 6 Washington Place, Room 460, Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.

JAMILA BOOKWALA,IRENE HANSON FRIEZE, & NANCY KROPP GROTE: Love, aggression and satisfaction in dating relationships Irene Frieze, Dept of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

BOOK REVIEWS

FAMILY RELATIONS Table of Contents for July 1994 kindly supplied by Editor Mark A. Fine (For details of these papers and addresses of authors, please contact Mark Fine, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469-1430, USA)

EXCHANGE ON CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE The Professional Response to Child Sexual Abuse: Whose Interests are Served? Frank D. Fincham, Steven R. H. Beach, Thom Moore, & Carol Diener How Reliable are Children's Statements? It Depends Stephen J. Ceci & Maggie Bruck Avoiding False Claims of Child Sexual Abuse: Empty Promises Kathy Pezdek In the Best Interests of Children? Leigh A. Faulconer Child Sexual Abuse: Finding Common Ground Frank D. Fincham, Steven R. H. Beach, Thom Moore, & Carol Diener

EXCHANGE ON THE TREATMENT OF ADOPTION AND ABORTION IN TEXTBOOKS The Presentation of Abortion and Adoption in Marriage and Family Textbooks Kathy Shepherd Stolley & Elaine J. Hall Response to Stolley and Hall Bryan Strong & Christine DeVault Abortion, Adoption, Abstinence, and Marriage Steven L. Nock The Construction of Knowledge: A Reply to Nock and to Strong and Devault Kathy Shepherd Stolley & Elaine J. Hall

GENERAL INTEREST Parents Who Abduct: A Qualitative Study with Implications for Practice Geoffrey L. Greif & Rebecca L. Hegar The Presentation of Stepfamilies in Marriage and FamilyTextbooks: A Reexamination Marilyn Coleman, Lawrence H. Ganong, & Chanel Goodwin An Evaluation of a Newsletter Intervention for Divorced Mothers Robert Hughes, Jr., Charles D. Clark, Patti Schaefer- Hernan, & Elaine S. Good The Relative Stability of Remarriages: A Cohort Approach using Vital Statistics Sally Cuningham Clarke & Barbara Foley Wilson Fearing Fat: A Literature Review of Family Systems Understandings and Treatments of Anorexia and Bulimia Kyle D. Killian Women in the Middle: A Myth in the Making? Donald E. Stull, Karen Bowman, & Virginia Smerglia Enlightenment for Emancipation: A Critical Theory of Self- Formation Carol A. Morgaine Home Visitor Characteristics, Training, and Supervision: Results of a National Survey Barbara Hanna Wasik & Richard N. Roberts Black Adolescent Females: A Comparison of Early Versus Late Coital Initiators Velma McBride Murry

BOOK REVIEWS

JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY Table of Contents for May 1994 kindly supplied by Editor Marilyn Coleman (For details of these papers and addresses of authors, please contact Marilyn Coleman, Dept of Hum Dev and Fam Studies, Univ of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia MO 65211, USA)

An examination and evaluation of recent changes in divorce laws in five western countries: The critical role of values Fine & Fine

DIVORCE Patterns of relitigation in the postdivorce family Koel, Clark, Straus, Whitney, & Hauser Adult children's divorce and intergenerational relationships Spitze, Logan, Deane, & Zerger Impact of childhood family disruption on young adults' relationships with parents Aquilino The impact of mothers' parenting , involvement by nonresidential fathers, and parental conflict on the adjustment of adolescent children Simons, Whitbeck, Beaman, & Conger

PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS Regional differences in attitudes toward corporal punishment Flynn Impact of maternal drug use and life experiences on preadolescent children born to teenage mothers Kandel, Rosenbaum, & Chen Agreement between parent and child reports on parental behaviors Tein, Roosa, & Michaels

ADOLESCENCE Cultural, family, and personal contexts of parent-adolescent conflict Barber Contextual effects on the sexual behavior of adolescent women Billy, Brewster, & Grady Effects of family environment and parent-child relationships on school adjustment during the transition to early adolescence DuBois, Eitel, & Felner

WORK AND FAMILY Marital status and the duration of joblessness among white men Teachman, Call, & Carver Children and the timing of women's paid work after childbirth: A further specification of the relationship Joesch

OF GENERAL INTEREST Does neighborhood and family poverty affect mothers' parenting, mental health, and social support? Klebanov, Brooks- Gunn, & Duncan Disability in the family: The effects on children's well-being LeClere & Kowalewski Abusive drinking in young adults: Personality type and family role as moderators of family-of-origin influences Fischer & Wampler Life course antecedents of premarital conception in Great Britain Russell Canadian adoption statistics: 1981-1990 Sobol & Daly

FEEDBACK Maternal employment experiences and children's behavior: A reanalysis and comment Otto & Atkinson Maternal employment experiences affect children's behavior via mood, cognitive difficulties, and parenting behavior: A reply to Otto and Atkinson MacEwen & Barling

BOOK REVIEWS There will be approximately 8 book reviews as well including reviews of the Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods: A Contextual Approach. Jetse Sprey, Maxine Atkinson, & Mark Fine each reviewed a section of it.

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Special Issue

Different Paths, Different Voices: Rethinking the Development of Families over the Life Course

The theme of the special issue, "Different Paths, Different Voices", refers to the need to examine the diverse roads that families travel through the life course and the different ways they describe their experiences. Society has vastly changed since key theoretical perspectives were first advanced. Little is known about the relevance of these theoretical formulations to families who differ in terms of structure, ethnicity, or social class. The objective of the special issue is to expand the traditional focus on family adaptation to life transitions by exploring issues of cultural diversity, multiple family forms, and contextual variables. In addition to better representing the experiences of present day families, a major goal of the special issue is to inform the refinement of existing theories and the development of new theoretical models.

We encourage submissions that focus on issues of ethnicity, social class, gender or sexual orientation, or consider community, neighborhood or social context or examine aspects of kinship structure in describing family adaptation at various stages of the life course. Of most interest are studies that give voice to families not typically considered by researchers and in ways that recognize adaptive coping and strengths, and do not simply document deficits. Papers should contain critical discussions of existing research and theory, and should provide specific suggestions for future research and theory development. The relevant types of critical transitions appropriate for the issue include, but are not limited to, transitions related to marriage, parenthood, divorce, single parenthood, shared custody, and remarriage. Articles need not be wedded to a particular academic discipline or set of research methods; in fact, we desire to collect papers that use a variety of methods of data collection and analysis.

Authors are referred to unbound copies of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships for instructions for preparing manuscripts. Four copies of the manuscript should be submitted by August 30, 1994 to either of the issue editors:

Catherine H. Stein, Ph.D. Laurie Kramer, Ph.D. Dept. of Psychology Human Development & Family Studies Bowling Green State University University of Illinois Bowling Green 1105 W. Nevada OH 43403-0228, USA Urbana, IL 61801, USA

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INTERNATIONAL NETWORK NEWSLETTER NUMBER 28 SEPTEMBER 1994 Compiled and edited by Steve Duck, who is also responsible for the typing errors ======

**FINAL NOTICE THAT IT IS TIME TO RENEW** **MEMBERSHIP. DISCOUNTED RATES APPLY UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30TH** **1994 WHEN MEMBERSHIP EXPIRES. RENEWAL FORM ENCLOSED** **WITH THIS MAILING. AFTER SEPT 30TH RATES GO UP **********

ABSTRACT Conference site and dates announced for 1996 conference ... reminder to submit submissions for 1995 conference (Deadline November 15, 1994) ... good news about expansion of JSPR ... Submit nominations for Annual Dissertation Award, Berscheid-Hatfield Award and Gerald R. Miller Award.

PRELIMINARY announcement for the annual CONFERENCE in 1996 The 1996 INPR CONFERENCE will be held on the campus of the University of Washington, Seattle on June 28th - July 2nd, 1996. The chair of the local organizing committee is Barbara Sarason. The University of Washington is an outstanding center for the study of relationships with such stellar faculty as John Gottman, Neil Jacobson, Barbara and Irwin Sarason, Pepper Schwartz, and many others....Seattle is a wonderful city, rated one of the most liveable cities and a great place to be at that time of year. Also members will know that the Network makes special efforts to accommodate families at its conferences and as you think ahead to this conference you might like to note that the dates have been chosen to make it possible for you to enjoy Seattle and extend your stay for the 4th July holiday in the area.

REMINDER ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN 1995 The 1995 Conference will take place June 1 - June 5, 1995 on the campus of The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Invited Speakers include Graham Allan, University of Southampton, UK, David Buss, University of Michigan, USA, Edward Deci, University of Rochester, USA, Rom Harre, Oxford University, UK, Sandra Metts, Illinois State University, USA. Conference Organizers: Constance Pilkington, Lee Kirkpatrick, & John Nezlek. The campus is located adjacent to the Colonial Williamsburg historical area, and within a short drive of other important historical sites in Yorktown and Jamestown. Richmond and Norfolk are each less than an hour away. Inexpensive dormitory housing will be available on campus along with dining facilities. Accommodations at nearby hotels will also be available (but be advised that hotel space is a bit pricey during tourist season in Williamsburg). A variety of restaurants and bars, including several historic taverns in Colonial Williamsburg, are within walking distance of campus. Bring the family and make a vacation out of it! For more information contact the Williamsburg Three by e- mail at [email protected]. Snail-mail can be addressed to any of them at Department of Psychology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 23187-8795. Telephone inquiries should be directed to Connie at 804-221-3898. Deadline for receipt of submissions will be November 15, 1994.

WILLIAMSBURG CONFERENCE: CALL FOR PAPER READERS/REVIEWERS If you would like to be on the panel that reviews submissions for the 1995 conference then please let the Williamsburg Three know about you willingness. It counts on your vita as professional service and would involve reading the submissions and rating them for acceptance/rejection. Contact The Williamsburg Three.

NETWORK'S ANNUAL DISSERTATION AWARD: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Network has created an Annual Dissertation Award, as you will know, dating back to 1987. On the recommendation of a past committee on the Dissertation Award, the award for dissertations completed in 1993 (defended by December 31st 1993) will be now be made, and judgements will be made, in the first instance, on the basis of a single-authored paper (either published or unpublished) derived from the dissertation. Submit nominations (or self nominations) which include the paper to be evaluated, to reach Steve Duck by November 30th 1994.

NETWORK'S BERSCHEID-HATFIELD AWARD AND GERALD R. MILLER AWARD: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Berscheid Hatfield Award for Distinguished Scholarship: Nominations of candidates "in mid-career" are due by October 14th 1994; Vitas of nominees will be requested Gerald R. Miller Award for Early Career Achievement: Nominations of candidates "in early career" are also due by October 14th; Vitas of nominees will be requested and the committee will want a representative paper of the best work of each candidate in addition to the vita. In both cases submit nominations to Steve Duck in the first instance.

BOOKS BY NETWORK MEMBERS Peter M. NARDI, Davis Sanders & Judd Marmor (1994) Growing up before Stonewall: Life stories of some gay men. Routledge. Julia T. WOOD (1994) Relational Communication: Continuity and change in personal relationships. Wadsworth.

NEWS OF NETWORK MEMBERS Bob HANSSON's and Bruce Carpenter's (1994) book Relationships in Old Age (Guilford) was recently selected as an alternate selection by the Behavioral Science Book Club. Congratulations! Diane HOLMBERG has successfully defended her dissertation and has a new job, a new baby, and a new house in to the bargain! John T. HOLMES has been appointed an Associate Editor of JPSP. Bill ICKES' email has been changed to [email protected] Mark KNAPP has been awarded the Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award at the University of Texas at Austin. Rody MILLER's email has been changed to [email protected] (the "edu" bit is new) Barbara MONTGOMERY's email has been changed to [email protected] Ann WEBER's e-mail has been subtly changed from [email protected] to [email protected]

NETWORK MEMBERS ON THE MOVE --- ONWARDS AND UPWARDS Leslie BAXTER now has moved to the University of Iowa and her new email is [email protected] Joel BENNETT is moving to 301 No Joe Wilson Road APT 1328 Cedar Hill, TX 75104. Nancy BURRELL has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Colleen CAREY has moved to 5285 Marian Drive, Lyndhurst, OH 44124. Mark A. FINE has accepted the position of Chair of the Dept of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. New email is [email protected] (that's mizzou[one]). Lyle J. FLINT has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Ball State University. Donna HENDERSON-KING is moving to the University of Michigan Women's Studies Program, 234 West Engineering, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. Don O'MEARA is making the transition from faculty member to first Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Cincinnati-Raymond Walters College. Connie MEINHOLDT has taken a position as Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Missouri-Rolla where she will have three colleagues from the Network. Jim QUERY has been appointed Assistant Professor of Communication at Loyola University in Chicago Lisa ROGHAAR has been appointed to an Assistant Professor position at Emerson College in Boston. Susan SILTANEN has been appointed Director of Women's Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi Sally VOGL BAUER has successfully defended her dissertation at the University of Kentucky and has also accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor at Cleveland State University Steve WILSON has been appointed Associate Professor of Communication at Northern Illinois University Paul T. P. WONG is moving to become Director of the Graduate Counselling Program at Trinity Western University and at the same time to do graduate teaching at the Dept of Counselling Psychology at UBC.

NETWORK MEMBERS SEEKING HELP Art ARON is looking for a situation in which there is an intense rivalry--such as between two colleges or two high schools, or between two fraternities--where it would be possible for him to give short questionnaires, particularly at a time when the rivalry is especially salient (such as before a "big game") (The research focus is on ingroup-outgroup friendships.) Please contact Art Aron. Email [email protected]. Phone 516-632-7707. [Yes, I know he moved to New York, but the email address is still the one listed]

GRANTS WON BY MEMBERS Beverley FEHR has been awarded a grant of C$69129 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for work on "Development and validation of an interaction-prototype model of marital expectations"

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS TO INCREASE IN SIZE As from Issue 12i (February 1995) JSPR will increase to Royal Size (how fitting). Royal size is a size of paper/binding that is about an extra half inch all round the present edges and amounts to a further ten percent increase in the amount of space available for publishing papers. You are expecting the next sentence to announce a price increase, but in fact it does not. Prices will stay the same. You will just notice the Journal continuing to get even more hefty and full of goodness.

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS NEW POLICY ON SEX AND GENDER As from Issue 12i JSPR will be adopting a policy on the use of the terms "sex" and "gender". The word "sex" (as in "sex differences") will be regarded as used appropriately when it refers to the biological equipment that people possess. Thus if an investigator recorded, or had subjects/participants record, whether reports are from men/boys or girls/women, then the term "sex difference" may be used to describe differences between the two groups. The term "gender" (and "gender difference") is appropriate in at least two instances. First, if researchers measured psychological sex (the term preferred to "sex role"), then gender was studied, although researchers should note that some older scales are widely disparaged as so seriously out of date that validity is highly questionable. Second, the term "gender" is probably appropriate when discussing social expectations and also behaviors that can be presumed to result from socialization into masculine and feminine identities. For an excellent book on the topic see Wood, J. T. (1994) Gendered Lives: Communication, Gender and Culture Wadsworth.

REMINDER ABOUT SPECIAL DEAL FOR NETWORK MEMBERS AND THEIR LIBRARIES IN RESPECT OF JSPR As announced earlier in the year, not only has SAGE extended its offer to Network members that they may buy personal copies of JSPR at a 40% discount in order to complete their collection of back issues, but members' libraries are entitled to the same huge discount off the library rate. No-one else but Network members get this deal. To get the library deal, you must have your librarian contact SAGE in the UK directly and further information about that is available from Steve Duck. At a time when libraries are finding it hard to service our scholarly needs, this is a real bonus for them and their strapped budgets. If you use JSPR for your classes then you may want to draw this notice to the librarian's attention. Don't forget that JSPR is now routinely abstracted in large numbers of places and your librarian may want to see that in order to check the stature of JSPR in his or her own terms (the list of data is on the verso of the contents page of each unbound issue. Show the librarian that)

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT The Department of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa seeks a promising teacher-scholar of persuasion, who uses social scientific methods, broadly construed, and who preferably has a Ph.D. in hand, for a tenure track appointment, commencing August 1995. The successful candidate will have an established line of research on "language-in-use" to construct/shape the human experience, preferably in interpersonal or group settings. Examples include, but are not limited to, dispute management (bargaining, mediation, and negotiation); intercultural negotiation; conflict; identity management and deception detection; interpersonal political communication; ethnography of speaking; or health communication. The successful candidate will be required to teach persuasion theory and research, but will also be encouraged to teach other specializations. The successful candidate will not only fill gaps in our curriculum but will demonstrate constructive overlaps with other work presently carried out in the Dept. Evidence of teaching and scholarly abilities and of potential to direct graduate research is required. The Dept expects to fill this position at the Assistant Professor level, although outstanding candidates at all ranks will be considered, and salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications. The search will begin immediately and continue until a suitable applicant is appointed. The University of Iowa is an AA/EO employer. Women and members of minority groups are encouraged to apply.

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENT: CONFERENCE, STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION Here is an announcement of a conference to be held at Ohio State University in the fall and a call for abstracts from students interested in presenting their research in a poster session. If you would like further information please contact Suzanne Bartle [[email protected]] or Andrew Schwebel [[email protected]]. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS and announcement of Student Research Competition MIDWEST CONFERENCE ON DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE at The Ohio State University October 13 and 14, 1994 with Andrew Cherlin, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University Kay Pasley, Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Greensboro Student Poster Session with Research Prize for Research on Divorce and Remarriage First Prize: $100.00 Second Prize: $50.00 To Enter: Send a one-page, double-spaced abstract summarizing the purpose of the research, methods and analyses used, and results. Send to: Suzanne Bartle, Ph.D., Family Relations and Human Development, 315 Campbell Hall, 1787 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210 Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope to be notified of receipt of abstract. Rules for Proposal Submission and Acceptance: 1. Competition open to currently registered students. Previous students/ recent graduates are invited to submit abstracts for the poster session bu t are not eligible for award. 2. Posters will be judged for awards October 14th. 3. Abstracts postmarked by August 20 will be notified of acceptance by September 6. Abstracts postmarked by September 15 will be notified of acceptance by September 30. Conference Sponsored by: The Interdisciplinary Research Seminar on Divorce and Remarriage, Office of Research, Department of Sociology, and the College of Human Ecology Committee for The International Year of the Family

NEW NETWORK MEMBERS We welcome the following list of new members who have joined us since April: Jens ASENDORPF, Diane BERRY, Glyn M. COLLIS, Carol A. CORTEZ, Horacio GONZALEZ, Martin GLACHAN, Laura GREEN, Cherie HOWK, Sandy JAP, Susan M. JOHNSON, Michelle MILLER, Wade C. ROWATT, Stanley W. SADAVA, Barry SPINNER

...who have indicated the following interests Jens ASENDORPF, Daily logs of relationship-relevant interaction qualities Diane BERRY, Effects of nonverbal behavior, appearance, expressiveness & communication style on daily interaction patterns, dyadic interaction, etc; Accuracy in social perception; relation of language use to person perception, and emotion. Development of social perception and nonverbal expressiveness. Glyn M. COLLIS, Applying models of interpersonal relationships to person-pet relationships, with particular reference to support as an explanation of the health advantages of pet ownership. Carol A. CORTEZ, Refining a measure of parasocial relationships Martin GLACHAN, Inter-Generational Patterns in Relationships and Specifically with parenting practices. Horacio GONZALEZ, Survey the characteristics of implicit theories of reasoning about communication in inter- organizational relations. Laura GREEN, Social networks and indirect aggression. Cherie HOWK, Doing pilot work on defining and describing males perception of relationship (intimate) and roles. Sandy JAP, Much of my current work examines relationship types, long-term relationship dynamics, & disengagement process. Susan M. JOHNSON, Marital therapy - process and outcome - predictors of success in emotionally focused M.T. - Intimacy interventions Wade C. ROWATT, Other Monitoring Scale, Stanley W. SADAVA, Longitudinal research on substance abuse and health problems in context of the third decade developmental issues of relationships and career. Barry SPINNER, Relationship of attachment style, social support & loneliness. The consistency of attachment across the lifespan and in different relationship domains.

...and who use the following methods Jens ASENDORPF, Behavioral observation in lab & preschool, network interview, Q-Sort Diane BERRY, Rochester Interaction Record for diary studies of social interaction; Text analysis program (LIW) Glyn M. COLLIS, A questionnaire designed to elicit judgement of the relative provision of elements of social support Martin GLACHAN, The coping strategy indicator (Amiknan, 1990): Collins and read about attachment scale (1990) Laura GREEN, Social Network Questionnaires Sandy JAP, Primarily surveys, simultaneous equation modeling techniques, occasionally qualitative technique Susan M. JOHNSON, Dyadic Adjustment Scale/Miller Social Intimacy Scale/Hazan Shaver Attachment Measure Wade C. ROWATT, Self-monitoring Scale, NEO-PI, Religious Orientation Inventory Stanley W. SADAVA, UCLA Loneliness, Sarason Social Support, Attachment Style (Simpson) Barry SPINNER, SELSA (social & emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults); Various Attachment scales

...and who have published the following works Jens ASENDORPF, Asendorpf, J. (1994). Traits and relationship status. Child Development. Asendorpf, J., & Rubin (Eds) (1993). Social Withdrawal. Erlbaum. Asendorpf, J. (1989). Shyness as a final common pathway. JPSP, 57, 481-492." Diane BERRY, Berry, D.S. & Pennebaker, J.W. (1993), Nonverbal and verbal expression of emotion and health. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 59, 11-19 Berry, D.S. & Finch Wero, J.L. (1993) Accuracy in face perception: A view from ecological psychology. Journal of Personality, 61, 497-520 Berry, D.S., & Misovich, S.J. (1994) Methodological approaches to the study of social event perception. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20, 139-152 Martin GLACHAN, Power: A dimension of Family Abuse: Early child development and Care, 60, 20-31 (1990) Child Abuse: A Social and Cultural Phenomenon: Early Child Development and Care, 74, 95-102, (1991) Children's Understanding of Employment, Unemployment and Pay, Children and Society, 6, 225-237 (1992) Horacio GONZALEZ, Language and Border Situations, In: H. Polukinhorn, R. Reyes, G. Trujillo (Eds) Open Sign: Language and Society on the US Mexico Border. (1993) Psychology of System-User Interfaces, Revista Intercontinental of psicologia Y Educacion, 1993, 1, 2, 6, pps 35-62 Speech Acts: Expressions of Potential Possibility, Revista Del Departmento of Psicologia, Univ. (Beisoamericana, 1991, 4, 1, 13-23 Laura GREEN, Halberstadt, A. & Green, L. (1993) Social attention and placation theories of blushing. Motivation & emotion, 17, p.p. 53-64. Richardson, D., Green, L. & Lago, T. (in preparation.) The relationship between indirect aggression and social network density. Green, L.& Solano, C.(in preparation) Perceptions of interrupters and interruptees: The effects of type of interruption. Sandy JAP, 1992-'Evolving Relationships of Retailers & Manufacturers', Conference summary Marketing Science Institute, 92-113 1993-'An Examination of the Effects of Multiple Brand Extensions on the Brand Concept,' in Advances in Consumer Research, Leigh McAlister & Michaell. Rothschild, Eds, 20, 607-611 1994-'Building Partnering Relationships,' in Selling: Building Partnerships, Barton A. Weitz, Steve Castleberry, & Jeff Tanner, Second Edition (in press), Richard Irwin, NC., Chapter 2 Susan M. JOHNSON, Danoeveau & Johnson, 1994. Facilitating Intimacy. J of Marital Family Therapy, 20, 17-33. Johnson & Greenberg (Eds) (1994). The heart of the matter/Emotion in Marital Therapy. Johnson (1994). The emotionally focused approach to problems in adult attachment. In Jacobson & Burman (Eds), Clinical Handbook of Marital Theory Stanley W. SADAVA, Sadava, S.W., & Pak. A.W. (in press). Problem drinking and social relationships during the third decade of life. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. Alcock, J.E., Carment, D.W., and Sadava, S.W. (1994). A textbook of social psychology (Third Edition). Scarborough: Prentice-Hall. Sadava, S.W., & Mastejcic, C. (1987). Generalized and specific loneliness in early marriage. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 19, 56-66. Barry SPINNER, D. Tommaso, E & Spinner, B (1993) The Development and Initial Validation of the Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults. Personality & Individual Differences, 14, 1, 127-134 ======

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Issue 11iv, November 1994

JUDY-ANNE CRAIG, RICHARD KOESTNER, DAVID C. ZUROFF: Implicit and self-attributed intimacy motivation. This study examined relations among implicit intimacy motivation (nInt), self-attributed intimacy motivation (sanInt), and social interaction variables. nInt was measured by thematic analysis of imaginative story content, whereas sanInt was measured with a self-report questionnaire adapted from the Jackson Personality Research Form. Forty university students kept a daily record of their social interactions for a 1-week period. The results indicated that nInt and sanInt were not significantly related to self-disclosure, the two types of intimacy motivation seemed to be particularly responsive to different environmental cues in social interaction for self-disclosure. These results are consistent with research on the implicit and self-attributed measures of other social motives. Judy-Anne Craig, Psychology Department, McGill University, 1205 Dr. Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1B1, CANADA.

DONNA H. HENDERSON-KING & JOSEPH VEROFF: Sexual satisfaction and marital well-being in the first year of marriage. We consider the importance of sexual satisfaction in the first years of marriage. First, we examine how husbands' and wives' feelings of affirmation and tension in their marriage relate to levels of sexual satisfaction. Further, we explore the relationship between sexual satisfaction and dimensions of marital well-being: competence, control, equity and happiness. Data from a longitudinal study of Black and White couples were analyzed separately by race and gender. In both the first and third years of marriage, feelings of affirmation and tension were associated with sexual satisfaction for all race and gender groups. Sexual satisfaction was related to several dimensions of marital well being, though not always in the expected direction, and the patterns differed across race and gender groups. Sexual satisfaction is at least as important to wives as to husbands, but it is important to conduct separate analyses for race and gender groups. Donna Henderson-King, Department of Psychology, Loyola University of Chicago, 6525 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL 60626, USA.

LEANNE K. LAMKE, DONNA SOLLIE, ROBIN G. DURBIN & JACKI A. FITZPATRICK: Masculinity, femininity and relationship satisfaction: The mediating role of interpersonal competence. The purpose of this study was to examine more fully the relationship between masculinity, femininity, and satisfaction among dating couples. A multivariate causal model was developed and tested to assess Ickes' (1985) conceptual model of gender-role influences on relationship satisfaction. Dating couples (n= 174) completed the Personal Attributes Questionnaire, the Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire, and the Relationship Scale. Results indicated that for both males and females, relationship satisfaction was related to their own expressive competence and to perceptions of their partner as feminine. Also, levels of expressive competence mediated the relationship between self-perceptions of femininity and satisfaction. For females, perceptions of partner's femininity were predicted by male's and female's self- perceived femininity. For males, perceptions of partner's femininity were predicted by female's self-perceived femininity and male's self-perceived masculinity. Discussion focuses on the implications of these findings not only for the specific model of gender-role influences in dyadic interactions, but also for more broadly conceived theories of relationship development. Leanne K. Lamke, Department of Family and Child Development, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.

PAMELA A. GELLER & STEVAN E. HOBFOLL: Gender differences in job stress, tedium, and social support in the workplace. The amount of tedium, job stress, and home and work social support, were compared for men and women employed by four northeast Ohio employers. The differential effects of each source of support (i.e., supervisor, co-worker, and partner) on tedium and job stress also were assessed. A sample of 116 individuals (61 males and 55 females), participated. Women and men reported similar amounts of job stress and similar amounts of work support. As predicted, women reported the experience of more tedium than men, and men reported the receipt of more household assistance than women. Also as predicted, workplace support was found to be more effective for men than for women. The data revealed that for men, household assistance was related to lower tedium, but for women, household assistance was related to greater tedium. The differential influence of home and work support for men and women was discussed. Stevan Hobfoll, Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242-0001, USA.

CHERYL-JEAN CHAN & GAYLA MARGOLIN: The relationship between dual-earner couples' daily work mood and home affect. This study explored the spillover and crossover paradigms as explanations for associations between work mood and affect in the home setting. Data from two consecutive work days for 59 dual-earner couples provided evidence for both work-to-home and home-to-work effects. The spillover hypothesis was supported primarily in the effect of work fatigue on later moods at home and the effect of positive home affects on subsequent work moods. The crossover hypothesis was seen in the effect of wives' negative work mood and work fatigue on husbands' reactions at home and spouses' home affect on partners' subsequent work mood. Work-home linkages and gender roles are discussed. CJ Chan, Forest Institute of Professional Psychology, 845 22nd Ave., Honolulu, HI 96816, USA.

JEAN E. RHODES, LORI EBERT & ADENA B. MEYERS: Social support, relationship problems and the psychological functioning. Although extended social networks are considered to be an extremely important resource in the African American community, the potentially negative aspects of these networks have not been systematically examined. The influence of the helpful and problematic aspects of young African American mothers' social relationships was assessed in this study. Problems in relationships were negatively related to the psychological functioning of the young women. These results were evidenced with overall support and within various subgroups of providers. In addition, significant interactions between relationship problems and economic strain were found. Whereas past theory and research have emphasized the stress buffering effects of social support, these findings point to the stress potentiating effects of relationship problems for young African American mothers. Jean E. Rhodes, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, 603 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USA.

ANAT SHER & OFRA MAYSELESS: Mothers' attachment with spouse and parenting in the first year. This study examines the links between mother-spouse attachment dimensions and early parenting experiences. The sample consisted of 118 mothers who take part in a longitudinal investigation of child development. When their infants were 9-month-old, mothers completed an attachment questionnaire and reported on maternal separation anxiety and on their attitudes toward developmental and socialization goals which they set for their child. It was found that the assignment of limited developmental goals was characteristic of mothers who fear being abandoned by their spouse. Contrary to expectations, mothers who fear close and dependent relationships reported higher levels of maternal separation anxiety and tended to stay home and care for their baby. The results are discussed in terms of a differential- modular versus a similarity model of relationships. Anat Scher, School of Education, University of Haifa, Haifa, 31905, ISRAEL.

ALAN L. SILLARS, ANNETTE L. FOLWELL, KRISANN C. HILL, BOBBIN K. MAKI, ANTHONY P. HURST & ROSEMARY A. CASANO: Marital communication and the persistence of misunderstanding. This research examined spouses' understanding of their partners and the relation of understanding to the amount of communication in marriage. The results showed that spouses overestimated agreement with their partners, therefore, understanding scores were low after response similarity (i.e., agreement) was factored out. Reported communication had a complex relation to understanding. Communication had a slight positive association with wives' understanding of husbands' instrumental perceptions and a negative association with wives' understanding of companionate perceptions. Communication was not associated with husbands' understanding scores. The results partly supported previous research in which communication had a stronger relation to understanding of instrumental perceptions than to understanding of abstract, relational (i.e., companionate) perceptions. Alan L. Sillars, Department of Communication Studies, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA.

RAND J. GRUEN, MARYA GWADZ & DIANA MORROBEL: Support, criticism, emotion, and depressive symptoms: Gender differences in the stress-depression relationship. It has been suggested that the level of support and criticism provided by significant others is associated with subjects' level of depressive symptoms. The present study was designed with two goals in mind: 1) to examine the relationship between partners' level of support and criticism during a conflict resolution task, and subjects' emotional response, and their level of depressive symptoms. Subjects consisted of 34 community residing couples. Levels of emotional support provided by both males and females were significantly related to the extent to which both partners felt pleased and happy. The emotional response of males was not significantly related to their level of symptoms. In contrast, the emotional response of females was significantly related to their level of depressive symptoms. Our findings provide preliminary support for a theoretical model in which emotional support affects the emotional response of female partners, which in turn, affects their level of depressive symptomatology. Rand J. Gruen, 6 Washington Place, Room 460, Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA. ======

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Issue 12i, February 1995 YUAN-HUEI W. LIN & CARYL E. RUSBULT: Commitment to dating relationships and cross-sex friendships in America and China. Caryl Rusbult, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3270, USA.

STEPHAN VAN DEN BROUCKE, WALTER VANDEREYCKEN, & HANS VERTOMMEN: Conflict management in married eating disorder patients: A controlled observational study. Stephan. VandenBroucke, Flemish Institute for Health Promotion, G. Schildknechtstraat 9, B-1020 Brussels, Belgium

JANICE M. THOMPSON, VALERIE WHIFFEN & MICHELLE D. BLAIN: Depressive symptoms, sex, and perceptions of intimate relationships. Valerie Whiffen, School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont., Canada, KIN 6N5

LAURIE KRAMER & LISA A. BARON: Intergenerational linkages: How experiences with siblings relate to parenting of siblings. Laurie Kramer, Division of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Illinois, 1105 West Nevada St.. Urbana, IL 62801, USA INVITED ARTICLE JULIA T. WOOD: Feminist scholarship and the study of relationships. Julia T. Wood, Communication Studies, CB #3285, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA

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Brief articles ROBIN GOODWIN: The privatisation of the personal? II Intimate disclosure in modern-day Russia. Robin Goodwin, Dept. of Psychology, 8 Woodland Rd. Bristol B58 1TN, England.

ROBIN GOODWIN: The privatisation of the personal? II Attitudes to the family and child rearing values of modern- day Russia. Robin Goodwin, Dept. of Psychology, 8 Woodland Rd., Bristol B58 1TN, England.

ARTHUR ARON & LISA HENKENMEYER: Marital satisfaction and passionate love. Arthur Aron, Psychology Board, SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2500, USA

BRAM P. BUUNK: Gender, self-esteem, dependency, and extradyadic experience as related to jealousy responses. Bram P. Buunk, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, 9712 TS Groningen, Netherlands.

KAREN H. ROSEN & SANDRA M. STITH: Women terminating abusive dating relationships: A qualitative study. Karen H. Rosen and Sandra M. Stith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Northern Virginia Graduate Center, 2990 Telestar Court, Falls Church, VA, 22402, USA

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FAMILY RELATIONS Table of Contents for October 1994 kindly supplied by Editor Mark A. Fine (For details of these papers and addresses of authors, please contact Mark Fine, Dept of Human Development and Family Studies, Univ of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA [email protected]) FAMILY RELATIONS, October, 1994, Special Issue on Family Processes Family Processes and Child and Adolescent Development: An Introduction to the Special Issue Gene H. Brody

Adolescent Adjustment and Stepparenting Styles Margaret Crosbie-Burnett and Jean Giles-Sims

A Longitudinal Analysis of Sibling Relationships as Mediators of the Link Between Family Processes and Youths' Best Friendships J. Kelly McCoy, Gene H. Brody, and Zolinda Stoneman

Coparenting Within the Family System: Influences on Children's Development Sara Gable, Keith Crnic, and Jay Belsky

Hostile Interparental Conflict and Youth Maladjustment Cheryl Buehler, Ambika Krishnakumar, Christine Anthony, Sharon Tittsworth, and Gaye Stone

Dyadic Synchrony in Mother-Child Interactions: Relations With Children's Subsequent Kindergarten Adjustment Amanda W. Harrist, Gregory S. Pettit, Kenneth A. Dodge, and John E. Bates

Mother-Child Conversations about Peers: Contributions to Competence Robert D. Laird, Gregory S. Pettit, Jacquelyn Mize, E. Glyn Brown, and Eric Lindsey

Support and Advice from Married and Divorced Fathers: Linkages to Adolescent Adjustment Bonnie L. Barber

The Social Context of Child Maltreatment Diana Baumrind

Interparental Conflict and Parental Divorce: The Individual, Relative, and Interactive Effects on Adolescents Across Four Years Rex Forehand, Bryan Neighbors, Danielle Devine, and Lisa Armstead

Family Processes During Adolescence as Predictors of Parent-Young Adult Attitude Similarity: A Six-Year Longitudinal Analysis Gene H. Brody, Kris Moore, & Dana Glei

Conceptualizing the Divorce Process: Renegotiating Boundaries of Intimacy and Power in the Divorced Family System Robert E. Emery and Petter Dillon

Predicting Behavior Problems and Social Competence in Children of Adolescent Mothers Laura Hubbs-Tait, Joy D. Osofsky, Della M. Hann, & Anne McDonald Culp

Family System Characteristics, Parental Behaviors, and Adolescent Family Life Satisfaction Carolyn S. Henry

Love Attitudes: Family Similarities and Differences Jill Inman-Amos, Susan S. Hendrick, and Clyde Hendrick

Family Process Effects on Adolescent Males' Susceptibility to Antisocial Peer Pressure Mary Elizabeth Curtner Smith and Carol E. MacKinnon-Lewis

Fathering After Separation or Divorce: Which Dads Make a Difference? Phyllis Bronstein, Miriam Frankel Stoll, JoAnn Clauson, Craig L. Abrams, and Maria Briones

How Child Distress Influences the Effects of Discipline Responses to Toddler Misbehaviors Robert E. Larzelere and Jack A. Merenda

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REMINDER ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN 1995 The 1995 Conference will take place June 1 - June 5, 1995 on the campus of The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Invited Speakers include Graham Allan, University of Southampton, UK, David Buss, University of Michigan, USA, Edward Deci, University of Rochester, USA, Rom Harre, Oxford University, UK, Sandra Metts, Illinois State University, USA. Conference Organizers: Constance Pilkington, Lee Kirkpatrick, & John Nezlek. The campus is located adjacent to the Colonial Williamsburg historical area, and within a short drive of other important historical sites in Yorktown and Jamestown. Richmond and Norfolk are each less than an hour away. Inexpensive dormitory housing will be available on campus along with dining facilities. Accommodations at nearby hotels will also be available (but be advised that hotel space is a bit pricey during tourist season in Williamsburg). A variety of restaurants and bars, including several historic taverns in Colonial Williamsburg, are within walking distance of campus. Bring the family and make a vacation out of it! For more information contact the Williamsburg Three by e-mail at [email protected]. Snail-mail can be addressed to any of them at Department of Psychology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 23187-8795. Telephone inquiries should be directed to Connie at 804-221-3898.

BOOKS BY NETWORK MEMBERS I. Hobfoll & Stevan HOBFOLL (1994) Work won't love you back: The dual career couple's survival guide New York: W H Freeman William WILMOT (1994) Relational Communication McGraw-Hill:Hightown NJ

NEWS OF NETWORK MEMBERS Robert A. BROWN has a new email: [email protected] and a new FAX number: 301-314-9566 Rachel BERMAN was awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship valued at $11859 Dan CANARY has a new email at Penn State: [email protected] Eric DUBOW has a new email: [email protected] Larry FREY has been awarded an Outstanding Service to Students Award from the Lake Shore Student Government Association for 1993-1994. Elaine HATFIELD has been named to receive the Distinguished Scientist award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex. This is a lifetime achievement award. Richly deserved congratulations to Elaine for this great honor.

NETWORK MEMBERS ON THE MOVE --- ONWARDS AND UPWARDS Mary BANSKI has completed her dissertation and been promoted from the rank of Instructor to Assistant Professor at the University of Houston (Yippee!). Meredith BOMBAR has moved to 4 Coleman Ave, Elmira, NY 14905, just up the street. Robert A. (Bob) BROWN, a Network member on the faculty at the University of Maryland, is running for the Presidency of APA. He would be grateful for APA members' votes on the nomination ballot to be sent out in December and the #1 vote on the final ballot to be sent in May 1995! Larry FREY has been elected Chair of the Academic Council of the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago. Laura GUERRERO has moved to a position at the Dept of Speech Communication, Penn State University, 234 Sparks, University Park, PA 16802 [email protected] Diane HOLMBERG has taken a position at the Dept. of Psychology, Acadia University, Nova Scotia (902) 542- 2201x1226 [email protected] JoAnn MOONEY has moved to the Dept. of Psychology, Furman University, Greenville, SC 29613 (803-294-2220) mooney-joann/[email protected] FAX 803-294-2058 Allen OMOTO has been granted tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at the Dept. of Psychology, University of Kansas. Pamela C REGAN having successfully complete her dissertation on "The perceived impact of sexual desire on romantic love and romantic relationships" has moved to a new position as Assistant Professor at Albion College (312 Olin Hall, Dept. of Psychology, Albion, MI 49224) and acquired a new e-mail: [email protected] Lisa ROGHAAR has been appointed Assistant Professor at Emerson College in Boston Julia TORQUATI is now Assistant Professor and Director of the Ruth Staples Child Development Lab in the Dept. of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Kathy WERKING, who is in New Hampshire this year, has a new e-mail: [email protected] Bill WILMOT has been awarded the John Ruffato Prize by the University of Montana School of Business as the individual who has made the most significant contribution this year to the improvement of the quality of work life in Montana organizations. He was honored for his mediation work.

NETWORK MEMBERS SEEKING HELP Jens ASENDORPF would like to hear from anyone working on attachment to peers and parents, peers and social networks in undergraduates and is interested in collaborating with others on a NATO grant fostering international collaboration. Rachel BERMAN would like to hear from anyone working on power and intimacy. Kimberley HAUSE would like to hear from anyone working on extramarital affairs (that's what it said. I'm just copying it out) Linda MARSHALL would like to hear from members with experience of longitudinal interview studies or of relevant research on problem solving, vis a vis her grant on partner injury to women (see below) Michelle MILLER would like to get in touch with other members working on mother-daughter relationships, parent child compliance-gaining techniques or power/control issues in the parent child relationship. Erich SCHICKER is looking for other Network members who are working with women with miscarriages/abortions. If you are in touch with self-help groups at hospitals or at advice centers or if you are working on similar issues then please contact Erich, who is working on a questionnaire for the women and their partners to evaluate coping strategies, social support and grief reactions: [email protected] Irving TALLMAN would like to hear from anyone working on transition to marriage or who has data on just married couples.

GRANTS WON BY MEMBERS Jens ASENDORPF has begun a new project on the development of social relationships in undergraduates after receiving a grant of 120000 Deutschmarks from the German Research Foundation. Jamie COMSTOCK received a grant from the University of West Florida Summer Grants program to develop her work on teacher student relationships. Robin GOODWIN has received a Joseph Rowntree Foundation grant of £55000 for a project entitled "Social Support and Marital Well-Being in an Asian Community". The work will focus in Hindu couples living in Leicester in the UK. The Co-PI is Duncan Cramer. Michael HECHT is part of a consortium awarded a $400,000 grant from the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment for the PADRES Drug Treatment Program for Non-Incarcerated Youth (Catchy title!). Hecht will be conducting evaluation research under a $120,000 subcontract. Stevan HOBFOLL reports as follows "NIMH AIDS prevention among single inner city women, 5 years, $3 million". {Those who missed his presentation at the Network May Meeting as part of the panel on how to get grants, read and weep!} Linda MARSHALL has been awarded $900781 from the Center for Disease Control for a three year longitudinal study of partner injury to low income inner city women. CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS The University of Minnesota has established a Center for Research On Interpersonal Relationships involving faculty from 10 departments in five colleges of the University, including Network members Andrew COLLINS (Director), Patricia FRAZIER, Willard HARTUP, and Becky OMDAHL. Andrew Collins writes that others involved in setting up the Center, which sponsors research seminar and research development activities, are Ellen Berscheid, Larry Cummings, Harold Grotevant, Dean Hewes, Robert Leik, James Maddock, Geoffrey Maruyama, David Olson, Scott Poole, Mark Snyder, Alan Sroufe, Patricia Tomlinson and Marilyn Sime.

SEX DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES Network members are invited to submit papers or proposals for a book devoted to "Sex differences and similarities in communication behavior", edited by Dan Canary (Penn State University) and Kathryn Dindia (Univ. of Wisconsin- Milwaukee). The editors are interested in empirical examinations of sex differences AND/OR SIMILARITIES in face- to-face communication contexts. Theoretical papers are also invited. The objective of this anthology is to provide a balanced view on the issue of sex difference vs. similarities in communication, which is why we are interested in papers on sex similarities as well as differences. The target audience is upper division and graduate students in communication and related fields (e.g., social psychology, sociology). If you wish to have your work considered, please mail a manuscript (35 pages total) or a 500 word abstract that details a rationale and method, to either of the editors by May 1 1995 (The due date for accepted MSS is Aug. 1st 1995). Address materials and inquiries to either of the following: Dan Canary, Dept. of Speech Communication, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802-5201 (Ph: 814-863-0030) or Kathryn Dindia, Dept. of Communication , Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201 (Ph: 414-229-6676).

NEW NETWORK MEMBERS We welcome the following list of new members who have joined us since June. Membership has expanded by 287 since this time last year!! Jess K. ALBERTS, Dede ALONSO, Sofia AVGITIDOU, Angela BRANCO, Buffy CARPENTER, Raymond W. CHAN, David A. CICHOCKI, Kenneth N. CISSNA, Denise Haunani CLOVEN, Michael CRUZ, William DAILEY, Anthony DAIUTO, Lee DARLIN, Bella DePAULO, Karen K. DION, Kenneth L. DION, Stephen DRIGOTAS, Leila B. DUTTON, Brooke FEENEY, Toni FELICE, Maureen GAFFNEY, Jill A. GILBERTSON, Lindsay GROB, Christine HARRINGTON, Shelley D. KILPATRICK, S. Kelly KOPPERMAN, Steven J. KULICH, Gregory KURLAND, Arielle LEHMANN, Yi-Cheng LIN, Sonia MASCIUCH, Anne M. McGUIRE, April METZLER, Elizabeth MEZZACAPPA, Elizabeth NATALLE, Karen PASVEER, Teresa PATTERSON, Maria C.W. PEETERS, Ayala PINES, Glen E. RAY, Heidi M. REEDER, R. Jeffrey RINGER, Erin SAHLSTEIN, Catherine A. SANDERSON, Ruth SHARABANY, Reena SOMMER, William B. STILES, Marla TUCHINSKY, Minoru WADA, John V. WADE, S.J. WALKER, Rebecca WARNER, Allen WEINER, Adam ZUCKERMAN

...who have indicated the following interests Sofia AVGITIDOU, Characteristics and development of children's friendships in early schooling conducting cross- cultural and educational case studies. Angela BRANCO, Co-constructivist methodologies to study social interactions (adult-child, child-child interactions); cultural canalization of cooperation/competition among children. Raymond W. CHAN, Adult Attachment; Gay/Lesbian Relationships - Couples & Families; Children of Lesbian Families. David A. CICHOCKI, Writing a thesis involving strategies people use to maintain friendships. Kenneth N. CISSNA, Public and private dialogue. Denise Haunani CLOVEN, Developing a program of research examining the covert aspects of interpersonal conflict, the reasons for conflict repression, and the implications of repression for PRs. William DAILEY, Family Conflict; Communicating and Meaning. Anthony DAIUTO, Relationship typologies; individual psychopathology in intimate relationships; cognitive factors (attributions, standards, assumptions) in marriage. Bella DePAULO, Nonverbal communication and deception; sex differences in nonverbal communication and deception; the development of nonverbal and verbal communication in new friendships Karen K. DION, Cultural perspectives on close relationships; psychology of love; transition to parenthood; social psychology of physical attractiveness; correlates of attachment style Kenneth L. DION, Correlates of romantic love (both personality and cultural) and correlates of attachment style Stephen DRIGOTAS, Dependence in close relationships, perceptions of commitment; intimacy networks. Toni FELICE, Life-span attachment and relationship to successful aging. Attachment and stalking. Maureen GAFFNEY, Director of Clinical Psychology course TCD and have been a practicing clinician for over 20 years. I am just starting research on PR. Christine HARRINGTON, Interested in exploring communication in relationships and possibly exploring ACOA issues. Shelley D. KILPATRICK, Dating events influence uncertainty which influences amount of information se???? about partner and relationship. S. Kelly KOPPERMAN, The propensity to engage in perspective taking in marital conflict. Steven J. KULICH, Self-disclosure among Chinese and American best friends: Verbal and non-verbal dimensions of intimacy. Gregory KURLAND, Attachment in adults as related to relationship investment and/or attributions to rejection on first dates. Arielle LEHMANN, Doctorate will be about patterns of friendship and values. Yi-Cheng LIN, Cross-cultural comparison on social comparison processes. Sonia MASCIUCH, Development of the emotion of jealousy in young children. Elizabeth MEZZACAPPA, GP Cohesion, Compatibility of Astronaut crews. Elizabeth NATALLE, Current work examines positive communication patterns and outcomes in relational dissolution. Karen PASVEER, Silencing the self in relationship and incest survivors or trauma victims. Maria C.W. PEETERS, Social interactions and stressful events/Diary-methods/Social Support Ayala PINES, Jealousy, marriage burnout, balance between work and marriage, How we chose who to fall in love with. Glen E. RAY, Children as observers of peer conflict; dyadic relations between friends; aggression and victimization. Heidi M. REEDER, Love in cross-sex friendship vs. romantic relationships, miscommunication between men & women R. Jeffrey RINGER, Currently involved in collecting data on gay men's talk about their relationship. I'm interviewing gay couples in their homes. Catherine A. SANDERSON, Different goals that individuals may bring to bear in social and dating relationships and how those goals moderate responsiveness to experimental and daily life situations. Ruth SHARABANY, Attachment patterns of kibbutz-mothers raised in family-sleeping vs. peer communal sleeping and their children's adjustment. Reena SOMMER, Socio-demographic and individual risk factors in male and female perpetrated partner abuse. Marla TUCHINSKY, Interpersonal and interfirm relationships; how context affects relationships (specifically business relationships) Minoru WADA, Attitudes toward romantic love, friendship, social support, nonverbal communication. S.J. WALKER, Eco feminism and WICCA as they related to creation of a sense of community. Rebecca WARNER, Writing a book for Guilford on applications of spectral analysis to time series data. Continuing to examine how quantitative indexes of rhythm and coordination in social interactions are related to interpersonal judgments of rapport, responsiveness, etc. Adam ZUCKERMAN, Adjustment processes in couples facing a major stressful event.

...and who use the following methods Sofia AVGITIDOU, EThnographic: Observations, semi-structured interviews, quest, Emphasis on transulation and long-term obsevation in order to Angela BRANCO, Videotape/Observational Protocols, Raymond W. CHAN, Hazan & Shaver - Adult Attachment, David A. CICHOCKI, Interviewing using open ended questions, Denise Haunani CLOVEN, Self-report; Interaction Analysis; Quantitative Research Metho, Employ a two step self- report procedure for assessing represse William DAILEY, , FOCS - Family Other Conflict Scale. CPS - Conflict Permeabili Anthony DAIUTO, , Relationship Dimensions Profile: Currently being piloted, ass Bella DePAULO, Rochester Interaction Record, Buck's slide-viewing paradigm, B, Kenneth L. DION, Mainly measures of romantic love and attachment., Stephen DRIGOTAS, Diaries, Questionnaires, Video Taping of Interactions, Toni FELICE, Chiefly attachment and personality, Christine HARRINGTON, Marital Satisfaction Inventory, Shelley D. KILPATRICK, Commitment/Empathic Accuracy (Ickes Procedure)/Partner-Perspec, Uncertainty about commitment, Dating Events, Information Searc S. Kelly KOPPERMAN, RDI, Locke-Wallace, IRI, Steven J. KULICH, Jourard's Self-Disclosure Questionnaire, A questionnaire to non-verbal dimensions of self- disclosure Gregory KURLAND, , Scale: How believable are categories of attributions for first Yi-Cheng LIN, Rochester Interaction Record, Rochester Social Comparison Reco, April METZLER, Repertory Grids, Wrote a computer program for scoring Key Grids (Rating Type) Elizabeth MEZZACAPPA, Psycho Physiology, Elizabeth NATALLE, Analytic Induction, Content Analysis, Maria C.W. PEETERS, Daily event-recording methods/Questionnaires, Developed the Daily Interaction Record in Organizations (DIRO) Ayala PINES, Clinical Interview, Questionnaires, Jealousy Questionnaire and Marriage Burnout Questionnaires Glen E. RAY, Sociometric nominations and ratings and friendship nominations, Heidi M. REEDER, Human instrument; questionnaires, R. Jeffrey RINGER, Currently using qualitative analysis of open-ended interviewin, Catherine A. SANDERSON, Attachment scales, marital satisfaction (Spanier, 1976), PANAS, Relationship Goals Scale-13-item self-report quest on individu Ruth SHARABANY, Sharabany Intimacy Scale, Has been used with very minor changes with children, adolescen Reena SOMMER, Conflict Tactics Scale (Straus, 1979), William B. STILES, Verbal Response Modes Coding System, Minoru WADA, Nonverbal skill scale, Social Skill Scale, John V. WADE, Dynamical Systems; Computer Models; 'Mouse' Paradigm, Head-mounted Virtual Reality Device; Morphing S.J. WALKER, Narratives/Unstructured interviews, Rebecca WARNER, Watson & Tellegam; PANAS; Byrne Interpersonal Attraction Scale, Adam ZUCKERMAN, Relationship Quality, Social Support, Coping,

...and who have published the following works Sofia AVGITIDOU, Avgitidou, S. (1994). children learning about friendship in the contxt of an English reception classroom. In H. Foot (Ed), Group and interactive learning. Computational Mechanics Publications, Grea, Avgitidou, S. (1994). Children's friendships in early schooling: Cross-cultural and educational case studies. Education Section Review, Vol, 18, No. 2., Angela BRANCO, Banco & Valsiner (in press). Changing methodologies: A co-constructivist study of goal- orientations in social interaction. In G. Misra (Ed), Cultural construction of social cognition. Cambridge Un; Branco (1994). Cultural canalization and co-constructive processes in the emergence of convergent and divergent interactions. XII Congress of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Pamplona, Spain.; Fogel, A., & Branco, A. (in press). Metacommunication as a source of indeterminism in relationship development. In Fogel & Valsiner (Eds), Dynamics and indeterminism in developmental and social proc Kenneth N. CISSNA, Cissna, K.N., & Anderson, R. (1994). The 1957 Martin Buber-Carl Rogers Dialogue, as Dialogue. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 34 (1), 11-45; Anderson, R., Cissna, K.N., & Arnett, R.C. (Eds) (1994). The Reach of Dialogue: Confirmation, Voice, and Community. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press; Cissna, K.N. (Ed) (1994). Applied Communication in the 21st Century: The Report of the Tampa Conference on Applied Communication. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Denise Haunani CLOVEN, Cloven, D.H., & Roloff, M.E. (1994). Cloven & Roloff (1993). The chilling effect of aggressive potential on the expression of complaints in intimate relationships. Communication Monographs, 60, 199-219; Cloven & Roloff (1993). Sense-making activities and interpersonal conflict, II: The effects of communicative intentions on internal dialogues. Western Journal of Communication, 27, 309-329. Bella DePAULO, DePaulo, B.M. (1992). Nonverbal behavior and self-presentation. Psychological Bulletin, 111, 203- 243; Kenny, D.A., & DePaulo, b.M. (1993). Do we know how others view us? An empirical and theoretical account. Psychological Bulletin, 114, 145-161; DePaulo, B.M., Epstein, J.A., & Wyer, M.M. (1993). Sex differences in lying: How women and men deal with the dilemma of deceit. In M. Lewis & C. Saarni (Eds), Lying and deception in everyday life Karen K. DION, Dion, K.K., & Dion, K.L. (1993). Individualistic and collectivistic perspectives on gender and the cultural contxt of love and intimacy. J of Social Issues, 49, 53-69; Dion, K.L., & Dion, K.K. (1993). Gender and ethnocultural comparisons in styles of love. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 17, 463-473; Keelan, J.P.R., Dion, K.L., & Dion, K.K. (1994). Attachment style and heterosexual relationships among young adults: A short-term panel study. J of Social and Personal Relationships, 11, 201-214. Kenneth L. DION, Dion, K.K., & Dion, K.L. (1993). Individualistic and collectivistic perspectives on gender and the cultural contxt of love and intimacy. J of Social Issues, 49, 53-69; Dion, K.L., & Dion, K.K. (1993). Gender and ethnocultural comparisons in styles of love. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 17, 463-473; Keelan, J.P.R., Dion, K.L., & Dion, K.K. (1994). Attachment style and heterosexual relationships among young adults: A short-term panel study. J of Social and Personal Relationships, 11, 201-214. Stephen DRIGOTAS, Drigotas, S.M., & Rusbult, C.E. (1992). Should I stay or should I go. JPSP, 62, 62-87; Drigotas, S.M. (1993). Similarity revisited. British Journal of Soc. Psych, 32, 365-377; Gregory KURLAND, Kurland, etal (1994). Psychological factors affecting paper recycling by business. Environment and Behavior, 26 (4), 477-503., , Sonia MASCIUCH, Masciuch, S.W., & Kienapple, K. (in press). The emergence of jealousy in children four months to seven years of age. Journal of Social and Perosnal Relationships; Masciuch, S.W. (in press). The development of jealousy: A preliminary study. Exceptionality Education Canada; Masciuch, S.W., McRae, L., & Young, J. (1990). The Harter self-perception profile: Some normative and psychometric data. Psychological Reports, 67, 1299-1303. Anne M. McGUIRE, McGuire, A.M. (1994). Helping behaviors in the natural environment: Deimensions and correlates of helping. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 20, 45-56., , April METZLER, Neimeyer, G., & Metzler, A. (1994). Personal identity and memory: Strucutre and stricture in autobiographical recall. In Meisser & Fivush (Eds), The Remembering Self: Construction and Accuracy in, Metzler, G., Macnair, R., Metzler, A., & Courohaime-Beaver, K. (1991). Changing personal beliefs: The effects of forwarning intervention quality and cognitive complexity on counselling-relevent atti Spokane, A., & Metzler, A. (1993). Two stones in a single quarry? Counseling and Human Development, 25, 1-7. Maria C.W. PEETERS, Peeters, M.C.W. (1994). Supportive interactions and stressful events at work: An event- recording approach. Thesis, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Peeters, M.C.W., Buunk, A.P., & Schaufeli, W.B. (in press). Social interactions at work and perceived reciprocity: A micro-analytic approach. European Journal of Social Psychology; Buunk, A.P., & Peeters, M.C.W. (in press). Stress at work. Social Support and Companionship: Towards an event-re???? approach. Work and Stress. Ayala PINES, Pines, A. (1992). Romantic Jealousy. St. Martins Press., , Glen E. RAY, Dell, M.A., Cohen, R., Graesser, A.C., Duncan, M.K., Ray, G.E., & Crain, M. (1994). The form and function of speech act exchanges in children's dyadic interaction. Discourse Processes, 18, 199-139., Ayers, Cohen, R., & Ray, G.E. (1993). Examining the contexts of chidren's classroom behavior: The influence of teacher control. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 55, 163-176., Heidi M. REEDER, Motley, M., & Reeder, H. Unwanted escalation of sexual intimacy: Another instance of male/female miscommunication. Paper to be presented at SCA, November 1994; Reeder, H. (1994). Preserving relationships in a climate of honest disclosure. Paper presented at WSCA, February; Reeder, H., Mont'Ros-Mendoza, T., & Hecht, M. (1994). Factors facilitating the disclosure of sexual abuse by adolescents and children. Paper presented to WSCA, February. R. Jeffrey RINGER, Ringer, R.J. (Ed) (1994). Queer words queer images: Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality. NY: NYU Press., Ringer, R.J. (1994). Coming out in the classroom: Faculty disclosurs of sexuality. In R.J. Ringer (Ed), Queer Words Queer Images: Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality. NYU Press., Catherine A. SANDERSON, Jemmett, Sanderson & Miller (in press). Changes in psychological distress and HIV risk- assocaited behavior. In R.T. Croyle (Ed), Psychosocial Effects of Screening for Disease Prevention and Detection, Ruth SHARABANY, Sharabany, R. (1994). Continuities in the development of intimate friendships: Object relations, interpersonal, and attachment perspectives. In R. Erber & R. Gilmour (Eds) Theoretical frameworks fo; Sharabany, R. (1994). Intimate friendships scale: Conceptual underpinnings, psychometric properties and construct validity. JSPR, 11, 449-469., Reena SOMMER, Sommer, R., Barnes, & Murray (1992). Alcohol consumption, alcohol dependence, and personality and female perpetrated spouse abuse. Personality and individual differences, 13 (12) 1315-1323., Barnes, Greenwood, & Sommer (1991). Coutrship violence in a Canadian sample of male college students. Journal of Family Relationships, 40, 34-48., William B. STILES, Stiles, W.B., Shapiro, D.A., & Harper, H. (1994). Finding the way from process to outcome: Blind alleys and unmarked trails. In R.L. Russell (Ed), Reassessing psychotherapy research, 36-64. New York; Stiles, W.B. (1993). The process-outcome correlation problem and the uses of verbal interaction process coding. Southern Communication Journal, 58, 91-102; Stiles, W.B. (1993). Quality control in qualitative research. Clinical Psychology Review, 13, 593-618. Marla TUCHINSKY, Tuchinsky, Escales, Moore & Sheppard. Academy of Management Proceedings '94 'Beyond name, rank and function: Construals of relationships in business', Sheppard & Tuchinsky (in press). Interfirm relations. In Cummings & Staw (Eds), Research in OB. JAI Press., Minoru WADA, Wada, M. (1993). Same-sex friendship: Effects of sex and sex-role type. Research in Social Psychology, 8, 67-75; Wada, M. (1992). Effects of social supports on freshmen's psychological factors. Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology, 40, 386-393; Wada, M. (1991). A study of interpersonal competence. Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 31, 49-59. Rebecca WARNER, Warner, R.M., & Strowman, S. (in press). Cardiovascular reactivity and positive/negative affect during conversations. Journal of Behavioral Medicine; Warner, R.M. (1992). Sequential analysis of social interaction: Assessing internal versus social determinants of behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 51-60; Warner, R.M., (1992). Speaker, partner and observer evaluations of affect during social interaction as a function of interaction tempo. Journal of Languages and Social Psychology,11, 1-14. ======

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS ISSUE 12I, FEBRUARY 1995 *****FIRST ISSUE IN NEW ROYAL FORMAT*****

YUAN-HUEI W. LIN & CARYL E. RUSBULT: Commitment to dating relationships and cross-sex friendships in America and China. A cross-sectional survey study examined commitment processes in the dating relationships and cross-sex friendships of young adults residing in the United States or Taiwan. Feelings of commitment were stronger in relationships with greater satisfaction, poorer quality alternatives, greater investments size, and greater centrality of relationship. However there was little evidence that commitment was influenced by normative support for a relationship. The relationship between commitment and satisfaction was stronger for dating relationships than for friendships, as was the relationship between commitment and alternatives. Dispositions appeared to affect commitment primarily in indirect ways. For example, self-esteem, psychological femininity, and perspective- taking were associated with features of interdependence such as perceived alternative quality or willingness to invest, which in turn were related to feelings of commitment. Finally, Americans reported weaker commitment than would be expected given other features of their interdependence with partners. The results support and extend the generalizability of Rusbult's investment model. Caryl Rusbult, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3270, USA.

STEPHAN VAN DEN BROUCKE, WALTER VANDEREYCKEN, & HANS VERTOMMEN: Conflict management in married eating disorder patients: controlled observation study. Conflict management was studied in 21 eating disorder (ED) patients and their husbands, 21 maritally distressed (MD) and 21 nondistressed (ND) couples. On the Problem List (Hahlweg et al., 1980) ED couples reported significantly more conflict topics than ND couples, yet fewer than MD couples. The interaction during a conflict discussion was videotaped and the (verbal and nonverbal) components were rated according to KPI coding system (Hahlweg et al., 1984). Contradicting the prediction of an unequal dominance structure, the observed interactions appeared to be more symmetrical in ED couples than in both control groups. The former also showed less positive escalation than ND couples, and less negative escalation than MD ones, and a striking tendency to neutralize conflicts. The interaction pattern most typically encountered in ED couples was asymmetric negative, with one partner acting increasingly negative and the other counteracting the escalation. Stephan. VandenBroucke, Flemish Institute for Health Promotion, G. Schildknechtstraat 9, B-1020 Brussels, Belgium JANICE M. THOMPSON, VALERIE WHIFFEN & MICHELLE D. BLAIN: Depressive symptoms, sex, and perceptions of intimate relationships. Empirical evidence indicates that depression in one partner is negatively associated with marital variables, and suggests that the marital relationship may be critical to the course and outcome of the depressive episode. Two exploratory studies of intimate relationships addressed: (a) gender differences in dysphoric individuals' perceptions of themselves and their intimate partners, and (b) whether depressive symptomatology had differential effects on nondysphoric partners depending on the gender of the dysphoric partner. Study 1 examined 145 female and 99 male university students. No evidence was found for differences in the perceptions of dysphoric students. Dysphoric students perceived both themselves and their partners as behaving more coldly, and perceived their relationships to be less complementary, than did nondysphoric students. Study 2 examined 136 cohabiting heterosexual couples. No striking differences were found in the perceptions of dysphoric partners, although husband dysphoric and wife dysphoric couples showed subtle differences. The gender of the dysphoric person was also associated differentially with depressive symptoms and marital satisfaction in the partner. Implications for therapy with depressed couples and for future research are discussed. Valerie Whiffen, School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont., Canada, KIN 6N5

LAURIE KRAMER & LISA A. BARON: Intergenerational linkages: How experiences with siblings relate to parenting of siblings. The purpose of this research was to examine whether, and in which ways, parents' early experiences with siblings relate to the quality of sibling relationships achieved by their offspring. Naturalistic observations of children interacting with their siblings, and interviews with parents provided a data base for estimating the quality of sibling relations in two generations of 56 families. Results indicated that mothers who reported negative sibling histories were most likely to have children who interacted more positively with one another. This pattern was best explained by the maternal selection of child-rearing strategies, such as less differential treatment of siblings, reduced use of authoritarian strategies, and greater reliance on redirection techniques. Greater concerns among mothers reporting negative sibling histories about how conflict in the home may adversely sibling relationships was also associated with more positive interactions between offspring. Knowledge of parents' particular goals or expectations for the sibling relationship, or characteristics of the children themselves accounted for very little variance in sibling relationship quality among offspring. Results are discussed in reference to current Laurie Kramer, Division of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Illinois, 1105 West Nevada St.. Urbana, IL 62801, USA

INVITED ARTICLE JULIA T. WOOD: Feminist scholarship and the study of relationships. This article explores intersections between research on personal and social relationships, on the one hand, and feminist study on the other. Focused on the means and effects of social constructions of gender, feminist inquiry clarifies how gender affects interaction processes and participants' and researchers' interpretations of them. This essay outlines key facets of feminist scholarship and shows how they complement, extend, and revise research on relationships. Julia T. Wood, Communication Studies, CB #3285, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA

DON SHARPSTEEN The Effects of Relationship Threats and Self-Esteem Threats on the Likelihood of Romantic Jealousy Much of the psychological theory and research on romantic jealousy emphasizes the roles of threats to self-esteem and threats to the relationship (from a romantic rival) in generating jealous feelings. However, the causal effects of these threats on the occurrence of jealousy have not yet been examined. In the present study, subjects imagined themselves in four types of jealousy-provoking situations (relatively low and high threat to self-esteem crossed with relatively low and high threat to the relationship) and, in each one, estimated the likelihood that they would become jealous, angry, sad, and fearful, and that they would seek proximity to their partner. Results showed that changes in the likelihood of jealousy and its concomitant emotions were a function of changes in the intensity of both types of threats, as expected. However, proximity-seeking increased among men only when the relationship threat increased. Among women, the likelihood of seeking proximity increased (relative to the joint-low-threat condition) when either type of threat increased alone but not when both threats increased together. The relevance of these findings to recent formulations of jealousy processes from an attachment perspective and to previous research on jealousy and relationships is discussed. Don J. Sharpsteen, Psychology Department, University of Missouri at Rolla, Rolla, MO 65401, USA

Brief articles ROBIN GOODWIN: The privatization of the personal? I Intimate disclosure in modern-day Russia. The dramatic changes in the political and economic structures of Russian society have been widely documented and have focused interest on the interpersonal lives of Russian peoples. The two studies reported in this paper use the cultural theory of Mary Douglas to examine intimate disclosure amongst cohorts of students, entrepreneurs and manual workers. Structured questionnaire responses analysed at the individual level suggest that those who believe in rules disclose less than those who do not. Analysis at the occupational level revealed that manual workers found discussing the family problematic whilst entrepreneurs found discussing sex and love difficult. Some age and sex effects were also evident, with younger informants and female respondents more willing to disclose. The implications of these finding for the efficacy of cultural theory, and the future development of interpersonal life in Russia, are discussed. Robin Goodwin, Dept. of Psychology, 8 Woodland Rd. Bristol B58 1TN, England.

ROBIN GOODWIN & T. EMELYANOVA: The privatization of the personal? II Attitudes to the family and child rearing values of modern-day Russia. The recent and dramatic political and social events in the former Soviet Union have focused interest on the interpersonal lives of the Russian peoples. The two studies reported in this paper use the cultural theory of Mary Douglas to examine belief in the family and child-rearing values amongst 792 manual workers, entrepreneurs and students. Analysis at an individual level revealed that individualism and belief in rules were both negatively related to family commitment. Analysis at an occupational level produced marked, independent occupational effects for child-rearing values, with students and entrepreneurs promoting independence and education as important, whilst manual workers promoted a broader concern for "humanity". Women were also more family orientated than their male counter-parts. The implications of these findings for the future development of the family in Russia are discussed. Robin Goodwin, Dept. of Psychology, 8 Woodland Rd., Bristol B58 1TN, England.

ARTHUR ARON & LISA HENKENMEYER: Marital satisfaction and passionate love. One hundred married individuals completed questionnaires measuring marital satisfaction, passionate love, social desirability, and six relationship relevant variables in global happiness, relationship excitement, relationship boredom, sex-minus-arguments frequency, amount of shared activities, and kissing frequency. Consistent with previous research, marital satisfaction had moderate to large correlations with the six relationship-relevant variables; for most variable, these correlations remained after partialing out passionate love and social desirability. For women, passionate love was moderately correlated with marital satisfaction and with the six relationship-relevant variables; for most variables, these correlations remained after controlling for marital satisfaction and social desirability. However, for men there were no significant correlations with passionate love. Arthur Aron, Psychology Board, SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2500, USA

BRAM P. BUUNK: Gender, self-esteem, dependency, and extradyadic experience as related to jealousy responses. A study of a heterogeneous sample of 250 mostly married individuals, examined the impact of sex, self-esteem, emotional dependency and extradyadic sexual experience of oneself and the partner upon betrayal-anger, disappointment, and self-doubt as responses to extradyadic sexual behavior of the partner. Women scored higher in self-doubt and disappointment than men, but not in betrayal-anger. When the other variables were included as independent variables, women showed still more self-doubt than men when their partner committed adultery, and this was especially true for women of low self-esteem. Emotional dependency and one's own extradyadic sexual experience reduced all jealousy responses, whereas experience with adultery of the partner had a mitigating effect upon disappointment, especially among women. It is concluded that in general neither men no women can be said to be more jealous, but that among women self doubt and adaptation to the partner's adultery is a quite common pattern. Bram P. Buunk, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, 9712 TS Groningen, Netherlands.

KAREN H. ROSEN & SANDRA M. STITH: Women terminating abusive dating relationships: A qualitative study. Dating violence is a serious social problem that has commanded much attention during the last decade. This study was conducted to enhance our understanding of complex relationship and individual processes that occur in dating relationships where abuse becomes a pattern. The experiences of eleven young women who left their abusive dating relationships were analyzed using the tenets of grounded theory in a multiple-case qualitative research design. Processes of leaving, the focus of this manuscript, included: seeds of doubt, turning points, reappraisals, objective reflections, self reclaiming actions, last straw events, and paradigmatic shifts. Karen H. Rosen and Sandra M. Stith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Northern Virginia Graduate Center, 2990 Telestar Court, Falls Church, VA, 22402, USA

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Susan C. Rosenbluth & Janice M. Steil: PREDICTORS OF INTIMACY FOR WOMEN IN HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL COUPLES Susan Rosenbluth, Dept. of Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Psychology Dept., 630/116B, 423 23rd St., New York, NY 10010

Dawn O. Braithwaite & Leslie A. Baxter: "I DO AGAIN": THE RELATIONAL DIALECTICS OF RENEWING MARRIAGE VOWS Dawn Braithwaite, Department of Communication Studies, Arizona State University West, 4701 Thunderbird Road, Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100

Barbara A. Winstead, Valerian J. Derlega, Melinda J. Montgomery & Constance Pilkington: THE QUALITY OF FRIENDSHIPS AT WORK AND JOB SATISFACTION Barbara A. Winstead , Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529-0267

Nick Haslam: FACTOR STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS: AN EXAMINATION OF RELATIONAL MODELS AND RESOURCE EXCHANGE THEORIES Nick Haslam, Department of Psychology, New School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003

A. Smorti: THE NARRATIVE APPROACH TO REALITY IN RELATION TO CHILDREN'S COOPERATIVE INTERACTION A. Smorti, Department of Psychology, University of Florence Via Nicolo 89A-50125 Florence, Italy

Kathryn A. Kerns & Joan M. Barth: ATTACHMENT AND PLAY: CONVERGENCE ACROSS COMPONENTS OF PARENT- CHILD RELATIONSHIPS AND THEIR RELATIONS TO PEER COMPETENCE Kathryn A. Kerns, Dept. of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242

Barbara L. Frederickson: SOCIOEMOTIONAL BEHAVIOR AT THE END OF COLLEGE LIFE Barbara L. Fredrickson, Department of Psychology: Social & Health Sciences, Duke University, Box 90085, Durham, North Carolina 27708- 0085

Loraleigh Keashly & Jason Newberry: PREFERENCE FOR AND FAIRNESS OF INTERVENTION: INFLUENCE OF THIRD PARTY CONTROL, THIRD PARTY STATUS, AND CONFLICT SETTING. Loraleigh Keashly, Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CANADA N1G 2W1

Diane H. Felmlee: FATAL ATTRACTIONS; AFFECTION AND DISAFFECTION IN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS Diane H. Felmlee, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616

Brief Article Gregory T. Guldner & Clifford H. Swensen: TIME SPENT TOGETHER AND RELATIONSHIP QUALITY: LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIPS AS A TEST CASE Gregory T. Guldner, Department of Neurology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California 94305

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INTERNATIONAL NETWORK NEWSLETTER NUMBER 30 MARCH 1995 compiled ad edited by Steve Duck who is also responsible for the typing errors ======

ABSTRACT Network's prize winners chosen...... details of the 1995 annual conference distributed...... reminder of the dates for the 1996 annual conference..... 76 new members welcomed since December ...... forthcoming journal contents listed for JSPR, JMF, FR.

WINNER OF THE NETWORK'S BERSCHEID-HATFIELD AWARD Leslie BAXTER has been chosen as the winner of the Network's Berscheid-Hatfield Award for distinguished mid career contributions to the field of personal relationships. Leslie is noted for her vigorous and extensive program of work on a variety of issues in relationships, from Taboo Topics to Secret Tests to Playfulness, but is best known for her development of the dialectical approach to relationships based on the dialogism of Mikhail Bakhtin. Congratulations! The Network is grateful to the interdisciplinary selection committee of advisors: Linda Marshall, Ladd Wheeler, Paul Wright, Laura Stafford, and Anita Vangelisti. WINNER OF THE NETWORK'S GERALD R. MILLER AWARD Linda ACITELLI has been selected as the winner of the Gerald R. Miller Award for Early Career Achievement and Contribution to the Field of Personal Relationships. Linda is noted for her work on talking about relationships, for her work on the early years of marriage. Congratulations! An Honorable Mention went to Pam Kalbfleisch. The Network is grateful to the interdisciplinary selection committee of advisors: Tara Emmers, Michael Hecht, Tom Socha, Connie Meinholdt, and a sociologist who wishes to remain anonymous. ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1995: WILLIAMSBURG, VA Details of the 1995 Annual Conference are distributed with this mailing. Make your reservations early and come see your Network buddies -- or meet some new ones. ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1996: SEATTLE, WA Mark your calendar for the 1996 Annual Conference in Seattle June 28th - July 2nd, 1996. Preliminary details of speakers and such may be available in the next INN. NEWS OF MEMBERS Lesle BAXTER has been elected as First Vice President [i.e., ultimately President Elect] of the Western States Communication Association. Robert A. (Bob) BROWN of the University of Maryland is one of five nominees for the Presidency of APA. The ballot will go out about May 15th and he would really appreciate your #1 vote. The May Monitor will have his candidacy statement.. Steve DUCK has been awarded this year's Elisabeth Andersch Award in interpersonal communication by Ohio University. Libby DOUVAN has been appointed Associate Director of the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Deborah Wieder HATFIELD has been awarded recognition under the Teaching Incentive Program of the State University System of Florida for quality and productivity in teaching. MEMBERS ON THE MOVE --ONWARDS AND UPWARDS Linda MARSHALL has been promoted to Full Professor at the University of North Texas Ted SPENCER has been appointed the Publication Manager of the Speech Communication Association and his new address is now Ted Spencer, Publications Manager, Speech Communication Association (SCA) 5105 Backlick Road Bldg E, Annandale, VA 22003 [703- 750-0533 ext 114] BOOKS BY MEMBERS Chris BARKER, Nancy PISTRANG & Robert Elliott (1995) Research methods in clinical and counseling psychology. Wiley: Chichester, UK Rosemary BLIESZNER & Victoria Hilkevitch BEDFORD [Eds] (1995) Handbook of Aging and the Family. Westport, CT: Greenwood Steve DUCK & Julia T. WOOD [Eds] (1995) Confronting Relationship Challenges [Understanding Relationship Processes 5] Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. Susan S. HENDRICK (1995) Close relationships: What couple therapists can learn. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole. M. J. Lerner & Gerold MIKULA (eds.) (1994) Entitlement and the affectional bond: Justice in close relationships, Plenum: New York. MEMBERS WINNING GRANTS Bram BUUNK and Robbert [sic] Sanderman have a grant from the Dutch Cancer Society for a project on "Intimate relationships of cancer patients. Marcia DIXSON has won A Summer Research Grant from Purdue Research Foundation for Summer 1995 in the amount of $5,000. She will be investigating the content of children's models of parent-child relationships; looking at what behaviors, feelings, and rules elementary aged children believe are supposed to happen in parent-child relationships. MEMBERS SEEKING HELP Simon D. PRATT would like to hear from anyone researching into friendship, peer influence and socialization among male school pupils. [email protected] PEER COUNSELING IN SCHOOLS - 1) CONFERENCE IN LONDON 2) VIDEO PACK Helen COWIE is organizing a conference on this topic in London, UK, July 10th and the conference will deal with such topics as peer counseling for victims of bullying, for refugee children and practicalities of establishing peer counseling in schools. Details may be obtained from Helen Cowie, Dept of Psychology and Counseling, Roehampton Institute, Whitelands College, West Hill, London SW15 3SN, England (Phone [011-44] 81- 392-3000). Helen also has a Video Pack that helps with the training of peer counselors. VIRTUAL WORK AND VIRTUAL COMMUNITY -- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION Our research group has been asked by the Annual Review of Sociology to do a literature review whose working title is "The Implications of Computer-Mediated Communication for the Virtual Workplace and the Global Community". It will cover the interpersonal and intergroup implications of e-mail, desktop and group videoconferencing, computerized conferences (including newsgroups), enhanced voice mail, computer-supported cooperative work (such as co-authoring, co-drawing), on-line communities, et al.. If you are working in this area -- or know of others who are -- we would greatly appreciate it if you would send us copies of your work and call this request to the attention of others. Guides to others' work and submissions from non-sociologists are quite welcome. Your work would be most useful to us if sent by March, 1995. Please send material to Prof. Barry Wellman ([email protected]) Centre for Urban and Community Studies, 455 Spadina Ave., University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 2G8 tel.: 416-978-3930; fax: 416-978-7162 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS COMMUNICATION YEARBOOK VOLUME 20 Editor Brant Burleson is soliciting manuscripts and proposals for Communication Yearbook 20. Communication Yearbook publishes state-of-the-art literature reviews, and thus seeks articles providing comprehensive syntheses of literature (i.e., articles that survey, critique, and integrate a large body of literature that has appeared on a specific, relatively narrow topic). Reviews should not only survey avenues previously traveled in a research area, but should also identify where new roads need to be built. Literature reviews employing both narrative and quantitative (i.e., meta-analytic) methodologies are sought. Reviews from all areas of the communication discipline are welcome; CY seeks to represent the diverse range of philosophical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives informing contemporary communication scholarship. Contributions from scholars residing outside the United States are especially welcome. Completed reviews or extended proposals (15-30 pages) will be considered; brief proposals are not acceptable and will be returned to the author. Proposals should (a) identify a specific topic on which an extensive body of material has been published, (b) develop a rationale for the review of this literature, (c) delineate the approach and methodology to be used in the review, (d) provide a detailed outline of the review, and (e) present a working bibliography. A cover letter addressed to the Editor should briefly describe the qualifications of the author(s) to undertake a literature review in the designated area. All submissions to CY undergo blind review by at least two experts in the field. Complete manuscripts or proposals must be received by June 7, 1995. Send three high-quality copies to: Brant R. Burleson, Editor Communication Yearbook, Department of Communication, Purdue University, 1366 LAEB 2114 West Lafayette, IN 47907-1366 USA [Phone: (317) 494-3321 FAX: (317) 496-1394 Bitnet: xwxf@purccvm Internet: [email protected] ]

NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following who have joined the Network since December:

Jess K. ALBERTS, Dede ALONSO, Kiyoshi ANDO, Sofia AVGITIDOU, Guy BACHMAN, Paula A. BAKER, Angela BRANCO, Ann BUYSSE, Buffy CARPENTER, Raymond W. CHAN, Shuchu CHAO, David A. CICHOCKI, Kathleen CICORA, Kenneth N. CISSNA, Denise Haunani CLOVEN, Michael CRUZ, Ikuo DAIBO, William DAILEY, Anthony DAIUTO, Lee DARLIN, Ilse De BOURDEAUDHUIJ, Bella DePAULO, Karen K. DION, Kenneth L. DION, Stephen DRIGOTAS, Leila B. DUTTON, Brooke FEENEY, Toni FELICE, Kristine FITCH, Maureen GAFFNEY, Jill A. GILBERTSON, Lindsay GROB, Christine HARRINGTON, Holley HODGINS, Melanie JOHNSON, Shelley D. KILPATRICK, S. Kelly KOPPERMAN, Steven J. KULICH, Gregory KURLAND, Arielle LEHMANN, Yi-Cheng LIN, Melodee MANKE, Sonia MASCIUCH, Anne M. McGUIRE, April METZLER, Elizabeth MEZZACAPPA, Michael MOTLEY, Elizabeth NATALLE, Karen PASVEER, Sherri PATAKI, Teresa PATTERSON, Maria C.W. PEETERS, Ayala PINES, David Simon PRATT, Glen E. RAY, Heidi M. REEDER, R. Jeffrey RINGER, Karen S. ROOK, Erin SAHLSTEIN, Catherine A. SANDERSON, Ruth SHARABANY, Reena SOMMER, Richard Stein, Lesa STERN, William B. STILES, Lisa TILLMANN, Marla TUCHINSKY, Sharon M. VARALLO, Minoru WADA, John V. WADE, S.J. WALKER, Lynda Henley WALTERS, Rebecca WARNER, Allen WEINER, Dale E. WRIGHT, Adam ZUCKERMAN ....WHO HAVE THE FOLLOWING INTERESTS Kiyoshi ANDO, Social skills of service professionals, Internalization of self-presentation. Sofia AVGITIDOU, Characteristics and development of children's friendships in early schooling conducting cross- cultural and educational case studies. Paula A. BAKER, Does the use of 'perception checking' reduce defensiveness and increase 'communication satisfaction'? Angela BRANCO, Co-constructivist methodologies to study social interactions (adult-child, child-child interactions); cultural canalization of cooperation/competition among children. Ann BUYSSE, Rules for men and women with respect to safe sex, goals, plans, strategies and scripts for safe sex behavior. Raymond W. CHAN, Adult Attachment; Gay/Lesbian Relationships - Couples & Families; Children of Lesbian Families. David A. CICHOCKI, strategies people use to maintain friendships. Kathleen CICORA, Currently conducting a study on the relationship of adult attachment, type of infidelity (sexual or emotional) and sex to the amount of jealousy experienced. Kenneth N. CISSNA, Human dialogue. Denise Haunani CLOVEN, The covert aspects of interpersonal conflict, the reasons for conflict repression, and the implications of repression for PRs. Ikuo DAIBO, Intimacy in Interpersonal Relationships (by NVC measures), Social Skills (NVC, Self Expression, Decoding ability, etc.). William DAILEY, Family Conflict; Communicating and Meaning. Anthony DAIUTO, Relationship typologies; individual psychopathology in intimate relationships; cognitive factors (attributions, standards, assumptions) in marriage. Bella DePAULO, Nonverbal communication and deception; sex differences in nonverbal communication and deception; the development of nonverbal and verbal communication in new friendships Karen K. DION, Cultural perspectives on close relationships; psychology of love; transition to parenthood; social psychology of physical attractiveness; correlates of attachment style Kenneth L. DION, Correlates of romantic love (both personality and cultural) and correlates of attachment style Stephen DRIGOTAS, Dependence in close relationships, perceptions of commitment; intimacy networks. Toni FELICE, Life-span attachment and relationship to successful aging. Attachment and stalking. Kristine FITCH, Study of culture, particularly interpersonal ideology, and its influence on personal relationships. Maureen GAFFNEY, Director of Clinical Psychology course TCD and have been a practicing clinician for over 20 years. I am just starting research on PR. Christine HARRINGTON, Interested in exploring communication in relationships and possibly exploring ACOA issues. Melanie JOHNSON, Impact of exchange and communal orientations on marital satisfaction. Shelley D. KILPATRICK, Dating events influence uncertainty which influences amount of information se???? about partner and relationship. S. Kelly KOPPERMAN, The propensity to engage in perspective taking in marital conflict. Steven J. KULICH, Self-disclosure among Chinese and American best friends: Verbal and non-verbal dimensions of intimacy. Gregory KURLAND, Attachment in adults as related to relationship investment and/or attributions to rejection on first dates. Arielle LEHMANN, Doctorate will be about patterns of friendship and values. Yi-Cheng LIN, Cross-cultural comparison on social comparison processes. Melodee MANKE, "Marital conflict, accounts and attributions, compliance-gaining message production." Sonia MASCIUCH, Development of the emotion of jealousy in young children. Elizabeth MEZZACAPPA,"GP Cohesion, Compatibility of Astronaut crews." Michael MOTLEY,"Male/Female communication in sexual-escalation-effort episodes, and in platonic-to-romantic transition efforts." Elizabeth NATALLE,Current work examines positive communication patterns and outcomes in relational dissolution. Karen PASVEER,Silencing the self in relationship and incest survivors or trauma victims. Sherri PATAKI,People's emotional reactions to members of stigmatized groups. Maria C.W. PEETERS,Social interactions and stressful events/Diary-methods/Social Support Ayala PINES,"Jealousy, marriage burnout, balance between work and marriage, How we chose who to fall in love with." David Simon PRATT,"Study of friendship, peer influence and socialisation among male school pupils." Glen E. RAY,Children as observers of peer conflict; dyadic relations between friends; aggression and victimization. Heidi M. REEDER,"Love in cross-sex friendship vs. romantic relationships, miscommunication between men & women" R. Jeffrey RINGER,Currently involved in collecting data on gay men's talk about their relationship. I'm interviewing gay couples in their homes. Catherine A. SANDERSON,Different goals that individuals may bring to bear in social and dating relationships and how those goals moderate responsiveness to experimental and daily life situations. Ruth SHARABANY,Attachment patterns of kibbutz-mothers raised in family-sleeping vs. peer communal sleeping and their children's adjustment. Reena SOMMER,Socio-demographic and individual risk factors in male and female perpetrated partner abuse. Lesa STERN,"Corss-cultural interaction adaptation, conflict between friends." Lisa TILLMANN,Been working on narrative accounts of illness and the portrayals of relationships on film. Marla TUCHINSKY,Interpersonal and interfirm relationships; how context affects relationships (specifically business relationships) Sharon M. VARALLO,Past work on empathy and perspective-taking; current interests on loneliness within relationships; family. Minoru WADA,"Attitudes toward romantic love, friendship, social support, nonverbal communication." S.J. WALKER,Eco feminism and WICCA as they related to creation of a sense of community. Rebecca WARNER,"Writing a book for Guilford on applications of spectral analysis to time series data. Continuing to examine how quantitative indexes of rhythm and coordination in social interactions are related to interpersonal judgements of rapport, responsiveness, etc." Dale E. WRIGHT,Book on Personal Relationships Adam ZUCKERMAN,Adjustment processes in couples facing a major stressful event. .... WHO USE THE FOLLOWING METHODS Sofia AVGITIDOU, Ethnographic: Observations, semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, Emphasis on transulation and long-term obsevation in order to obtain an interpretative account Angela BRANCO, Videotape/Observational Protocols Ann BUYSSE, Own questionnaires/structured computerised interviews/observational methods. Raymond W. CHAN, Hazan & Shaver - Adult Attachment Shuchu CHAO, Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Spanier, 1976); Quality of Marriage Index (Norton, 1983). David A. CICHOCKI, Interviewing using open ended questions Kathleen CICORA, Hazan & Shaver Adult Attachment Questionnaire; Simpson Adult Attachment Questionnaire, Using the Physiological Measures for a study on Adult Attachment & Jealousy that Buss, Larsen, Denise Haunani CLOVEN, Self-report; Interaction Analysis; Quantitative Research Methods, Employ a two step self- report procedure for assessing repressed conflict Ikuo DAIBO, Affective Communication Text (ACT), Manifest Anxiety Scale (MAS), ACT (Japanese Version), GHQ (General Health Questionnaire, by Goldberg) - Japanese Version William DAILEY, FOCS - Family Other Conflict Scale. CPS - Conflict Permeability Scale Anthony DAIUTO, Relationship Dimensions Profile: Currently being piloted, assesses internal boundaries, extern Ilse De BOURDEAUDHUIJ, Questionnaires, Focus group interviews Bella DePAULO, Rochester Interaction Record, Buck's slide-viewing paradigm, Berscheid et al RCI Kenneth L. DION, Mainly measures of romantic love and attachment. Stephen DRIGOTAS, Diaries, Questionnaires, Video Taping of Interactions Toni FELICE, Chiefly attachment and personality Kristine FITCH, Qualitative/Ethnographic Methods Christine HARRINGTON, Marital Satisfaction Inventory Melanie JOHNSON, DAS, Clark Scales on Exchange/Communal Orientations Shelley D. KILPATRICK, Commitment/Empathic Accuracy (Ickes Procedure)/Partner-Perspective Taking, Uncertainty about commitment, Dating Events, Information Search S. Kelly KOPPERMAN, RDI, Locke-Wallace, IRI Steven J. KULICH, Jourard's Self-Disclosure Questionnaire, A questionnaire to non-verbal dimensions of self- disclosure Gregory KURLAND, Scale: How believable are categories of attributions for first date cancellation. Yi-Cheng LIN, Rochester Interaction Record, Rochester Social Comparison Record Melodee MANKE, Various surveys as well as interviews April METZLER, Repertory Grids, Wrote a computer program for scoring Key Grids (Rating Type) Elizabeth MEZZACAPPA, Psycho Physiology Michael MOTLEY, Questionnaires, Psychophysiological, VErbal Behaviors, Interview Elizabeth NATALLE, Analytic Induction, Content Analysis Maria C.W. PEETERS, Daily event-recording methods/Questionnaires, Developed the Daily Interaction Record in Organizations (DIRO) which is based upon the RIR Ayala PINES, Clinical Interview, Questionnaires, Jealousy Questionnaire and Marriage Burnout Questionnaires David Simon PRATT, Observations, interviews, questionnaires, soliograms Glen E. RAY, Sociometric nominations and ratings and friendship nominations. Heidi M. REEDER, Human instrument; questionnaires R. Jeffrey RINGER, Currently using qualitative analysis of open-ended interviewing Catherine A. SANDERSON, Attachment scales, marital satisfaction (Spanier, 1976), PANAS (Simpson, Hazan & Shaver), Relationship Goals Scale-13-item self-report quest on individuals' goals in their dating relati Ruth SHARABANY, Sharabany Intimacy Scale, Has been used with very minor changes with children, adolescents and adults Reena SOMMER, Conflict Tactics Scale (Straus, 1979) Richard STEIN, Developing a two-stage scale of emotional intimacy. Lesa STERN, Interaction Records; Videotaped Interactions Coded for Nonverbals William B. STILES, Verbal Response Modes Coding System Lisa TILLMANN, Narrative accounts, film criticism Minoru WADA, Nonverbal skill scale, Social Skill Scale John V. WADE, Dynamical Systems; Computer Models; 'Mouse' Paradigm, Head-mounted Virtual Reality Device; Morphing S.J. WALKER, Narratives/Unstructured interviews Rebecca WARNER, Watson & Tellegam; PANAS; Byrne Interpersonal Attraction Scale Adam ZUCKERMAN, Relationship Quality, Social Support, Coping ....AND HAVE PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING WORKS Kiyoshi ANDO, Ando, K. (1994). Social psychology of self-presentation. Seishin-Shobou., Sofia AVGITIDOU, Avgitidou, S. (1994). children learning about friendship in the contxt of an English reception, Avgitidou, S. (1994). Children's friendships in early schooling: Cross-cultural and education, Angela BRANCO, Banco & Valsiner (in press). Changing methodologies: A co-constructivist study of goal-orient, Branco (1994). Cultural canalization and co-constructive processes in the emergence of converg, Fogel, A., & Branco, A. (in press). Metacommunication as a source of indeterminism in relation Ann BUYSSE, Buysse, A. (in press). Adolescents, young adults and aids: A study of actual knowledge versus, Buysee, A., & Van Oost, P. (1994). Rules for men and women with respect to condom use and verb, Kenneth N. CISSNA, Cissna, K.N., & Anderson, R. (1994). The 1957 Martin Buber-Carl Rogers Dialogue, as Dialogue., Anderson, R., Cissna, K.N., & Arnett, R.C. (Eds) (1994). The Reach of Dialogue: Confirmation, Cissna, K.N., & Anderson, R. (in press). Dialogue in Public: Looking critically at the Buber- Denise Haunani CLOVEN, Cloven, D.H., & Roloff, M.E. (1994). A developmental model of decisions to withhold relational, Cloven & Roloff (1993). The chilling effect of aggressive potential on the expression of compl, Cloven & Roloff (1993). Sense-making activities and interpersonal conflict, II: The effects o Ikuo DAIBO, Daibo, I. (1995). Emotional relativity in social context. Hokusei Review (The Faculty of Lite, Daibo, I. (1993). A psychological study on social adaptation process of the Orphant's family r, Daibo, I. (1990). Expression of intimacy in interpersonal relationships: Development and diss Ilse De BOURDEAUDHUIJ, De Bourdeaudhuij, I., Geeraert, A., & Van Oost, P. (1995). Sex education in Flanders: The pe, De Bourdeaudhuij, I., & Van Oost, P. (1994). Differences in level and determinants of leisure-, De Bourdeaudhuij, I., Csincsak, M., & Van Oost, P. (1994). Relationele en seksuele vorming in Bella DePAULO, DePaulo, B.M. (1992). Nonverbal behavior and self-presentation. Psychological Bulletin, 111, Kenny, D.A., & DePaulo, b.M. (1993). Do we know how others view us? An empirical and theoreti, DePaulo, B.M., Epstein, J.A., & Wyer, M.M. (1993). Sex differences in lying: How women and me Karen K. DION, Dion, K.K., & Dion, K.L. (1993). Individualistic and collectivistic perspectives on gender and, Dion, K.L., & Dion, K.K. (1993). Gender and ethnocultural comparisons in styles of love. Psyc, Keelan, J.P.R., Dion, K.L., & Dion, K.K. (1994). Attachment style and heterosexual relationshi Kenneth L. DION, Dion, K.K., & Dion, K.L. (1993). Individualistic and collectivistic perspectives on gender and, Dion, K.L., & Dion, K.K. (1993). Gender and ethnocultural comparisons in styles of love. Psyc, Keelan, J.P.R., Dion, K.L., & Dion, K.K. (1994). Attachment style and heterosexual relationshi Stephen DRIGOTAS, Drigotas, S.M., & Rusbult, C.E. (1992). Should I stay or should I Do. JPSP, 62, 62-87., Drigotas, S.M. (1993). Similarity revisited. British Journal of Soc. Psych, 32, 365-377. Kristine FITCH, Fitch, K. (1994). A cross-cultural study of directive sequences and some implications for comp, Fitch, K., & Sanders, R. (1994). Culture, communication, and preferences for directness in exp, Fitch, K. (1994). The Issue of selection in ethnographies of speaking. Research on Language a Holley HODGINS, Hodgins, H.S., Koestner, R., & Duncan, N. (in press). On the compatibility of autonomy and rel, Zuckerman, M., Knee, C.R., Hodgins, H.S., & Miyake, K. (1995). Hypothesis confirmation: The j, Hodgins, H.S., & Koestner, R. (1993). The origins of nonverbal sensitivity. Personality and S Gregory KURLAND, Kurland, etal (1994). Psychological factors affecting paper recycling by business. Environmen, Yi-Cheng LIN, Lin, Y. (1994). Loneliness and accuracy in preception of social interactions. ISSPR Conferenc, Lin, Y. (1993). Change and consistency in social participation during early adulthood. Develo, Lin, Y. (1992). The construction of the sense of intimacy from everyday social interaction. I Melodee MANKE, Manke, M.L. (1994). Developing a theory on misperceptions of friendly interest as sexual roman, Sonia MASCIUCH, Masciuch, S.W., & Kienapple, K. (in press). The emergence of jealousy in children four months, Masciuch, S.W. (in press). The development of jealousy: A preliminary study. Exceptionality, Masciuch, S.W., McRae, L., & Young, J. (1990). The Harter self-perception profile: Some norma Anne M. McGUIRE, McGuire, A.M. (1994). Helping behaviors in the natural environment: Deimensions and correlate, April METZLER, Neimeyer, G., & Metzler, A. (1994). Personal identity and memory: Strucutre and stricture in, Metzler, G., Macnair, R., Metzler, A., & Courohaime-Beaver, K. (1991). Changing personal belie, Spokane, A., & Metzler, A. (1993). Two stones in a single quarry? Counseling and Human Develo Sherri PATAKI, Pataki, S.P., Shapiro, C., & Clark, M.S. (1994). Children's acquisition of appropriate norms f, Clark, M.S., & Pataki, S.P. (1995). Interpersonal processes influencing attraction and relatio, Clark, M.S., Helgeson, V.S., Mickelson, K. & Pataki, S.P. (1994). Some cognitive structures an Maria C.W. PEETERS, Peeters, M.C.W. (1994). Supportive interactions and stressful events at work: An event- record, Peeters, M.C.W., Buunk, A.P., & Schaufeli, W.B. (in press). Social interactions at work and pe, Buunk, A.P., & Peeters, M.C.W. (in press). Stress at work. Social Support and Companionship: Ayala PINES, Pines, A. (1992). Romantic Jealousy. St. Martins Press., Glen E. RAY, Dell, M.A., Cohen, R., Graesser, A.C., Duncan, M.K., Ray, G.E., & Crain, M. (1994). The form a, Ayers, Cohen, R., & Ray, G.E. (1993). Examining the contexts of chidren's classroom behavior:, Heidi M. REEDER, Motley, M., & Reeder, H. Unwanted escalation of sexual intimacy: Another instance of male/fem, Reeder, H. (1994). Preserving relationships in a climate of honest disclosure. Paper presente, Reeder, H., Mont'Ros-Mendoza, T., & Hecht, M. (1994). Factors facilitating the disclosure of s R. Jeffrey RINGER, Ringer, R.J. (Ed) (1994). Queer words queer images: Communication and the Construction of Hom, Ringer, R.J. (1994). Coming out in the classroom: Faculty disclosure of sexuality. In R.J. R, Catherine A. SANDERSON, Jemmett, Sanderson & Miller (in press). Changes in psychological distress and HIV risk-assocai, Ruth SHARABANY, Sharabany, R. (1994). Continuities in the development of intimate friendships: Object relatio, Sharabany, R. (1994). Intimate friendships scale: Conceptual underpinnings, psychometric prop, Reena SOMMER, Sommer, R., Barnes, & Murray (1992). Alcohol consumption, alcohol dependence, and personality, Barnes, Greenwood, & Sommer (1991). Coutrship violence in a Canadian sample of male college st, Lesa STERN, Burgoon, J., Stern, L., & Dillman (in press). Interpersonal Adaptation: Dyadic Interaction Pa, William B. STILES, Stiles, W.B., Shapiro, D.A., & Harper, H. (1994). Finding the way from process to outcome: Bl, Stiles, W.B. (1993). The process-outcome correlation problem and the uses of verbal interactio, Stiles, W.B. (1993). Quality control in qualitative research. Clinical Psychology Review, 13, Marla TUCHINSKY, Tuchinsky, Escales, Moore & Sheppard. Academy of Management Proceedings '94 'Beyond name, rank, Sheppard & Tuchinsky (in press). Interfirm relations. In Cummings & Staw (Eds), Research in O, Sharon M. VARALLO, Wood, J.T., Dendy, L.L., Dordek, E., Germany, M., & Varallo, S.M. (1994). Dialectic of differe, Varallo, S.M. (in press). Family photographs: A generic description. In S.K. Foss (Ed), Rhet, Minoru WADA, Wada, M. (1993). Same-sex friendship: Effects of sex and sex-role type. Research in Social P, Wada, M. (1992). Effects of social supports on freshmen's psychological factors. Japanese Jou, Wada, M. (1991). A study of interpersonal competence. Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Rebecca WARNER, Warner, R.M., & Strowman, S. (in press). Cardiovascular reactivity and positive/negative affec, Warner, R.M. (1992). Sequential analysis of social interaction: Assessing internal versus soc, Warner, R.M., (1992). Speaker, partner and observer evaluations of affect during social interaction

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JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS ISSUE 12II, MAY 1995

Susan C. Rosenbluth & Janice M. Steil: PREDICTORS OF INTIMACY FOR WOMEN IN HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL COUPLES This study investigated individual differences in self-esteem, capacity for intimacy, relationship values, and influence strategy use as factors in reported intimacy levels for women in homosexual and heterosexual couples. There were no differences by relationship type in levels of self-esteem, capacity for intimacy, or in the valuing of relationship qualities. Women in both types of couples described their relationships as highly intimate and reported using Direct/Bilateral influence strategies most frequently. For both groups, higher levels of relationship intimacy were associated with more frequent use of Direct/Bilateral strategies and less frequent use of Indirect/Unilateral and Indirect/Bilateral strategies. Capacity for intimacy and self-esteem were strongly positively related to intimacy for women in same-sex but not cross-sex couples. The best predictor of intimacy for women in heterosexual couples was a negative one: more frequent use of Indirect strategies was associated with lower levels of intimacy. Susan Rosenbluth, Dept. of Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Psychology Dept., 630/116B, 423 23rd St., New York, NY 10010, USA

Dawn O. Braithwaite & Leslie A. Baxter: "I DO AGAIN": THE RELATIONAL DIALECTICS OF RENEWING MARRIAGE VOWS This study provides descriptive insight into the dialectical themes of one public relationship ritual in modern US. society, the renewal of marital vows between spouses. Interpretive analyses of in-depth interview data revealed that this ritual allows spouses to manage three underlying dialectical contradictions: private-public, stability-change, and conventionality-uniqueness. Dawn Braithwaite, Department of Communication Studies, Arizona State University West, 4701 Thunderbird Road, Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100

Barbara A. Winstead, Valerian J. Derlega, Melinda J. Montgomery & Constance Pilkington: THE QUALITY OF FRIENDSHIPS AT WORK AND JOB SATISFACTION The study examines the relationship between quality of a friendship at work and job satisfaction. Faculty and staff (N=722) at two universities completed measures of the qualities of their best friendship at work and of job satisfaction. Multiple regressions for faculty and staff and for subjects whose best friend was a peer, supervisor, or subordinate revealed that the quality of one's best friendship in the workplace is predictive of job satisfaction. The negative aspects of friendship, maintenance difficulty, was related to lower satisfaction for staff (but not faculty) and for workers who best friend at work was a peer or supervisor. Wishing to spend fee time with a best friend at work (voluntary interdependence) and exchange orientation toward the friend were also negatively related to aspects of job satisfaction. The relationships between feelings about one's best friend at work and feelings about one's job are discussed. Barbara A. Winstead , Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529-0267

Nick Haslam: FACTOR STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS: AN EXAMINATION OF RELATIONAL MODELS AND RESOURCE EXCHANGE THEORIES Although several accounts of elementary relational forms have been proposed, little empirical research has attempted to test, refine and compare them. Such research can strengthen claims that there are relational universals, and can provide a unifying framework and conceptual currency for further study. In the present study, the factor structure of 500 social relationships sampled from 50 undergraduate subjects was examined using items representing relational forms proposed by Fiske (1991) and Foa & Foa (1974). The results are interpreted in light of their implications for the internal organization of the two theories, the interrelations of the two theories, and the relations of both theories to common dimensions of social relationships. It is argued that theories of the basic forms of social relationship must be revised in light of the empirical associations of their elements, and that the time is now ripe for confirmatory tests of these forms. Nick Haslam, Department of Psychology, New School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003

A. Smorti: THE NARRATIVE APPROACH TO REALITY IN RELATION TO CHILDREN'S COOPERATIVE INTERACTION It was hypothesized that children who use a narrative style of classification are more capable of cooperating with a playmate than children who use a logical style of classification. Participants were 90 seven-year-old children: 50 females and 40 males. Style of classification was studied by giving the subjects thirteen miniature toys to classify. Three main classification criteria were distinguished: categorical, functional and narrative. Forty five children who classified the objects by category without making use of narrative were designated as logical, forty five children who classified the objects chiefly by narrative criteria were identified as narrative classifiers. Three experimental groups were formed: a logical-logical group consisting of 15 dyads of one narrative subject, and logical-narrative group consisting of 15 dads composed of one narrative subject and one logical subject. Each subject was asked to perform a cooperative task with a narrative or a logical companion. The task entailed maneuvering a pulley device that required coordination between the members of the dyad. The children's proficiency at the task was analyzed by computing the number of errors each dyad made. The results showed that narrative-narrative dyads were more capable of carrying out the task and cooperating than logical-logical dyads A. Smorti, Department of Psychology, University of Florence Via Nicolo 89A-50125 Florence, Italy

Kathryn A. Kerns & Joan M. Barth: ATTACHMENT AND PLAY: CONVERGENCE ACROSS COMPONENTS OF PARENT- CHILD RELATIONSHIPS AND THEIR RELATIONS TO PEER COMPETENCE Two components of the parent-child relationship, attachment and play, are associated with peer competence, but have not been related to one another. This study examines: a) linkages between attachment security and physical play interactions in mother-child and father-child dyads, and b) linkages between these parenting components and peer competence. Fifty-four preschoolers (27 girls) participated with their mothers and fathers. Parents completed the Attachment Q-set (Waters, 1987) and parent-child dyads were observed in a physical play session hat was evaluated for play engagement and quality. Preschool teachers evaluated children's popularity and friendly-cooperative behavior. Mother-child dyads with more securely attached children had higher rates of play engagement. In father-child dyads with more securely attached children, fathers issued more directives and children made more suggestions and positive responses. Mother-child play quality and father-child attachment were most strongly associated with preschool measures. Findings suggest that attachment and play are relatively independent components. Kathryn A. Kerns, Dept. of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242

Barbara L. Frederickson: SOCIOEMOTIONAL BEHAVIOR AT THE END OF COLLEGE LIFE This study examined daily patterns of social interaction before the anticipated social departure marked by the end of residential college life. Sixty-six college students, 19 of whom faced social and/or geographical relocation associated with college graduation, kept daily accounts of their social activities for 21 consecutive days. Compared with students not facing a social departure, graduating seniors reported greater emotional involvement with close friends relative to acquaintances. Seniors did not differ from other students in their relative balance of close friends and acquaintances within each day or in amount of time spent with each type of social partner per day. These findings suggest that people's construals of future social opportunities -or lack thereof-influence their emotional investments in social contact, and support Carstensen's socioemotional selectivity theory. Barbara L. Fredrickson, Department of Psychology: Social & Health Sciences, Duke University, Box 90085, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0085

Loraleigh Keashly & Jason Newberry: PREFERENCE FOR AND FAIRNESS OF INTERVENTION: INFLUENCE OF THIRD PARTY CONTROL, THIRD PARTY STATUS, AND CONFLICT SETTING. Of particular interest to conflict intervention researchers and practitioners is exploring what procedural characteristics are related to parties' procedural preferences. This study considered three important issues in the conflict intervention literature: 1) the contributions of third party process control and outcome control to disputants' judgments of intervention procedures (e.g., Brett, 1983; Folger, 1986): 2) the nature of control prior to a decision being made, i.e., the process-content distinction (Sheppard, 1984); and 3) the influence of contextual variables (third party status relative to disputants and conflict setting) on participants' procedural judgments. Participants were asked to imagine themselves as a party in a dispute between roommates or between co-workers in which a third party was needed. They assessed eight intervention methods (varying in combination of third party process control, content control, and outcome control) in terms of degree of preference for and perceived fairness of each method. Briefly, disputants' judgments were related to the overall balance of control between the third party control over the final decision was more "appropriate" when the third party was in a position of authority relative to the disputants. Results are discussed with respect to the contingency model of conflict intervention (e.g., Sheppard, 1984) and the importance of the nature and the social context of the relationship of the third party to the disputants (Kolb, 1986; Lind, 1992). Loraleigh Keashly, Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CANADA N1G 2W1

Diane H. Felmlee: FATAL ATTRACTIONS; AFFECTION AND DISAFFECTION IN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS This research investigates the extent to which a quality that initially attracts one person to another in a romantic relationship is a positive dimension of the same overall characteristic that leads to subsequent disaffection--i.e., a "fatal attraction". Three hundred and one college women and men were asked to think of the most recent romantic relationship they had that ended, and to list qualities that first attracted them to that partner and characteristics they later "least liked" about that partner. Results indicate that there were approximately 88 instances (in 29.2% of the breakups) of what appeared to be "fatal attractions". Certain types of characteristics, such as exciting and different, were also more likely to be "fatal" than others. Additional findings point to sex differences in attracting qualities, with, for example, males reporting significantly more qualities than females in the Physical category. Implications of the results for dialectical relationship theories are discussed. Diane H. Felmlee, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616

Brief Article Gregory T. Guldner & Clifford H. Swensen: TIME SPENT TOGETHER AND RELATIONSHIP QUALITY: LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIPS AS A TEST CASE Although many studies have shown associations between the amount of time spent together and relationship satisfaction, none has established the causal direction of the association. While time spent together may cause increased satisfaction, it is equally likely that greater satisfaction causes couples to spend more time together. Recent research that experimentally increased the amount of time couples spent together found no increase in relationship satisfaction. The present study looks at relationships that spend less time together-long distance relationships (LDRs)- and examines their relationship quality compared to geographically proximal relationships (PRs). A multivariate analysis of variance compared self-reported levels of relationship satisfaction, intimacy, dyadic trust, and the degree of relationship progress, between 194 individuals in pre-marital LDRs and 190 pre-marital PRs. The analysis found no significant differences. This suggests that the amount of time a couple spends together does not itself play a central role in relationship maintenance. Gregory T. Guldner, Department of Neurology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California 94305 ======

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Submitted contents for August 1995 Issue 12iii

J. Richard Eiser & Nicholas Ford: SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS ON HOLIDAY: A CASE OF SITUATIONAL DISINHIBITION?

M. Belinda Tucker & Claudia Mitchell-Kernan: SOCIAL STRUCTURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF INTERETHNIC DATING

Gregory D. Morrow, Eddie M. Clark, Karla F. Brock: INDIVIDUAL AND PARTNER LOVE STYLES: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE QUALITY OF ROMANTIC INVOLVEMENTS

Elaine Scharfe & Kim Bartholomew: ACCOMMODATION AND ATTACHMENT REPRESENTATIONS IN YOUNG COUPLES

Edith Burger & Robert M. Milardo: MARITAL INTERDEPENDENCE AND SOCIAL NETWORKS

Anne E. Beall & Robert J. Sternberg: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF LOVE

Janis B. Kupersmidt, Melissa Derosier, & Charlotte P. Patterson: SIMILARITY AS THE BASIS FOR CHILDREN'S FRIENDSHIPS: THE ROLE OF SOCIOMETERIC STATUS, AGGRESSIVE AND WITHDRAWN BEHAVIOR, ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS

Brief Articles Carolyn Beth Taraban & Clyde Hendrick: PERSONALITY PERCEPTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH SIX STYLES OF LOVE

Judy O. Berry & Warren H. Jones: THE PARENTAL STRESS SCALE: INITIAL PSYCHOMETRIC EVIDENCE

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FAMILY RELATIONS

Table of Contents for April 1995 kindly supplied by Editor Mark A. Fine (For details of these papers and addresses of authors, please contact Mark Fine, Dept of Human Development and Family Studies, Univ of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA [email protected])

Impassioned Teaching: A Special Collection Introduction to the Special Collection Alexis J. Walker Opening the Classroom Closet: Sexual Orientation and Self-Disclosure Katherine R. Allen The Art of Professing and Holding Back in a Course on Gender Stephen R. Marks Teaching About Ethnic Minority Families Using a Pedagogy of Care Linda Thompson Discussion of the Special Collection Edith Lewis

Parenting Surviving the Break-Up? Predictors of Parent-Adult Child Relations After Parental Divorce Teresa M. Cooney, M. Katherine Hutchinson, & Diane M. Leather The Impact of Workplace Support on Work-Family Role Strain Jennifer A. Warren & Phyllis J. Johnson Child, Maternal, and Family Characteristics Associated With Spanking. Jean Giles-Sims, Murray A. Straus, & David B. Sugarman Sending Children to Kindergarten: A Phenomenological Study of Mothers' Experiences Jerry McClelland Sexuality Education of Young Children: Parental Concerns Margie L. Geasler, Linda L. Dannison, & Connie J. Edlund The Role of Empathy in Parenting Strategy Choices Christiane Brems & Marie A. Sohl Off-timedness as a Contributor to Subjective Burdens for Parents of Offspring With Severe Mental Illness Susan A. Pickett, James R. Greeley, & Jan S. Greenberg

General Interest Domains of Expressive Interaction in Intimate Relationships: Association With Satisfaction and Commitment Susan Sprecher, Sandra Metts, Brant Burleson, Elaine Hatfield, & Alicia Thompson Black Men Make Sense of Marital Distress and Divorce: An Exploratory Study Erma Jean Lawson & Aaron Thompson Collaboration of Services for Children and Families: A Synthesis of Recent Research and Recommendations Vai Daka-Mulwanda, Kathy R. Thornburg, Laura Filbert, & Tanna Klein

Book Reviews

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JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY

Table of Contents for May 1995 (Vol 57, 2) kindly supplied by Editor Marilyn Coleman (For details of these papers and addresses of authors, please contact Marilyn Coleman, Dept of Human Development and Family Studies, Univ of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA [email protected])

Abuse And The Family Gilgun, Jane. We shared something special: The moral discourse of incest perpetrators Johnson, Michael. Patriarchal terrorism and common couple violence: Two forms of violence against women Lackey, Chad & Kirk Williams. Social bonding and the cessation of partner violence across generations McKenry, Julian, & Gavazzi. Towards a biophychosocial model of domestic violence

Work And Family Brayfield, April. Juggling jobs and kids: The impact of employment schedules on fathers caring for children Orbuch, Terri & Lindsay Custer. The social context of married women's work and its impact on black husbands and white husbands Lichter, Daniel & Nancy Landale. Parental work, family structure, and poverty among Latino children Spitze, Glenna & Russell Ward. Household labor in intergenerational households

Family Structure And Diversity Amato, Rezac, & Booth. Helping between parents and young adult offspring: The role of parental marital quality, divorce, and remarriage Dunlop, Rosemary & Alisa Burns. The sleeper effect-myth or reality? Entwisle, Doris & Karl Alexander. A parent's economic shadow: Family structure versus family resources as influences on early school achievement MacDonald, William & Alfred DeMaris. Remarriage, stepchildren, and marital conflict: Challenges to the incomplete institutionalization hypothesis Le Bourdais, Desrosiers, & Laplante. Factors related to union formation among single mothers in Canada Hall, David & John Zhao. Cohabitation and divorce in Canada: Testing the selectivity hypothesis White, Lynn & Debra Peterson. The retreat from marriage: Its effect on unmarried children's exchange with parents

Parent-Child Relations Rueter, Martha & Rand Conger. Antecedents of parent-adolescent disagreements Spoth, Redmond, Haggerty & Ward. A controlled parenting skills outcome study examining individual difference and attendance effects Silverstein, Parrot & Bengtson. Factors that predispose middle-aged sons and daughters to provide social support to older parents

Of General Interest Nakonezny, Shull, & Rodgers. The effect of no-fault divorce law on the divorce rate across the 50 states and its relation to income, education, and religiosity Stets, Jan. Modelling control in relationships Nock, Steven. Commitment and dependency in marriage Rogers, Richard. Marriage, sex, and mortality

see you in Williamsburg at the Network's annual conference June 1-5 1995. yyyeeehaaaaaa!!

make a note for next year's Network annual conference in Seattle 28 June -July 2, 1996

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ABSTRACT First notice of renewal: time to renew your membership and advantageous rates will apply to renewals received before Sept. 30th 1995. .... New Associate editor for JSPR announced ... First notice of call for nominations for next Editor of JSPR ... draft Network constitution circulated with this Newsletter for members to comment upon ....

ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR JSPR - FAMILY STUDIES AND SOCIOLOGY David DEMO has agreed to serve as Associate Editor for JSPR for the Family Studies and Sociology manuscripts and takes over from Bob Milardo who has been appointed Editor of the Journal of Marriage and the Family. Many scholars of family studies and sociology are familiar with JSPR and its multi-disciplinary outreach, now that it is included in SSCI rankings, and abstracted by Inventory of Marriage and Family Literature, Current Contents, Sociological Abstracts and so forth. JSPR is also well known among social psychologically oriented sociologists, but less so among family sociologists and Dave Demo intends to reach such folks. The core mission of JSPR encourages MSS. addressing diverse aspects of family processes (support, control, violence) and relationships (sibling, marital, parent-child, extended kin, etc.) as well as any aspect of relationship processes. There is also room in JSPR for work on social structure and personality, where social interaction is a central process in linking macro-social arrangements (e.g., social class) to personality variables. ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN SEATTLE - JUNE 1996 Circulated with this Newsletter is the first notice of the Network's next annual conference, in Seattle Washington, June 29-July 3, 1996. You will see that there are some outstanding speakers lined up from a variety of disciplines and that there will be some provocative discussions concerning the future of marriage and the family, the role of culture in relationships, and the nature of relationships on e-mail and in cyberspace. Seattle itself is a wonderful site for a conference, being one of the most livable cities in the USA with a stunning collection of relationship researchers working out of the University of Washington and a fine reputation for leisure pursuits and big-city amenities, easily accessible by all the usual transportation methods and served by most major airlines. The organizers have planned the conference to make it suitable for those who might wish to stay in the Seattle area over the July 4th holidays and make a vacation of it or benefit from lower airfares by the seven-night stay. REPORT ON ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN WILLIAMSBURG - JUNE 1995 Nearly 200 people attended the annual conference in Williamsburg VA, which was generally agreed to have been the best relationships conference we have had (some said the best "any" conference of their careers...). The Network conference just seems to keep getting better every year! The line-up of invited speakers (Deci, Metts, Buss, Allan, Harre) proved to be uniformly outstanding not only intellectually but also in terms of clarity, interest, and styles of presentation and the organizers also did a wonderful job of hitting the right relaxed and informal social note while providing good food and drink to match an excellent range of panels and posters. The organizers were Lee Kirkpatrick, John Nezlek and Constance Pilkington who were presented with Certificates of Appreciation at the conference. Our thanks are once again expressed to them for a wonderful job that was a fitting climax to the end of the school year and which serves to whet our appetite even more for the next chance when the Network can get together again, in Seattle in June 1996.

Kathryn Dindia Writes: Steve Duck Honorarium: I would like to thank all the members of INPR who contributed to the Steve Duck Honorarium. At the annual conference in Williamsburg, we presented Steve with a beautiful plaque which read, "To Steve Duck from the members of INPR for outstanding service to the field of personal relationships," and a check for $1,300. I also want to thank everyone for being so secretive. Steve was totally surprised and shocked, which is amazing given that approximately 1000 people knew about the award. I guess we all have been reading the articles published in JSPR on deception! I also want you to know that Steve was overwhelmed by the gesture and said that he appreciated the honor "more than you will ever know." Kathryn Dindia

Steve Duck adds: I thank everyone who was involved in, or contruibited to, the above award. It was a very touching moment for me and I deeply appreciate the thoughtfulnees and kindness of the honor that you gave me.. NETWORK CONSTITUTION After much work by a committee headed by Dan Canary, and after some preliminary discussion at the annual conference's Business meeting in Williamsburg, a draft of the proposed constitution of the Network is circulated with this INN. THIS VERSION IS FOR COMMENT. If you have comments about the wording, or can spot inconsistencies or difficulties with the coherence of the document then please contact either Dan Canary or Steve Duck. The committee will take these comments and produce a version that will then be proposed for adoption at a ballot of all members who are in good standing at that time. This is a very significant moment in the Network's history and will mark a change from the informal arrangements at the moment to a formal organizational system. We want to retain as many of the good things about the Network as are consistent with the goal for greater democratization. We need your help and input to do that. CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: EDITOR OF JSPR Steve Duck will be retiring as Editor of JSPR at the end of 1997 and the procedure for replacing JSPR editors calls for a person to be appointed Deputy Editor for a year and then take over at the end of the retiring Editor's term. In order to allow the necessary time for processing of this appointment, the call for nominees is now issued for the first time. Persons interested in the position may contact Steve Duck or Michael Cunningham, Chair of the Publications Committee which will make the recommendation for an appointment. A deadline for submissions will be announced in the next INN and the present notice is merely advance warning to those persons who may wish to be considered. Assuming that the Network's Constitution is adopted by the membership and becomes effective in 1995 or 1996, persons whose primary discipline is Communication Studies are INELIGIBLE for this position on this occasion, under the clause requiring rotation of the editorship across disciplines. NEWS OF MEMBERS Mike ALLEN, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has been named a recipient of a 1995 Graduate School/UWM Foundation Annual Research Award. Manuel BARRERA has been awarded the 1994-95 Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award by Arizona State University Graduate College and the ASU Foundation. Elery HAMILTON-SMITH has retired from his university appointment at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, but has now accepted a visiting fellowship at the Lincoln Gerontology Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne. He is currently working with a group of colleagues on the last stages of preparing a book on his work with people with a dementing illness. This work claims a major breakthrough in both understanding the nature of dementia and improving the lifestyle of those affected. There is a strong focus on the maintenance of communication and relationships. Mark KNAPP was elected President Elect of the Association for Communication Administration. Steve McCORNACK received a university wide Teacher-Scholar Award from Michigan State University Brian SPITZBERG has a new e-mail address: [email protected] Anita VANGELISTI received the College of Communication's Teaching Excellence Award from the Univ of Texas at Austin MEMBERS ON THE MOVE --ONWARDS AND UPWARDS Linda ACITELLI has been appointed an Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Houston, Texas. Carol J. BRUESS has been appointed an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Hamline University, Minnesota. Steve DUCK, who has been serving as Interim Chair of the Dept of Communication Studies, University of Iowa, has now been appointed as the next Chair for a three year term. Pam KALBFLEISCH has been granted tenure at the University of Wyoming where she is already an Associate Professor. Adrienne KUNKEL has been awarded the thesis/dissertation award by the Interpersonal Communication division of the International Communication Association. Kristin MICKELSON has successful defended her dissertation at Carnegie Mellon and is now Dr. Mickelson, PhD. Judy PEARSON has been appointed Director of the Northern Virginia Graduate Center, 2990 Telestar Court, Falls Church, VA 22042, with effect from August 1, 1995 and will be Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Virginia Tech. Thirdly, in case you are counting, she will be a tenured Full Professor in Family and Child Development at Virginia Tech. (703) 698-6006, [email protected] Sandra PETRONIO has been promoted to Full Professor at Arizona State University. Sally PLANALP has been appointed visiting Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Montana. Tom SOCHA has been granted tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at Old Dominion University Walter ZAKAHI has been granted tenure at New Mexico State University. BOOK BY MEMBERS Julia T. WOOD & Steve DUCK (1995, May) Under-studied relationships: Off the beaten track [Understanding Relationship Processes 6] SAGE: Thousand Oaks, CA. MEMBERS WINNING GRANTS Michael HECHT, who gave a presentation on the winning of grants at the last Network Conference in May 1994, has received a grant of $466000 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to support the Drug Resistance Strategies Project. Among his co-investigators are Jim STIFF and Melanie TROST who will join Michael in examining ethnic and gender similarities and differences in adolescent drug resistance strategies. MEMBERS SEEKING HELP Jan YAGER would like to hear from anyone who has researched childhood or adolescent sexual abuse and who is willing to share published journal articles and/or book chapters for background research purposes and/or citing in the "recommended resources" section of a related book-in-progress. She is also interested in hearing from anyone who has/is working with adult survivors of incest or would like to fill out (or distribute) a related survey, in confidence and, if necessary, anonymously. Jan Yager, PO Box 8038, Stamford CT 06905-8038 [203-968-0193 FAX] MEMBERS OFFERING HELP OR INFORMATION Linda SAPADIN writes that members of the Network may like to know about Division 46 of the APA, a division that allows non-members of APA to join. Division 46 (Media Division) offers training in the skills of media work, exploring research on the influence of media on attitudes and behavior, and learning to use the media to publicize one's own research. Contact Marion Gindes, 16 North Chatsworth Ave, Larchmont, NY 10538 (914-833-1944). EDITORIAL POSITION AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY RELATIONS The Publications Committee of the National Council on Family Relations is seeking nominations and applications for the position of Editor of Family Relations: Journal of Applied Family and Child Studies. The term of the current editor, Dr. Mark Fine will be completed with the publication of the October, 1996 issue. The four-year term of the new editor will begin with the publication of the January, 1997 issue. Editorial responsibilities, including processing of manuscripts, will be transferred to the new editor between April and May, 1996. NCFR will make the selection of the new editor at the annual conference in November, 1995 in Portland, Oregon. A detailed description of the editor's responsibilities may be obtained from: Search Committee for Editor of Family Relations, National Council on Family Relations, 3989 Central Ave NE, Suite 550, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 55421. Telephone: 612/781-9331; FAX 612/781- 9348; E-mail: [email protected]. Nominations and applications including a letter of application and a curriculum vitae should be sent to the above address by June 15, 1995. The new editor must be a member of the National Council on Family Relations. JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

FACULTY POSITION - ADULT DEVELOPMENT & AGING UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY STUDIES JOB DESCRIPTION: Assistant or Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies. This is a tenure-track, 9-month appointment in adult development, aging, and intergenerational studies. QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. (or near completion) in human development and family studies, adult development and aging, gerontology, or a related field is required. Teaching experience at university level, record of funded research and refereed publications preferred. RESPONSIBILITIES: Provide leadership in articulating a philosophy and theoretical rationale for adult development, aging and intergenerational studies which is congruent with department philosophy. Develop curriculum and teach undergraduate and graduate level courses. Advise undergraduate and graduate students. Direct graduate student research. Serve on graduate committees. Seek and maintain graduate faculty status. Provide research direction for the department in adult development, aging, and intergenerational studies. Maintain a program of research including acquisition of external funding and publishing in professional journals. Hatch funding may be sought through a competitive grants process. Be a collegial member of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, the College of Human and Community Sciences and the university by actively engaging in faculty meetings, relevant decision-making, committee work, and outreach activities. Maintain membership and active participation in appropriate professional organizations. SALARY: Commensurate with experience. STARTING DATE: Fall 1995, Spring 1996, or Fall 1996 CLOSING: The search will remain open until the position is filled. Review of applications will begin on July 1, 1995. APPLICATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION: Please submit the following materials: 1) Vita, 2) a letter specifying how your background and experience qualify you for the duties and responsibilities outlined in the job description, and 3) at least 5 names (with addresses and telephone numbers) of active professionals who can provide references. Send your materials to: Dr. Virginia Haldeman/ Department of Human Development and Family Studies (140)/ University of Nevada/ Reno, NV 89557- 0131: FAX (702) 784-6493. Inquiries can be directed to Dr. Haldeman at (702) 784-6490 or by E-Mail: [email protected] The University of Nevada is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, creed, national origin, veteran status, physical or mental disability, and in accordance with University policy, sexual orientation, in any program or activity it operates. University of Nevada employs only United States citizens and aliens lawfully authorized to work in the United States NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following who have joined the Network since April: Phyllis AILEEN, Ximena ARRIAGA, Judy O. BERRY, Kenzie CAMERON, Gail CAYGILL, P.Niels CHRISTENSEN, David DEMO, Kirk DUTHLER, Grey FEENEY, Kurt FREY, Heidi FRITZ, Steve GILES, J. Sue HINTON, Yoshiaki IMAI, Julie Marie INGRAM, Kostas KAFETSIOS, Jennifer LAWRENCE, Tammy J. LAWRENCE, Leslie LEVE, Anna LOCKETT, Duane E. LUNDY, Michael MAZANEC, Anthony McCLAIN, Tracy McLAUGHLIN, Nancy Carol MUCH, Robin J.H. RUSSELL, Alan SILLARS, Kathleen SMITH, Rhonda SPRAGUE, Moses TEY, Nancy YOVETICH, Sheryline A. ZEBROSKI. ....WHO HAVE THE FOLLOWING INTERESTS Ximena ARRIAGA, Variability in commitment as a predictor of relationship stability; Causes and consequences of commitment; comparing self-report measures to measures from coded videotapes. Judy O. BERRY, Developing, with J. Meyer, The Workplace Flexibility Scale concerning employed parents. Working on a book for Allyn & Bacon, Disability and the Family: A Lifespan Perspective. Kenzie CAMERON, Studying barriers to health/health care; Use of induction and power assertion by parents. Gail CAYGILL, Research into the friendship patterns of children aged 9, 10, 11 years. In particular do dyslexic children find it hard to make friends because of low self esteem. P.Niels CHRISTENSEN, Round-robin loneliness studies looking at perceptions and meta-perceptions. Dating behavior and biological correlates. David DEMO, Research focuses on the linkages between social structure and personality, especially the influences of family structure and family relations on children. Kurt FREY, The relationship between sexual path preferences ("sexual scripts") and safer sex and contraceptive practices. Heidi FRITZ, Currently focusing on unmitigated communion and its implications for relationships & health. J. Sue HINTON, Ethnography of couples in long-term marriages; seeking strategies in step-families. Yoshiaki IMAI, Perceived Social Power Scale, Social power and conflict in interpersonal relationship Julie Marie INGRAM, MFA Presentation: Attachment, Social Skills, and Self-Consciousness. Masters Thesis: Attachment Styles and Initial Impressions Kostas KAFETSIOS, An emotional recollection interview for accuracy of affective communication in couples (video); Research on the affective aspects of adult attachment and in particular how these influence emotional communication in close relationships (PhD thesis). Jennifer LAWRENCE, Thesis work deals with the effects of image and anticipation of future interaction on impression development in a CMC context. Leslie LEVE, Prediction of children's positive peer relations from earlier parent-child interactions. Anna LOCKETT, Support needs of overseas students in a Higher Education setting in Britain (with emphasis on linguistic and person related factors in academic performance. Duane E. LUNDY, Just completed MA thesis on the importance of humor and physical attractiveness on romantic preferences and am currently looking at opening gambits, with Michael Cunningham. Michael MAZANEC, Gay/Lesbian Identity; Loyalty in Relationships Anthony McCLAIN, Family therapy with hospitalized adolescents. Nancy Carol MUCH, Use of Longacne & propositional calculus for natural languages in analysis of argumentation; Philosophical and cultural analysis of psychological theory; indigenous psychologies and their communication, communication, and socialization, comparative human development. U.S. and India, comparative ethics. Robin J. H. RUSSELL, Causes and effects of marital satisfaction Kathleen SMITH, Workplace-blended relationships; Loyalty Nancy YOVETICH, Accommodation in romantic relationship - cognitive measures. Secret sharing patterns. Sheryline A. ZEBROSKI, Interracial Marriages (African American/European American)

.... WHO USE THE FOLLOWING METHODS Ximena ARRIAGA, Rusbult's (1990) Commitment Measure; Gottman's RCISS Coding Scheme; Spanier's Dyadic Adjustmen Judy O. BERRY, Parental Stress Scale (in press JSPR) Gail CAYGILL, Interviews, Observations P.Niels CHRISTENSEN, UCLA Loneliness, Self-Esteem Measures Kurt FREY, Love Attitudes Scale; Sexual Path Preferences Inventory Heidi FRITZ, EPAQ, Unmitigated Communion Scale J. Sue HINTON, RIT, Interviews, primarily qualitative measures Yoshiaki IMAI, Perceived Social Power Scale, The Index of Personal Reactions by Bennett (1988). Julie Marie INGRAM, Bartholomew's Close Relationship Questionnaire (Adult Attachment) Kostas KAFETSIOS, Measuring Attachment Scales, RCI, Affect Decoding (Video) Jennifer LAWRENCE, Walthers I.D. (Impression Development) Scale. Gudykunst & Nishidais Uncertainty Measure Nancy Carol MUCH, Interviews, ethnographic observation, speech (conversation) recording, cluster analysis Robin J.H. RUSSELL, Marriage and relationship Questionnaire (Russell & Wells, 1993, Hodder & Stoughton) Kathleen SMITH, Interviews/Surveys Nancy YOVETICH, Dyadic Adjustment Scale Sheryline A. ZEBROSKI, Surveys-Questionnaires ....AND HAVE PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING WORKS Ximena ARRIAGA, Rusbult, C.E., Bissonette, V.I., Arriaga, X.B., & Cox, C. (in press). Accommodation processes during the early years of marriage. In T. Bradbury (Ed); VanLange, P.A.M., Rusbult, C.E., Drigotas, S.M., & Arriaga, X.B. Willingness to sacrifice in close relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psych; Judy O. BERRY, Jones, W., & Berry, J.O. (in press) The Parental stress scale: Initial psychometric evident. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships; Meyer, J., & Berry, J.O. (in press). Employing people with disabilities: Impact of attitude and situation. Rehabilitation Psychology.; Berry, J.O. (in press). Families and deinstitutionalization: An application of Bronfenbrenner's Social Ecology Model. Journal of Counseling & Devel David DEMO, Allen, K., & Demo, D. (1995). The families of lesbians and gay men: A new frontier in family research. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 57:111-1; Acock, A., & Demo, D. (1994). Family diversity and well being. Sage.; Hoffman, K., Edwards, J., & Demo, D. (1994). Physical wife abuse in a non-Western society: An integrated theoretical approach. Journal of Marriage and the Family Yoshiaki IMAI, Imai, Y. (1994). Effects of influencing attempts on the perception of power holders and the powerless. JSBP, 9, 455-468.; Imai, Y. (1993). Perceived social power and power motive in interpersonal relationships. JSBP, 8, 687-702.; Imai, Y. (1991). Effects of influence strategies, perceived social power and cost on compliance with requests. JPR, 33, 134-144. Julie Marie INGRAM, Jackson, L.A., Hodge, C.N., & Ingram, J.M. (1994). Gender and self-concept: A reexamination of stereotypic differences and the role of gender attitudes; Jackson, et al (in press). Cognition, affect and behavior in the prediction of group attitudes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Anna LOCKETT, Lockett, A. (1995). A proactive approach to bullying at work. ECT Volume 7, Issue 1. Nancy Carol MUCH, Much, N.C. (in press). Cultural psychology. In J. Smith, R. Harre & L. Van Langenhone (Eds), Rethinking Psychology, Vol 1. Conceptual Foundations.; Much, N.C., Harre, R. (1994). How psychologies secrete moralities in new ideas. Psychology, 12 (3).; Much, N., Mahopata, M. (in press). Construction divinity. In P. Stearns, & R. Harre (Eds) Rethinking psychology, Vol. II Practicing Discursive Psych Robin J.H. RUSSELL, Russell, R.J.H., & Wells, P.A. (1994). Predictors of happiness in married couples. Personality and Individual Differences, 17, 313-321; Russell, R.J.H., & Wells, P.A. (1994). Personality and quality of marriage. British Journal of Psychology, 85, 161-168; Russell, R.J.H., & Wells, P.A. (1994). Human assortative mating: Questions concerning genetic similarity theory. Animal Behavior, 47, 463-464. Nancy YOVETICH, Yovetich, N.A., & Rusbult, C.A. (1994). Accommodative behavior in close relationships: Exploring transformation of motivation. JESP, 30, 138-164.; Rusbult, C.A., Yovetich, M.A., & Verette, J. (in press). An interdependence framework for understanding relationship maintenance. ======

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS ISSUE 12III, AUGUST 1995

J. Richard Eiser & Nicholas Ford: SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS ON HOLIDAY: A CASE OF SITUATIONAL DISINHIBITION? A survey of 1033 single tourists, aged 16-29 years, visiting a seaside resort in SW England, indicated that self-reported sexual behavior was related to various attitudes concerning the forming of new relationships and the differentiation of holiday from home environments. Whereas 43.2% reported having had no sexual contact since arriving on holiday, 32.6% reported having engaged in sexual activity but not intercourse, and 24.2% reported having had intercourse with one or more new partners. Males reported higher rates of contact and intercourse than females. These groups were compared on scores derived from a factor analysis of attitude statements concerning relationship formation and holiday activities. Higher levels of sexual activity were associated with approve of casual sex, with males scoring higher on this factor than females. Sexual activity was also related, especially among females, to higher scores on a factor representing situational disinhibition, e.g. feeling a "different person" on holiday. Among those who reported having had intercourse (with a previously unknown partner), a worryingly high proportion (73.4% of males and 49.3% of females) reported that this occurred without the protection of a condom. Females, but not males, who held more 'disinhibited' attitudes were more likely to use condoms. Males, but not females, were more likely to use condoms if they believed the relationship might continue. A belief that condoms reduced sexual pleasure for women was associated with non-use, especially among women. The findings were discussed in relation to concepts of self-consistency, and goals within personal relationships. J. Richard Eiser, Dept. of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK

M. Belinda Tucker & Claudia Mitchell-Kernan: SOCIAL STRUCTURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF INTERETHNIC DATING Although research on intimate relationships involving persons of different racial or ethnic backgrounds in the United States has been limited, the existing work has focused almost exclusively on intermarriage, rather than dating/. Furthermore, while studies of intermarriage have been guided to some extent by early theoretical conceptualizations, research on dating has been largely a theoretical and conducted with limited and unrepresentative samples. In an attempt to address some limitations of previous work, the present study is designed to: a) describe current interethnic dating behavior and related attitudes among southern Californians and b) examine social structural and psychological correlates of interethnic dating. Data were derived from a telephone survey conducted with a probability sample of African American, Latino and white residents of southern California. Interethnic dating was reported by over half of all ethnic groups and both sexes and more frequently among men. Most reported that family members knew of their behavior and few families objected, although white women were most likely to report family criticism. Whites and Latinos who admitted to exclusions for intermarriage were most likely to exclude blacks, and black women and Latinos were most likely to exclude Asians. Logistic regression analyses indicted that interethnic dating was associated with being male, younger, having more education, being less lonely, the perception of having more mating opportunities, and being African American or Latino rather than white. Within ethnic group analyses demonstrated that the loneliness finding was specific to African American women and Latino males, suggesting that dating outside of one's ethnic group was perhaps an adaptive behavior for these groups. It appears that one's particular location in the social structure as a function of age, education, sex, and ethnic group may facilitate or discourage interethnic dating. Furthermore, mate availability considerations contribute to such decisions. Dr. M. Belinda Tucker, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, SBG Box 62, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1759, USA.

Gregory D. Morrow, Eddie M. Clark, Karla F. Brock: INDIVIDUAL AND PARTNER LOVE STYLES: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE QUALITY OF ROMANTIC INVOLVEMENTS The goal of this study was to explore the association between the love styles endorsed by respondents and their romantic partners on the one hand, and the quality of their romantic involvement's on the other. One hundred and eighty six couples at a large southern university completed a questionnaire that included a shortened version of Hendrick & Hendrick's (1986) Love Attitudes Scale (LAS) designed to assess six love styles originally proposed by Lee (1973). Both the individual's and partner's scores on the six love scales (Eros, Ludus, Storge, Pragma, Mania, Agape) were then examined as predictors of the structural qualities of the couple's relationship specified by Rusbult's (1980a, 1983) investment model. The results of correlational and multiple regression analyses indicated that the respondent's own love style scores were the best predictors of relationship quality. In particular, the endorsement of Eros and Agape were associated with higher levels of rewards, satisfaction, investments, and commitment, lower levels of cost and poor alternative quality. Ludus showed the opposite association with these same variables. The partner's love styles were also related to a number of relationship characteristics, although less strongly so. In addition, couples showed evidence of matching of love styles (with the exception of Ludus and Mania), and discrepancies in couple's love attitudes were related to negative outcomes for women but not for men. Finally, the associations between several demographic variables (relationship status, age, relationship duration) and respondents' love styles suggest that individuals' love attitudes may e subject to change as a result of time and/or experience. These findings suggest that individual's beliefs about love have important implications with regard to the relationship outcomes experienced by both themselves and their romantic partners. Gregory D. Morrow, Dept. of Psychology, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro PA, 16444,

Elaine Scharfe & Kim Bartholomew: ACCOMMODATION AND ATTACHMENT REPRESENTATIONS IN YOUNG COUPLES In a prospective study, we examined the relationship between internal representations of attachment and accommodation. Participants consisted of both members of established young couples (N = 128; mean age = 47 months at time 1). Participants were administered the Peer Attachment Interview and a relationship satisfaction scale twice over eight months. At time 2, participants completed the Accommodation Scale to assess responses to potentially destructive behavior by romantic partners. Current and previous attachment representations predicted the use of accommodation strategies. In particular, security was associated with the use of constructive accommodation strategies and fearfulness was associated with the use of destructive accommodation strategies. With few exceptions, the pattern of correlations between attachment ratings and accommodation responses was the same after the effects of relationship satisfaction were partialled out. The results suggest that accommodation may be one avenue through which attachment representations contribute to the quality of relationships. Elaine Scharfe or Kim Bartholomew, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, V5A 1S6.

Edith Burger & Robert M. Milardo: MARITAL INTERDEPENDENCE AND SOCIAL NETWORKS In an exploratory study of twenty-five wives and their husbands we examine the associations of spouses with kin and friends as predictors of four marital qualities: love, maintenance, conflict, and ambivalence. For husbands, contact with kin, and especially fathers, is tied to greater marital interdependence and lower conflict. For wives, contact with kin, and especially brothers-in-law, is consistently associated with greater marital distress in the form of lower love for her husband and reports of greater conflict and ambivalence on the part of both spouses. Husbands also report greater conflict and ambivalence on the part of both spouses. Husbands also report greater conflict and ambivalence when their wives interact frequently with friends. Overall, the findings suggest the effects of kin are heterogeneous, carrying substantially by the type of role relation, and that the processes underlying relations with kin are distinctly different for wives and husbands. Robert M. Milardo, Dept. of Human Development & Family Studies, Merrill Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5749, USA.

Anne E. Beall & Robert J. Sternberg: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF LOVE What does it mean to love someone? In particular, does it mean the same thing across time and space, or does its meaning change with context? Is the emotional experience of love, regardless of how people define love, always the same, or does the experience of love vary with context. In this article, we argue for a social-constructionist view of love, according to which both the definition and the emotional experience of love are contextually bound. We review both the social history and the psychological backdrop of love, concluding that we can understand love only in terms of cultural conceptions of (a) the beloved, (b) the feelings that accompany love, (c) the thoughts that accompany love, and (d) the actions, or the relations one has with the beloved. Robert J. Sternberg, Department of Psychology, Yale University, P.O. Box 208205, New Haven =, CT 06520-8205, USA

Janis B. Kupersmidt, Melissa DeRosier, & Charlotte P. Patterson: SIMILARITY AS THE BASIS FOR CHILDREN'S FRIENDSHIPS: THE ROLE OF SOCIOMETRIC STATUS, AGGRESSIVE AND WITHDRAWN BEHAVIOR, ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS The purpose of the present study was to examine similarity in demographic, behavioral, academic, and social attributes as descriptors and predictors of children's friendships. The characteristics of all possible pairs of unique classroom dyads (n=4725) were used to predict reciprocated school, home, and best friendship choices among 554 third (M=9.38 years old) and fourth (M=10.47 years old) graders. Peer reports of aggressive and withdrawn behavior and sociometric status, teacher reports of poverty, and archival reports of sex, race, and academic achievement were obtained. The main finding was that as similarity increased, the likelihood of being friends also increased. Specifically, patterns of gender, race, poverty, aggression, withdrawn behavior, achievement, and sociometric status between dyad members were descriptive and predictive of children's friendships. Janis B. Kupersmidt, Department of Psychology, CB # 3270, Davie Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

Brief Articles Carolyn Beth Taraban & Clyde Hendrick: PERSONALITY PERCEPTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH SIX STYLES OF LOVE The perceived personality traits associated with different love attitudes were examined using C. Hendrick. Hendrick's (1986) Love Attitudes Scale as stimulus material for the expression of six love styles (;Lee, 1973). One group of subjects was asked to generate descriptive personality traits for six target persons, each of whom represented one of he six love attitudes. A second group rated the importance of the various traits for describing a particular target person. It was found that each love attitude had relatively distinct personality traits associated with it. Thus, the target persons representing the different love attitudes were perceived quite differently. The results suggest that there may be different prototypes for different styles of love. Carolyn Beth Taraban, Department of Psychology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 79409, USA.

Judy O. Berry & Warren H. Jones: THE PARENTAL STRESS SCALE: INITIAL PSYCHOMETRIC EVIDENCE The development of a measure of parental stress, the Parental Stress Scale, is presented. All participants (total N = 1276) completed the Parental Stress Scale and some also completed the Parenting Stress Index, a generic measure of stress called the Perceived Stress Scale, relevant measures of emotions and role satisfaction (e.g. loneliness, marital satisfaction, guilt, etc.) , and one group completed the Parental Stress Scale twice. Analyses suggested that the Parental Stress Scale is highly reliable, both internally and over time, and related to the general measure of stress. Also, results were consistent across parents of differing parental characteristics suggesting the stability of scale characteristics. The validity of Parental Stress Scale scores was supported by predicted correlations with significant discrimination between mothers of children in treatment for emotional/behavioral problems and developmental disabilities versus mothers of children not receiving treatment. Finally, a facto analysis suggested that a four factor structure underlies responses to the Parental Stress Scale, despite its high internal reliability. Judy O. Berry, Department of Psychology, The University of Tulsa, 600 South College, Tulsa, OK 74104-3189, USA.

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Submitted contents for November 1995 Issue 12iv

Edwina S. Uehera: RECIPROCITY RECONSIDERED: GOULDNER'S "MORAL NORM OF RECIPROCITY" AND SOCIAL SUPPORT Edwina Uehara, 4101 15th Ave., NE JH-30, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

John B. Nezlek: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION, GENDER/SEX SIMILARITY, AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN CLOSE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS John B. Nezlek, Applied Social Psychology Research Institute, Department of Psychology, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187.

Special section on the study of relationships Irwin G. Sarason, Gregory R. Pierce, Barbara R. Sarason: INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL SECTION, HOW SHOULD WE STUDY RELATIONSHIPS? Frank D. Fincham: FROM THE ORTHOGENIC PRINCIPLE TO THE FISH-SCALE MODEL OF OMNISCIENCE: ADVANCING UNDERSTANDING OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP. Frank D. Fincham, School of Psychology, University of Wales College, PO Box 901, Cardiff, CF2 2LF, UNITED KINGDOM Ellen Berscheid: HELP WANTED: A GRAND THEORIST OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, SOCIOLOGIST OR ANTHROPOLOGIST PREFERRED. Ellen Berscheid, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, N309 Elliott Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Steve Duck: TALKING RELATIONSHIPS INTO BEING Steve Duck, 151-BCSB, Communication Studies Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1498, USA Robert J. Sternberg: LOVE AS A STORY Robert J. Sternberg, Department of Psychology, Yale University, P.O. Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520-8205 Mark Baldwin: RELATIONAL SCHEMAS AND COGNITION IN CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS. Mark Baldwin, Department of Psychology, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2E9, CANADA Mark LaRossa: STORIES AND RELATIONSHIPS Ralph LaRossa, Department of Sociology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA. Arthur Aron & Elaine N. Aron: THREE SUGGESTIONS FOR INCREASED EMPHASIS IN THE STUDY OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Arthur Aron & Elaine N. Aron, Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA Julia T. Wood: THE PART IS NOT THE WHOLE: WEAVING DIVERSITY INTO THE STUDY OF RELATIONSHIPS Julia T. Wood, Communication Studies, CB #3285, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA Willard W. Hartup: THE THREE FACES OF FRIENDSHIP Willard W. Hartup, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, 51 E. River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Brant R. Burleson: PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS AS A SKILLED ACCOMPLISHMENT Brant R. Burleson, Department of Communication, Purdue University, 1366 LAEB 2114, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1366, USA Jenny de Jong Gierveld: RESEARCH INTO RELATIONSHIP RESEARCH DESIGNS; PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP UNDER THE MICROSCOPE. Jenny de Jong Gierveld, NIDI, PB 11650, The Hague, 2502 AR, THE NETHERLANDS Linda K. Acitelli: DISCIPLINES AT PARALLEL PLAY Linda K. Acitelli, 5081 1SR, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, USA David A. Kenny: RELATIONSHIP SCIENCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY David A. Kenny, Dept. of Psychology, University of Connecticut, U-20, Storrs, CT 06269-1020, USA Commentaries Karen S. Rook: RELATIONSHIP RESEARCH AT THE CROSSROADS: COMMENTARY ON A SPECIAL ISSUE Sandra Metts: THREE QUESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION Irwin G. Sarason, Gregory R. Pierce, Barbara R. Sarason: PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP: CURRENT ISSUES, FUTURE DIRECTIONS.

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FAMILY RELATIONS Table of Contents for July 1995 kindly supplied by Editor Mark A. Fine (For details of these papers and addresses of authors, please contact Mark Fine, Dept of Human Development and Family Studies, Univ of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA [email protected])

ASSESSMENT OF COUPLES, MARRIAGES, AND FAMILIES - A SPECIAL COLLECTION Construct Validity of the Short Forms of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale John Hunsley, Celine Pinsent, Monique Lefebvre, Susan James-Tanner, and Diana Vito Construction and Validation of a Marital Intimacy Questionnaire Stephan Van den Broucke, Hans Vertommen, and Walter Vandereycken A Review of Comprehensive Questionnaires Used in Premarital Education and Counseling Jeffry H. Larson, Thomas B. Holman, David M. Klein, Dean M. Busby, Robert F. Stahmann, and Diane Peterson Assessing the Dynamics of Gender in Couples and Families: The Gendergram Mark B. White and Kirsten J. Tyson-Rawson Assessing Multiple Determinants of Relationship Commitment in Cohabiting Gay, Cohabiting Lesbian, Dating Heterosexual, and Married Heterosexual Couples Lawrence A. Kurdek The Marital Problems Questionnaire (PQ): A Short Screening Instrument for Marital Therapy Frizzier M. Douglas, IV and Robin Douglas The Behavioral and Emotional Reactivity Index: Preliminary Evidence for Construct Validity From Three Studies Susan E. Barbell and Ronald M. Stable Assessing Change With Preventive Interventions: The Reliable Change Index Dale R. Haley GENERAL INTEREST Relations Between Fathers' Occupational Conditions, Values of Self- Direction and Conformity, and Perceptions of Nurturant and Restrictive Parenting and Young Children's Depression and Aggression Mary Elizabeth Current-Smith, Tic L. Bennett, and Michael R. O'Rear Perceiver Bias in Expectancies for Sexually Abused Children Kathleen Briggs, Laura Hubbs-Tait, Rex E. Culp, and Maureen Blankemeyer Normative Beliefs About Parents' and Stepparents' Financial Obligations to Children Following Divorce and Remarriage Lawrence H. Ganong, Marilyn Coleman, and Deborah Mistina Disclosure of HIV-Positive Status: Five Women's Stories Judy A. Kimberly, Julianne M. Serovich, and Kathryn Greene

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JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY Table of Contents for August 1995 (Vol. 57, 3) kindly supplied by Editor Marilyn Coleman (For details of these papers and addresses of authors, please contact Marilyn Coleman, Dept of Human Development and Family Studies, Univ of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA [email protected])

Editor's Note Burgess Address Genetic Influence on Family Systems: Implications for Development- D. Reiss Bridging the Individual and the Family Bridging the Individual and the Family- M. J. Benson & J. E. Deal Linking Family Processes and Academic Competence Among Rural African American Youths- G. H. Brody, Z. Stoneman, & D. Flor The Role of Family Emotional Expressiveness in the development of Children's Social Competence- L. A. Boyum & R. D. Parke Coparenting During the Child's 2nd Year: A Descriptive Account-S. Gable, J. Belsky, & K. Crnic Social Capital and Successful Development Among At-Risk Youth-F. F. Furstenberg Jr. & M. E. Hughes Broad and Narrow Socialization: The Family in the Context of a Cultural Theory- J. J. Arnett Of General Interest Butterflies and Bifurcations: Can Chaos Theory Contribute to Our Understanding of Family Systems?- M. Ward The Incidence and Frequency of Marital Sex in a National Sample-V. Call, S. Sprecher, & P. Schwartz Perception of Adoption as Social Stigma: Motivation for Search and Reunion- K. March Belief and Behavior: Does Religion Matter in Today's Marriage? A. Booth, D. R. Johnson, A. Branaman, & A. Sica Welfare Use Across Generations: How Important Are the Ties That Bind? M. R. Rank & L. C. Cheng Mother's Solutions to Childrearing Problems: Conditions and Processes- K. Pridham, N. Denney, J. Pascoe, Y. M. Chiu, & D. Creasey Gender and Family Work in One-Parent Households- L. D. Hall, A. J. Walker, & A. C. Acock Determinants of Child Custody Arrangements at Divorce- G. L. Fox & R. F. Kelly Marriage as Support or Strain? Marital Quality Following the Death of a Parent- D. Umberson Women's Marital Naming in Two Generations: A National Study-D. R. Johnson & L. K. Scheuble

Family Caregiving Multidimensional Predictors of Caregiver Strain Among Older Persons Caring for Frail Spouses- A. C. Mui Caregiver Burden: Differentiating the Content and Consequences of Family Care giving- S. C. Reinhard & A. V. Horwitz Intergenerational Solidarity and the Workplace: Employees' Caregiving for Their Parents- M. E. Starrels, B. Ingersoll-Dayton, M. B. Neal, & H. Yamada

Parent-Child Relations Family Stories in the Early Stages of Parenthood- B. H. Fiese, K. A. Hooker, L. Kotary, J. Schwagler, & M. Rimmer Inner-City Parents Under Economic Pressure: Perspectives on the Strategies of Parenting-G. H. Elder Jr., J. S. Eccles, M. Ardelt, & S. Lord The Divorce Process and Young Children's Well-Being: A Prospective Analysis- D. R. Morrison & A. J. Cherlin The Effects of Parental Supportive Behaviors of Life Satisfaction of Adolescent Offspring- M. H. Young, B. C. Miller, M. C. Norton, & E. J. Hill Depression Among Older Parents: The Role of Intergenerational Exchange- G. R. Lee, J. K. Netzer, & R. T. Coward

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Possible options include payment for subjects, printing, purchase of data set, equipment or supplies, and travel related to conduct and presentation of the research. Please also submit one letter of recommendation and a vita. Materials should be submitted to Steve Duck by October 27th 1995. The award will be made by a committee appointed by the Chair of the Awards Committee, Linda K. Acitelli, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Houston, Houston TX 77204. CONSTITUTION LATEST Thanks to Tom Blank, Dan Canary, Michael Cunningham, Kathryn Dindia, and Tara Emmers, the committee working to revise the draft in light of feedback received. Thanks for all the feedback received so far. NEWS OF MEMBERS Serdar DEGIRMENCIOGLU has successfully completed his dissertation on the effects of gaining and losing friends in adolescence. Ken CISSNA will be on leave AY 1995-96 to work on a book with Rob Anderson on Martin Buber, Carl Rogers, and Public Dialogue for SUNY Press. Joseph DeVITO has a new email address: [email protected] Steve DUCK's email account that has 'umaxc' in it has been CLOSED. If you have that address on file then please change it to [email protected] or [email protected] depending on the degree to which you enjoy typing. Lee EGGERT has developed a new method of computer-assisted structured interaction. Robert HANSSON has a new email address: [email protected] Luciano L'ABATE has a new email address: [email protected] Wendy LEEDS-HURWITZ was the recipient of the Stella Gray Award for Outstanding Teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Michelle MILLER has finished her dissertation on Grandmothers, mothers, and daughters: An ethnography of intergenerational communication, non-fatal suicide, and gender. Linda PLEDGER has received the Excellence in Teaching Award for the College of Professional Studies, University of Arkansas. Karen PRAGER has a new email address: [email protected] Pamela C. REGAN has a new email address: [email protected] Carol WERNER has a new email address: [email protected] and a new fax number: (801-581-5841) William WILMOT has a new email address: [email protected] and a new fax number (406-543-3136)

MEMBERS ON THE MOVE --ONWARDS AND UPWARDS Carol BRUESS has moved to Hamline University, 1536 Hewitt Ave MB133, Hamline Univ, St Paul MN 55104 [email protected] Serdar DEGIRMENCIOGLU has moved to Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University, 2040 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208. Dana DeHART has started as a Postdoc at the Dept of Psychology, Univ of South Carolina and also has (it's a post DOC, see?) completed her dissertation concerning interpersonal recovery following trauma in close relationships (attachment and battering). New email address [email protected] Tara EMMERS has moved to Dept of Speech Communication, St Cloud Univ, 720 Fourth Ave South, St Cloud, MN 56301-4498 ([email protected]) Larry FREY has been promoted to Full Professor at Loyola University of Chicago Pam KALBLEISCH has been granted tenure at the rank of Associate Professor, University of Wyoming Holly LATTY-MANN has moved to 3901 US Hwy 220N #154, Greensboro NC 27410 and become a consultant for FARR. Wendy LEEDS-HURWITZ has been promoted to Full Professor at the University of Wisconsin- Parkside. Anne M. McGUIRE has moved to the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe, where she is a Fellow. Kristin MICKELSON has accepted a Postdoc with Ron Kessler and her new address is ISR, Univ of Michigan, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, email [email protected], 313- 763-2365. Katherine MILLER and Jim STIFF will be moving to the Dept of Communication, University of Kansas in January 1996. Bill OWEN has been elected to a three-year term as Chair of the Dept of Commuincation Studies, Cal State, Sacramento Ron WRIGHT has moved to the University of Arizona at Tucson as an Assistant Professor of Communication

BOOKS BY MEMBERS Ken CISSNA (1995) Applied Communication in the 21st Century. Erlbaum. Joyce Hocker & William WILMOT (1995) Interpersonal conflict, 4th Edn Wm. C. Brown & co Pamela J. KALBFLEISCH & Michael J. CODY (eds.) (1995) Gender, power, and communication in human relationships Erlbaum: Hillsdale Karen PRAGER (1995) The psychology of intimacy. Guilford (out this fall) Nelly VANZETTI & Steve DUCK [Eds] 1995 A Lifetime of Relationships. Brooks/Cole: Pacific Grove, CA. William WILMOT (1995) Relational Communication McGraw-Hill Elaine Yarborough & William WILMOT (1995) Artful mediation: Constructive conflict at work Cairns Pub. MEMBERS WINNING GRANTS Lee EGGERT has won two grants, one on Preventing Youth Suicide and the other on Measuring Adolescent Potential for Suicide. Robin GOODWIN has received funding from the SOROS Foundation to fund two research assistants in Hungary and one in Russia and Georgia for a study on social support networks in these countries. Michelle MILLER has won a $4000 grant to interview inner city African American teens on drug resistance strategies. Pamela C. REGAN has won a grant to explore the perceived sexual consequences of the obesity stereotype. MEMBERS SEEKING HELP Michelle MILLER (Univ of Memphis) would like to hear from anyone working on suicide (as a research topic, of course), mother-daughter communication, and/or sexual communication JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: FACULTY POSITION - ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY The Department of Communication of the Main Campus of Arizona State University seeks one faculty at the rank of assistant professor with a specialty in interpersonal communication. With this hire, the Department will include 25 faculty working in Intercultural, Organizational, Interpersonal Rhetoric/Public Communication, and Performance Studies. ASU offers BA/BS, MA, and Ph.D. degrees in Communication. The Department provides laboratory facilities, microcomputer resources, project support, a performance studio, and research assistants. The Main Campus is located in Tempe, a progressive suburb of Phoenix. Our location offers the resources of a major metropolitan area (2+ million) in a state with spectacular natural scenery and recreational areas, sublime winters, and a culturally rich population. Required: PhD (conferred by appointment date) and evidence of excellence in teaching and research. Desired: Emphasis in one or more of the following areas: relational development, social influence, family relations, inter- personal competence, interethnic communication; candidates who could also contribute to instruction in methods (qualitative or quantitative) or statistics. We prefer collegial candidates who are willing to work with other faculty. Salaries are competitive. Application deadline: Oct. 1, 1995, and every two weeks thereafter until filled. Applications must include a letter specifying the position sought, curriculum vita, three letters of reference, evidence of scholarly work, and evidence of teaching excellence (e.g., syllabi, teaching evaluations). Submit applications to: Sandra Petronio, Ph.D. Chair, Search Committee, Dept. of Communication Arizona State University Box 871205 Tempe, AZ 85287-1205

CALLS FOR PAPERS Special Issue Of Early Education And Development: Relationships In Early Childhood Programs Edited By James Elicker, Ph.D., Purdue University Authors are invited to submit manuscripts for a special issue of Early Education & Development that will be devoted to interpersonal relationships in early childhood settings. Submissions for the special issue should include and emphasize analyses at the relationship or relationship-system level, as opposed to individual- interactional-, or program-level analyses. Papers may be focused on theory, research, or practice concerning adult-child, child-child, and/or adult-adult relationships in settings serving children from birth to 8 years old. "Early childhood settings" might include: child care centers; family child care homes; preschools; Head Start; primary grades in elementary school; intervention programs; foster care; etc. Papers should report original research findings, present original theoretical formulations, or provide a critical analysis of theoretical and/or research issues. Of particular interest are papers that will advance the field's understanding of relationships as contexts for individual development, as developmental outcomes, and as important aspects of programs for children. Papers introducing new ways of conceptualizing relationships or new relationship measures are also especially desired. Five copies of the manuscript should be submitted and marked, "Special Issue: Relationships in Early Childhood Programs." Submissions should be sent to: Early Education and Development, University of Virginia, 404 Emmet Street, 147 Ruffner Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2495. The submission deadline is April 1, 1996. Publication of the special issue is scheduled for no later than January, 1997. For additional information, contact James Elicker, Dept. of Child Development & Family Studies, 1269 Fowler House, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1269. phone: (317)494-2938. email: [email protected] Rituals in personal relationships Editors (Carol J. Bruess and Judy C. Pearson) of a proposed book tentatively entitled Rituals in Personal Relationships are accepting submissions for chapters which highlight the role of rituals in our understanding of personal relationships. Manuscripts which report original research and/or offer theoretical or methodological perspectives on rituals in various types of relationships -- including but not limited to friendship, family, marriage, as well as social and professional relationships -- are encouraged. Manuscripts should be approximately 25 pages and written to engage an audience of both advanced undergraduates and relationship researchers. Detailed abstracts of project ideas or research currently in progress will be seriously considered. Please send papers or abstracts to Carol Bruess, Hamline University, 1536 Hewitt Ave PO Box 133, St Paul MN 55104. Call email or write if you would like more information about this project: Carol Bruess 612-641-2990 [email protected] or Judy C. Pearson, 703-698-6072, [email protected] NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following who have joined the Network since April: Victor L. BISSONNETTE, Guy BODENMANN, Bruce A. BRACKEN, Wendy H. BUYSSE, Risa DICKSON, Rom HARRE, Helen E. HASTE, Eva KLOHNEN, Simon LAROSE, Maurice LEVESQUE, Carol MATUSICKY, Marianne McGRATH, Louis MEDVENE, Janet Braun NEALER, James Christopher NIX, Stephen NOWICKI, Anne I. O'DWYER, Takashi OGUCHI, Ruth E. PRITCHETT, Andrea PROULX, Steve RHOLES, Marcel SATSKY, Donald UNGER

....WHO HAVE THE FOLLOWING INTERESTS Victor L. BISSONNETTE, Empathic accuracy in close relationships Guy BODENMANN, Stress and coping in couples, dyadic coping, stress induction, stress prevention in marriage, Anger in marriage, etc. Bruce A. BRACKEN, Children's relationships and parenting styles; sociometrics; family constellations; factor analysis of AIR (Assessment of Interpersonal Relations). Wendy H. BUYSSE, Social networks and social support of adolescents with psycho-social behavior problems. Risa DICKSON, Attachment theory, attribution theory, family communication. Rom HARRE, Relation between discourse - conversations and personhood Helen E. HASTE, Development of social, moral and political values; gender issues: metaphors, mind and culture. Eva KLOHNEN, Study attachment across the life-span Simon LAROSE, Attachment and Social Support/ High School-College Transition Maurice LEVESQUE, Currently examining perceptions of sexual attraction in developing relationships and self- disclosure patterns among friends using the Social Relations Model. Marianne McGRATH, Socialization technique that encourage empathy and prosocial behavior - induction, etc. Louis MEDVENE, Looking at nature of social exchange processes within self-help groups; also looking at Aron's IOS Scale & Equity Theory - does IOS variable (inclusion of other in self) moderate consequences of imbalance in relationships. Janet Braun NEALER, Child Abuse; Family Therapy; Gender Issues; Qualitative Research James Christopher NIX, Same-sex friendship maintenance, social support in close relationships. Stephen NOWICKI, Role of nonverbal communication in determining effective transitions through stages of a relationship. Anne I. O'DWYER, Conflict, Self/Identity & Interpersonal Perception Takashi OGUCHI, Some works on self-disclosure service Ruth E. PRITCHETT, I run a divorce and separation recovery group also other personal development groups. I offer individual and couples counseling. Steve RHOLES, Most work concerns adult attachment styles. Have also done work on children's friendships. Marcel SATSKY, Attachment styles, parenting styles, self-esteem and family expressiveness. Donald UNGER, Marital satisfaction of couples coping with chronic illness; Support systems of parents w/special needs children; Social networks of youth.

.... WHO USE THE FOLLOWING METHODS Victor L. BISSONNETTE, Dyadic Adjustment Exit-Voice-Loyalty-Neglect, Commitment, Guy BODENMANN, Systematic Observation, Questionnaires, Interview, Experimental Approach (EISI-Experiment), CAOS is a new observation system running on Windows. Bruce A. BRACKEN, Assessment of Interpersonal Relations (AIR)., Wendy H. BUYSSE, Social Network Grid and Social Network Map, Adopted Version for Research (in Dutch), Risa DICKSON, Attachment (Collin's & Read), Social Support, Hazan & Shaver Parental Caregiving Rom HARRE, Discourse analysis plus Kelly Rep Grids, Helen E. HASTE, Interviews, Narratives, Life Event Situations, 'My Life' measure: 'Projected Autobiography' Eva KLOHNEN, Personality Inventories, Attachment Measures, Well-Being Measures, Developed self-report measure for ego-deficiency based on CPI Simon LAROSE, IPPA; Armsden & Greeberg/Hazan & Shaver/ AAI, Main & Hesse, Marianne McGRATH, Interpersonal Reactivity Index, Self-Consciousness Scale (Scheier & Carver), A version of the IRI for Children Louis MEDVENE, Aron's IOS Scale, Clark's Communal Orientation Scale; Murstein's Exchange Scale; Berscheid's CR, Stephen NOWICKI, Wiggins IAS & Kiesler's IMI, Developed measures of nonverbal communication. The diagnostic analysis of nonverbal Accuracy Steve RHOLES, Measure of Attachment Scale, Marcel SATSKY, Adult Attachment Interview; Parenting Styles, Donald UNGER, Social support measures, Network of Relationships Inventory, Marital Satisfactions

....AND HAVE PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING WORKS Guy BODENMANN, Bodenmann, G. (1995). Bewaltigung von stress in partnerschaften. University Freiburg Schweiz: Verlag Hans Huber Bern., Bodenmann, G. (1995). Dyadisches coping and partnerschaftszufriedenheit. Psychologische Beitrage, 37, 72-89., Bodenmann, G. (1995). A systemic-transactional conceptualization of stress and coping in couples. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 34, 39-49. Bruce A. BRACKEN, Bracken, B.A., & Crain, R.M. (1994). Children's and adolescents' interpersonal relations: Do age, race, and gender define normalcy? Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 12, 14-32., Bracken, B.A., & Newman, V. (1994). Child and adolescent interpersonal relations with mothers, fathers, male peers, female peers, and teachers. : A factor analytic investigation. Canadian Journal o, Bracken, B.A. (1995). Handbook of self-concept: Development, social, and clinical considerations. New York: Wiley. Wendy H. BUYSSE, Buysse, W.H. (in press). The relationship between social network, social support and problem behavior of adolescents in care. In H.E. Colla etal (Eds), Hdbk of Residential & Foster Care in Europe., Buysse, W.H. (1995). The relationship between adolescents in placed in residential care and their parents: The perception of the adolescents and their professional careworkers. Orthopedagogy & Pare, Buysse, W.H. (1993). The significance of social networks and social support to adolescents in residential care. In P.M. van Bergh etal (Ed), Orthopedagogical theory, Empirical Research and Youth Car Risa DICKSON, Lamude, K.G., Scudder, J., & Dickson, R. (1993). Rhetorical communication messages of type-a scoring physicians. Journal of Perceptual & Motor Skills, 77, 1-2., McLaughlin, M.L., Cody, M.J., Dickson, R., & Manusov, V. (1992). Explaining failure to follow advice: Real reasons vs. good explanations. In Explaining Oneself to others., Rom HARRE, Harre & Muhlhausler (1992). Pronouns and People. Oxford: Blackwell., Harre & Gillett (1994). The Discursive Mind. Sage: London & LA., Harre (1990). Social Being, 2nd Edition. Oxford: Blackwell. Helen E. HASTE, Haste, H.E. (1994). The Sexual Metaphor. Harvard University Press., Haste, H.E. (1993). Moral creativity and education for citizenship. Creativity Research Journal, 6 (1/2), 153-164., Haste, H.E. (1994). Morality self and social-historical context. In G. Noam & T. Wren (Eds), The Moral Self. MIT Press. Eva KLOHNEN, Peterson, B., & Klohnen, E.C. (1995). The realization of ? in two samples of women. Psychology and Agina., John, O.P., Cheek, J.M., & Klohnen, E.C. (in press). The prototypical self-monitor: A comparison of self-report and observer ratings. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, Simon LAROSE, Larose, S., & Roy, R. (1995). Test of reactions and adaptation in college (TRAC): A new measure of learning propensity for college students. Journal of Educational Psychology, 97, (2), 293-306., Adam, K.S., Keller, A., West, M., Larose, S., & Gozzer, L.D., (1994). Parental representation in suicidal adolescents: A controlled study. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 28, 418-, Maurice LEVESQUE, Levesque, M.J., & Kenny, D.A. (1994). Accuracy of behavioral predictions at zero acquaintance: A social relations analysis. JPSP, 65, 1178-1187., Blank, T.O., Levesque, M.J., & Winters, G. (1993). The triad of control: Concepts and application to caregiving. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 16, 261-286., Blank, T.O., & Levesque, M.J., (1993). Constructing success and failure: Age differences in perceptions and explanations of success and failure. International Journal of Aging and Human Development Marianne McGRATH,McGrath, M.P., Wilson, S.R., & Frassetto, J.J. (in press). Why some forms of induction are better than others at encouraging prosocial behavior. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly.,McGrath, M.P., & Bogat, G.A. (in press). Motive, intention and authority: Relating developmental research to sexual abuse prvention. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology,Power, T.G., McGrath, M.P., Hughes, C.O., & Manire, S.H. (1994). Compliance and self-assertion: Young children's responses to mothers versus fathers. Developmental Psychology, 30, 980-989. Louis MEDVENE,Caregiving in close relationships in cardiac patients: Exchange, power and attributional perspectives on caregiving.,Causal attributions and parent-child relationships in a self-help group for families of the mentally ill.,Increasing Mexican/American attendance of support groups for parents of the mentally ill: Organizational and psychological facotrs. Stephen NOWICKI,Nowicki, S., & Duke, M.P. The Diagnostic analysis of nonverbal accuracy. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 18, 385-394.,Estroff, S.R., Nowicki, S. (1992). Interpersonal complementarity, gender of interactants and performance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 351-356.,Nowicki, S., & Mannheim, S. (1991). Interpersonal complementarity and time of interaction in female relationships. Journal of Research in Personality, 25, 322-333. Takashi OGUCHI,Oguchi, T. (in press). Voice and interpersonal attraction. Japanese Psychological Research.,Oguchi, T. (1991). Goal-based analyses of willingness of self-disclosure.,Oguchi, T. (1991). Human behavior in tourism: Japanese tourist's behavior in Bali. The Journal of Applied Sociology. Steve RHOLES,Rholes, Simpson, & Blakely (1995). Adult attachment styles and mothers' relationships with their young children. Personal Relationships, 2, 35-54.,Simpson & Rholes (1994). Stress and secure base relationships in adulthood. In D. Perlman & K. Bartholomew (Eds), Attachment in close relationships. London: Kingsley.,Simpson, Rholes & Nelligan (1992). Support-seeking and support-giving within couples in anxiety-provoking situations: The role of attachment styles. JPSP, 62, 434-446. Donald UNGER,Unger, D.G., & Powell, D.R. (1991) (Eds). Families as nurturing systems: Support across the life span. New York: Hawarth Press.,Unger, D.G., Jacobs, S.B., & Cannar, C. (in press). Social support and marital satisfaction among couples coping with chronic obstructive airway diseases. JSPR.,Griffiths, D., & Unger, D.G. (1994). Views about permanency planning for families with adult children with mental retardation. Family Relations, 43, 221-227.

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Submitted contents for November 1995 Issue 12iv

Edwina S. Uehera: RECIPROCITY RECONSIDERED: GOULDNER'S "MORAL NORM OF RECIPROCITY" AND SOCIAL SUPPORT In a classic statement three decades ago Gouldner (1960) made an important analytic distinction between reciprocity as a pattern of social exchange and reciprocity as a general moral belief. Gouldner argued that the moral norm of reciprocity constitutes an important "causal force" in social life. The reciprocity norm dictates that Ego should not end up gaining at the expense of Alter's beneficial acts towards her. In contrast to equity theory, which suggests that people will react equally negatively to under- and overbenefiting, the reciprocity norm suggests that people will, above all, attempt to avoid overbenefiting from their socially supportive interactions. While many studies of social support have incorporated the concepts of reciprocity and exchange, virtually none has examined the validity of Gouldner's distinction nor its potential implications for the dynamics of social support. This paper explores the evidence for Gouldner's claims from studies on support and reciprocity. Evidence is found suggesting that people feel obligated to return benefits they receive from others, appear to be more psychologically and emotionally averse to overbenefiting than underbenefiting from social support interactions, and tend to avoid placing themselves in the position of "overbenefitors." Alternative explanations for avoidance of overbenefiting are considered, and implications for the study of social support are explored. Edwina Uehara, 4101 15th Ave., NE JH-30, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

John B. Nezlek: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION, GENDER/SEX SIMILARITY, AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN CLOSE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Participants maintained a social interaction diary, a variant of the Rochester Interaction Record, to describe their close personal relationships. Relationships were defined using relative frequency of contact with different individuals and via participants' descriptions of relational partners. Individuals with whom participants had more contact were more likely to be described as close friends than were individuals with whom participants had less contact. The results suggest that the characteristics of same-sex relationships depend less on the specific partners composing the relationship than do the characteristics of opposite-sex relationships. As hypothesized, the characteristics of close same-sex relationships did not differ from the characteristics of other same-sex relationships, although interactions with best friends were more intimate than interactions with other same-sex partners. In contrast, the characteristics of close opposite-sex relationships differed from the characteristics of other opposite-sex relationships. Men and women who were romantically involved had more contact with their romantic partners than with other opposite-sex persons, and they had more contact with their romantic partners than men and women who were not romantically involved had with their most frequent opposite-sex interaction partner. For women, interactions with most frequent opposite-sex interaction partners were more affectively rewarding and instrumentally positive if these men were romantic partners, whereas for men, the affective quality and instrumentality of interactions with most frequent opposite-sex interaction partners did not differ as function of whether these women were romantic partners. John B. Nezlek, Applied Social Psychology Research Institute, Department of Psychology, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187.

Special section on the study of relationships Irwin G. Sarason, Gregory R. Pierce, Barbara R. Sarason: INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL SECTION, HOW SHOULD WE STUDY RELATIONSHIPS?

Frank D. Fincham: FROM THE ORTHOGENIC PRINCIPLE TO THE FISH-SCALE MODEL OF OMNISCIENCE: ADVANCING UNDERSTANDING OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP. The field of personal relationships is examined in terms of the developmental processes of differentiation and integration. A need for greater integration is noted, leading to discussion of several issues likely to facilitate development of the field. These include greater attention to describing phenomena studied, properties of relationships, applied research, and the role of time in understanding personal relationships. The fish-scale model of omniscience in interdisciplinary research is offered as one means of achieving integration. Frank D. Fincham, School of Psychology, University of Wales College, PO Box 901, Cardiff, CF2 2LF, UNITED KINGDOM

Ellen Berscheid: HELP WANTED: A GRAND THEORIST OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, SOCIOLOGIST OR ANTHROPOLOGIST PREFERRED. Knowledge about interpersonal relationships is currently encapsulated within type of relationship (e.g., romantic, parental), with the characteristics of the partners usually found in that type of relationship, as well as with the nature of the relationship phenomena examined. It is argued that a critical issue for the relationship field is whether a grand, over-arching theory of relationships can be developed. Such a theory would directly address the principal relationship types, delineating the similarities and differences among them with respect to the causal conditions associated with various relationship phenomena. It is further argued that an important class of causal conditions that governs behavior in all relationships is the culturally defined norms, roles, and expectations associated with type of relationship, and that these cultural prescriptions as opposed to "individualistic" causal conditions must play an important role in any unifying theory. If so, the sociological and anthropological perspectives need to achieve better balance with the psychological perspective that is becoming dominant in theory and research on interpersonal relationships. Ellen Berscheid, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, N309 Elliott Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

Steve Duck: TALKING RELATIONSHIPS INTO BEING When the study of relationships focuses on the dyadic level of analysis, it must also take account of the social context in which relationships come into being. That context is strongly bordered by talk and the rhetorical basis of normal (and scientific) discourse. Discourse and other actions typically reproduce the relationship in its own image on successive occasions, though they do not have to do so. The appearance of stability in relationships is thus the result of perpetually constructive activity of partners, not the result of "the nature" of the relationship itself. Steve Duck, 151-BCSB, Communication Studies Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1498, USA

Robert J. Sternberg: LOVE AS A STORY This article advances the view that love is a story. The article discusses relationships as stories, what our stories are like, kinds of stories, where stories come from, how stories control the development of relationships, the difficulty of changing stories, the role of ideal stories, the cultural matrix of stories, and relations to theories of love. Robert J. Sternberg, Department of Psychology, Yale University, P.O. Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520-8205

Mark Baldwin: RELATIONAL SCHEMAS AND COGNITION IN CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS. There is a recent trend toward the development of a comprehensive model of relational cognition, examining how information about interpersonal experiences is perceived, interpreted, stored and recalled. I present illustrative examples from recent adult attachment research, and argue that a better understanding of cognition about interpersonal dynamics could help to integrate the various domains of relationships research. Mark Baldwin, Department of Psychology, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2E9, CANADA

Mark LaRossa: STORIES AND RELATIONSHIPS How do the supposedly true stories we tell about the past influence our relationships in the present? What, in other words, is the rhetorical value of historical texts, written and oral? In this essay, I argue that more attention should be paid to how people socially create stories about "what really happened back then," to suit their own political interests; and how, in the process of doing so, they partition the world into cognitive territories known as "selves" and "others." Ralph LaRossa, Department of Sociology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.

Arthur Aron & Elaine N. Aron: THREE SUGGESTIONS FOR INCREASED EMPHASIS IN THE STUDY OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS We briefly consider three areas in which we think our field could usefully place more emphasis. First, we argue that when relationship researchers ignore deep, passionate relational experiences, it is at substantial cost to their understanding of relationship life. Second, we suggest that progress in our field requires theory that integrates motivational, cognitive, and emotional elements. Finally, we noted that in the various disciplines in which relationships are studied, individual phenomena are seen as the source of relational phenomena. However, we considered the possibility that sometimes the situation is reversed (e.g., in psychology, relational cognition may be the basis of "pure" cognition). Arthur Aron & Elaine N. Aron, Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA

Julia T. Wood: THE PART IS NOT THE WHOLE: WEAVING DIVERSITY INTO THE STUDY OF RELATIONSHIPS Future research should include a fuller range of relationships than have been studied to date. Investigating diverse relationships would increase understanding of specific human associations and would advance development and test of broad theories of relationships. Julia T. Wood, Communication Studies, CB #3285, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

Willard W. Hartup: THE THREE FACES OF FRIENDSHIP The argument is advanced that it is necessary to distinguish conceptually between having friends, the identity of one's friends, and friendship quality. These distinctions are especially important in research with children and adolescents because developmental outcome is not merely a matter of having friends but also depend on who the child's friends are and the quality of these friendships. Willard W. Hartup, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, 51 E. River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

Brant R. Burleson: PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS AS A SKILLED ACCOMPLISHMENT This essay pursues some implications of viewing personal relationships as a skilled accomplishment. It suggests that the social skills through which people conduct their relationship can be an integrative focus for research, sketches an approach to social skills grounded in a functional analysis of personal relationships, and describes how this type of analysis can be coupled with a "doubly developmental" model of relationship change. Brant R. Burleson, Department of Communication, Purdue University, 1366 LAEB 2114, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1366, USA

Jenny de Jong Gierveld: RESEARCH INTO RELATIONSHIP RESEARCH DESIGNS; PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP UNDER THE MICROSCOPE. This article evaluates several characteristics of population sampling frames, sampling procedures, and sample size as normally used in articles published in JSPR. Limitations of the logic-in-use are discussed and several recommendations for future paths are suggested. Jenny de Jong Gierveld, NIDI, PB 11650, The Hague, 2502 AR, THE NETHERLANDS

Linda K. Acitelli: DISCIPLINES AT PARALLEL PLAY Comparing relationship researchers to children engaging in parallel play, the author questions the popular impression that the field of personal relationships is interdisciplinary. The term interdisciplinary is contrasted with multidisciplinary. Being interdisciplinary requires researchers to integrate different perspectives on the same problem from more than on discipline. Being multidisciplinary requires only that researchers representing different disciplines be brought together and work on separate problems relevant to their own disciplines. Scanning a sample of the relationship literature, the author concludes that the field is more multidisciplinary than interdisciplinary. It is a field that approaches similar problems from different perspectives, but rarely integrates disparate work into a cohesive whole. With concrete suggestions, the author encourages relationship researchers from different disciplines to foster closer working relationships with one another in order to integrate their perspectives. Linda K. Acitelli, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Houston, Houston TX 77204, USA

David A. Kenny: RELATIONSHIP SCIENCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY Relationship science, as a young developing science, needs to develop a detailed empirical base. Various trends outside of the field are likely to influence the field. We are probably going to see more biological concepts and explanation, as well as more research on relationships for people in retirement and in service-oriented employment. Relationship research will continue to employ quantitative and qualitative methods. Among the quantitative methods to be increasingly used are network analysis, event history analysis, and multilevel models. David A. Kenny, Dept. of Psychology, University of Connecticut, U-20, Storrs, CT 06269-1020, USA

Commentaries Karen S. Rook: RELATIONSHIP RESEARCH AT THE CROSSROADS: COMMENTARY ON A SPECIAL ISSUE Sandra Metts: THREE QUESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION Irwin G. Sarason, Gregory R. Pierce, Barbara R. Sarason: PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP: CURRENT ISSUES, FUTURE DIRECTIONS.

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships SUBMITTED CONTENTS FOR ISSUE 13I FEBRUARY 1996

Holly Latty-Mann & Keith E. Davis: ATTACHMENT THEORY AND PARTNER CHOICE: PREFERENCE AND ACTUALITY Dr. Holly Latty-Mann, Division of Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, P.O. Box 3362, Durham, NC 27710

Rachel Dresner & Wendy S. Grolnick: CONSTRUCTIONS OF EARLY PARENTING, INTIMACY, AND AUTONOMY IN YOUNG WOMEN Wendy S. Grolnick, Frances L. Hiatt School of Psychology, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610

Jo Ellen Vespo, Kathryn A. Kerns & Elizabeth M. O'Connor: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN PRESCHOOL CLASSROOMS: SOCIAL SETS AS SOCIAL UNITS Jo Ellen Vespo, Utica College of Syracuse University, Burrstone Road, Utica, NY. 13502

Tim Cole & James J. Bradac: A LAY THEORY OF RELATIONAL SATISFACTION WITH BEST FRIENDS Tim Cole & Jim Bradac, Dept. of Communication, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Malcolm R. Parks & Kory Floyd: MEANINGS FOR CLOSENESS AND INTIMACY IN FRIENDSHIP Malcolm Parks, Dept. of Speech Communication DL-15, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195

Katariina Salmela-Aro & Jari-Erik Nurmi: UNCERTAINTY AND CONFIDENCE IN INTERPERSONAL PROJECTS: CONSEQUENCES FOR SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP AND WELL- BEING Katariina Salmela-Aro, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 4, SF-00014 Helsinki, Finland

Donald G. Unger, Sharon B. Jacobs & Christine Cannon: SOCIAL SUPPORT AND MARITAL SATISFACTION AMONG COUPLES COPING WITH CHRONIC CONSTRUCTIVE AIRWAY DISEASE Donald G. Unger, Ph.D., Department of Individual and Family Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716

Brief Article

Douglas M. Brock, Gregory R. Pierce, Irwin G. Sarason & Barbara R. Sarason: SIMULTANEOUS ASSESSMENT OF PERCEIVED GLOBAL AND RELATIONSHIP SPECIFIC SUPPORT Douglas M. Brock, Dept. of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195

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FAMILY RELATIONS: SPECIAL ISSUE

Table of Contents for October 1995 kindly supplied by Editor Mark A. Fine (For details of these papers and addresses of authors, please contact Mark Fine, Dept of Human Development and Family Studies, Univ of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA [email protected])

HELPING CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR FAMILY PROFESSIONALS Table of Contents

Introduction to the Special Issue Mark A. Fine

Education Advances in Family Life Education: Past, Present, and Future Margaret E. Arcus Advances in HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention Jeffrey A. Kelly Boundaries Between Parent and Family Education and Family Therapy: The Levels of Family Involvement Model William J. Doherty

Psychotherapy Family Therapy's Evolving Treatment of Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexual Orientation Leigh A. Leslie Family Therapy in the Postmodern Era Douglas H. Sprenkle & Steven D. Mills

Programs Divorce Mediation: Negotiating Agreements and Renegotiating Relationships Robert E. Emery Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention F. Scott Christopher Strengthening Marriages and Preventing Divorce: New Directions in Prevention Research Scott M. Stanley, Howard Markman, Michelle St. Peters, & B. Douglas Leber Informal Caregiving to Aging Family Members: A Critical Review Alexis J. Walker, Clara C. Pratt, & Linda Eddy Interventions to Ease the Transition to Parenthood: Why They are Needed and What They Can Do Carolyn Paper Cowan & Philip A. Cowan

Policy Family Policy Advocacy: Putting Knowledge to Work Pamela A. Monroe Divorce Law in the United States: A Focus on Child Custody Cheryl Buehler & Jean M. Gerard

Assessment Assessing the Four Fundamental Domains of Marriage Thomas N. Bradbury Family Assessment: Current Issues in Evaluating Families James H. Bray Assessment of Child Physical and Sexual Abuse Offenders Joel S. Milner & William D. Murphy

Training of Family Professionals Training and Supervision in Family Therapy: Current Issues and Future Directions Stephen A. Anderson, Sandra A. Rigazio- DiGilio, & Kara P. Kunkler Issues in Training Family Scientists Lawrence H. Ganong, Marilyn Coleman, & David H. Demo

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ABSTRACT PLEASE VOTE ON THE CONSITUTION ... Get JSPR at 40% off back issues for your library .... Get your calendar marked up for the annual confefrence in Seattle , the Emerald City June 29 1996 ... some ideas for networking offered by the Member Benefits chair

ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN SEATTLE - JUNE 1996 Mark your calendar and start to make bookings for the annual conference 29 June -3 July in Seattle. Seattle is rated by Rand McNally as the #1 vacation destination so the conference timing allows you and your family to enjoy the July 4th holidays in a perfect place after a great conference! CONSTITUTION A draft of the Constitution that formalizes INPR and helps to distribute the work is now enclosed with this Newsletter and you are invited to cast a vote to adopt or not adopt this constitution. An earlier draft was presented at the annual conference in Williamsburg and subsequently circulated with the Newsletter in September for comments. In response to the various comments received about these drafts the present document now represents the final presentation of a constitution to the membership. Once adopted it will guide our future in the Network and thus represents a significant step forward for the organization, which has now matured and grown to a point where the step becomes both essential and desirable. Please take the few seconds it will take for you to vote one way or the other and return the ballot sheet to Steve Duck, 105-BCSB, Communication Studies Department, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1498 to arrive before February 23rd 1996 when the votes will be counted. JSPR LIBRARY SUBSCRIPTION SPECIAL OFFER .... AND ...... JSPR BACK ISSUES SPECIAL OFFER AT 40% OFF As a most generous recognition of the success of JSPR, SAGE Publications Ltd. (London) is offering to supply Network members and Network members' libraries with back issues of JSPR at 40% off. You can enter a new library subscription and get the whole lot back to 1984 (see below), or fill out your collection back to 1984 at the above discount. *This offer is available only to persons who are current members of the International Network on Personal Relationships by Feb. 28, 1996* and is a wonderful opportunity for you and your libraries to make best use of dwindling budgets. In just ten years JSPR has established itself as a premier social science journal that is fully abstracted and indexed worldwide and has a very high Impact Factor in Social Sciences Citation Index -- and it has done this at a time when increasing numbers of new journals fail within the first three years. Your librarian may be especially interested in this offer (even if the librarian was not interested when the journal was first launched, for the reason given above. With a deal like this your institution ought to consider paying for your membership of the Network!!). Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it) JSPR now has such a demand that some back issues are not available any longer: These are 4iii, 4iv, 5ii, 6i, and 6ii and 10ii. For other volumes before vol. 11 SAGE has between 20 and 40 copies of each issue and between 70- 100 copies of vol. 11 and 12/1 and 12/3. They are very low on 12/02 with only 44 copies left due to the surge in Network membership recently. Second, the order must be initiated through a certified Network member as listed on SAGE's list of current members. Third, the library must deal directly with SAGE LONDON and not through a subscription agency (Note: SAGE Inc., California, a separate but related company, does not handle JSPR directly). NEW JSPR ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS We welcome Katherine Allen and Larry Kurdek as new members of the JSPR Advisory Board. INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK: SOME NETWORKING IDEAS Rachel Hsiung has suggested the following ideas that grew out of the roundtable discussion on INPR's interdisciplinary nature, held at the Williamsburg conference. One theme emerging from the discussion was the cost associated with being interdisciplinary. These ideas are aimed at reducing that cost by having INPR function as a network, or a clearinghouse of information, across disciplines. 1) Share postdoc information Finding out about postdoc opportunities seems to occur mainly within disciplines rather than across disciplines, and seems to be partly a function of a dissertation chair's connections within the discipline. To reduce this cost and encourage more interdisciplinary research, INPR could collect and publish postdoc announcements from all participating fields. 2) Create an INPR visiting researcher position. This designation would allow a faculty member to "visit" another discipline for a semester or year. If it is not possible to fund this honor, the faculty member could apply for home institution funding as part of a sabbatical arrangement. INPR could field inquiries about which institutions are willing to host the visiting researcher, and also review all applications for this honor. After an appropriate period of time the honoree could publicly present work accomplished during this period. This would achieve the same goal as the graduate student exchange suggest by Art Aron at Williamsburg. 3) Create an on-line discussion group. The same construct often goes by different names in different disciplines, creating potentially huge literature searches and discouraging researchers from venturing beyond their own discipline. Asking for help in identifying similar constructs via an on-line discussion group could significantly reduce the time necessary for these searches. In addition, it can help members from new disciplines identify people with similar interests and potential presentation partners. This could help "outsiders" overcome a lack of informal networks, and also stimulate discussion in general. Please respond with any comments, suggestions or questions to either of these addresses: [email protected] or Rachel Hsiung, 2515 Shadyside Ave, Huntingdon, PA 16652 814-643-9284 Responses will be reported on in a future issue of INN. Thanks!

NEWS OF MEMBERS Peter ANDERSEN has acquired new faxes at home and work (619) 669-2809 and (619) 594-6246 respectively. Stephan Van Den BROUCKE now has an new e-mail address: [email protected] Raimo LAASONEN hasa new email [email protected] Gerold MIKULA has a new email address: [email protected] Rosemary MILLS has a new fax number (204) 275-5299 JoEllen VESPO is currently on sabbatical 9/985-12/95 studying conflict resolution with peer and siblings among school aged children and has a new email [email protected] and a fax number 315-792-3292 Joe WALTHER is residing this term at the University of Manchester, UK, teaching and researching computer-mediated communication. Students in the UK and US are taking the course jointly, doing collaborative work via the Internet. Lynne M. WEBB is currently serving as President of Southern States Communication Association. She is presently on leave from University of Memphis at Gainesville Florida. (73233,[email protected]). Julia T. WOOD has been awarded the Francine Merritt Award which honors outstanding contributions to the lives of women in the Speech Communication Association and to the discipline of speech communication. Julie YINGLING has a new email (case sensitive): [email protected]

MEMBERS ON THE MOVE --ONWARDS AND UPWARDS Walid AFIFI is now teaching at the Dept. of Communication, Univ of Delaware, 250 Pearson Hall, Newark DE 19716-2534 [email protected] Rebecca COLLINS is now at the Social Policy Dept., RAND, Santa Monica, CA Enrico DiTOMMASO is now at the Dept. of Psychology, Univ of New Brunswick, Canada Pre DRUEN has successfully defended her Ph.D. Well done, Dr. Kory FLOYD has moved to Dept. Of Communication, Univ. of Arizona to finish his Ph.D. Dot MIELL has been promoted to Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University. Allen OMOTO will spend the next twelve months in Washington DC as the first William A. Bailey AIDS Policy Congressional Fellow. This fellowship is funded by the American Psychological Foundation and is part of the APA’s Congressional Fellowship Program. He has a new email: [email protected] Donna PAWLOWSKI has defended her dissertation successfully (Dialectical tensions in marital couples’ accounts of their relationships), and become an Assistant Professor at Creighton University. Maureen PERRY-JENKINS has started a new job at the University of Massachusetts (Dept. of Consumer and Family Studies, Skinner Hall, UMass, Amherst, MA 01003, [email protected], 413-545-2389. William S ROGERS has moved to 1700 George Bush Dr. #400, College Station TX 77840 and is attending A&M university for his Ph.D. Lisa ROGHAAR has completed and successfully defended her dissertation at the University of Texas at Austin on Adult Sibling Relationship and Interaction Rules (with a thematic content analysis of rule-related conversations)--yippee! She will be continuing on at Emerson College Division of Communication Studies as an Asst. Professor. Peter K. SMITH has moved to Dept of Psychology, Goldsmith’s College, Univ of London, email [email protected], fax [011-44] 171-919-7873 Jackie WEINSTOCK has taken a position as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Liberal Studies Program, University of Washington-Tacoma and has the new email address: [email protected] and fax (206) 552-4414 Cindy WHITE has moved to Dept. Of Communication, Univ of Colorado at Boulder, CO 80309- 0270 ([email protected]) . BOOKS BY MEMBERS Steve Ellyson & Amy G. HALBERSTADT [Eds] (1995) Explorations in social psychology: readings and research. McGraw-Hill: New York Kathleen GALVIN & Bernard Brommel (1995) Family Communication 4th Ed Harper Collins Publishers: Summit NJ (and you can’t get any higher than that) M. J. Lerner & Gerold MIKULA [eds] (1994) Entitlement and the affectional bond: Justice in close relationships.. Plenum: New York. Jackie WEINSTOCK & Esther Rothblum (eds) (1996) Lesbians and friendship: For ourselves and each other. NYU Press: New York MEMBERS WINNING GRANTS T.A. Niles and Michael HECHT received a $30000 supplement to the Drug Resistance Strategies Project to support research on adolescent identity formation and drug use. Michael gave a presentation at the 1994 Network Conference on how to get grants...... Dot MIELL has won a grant from the ESRC in the UK for £74,960 and the title is "Mothers' accounts of the nature and causes of problems in mothering". Rose CROGHAN will be working on the grant as Research Fellow and it runs for 2 years from Jan 1996-December 1997. Rosemary MILLS has won a $60000 grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada to study the development ofd internalizing tendencies in childhood. Allen OMOTO has won a grant from NIMH for five years to study social and psychological aspects of AIDS volunteerism (Co-PI Mark Snyder) Chuck TARDY has received a $101,000 grant from NIH to study physiological responses to self- disclosive speech. Julie YINGLING has won a grant from the Humboldt State University Foundation and a Research, Scholarship and Creative Arts award to support a project on the communicative needs of seriously ill children.

MEMBERS SEEKING HELP Peter ANDERSEN would like to get [p]reprints from anyone working on communication and emotion, or on jealousy and also to hear from other people working on these topics whether with reprints or not. Amy HALBERSTADT (who is working with Susan Franzblau) is beginning a study of “runaway wives” (women who left their husband and children in the 1970s) and their current relationship with their now adult children. If you know of anyone who might qualify for the study then please contact Amy at Dept. Of Psychology, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC 27695-7801 or [email protected] Valentina Georgievna KASACHKOVA would like to receive reprints from anyone working on relationships. Network members may be aware of the difficulties of some colleagues in obtaining access to reprints and in providing the funds for subscribing to journals that are readily available in the USA. PLEASE BE GENEROUS and send copies of your work to colleagues who live and work in circumstances much less favorable than our own. V. G. Kasachkova, ul. Nachimova 15, kv 64, Tomsk, 634034 Siberia Raimo LAASONEN would like to hear from anyone who is working on modeling mind. Jason LASSNER is designing a study to look at relationship decision-making, e.g. trying to understand the nature and timing of people's decisions to get involved romantically, to increase or decrease their level of commitment to the relationship, or to break-up. He is interested in a "process" view, using as variables to predict relationship decisions: adult attachment status, "personal authority" in the family system (Bowenian family measure designed by James Bray at Baylor Med. School), and perhaps some brief measure of personality and/or psychiatric symptom status. If you have any suggestions or advice then contact "J. Lassner" . Ann WEBER would like to hear from anyone with recent research findings on non-marital breakups that have not been published. Rick STEIN will be finishing his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology this summer, and would like any suggestions for finding post-docs in the Personal Relationships area. His dissertation involves developing a theoretical model of the cognitive/emotional aspects of intimacy, and developing a scale that tests the model and measures cognitive/emotional intimacy. Overall, he is interested in the areas of loneliness, intimacy, friendships, sex-differences in intimacy, social support, and related areas. Julie YINGLING would like to hear from anyone working on children’s communication in health care settings ([email protected]) JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Faculty Position: Field: Human Development and Family Studies Rank: Assistant Professor, Tenure Track Deadline: January 15, 1996 or until filled. Starting Date: September 15, 1996 Address: Family and Consumer Studies 228 AEB University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Responsibilities: Research and teaching focus on family interactions, parent-child relations, development within the family, and/or relationship formation and dissolution. Qualifications: Doctorate required. Demonstrated competency in research and strong interest in an multidisciplinary approach to human development and the family. Interest in ecological perspectives on the family and policy implications of research. Application: Submit a CV, letter of interest, copies of recent publications, and arrange to have three letters of reference sent to: Dr. Ken R. Smith Chair of Search Committee 228 AEB Dept of Family & Consumer Studies University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112 The University of Utah is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from women and minority scholars, and provides reasonable accommodation to the known disabilities of applicants and employees. Inquiries (but not applications) may be emailed to [email protected] Department: The Department offers a Masters degree in Family Ecology. The Department has three undergrad majors: Human Development & Family Studies, Consumer Studies & Family Economics, and Environment & Behavior. Disciplines represented among the faculty include family studies, sociology, psychology, economics and education. Among the Department's 16 faculty, 7 are in the Human Development and Family Studies Area. Community: The University of Utah, with an enrollment of 26,000 students, is located in metropolitan Salt Lake City (pop 800,000) which is the economic, cultural, and entertainment center of the Intermountain West. The city boasts an opera company, several dance companies, many live theaters, and sporting events (including the NBA Jazz and a Triple A baseball team). Located in a valley between two high mountain ranges (peaks over 10,000 ft) and near many national parks, it is noted for excellent skiing, camping, backpacking, and mountain climbing. It is the site of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

CALLS FOR PAPERS Call for contributions to the Communication Yearbook Volume 21 Editor (and Network Member) Michael Roloff is soliciting MSS and proposals for CY21. Comm. Yearbook publishes state-of-the- art literature reviews and thus seeks articles providing comprehensive synthesis of literature (i.e., articles that survey, critique, and integrate a large body of literature that has appeared on a specific relatively narrow topic). Reviews from all areas of the communication discipline are welcome: CY seeks to represent the diverse range of philosophical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives informing contemporary communication scholarship. Literature reviews employing both narrative and quantitative (i.e., meta-analytic) methodologies are sought, Contributions from scholars residing outside the USA are especially welcome. Complete reviews or extended proposals (15-30 pages) will be considered; brief proposals are not acceptable and will be returned to the author. Proposals should (a) identify a specific topic on which an extensive body of material has been published, (b) develop a rationale for the review of this literature, (c) delineate the approach and methodology to be used in the review, (d) provide a detailed outline of the review and (e) present a working bibliography. A cover letter addressed to the Editor should briefly describe the qualifications of the author(s) to undertake a literature review in the designated area. All submissions to CY undergo blind review by at least two experts in the field. Complete MSS or proposals must be received by June 3 1996. Send three high-quality copies to Michael E. Roloff, Editor, Communication Yearbook, Department of Communication Studies, 23 Harris Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA (708-491-5834 or fax: 708-467-1171, [email protected])

NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following who have joined the Network since October: Jeffrey M. ADAMS, Claudette E. ALLARD, Katherine R. ALLEN, Erika B. ANDERSON, Micael ANDREZ, Kathy L. BELL, Cathryn L. BOOTH, M. Lois CALLANDER, Brian D. CAMP, Kelley CHAPPELL, Heather CHIPUER, Catherine CLARK, Linda COPEL, Laurie L. COUCH, Guy E. CUNNINGHAM, Nancy CURTIN-ALWARDT, Carla DREYER, Jennifer DUCHARME, Lynn FAINSILBER KATZ, Sandra FAULKNER, Paul FLORSHEIM, Lisa FOSTER, Kelly J. FUDGE, Pamela W. GARNER, Margaret HARRISON, Nuran HORTACSU, Renate HOUTS, Youngmee KIM, Monica LANDOLT, Frieder R. LANG, Elizabeth C. LANTHIER, Richard P. LANTHIER, Jason LASSNER, Dagmar LUSTYK, Diane MONAHAN, Robert MOSHEIM, Stacey A. NAGEL, Anne NEUFELD, Sylvia NIEHUIS, Dawn N. O'BRIEN, Beth PARKINSON, Leslee K. POLLINA, Susan PROFILET, Susan REULING FURNESS, Linda ROBINSON, Connie SCHICK, Ching-chun T. SHIH, Ted SINGELIS, Karen A. SMITH, Hilda SPEICHER, Kathryn URBERG, Niobe WAY, Gerald L. WHITE, Karen J. WHITE, Mark B. WHITE, Susan WOLFE, Stephen YOSHIMURA, Young-ok YUM

....WHO HAVE INDICATED THE FOLLOWING INTERESTS Claudette E. ALLARD,PRs in the elderly - meaningful Depression - two styles of therapy and its relationship to S.T.M. in the depressed elderly. Katherine R. ALLEN, Feminism and Family Studies; Family Relations of Lesbians & Gay Men. Kathy L. BELL, Research has focused on affect in communication, examining attachment in self-presentation, family interaction in nonverbal sex differences. Cathryn L. BOOTH, Attachment relationships -- infancy to middle childhood; peer relations -- preschool to early adolescence; early child-care and development; parental beliefs. Brian D. CAMP, Effects of extra-marital relationship activity on marital satisfaction. Dissertation on close friend activity and marital quality. Heather CHIPUER, Changes in quality of sibling relationships from middle childhood through early adolescence. Catherine CLARK, Romantic Relationship Initiation, Family Communication Patterns, Jennifer DUCHARME, Parental relationships/friendships and their influence on children's peer relationships and attachment. Lynn FAINSILBER KATZ, The effects of marital conflict on children's adjustment. Sandra FAULKNER, Sexual disclosure in women in conversations with other women and male sexual partners. Paul FLORSHEIM, Adolescent romance; Relationships between adolescent parents. Lisa FOSTER, Continuity of attachment style, infant cognitive development, well-being, psychological separation, correlates of coping., Kelly J. FUDGE, How a person's perception of a partner's physical attractiveness changes over time through social interaction. Pamela W. GARNER, Interested in the role of emotional competence (e.g., emotional knowledge, emotion regulation) on the development of young children's social relationships., Margaret HARRISON, Social support & reciprocity of caregivers. Nuran HORTACSU, Comparison of families in Turkey, Azerbrycan, and Turkmenistan (Three Turkic cultures)., Youngmee KIM, Emotional integration processes in close relationships Frieder R. LANG ,Management and adaptivity of social relationships in old age; Interrelations with aging processes. Richard P. LANTHIER, Personality predictors of relationship quality. Jason LASSNER, Identity and intimacy development and their prediction of relationship/sexual engagement and dissolution decisions. Dagmar LUSTYK, Human mate selection. Diane MONAHAN, Looking at the attributions of NV cues in conflict and the effect on escalation. Robert MOSHEIM, The meaning of the attachment theory for the psychotherapeutic process; attachment theory and behavior therapy. Stacey A. NAGEL, Currently completing a project on how the quality of parents' marital interactions influences the quality of their children's sibling relationships. Anne NEUFELD, Social support and reciprocity of caregivers. Leslee K. POLLINA, Attachment and relation to violence; examining locus of control, stress, relationship competence, cognitive distortions. Susan PROFILET, Research on parental consulting about children's peer relationships. Linda ROBINSON, Perceptions of individual, dyadic, and familial characteristics in relation to intimacy, relationship anxiety. Connie SCHICK, Mostly on attachment style in teens (16-19) - relationship to individual differences, insecurity as addictive behavior., Ching-chun T. SHIH, Dialectical tensions of the communication of the Taiwanese same- and cross-sex college friends. Ted SINGELIS, Expanding (with Elaine Hatfield) the range of attachment styles and relating these to partnering. Hilda SPEICHER, Observed how gender and approaches to social exchange influence nonverbal and verbal communication in initial encounters and among 'best' friendships. Currently developing a dissertation proposal to investigate influence on temporal orientation & need for intimacy & factors on comm Kathryn URBERG, I am studying peer influence in adolescent friendship networks. This has involved mapping networks and examining selection as well as influence. Niobe WAY, Looking at the development of intimacy in the peer relationship among urban, poor, and working class adolescents., Karen J. WHITE, Children's peer relationships, externalizing disorders, 'at risk' status. Teachers' perceptions of behavior disordered children; influence of teacher feedback on children's peer perceptions., Mark B. WHITE, Current nonclinical work has three emphases: (a) assessing specific sources of social support for dealing with specific stressors; (b) examining the contributions of attachment style to interpersonal competence, and (c) refining gender role expectations on behavior in personal relations, Susan WOLFE, Development of self-governance in adolescence within the context of family and peer relations. Stephen YOSHIMURA, The process of communicating forbidenness within personal relationships (thesis work).

.... WHO USE THE FOLLOWING METHODS Katherine R. ALLEN, In-depth interviews; Life histories Micael ANDREZ, With colleagues I'm developing the 'Inventario de Objectivos Interfessairs, Social Support Questionnaire Kathy L. BELL, Adult Attachment Interview, Reveal Differences Tasks, Autonomy in Relatedness Coding., Brian D. CAMP, Kansas Marital Sat. Scale, Relationship Closeness Inventory, Kelley CHAPPELL, Attachment measures (categorical & dimensions approach) Heather CHIPUER, SRQ, Justice Motive Scenarios, NRI, Catherine CLARK, Various personality measures Jennifer DUCHARME, Diaries, Friendship Quality Scales, Lynn FAINSILBER KATZ, Observational methods, psychophysiology, Sandra FAULKNER, Survey-Interviews Paul FLORSHEIM, Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) Lisa FOSTER, Hazan & Shaver's Attachment measures, Psychological Separation Inventory, Inventory of Parent & Peer Attachment, Coping Responses Inventory, Kelly J. FUDGE, Family Communication Environment (Fitzpatrick & Ritchie) Pamela W. GARNER, Observational Methodologies, Sociometry, Margaret HARRISON, Neufeld, A., & Harrison, M.J. (1995). Reciprocity and social support in caregivers' relationships: Variations and consequences. Qualitative Health, Qualitative Research Nuran HORTACSU, Scales for marital division of labor, conflict, modes of c resolution, decision making, in law interference with decision making and conflict, Scales and open ended questions Youngmee KIM, Self-determination (General Causal Orientation), Attachment, Emotional intelligence, Frieder R. LANG, Circle Diagram (Kahn & Antonucci, 1980); Social Relationships Questionnaires, Richard P. LANTHIER, Adult Sibling Relationship Questionnaire (Stocker, Lanthier, Furman) is adult extension of SRQ, Sibling Relationship Questionnaire; Adult Sibling Relationship Questionnaire, Various Personality Questionnaires Diane MONAHAN, Constructed one for MA thesis measuring NV attributions in conflict., Survey Questionnaires/Burgoon & Hale, Relational Scale, Robert MOSHEIM, Looking for an adequate instrument to measure attachment styles in German. Stacey A. NAGEL, Questionnaire, interview, and observational measures for assessing marital harmony and conflict as well as sibling harmony and conflict., Anne NEUFELD, Qualitative Research Leslee K. POLLINA, Bartholomew's Attachment Measurers, Conflict Tactics Scale, & others, Susan PROFILET, Developing Child Behavior Scale, Videotape ratings, sociometric measures, Linda ROBINSON, Modified State-Trait Anxiety Scale to measure relationship anxiety; Modified IRS, Interpersonal Relationship Scale Connie SCHICK, Working on new alcohol/drug use measures., Both attachment style 1- item measures, Love Attitudes (Hendrick & Hendrick) individual difference measures, sexual behavior & alcohol/drug use quest., Ching-chun T. SHIH, Surveys & In-depth interviews Ted SINGELIS, A multiple item measure and attachment style., Hilda SPEICHER, Developing a 'Need for Intimacy' scale as part of my dissertation study., Nonverbal and Verbal Communication Measures (Judges), Questionnaires, Kathryn URBERG, Bukowski's Friendship Quality Scale Niobe WAY, Primarily using qualitative research methods, semi-structured interviews., Karen J. WHITE, Sociometric measures, peer assessment of behavior, children's perceptions of social support., Mark B. WHITE, Working on a life events questionnaire that allows individuals to specify the events that have affected their family during the past year and rate the s, Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale, Attachment Style Questionnaires Susan WOLFE, Social Network Interview, Interpersonal Support Evaluation List, Family Environment Scales, Relationship Questionnaire, Conflict Tactics Scales,

....AND HAVE PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING WORKS Claudette E. ALLARD, Allard, C., & Mishara, B.L. (1995). Individual differences in stimulus intensity modulation and its relationship to two styles of depression in older adults. Psychology & Aging, 10, 3, 395-403., Katherine R. ALLEN, Allen, K.R. (1995). Opening the classroom closet: Sexual orientation and self-disclosure. Family Relations., Allen, K.R., & Demo, D.H. (1995). The families of lesbians and gay men. Journal of Marriage and the Family., Blaisure, K.R., & Allen, K.R. (1995). Feminists and the ideology and practice of marital equality. Journal of Marriage and the Family., Kathy L. BELL, Bell, K.L., & DePaulo, B.M. (in press). Liking and lying. Basic and applied social psychology., Ansfield, M.E., DePaulo, B.M., & Bell, K.L. (in press). Familarity effects in nonverbal understanding. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior., Bell, K.L., Allen, J.P., Hauser, S.T., & O'Connor, T.G. (in press). Adolescent transitions to work and post secondary education., Cathryn L. BOOTH, Booth, C.L., Rose-Krasner, L., & Rubin, K.H. (1991). Relating preschooler's social competence and their mother;s parenting behaviors. JSPR, 8., Booth, C.L., Rose-Krasnor, L., McKinnon, J., & Rubin, K.H. (1994). Predicting social adjustment in middle childhood: The role of preschool attachment security and maternal style. Social Development, Rose-Krasnor, L., Rubin, K.H., Booth, C.L., & Coplan, R. (in press). Maternal directiveness and child attachment as predictors of social competence in preschoolers. Intrnl J. of Behavioral Develop., Kelley CHAPPELL, Medway, F., Davis, K., Cafferty, T., Chappell, K., & O'Hearn, R. (1995). Family disruption and adult correlates of spouse and child reactions to separation and reunion due to Dessert Storm; Cafferty, T., Davis, K., Medway, F., O'Hearn, R., & Chappell, K. (1994). Reunion dynamics among couples separated during Operation Dessert Storm: An attachment analysis. Catherine CLARK, Shaver, P.R., & Clark, C.L. (1994). The psychodynamics of adult romantic attachment. In Masling & Bornstein (Eds), Empirical perspectives on object relations theory., Shaver, P.R., & Clark, C.L. (in press). Attachment styles and internal working models of self and relationship partners. In Fletcher & Fitness (Eds), Knowledge structures in close relationships., Shaver, P.R., Papalia, D., Clark, C.L., Koski, L.R., Tidwell, M.C., & Nalbone, D. (in press). Androgyny and attachment security: Two related models of optimal personality. Personality and Social Psych Bull Lynn FAINSILBER KATZ, Katz, L.F., & Gottman, J.M. (1995). Vague tone protects children from marital conflict. Development and psychophysiology, 7, 83-92., Gottman, J.M., Katz, L.F., & Hoover, C. (in press). Meta-emotion: How familiels communicate emotionally. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum., Katz, L.F., & Gottman, J.M., (1995). 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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships CONTENTS FOR ISSUE 13I -- FEBRUARY 1996

Holly Latty-Mann & Keith E. Davis: ATTACHMENT THEORY AND PARTNER CHOICE: PREFERENCE AND ACTUALITY This work uses samples of 285 college students and their mothers to offer validity to a fourth attachment style and to test a new hypothesis: that partners would be preferred as a function of their potential for providing a secure attachment bond. Profiles exemplifying four attachment styles of potential partners were rated by the participants for degree of preference and degree of similarity to current partners. Consistent with the attachment-security hypothesis, secure partners were preferred across all attachment styles in both samples, followed by preoccupied, avoidant, and finally ambivalent partners. Current partners were rated as more secure than insecure, but the more secure the rater, the more secure they rated their partners. We propose an alternative organizing principle for the study of partner preference, using attachment theory rather than either of the traditional explanatory mechanisms, similarity or complementarity. Dr. Holly Latty-Mann, Farr Associates, 4524 West Wendover Ave, Greensboro, NC 27410, USA

Rachel Dresner & Wendy S. Grolnick: CONSTRUCTIONS OF EARLY PARENTING, INTIMACY, AND AUTONOMY IN YOUNG WOMEN This study explores relations between young women's patterns of intimacy and autonomy and their constructions of early relationships with their parents. Based on Bowlby's (1973) notion of the "internal working model" of attachment, it was predicted that women evidencing intimacy in current relationships would construct perceptions of their parents as having been accepting. It also was hypothesized that women exhibiting great autonomy in their everyday functioning would describe their parents as having afforded them more encouragement to independence than those displaying less autonomy. Intimacy was measured using the Revised Intimacy Interview (Levitz-Jones & Orlofsky, 1985) and autonomy measures included the General Causality Orientation Deci & Ryan, 1985 and Self-Reliance (Greenberger et al., 1974) scales. Results suggest that, as predicted, women displaying intimate relationships perceived their fathers as having been more accepting than those evidencing either enmeshed ( merger) or superficial relationships. Further, autonomy was tied to constructions of support for independence by mothers and fathers. The findings shed light on the underlying dynamics and defenses of individuals displaying different patterns of intimacy and autonomy. Wendy S. Grolnick, Frances L. Hiatt School of Psychology, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610

Jo Ellen Vespo, Kathryn A. Kerns & Elizabeth M. O'Connor: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN PRESCHOOL CLASSROOMS: SOCIAL SETS AS SOCIAL UNITS The purpose of this study was to examine age-related changes in preschoolers' affiliative groups. In this study, the peer group rather than the individual child was treated as the unit of analysis. Forty-seven 3-year-olds in four classes and fifty 4-year-olds in four other classes were observed during free play. Observers recorded the persons with whom each child interacted. McQuitty's (1957) cluster analysis was performed on the children's interaction scores to derive the affiliative groups in each classroom, which were called social sets. Social sets depict the peer interactive networks within each classroom. The social sets of 4-year-olds were both larger and higher in density than the social sets of the 3-year-olds. The findings are consistent with expectations that older preschoolers are better able to maintain several peer relationships simultaneously than are younger preschoolers. We discussed ways in which identification of social sets helps to understand the dynamics of individuals, relationships and groups. Jo Ellen Vespo, Utica College of Syracuse University, Burrstone Road, Utica, NY. 13502

Tim Cole & James J. Bradac: A LAY THEORY OF RELATIONAL SATISFACTION WITH BEST FRIENDS Three research questions were addressed to examine people's lay beliefs regarding the causes of relational satisfaction among best friends. The first question dealt with the specific beliefs that people hold about satisfaction with a best friend. Forty-three sources of relational satisfaction were identified. The second question focused on the dimensions underlying people's beliefs about satisfaction. Multidimensional scaling suggested that three general dimensions underlie people's beliefs about satisfaction with a best friend. The third question examined the perceived causal structure underlying people's beliefs about relational satisfaction. A network analysis revealed that people have a detailed and elaborate set of assumptions regarding the causal relations between the sources of satisfaction. Taken together, our results suggest that people have many, well-integrated beliefs about satisfaction in best friendships. Specifically, these beliefs are organized dimensionally and they are causally intertwined, constituting evidence for the existence of a lay theory of this relational outcome. Tim Cole & Jim Bradac, Dept. of Communication, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Malcolm R. Parks & Kory Floyd: MEANINGS FOR CLOSENESS AND INTIMACY IN FRIENDSHIP Closeness and intimacy are fundamental, but poorly defined, concepts in the study of personal relationships. We sought to contributor to a more precise understanding of closeness and intimacy by first examining participants' meanings for closeness in friendships, and then by comparing meanings for closeness to participants' meanings for intimacy. In a self-report survey 270 college students were asked what made their same-sex and cross-sex friendships close and how closeness was expressed. Thirteen different meanings for closeness were derived. Individuals assigned an average of three meanings for closeness with the most common meanings being self-disclosure, support, shared interests, and explicit expression of the value of the relationship. Native meanings for closeness differed relatively little across sexes and relational types. Respondents envisioned three possible relationships between closeness and intimacy. Just under half the respondents appeared to view them as equivalent terms, while the remaining respondents emphasized either qualitative or quantitative differences. The chief qualitative difference was that intimacy implied a romantic or sexual dimension to about one quarter of the respondents. Quantitative differences generally took the form of believing that an intimate relationship was a more intense form of a close relationship. Closeness appeared to be a richer, more inclusive term than intimacy. Respondents generated more meanings for it and thought of a greater variety of relationships as close. There were fewer sex differences in meanings for closeness than in meanings for intimacy. Malcolm Parks, Dept. of Speech Communication DL-15, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195

Katariina Salmela-Aro & Jari-Erik Nurmi: UNCERTAINTY AND CONFIDENCE IN INTERPERSONAL PROJECTS: CONSEQUENCES FOR SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP AND WELL-BEING To examine the extent to which the appraisal of interpersonal projects influences people's social relationships and well-being, 202 female students were asked to complete the Personal Projects Analysis (PPA), the revised Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI) and Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale, and to answer several self-report measures of social relationships. Then, one year later, they completed the UCLA Loneliness scale, the Perceived Stress scale, the revised BDI and several self-report measures of social relationships. Two groups of students were identified based on their PPA ratings: 1) the socially confident group, with positive and confident appraisals (n=74) of their interpersonal projects, and (2) the socially uncertain group, with negative and uncertain appraisals (n=35). The results showed that the women in the socially uncertain group reported more negative interactions with their parents and with their boyfriend/spouse, and also fewer new acquaintances, than the socially confident women. Moreover, they showed higher levels of depression, stress and loneliness, but lower levels of Self-Esteem. Katariina Salmela-Aro, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 4, SF-00014 Helsinki, Finland

Donald G. Unger, Sharon B. Jacobs & Christine Cannon: SOCIAL SUPPORT AND MARITAL SATISFACTION AMONG COUPLES COPING WITH CHRONIC CONSTRUCTIVE AIRWAY DISEASE Couples in which one spouse has chronic obstructive airway disease (COAD) face great distress and change over the life course. Couples experience multiple losses and feeling of anxiety, depression, and hopelessness, usually beginning in mid-life and continuing into older age. This study explored two sources of social support, family support and friend support, as resources for coping with illness. The relation of family and friend received and provided support with marital satisfaction and the effects of sex and length of marriage were studied. Results indicated that the association between support and marital satisfaction was moderated by the couple's length of marriage, the sex of patients and spouses, and the degree of congruency between husbands' and wives' evaluations of their marital satisfaction. Support acted as a stress buffer in regard to marital satisfaction only for male spouses and male patients. Implications for theory, research, and preventive interventions are discussed. Donald G. Unger, Ph.D., Department of Individual and Family Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716

Brief Articles Douglas M. Brock, Gregory R. Pierce, Irwin G. Sarason & Barbara R. Sarason: SIMULTANEOUS ASSESSMENT OF PERCEIVED GLOBAL AND RELATIONSHIP SPECIFIC SUPPORT Perceived global social support and support from specific relationships are not synonymous, yet existing measures typically assess only one or the other. However, it might be possible to simultaneously assess both using the same instrument. In two studies, the reliability and validity of scores derived for specific relationship categories from the Social Support Questionnaire were examined. Separate scores were developed for mother, father and composite score for friends. Each score exhibited good internal consistency and correlational analyses revealed both convergent and discriminant validity or each of the scores. Support from friends tended to correlate more strongly with both received support and adjustment than did parental support. Support from friends and mother, but not father, predicted perceptions of support availability. Parental support was more predictive than support from friends of the self-perceived past and present quality of familial relationships. Regression analyses indicated that support from individual relationships predicted relationship quality and adjustment, even after accounting for global support. Douglas M. Brock, Dept. of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195

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Michael J. Boulton & Peter K. Smith: LIKING AND PEER PERCEPTIONS AMONG ASIAN AND WHITE BRITISH CHILDREN Dr. Michael J. Boulton, Department of Psychology, University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, ENGLAND.

Melanie Hancock & William Ickes: EMPATHIC ACCURACY: WHEN DOES THE PERCEIVER-TARGET RELATIONSHIP MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Melanie Hancock or William Ickes, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019- 0528

Brant R. Burleson, Adrianne W. Kunkel, Wendy Samter & Kathy J. Werking: MEN'S AND WOMEN'S EVALUATIONS OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS; WHEN SEX DIFFERENCES MAKE A DIFFERENCE--AND WHEN THEY DON'T. Brant R. Burleson, Dept. of Communication, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

Patricia Frazier, Nancy Arikian, Sonja Benson, Ann Losoff & Steven Maurer: DESIRE FOR MARRIAGE AND LIFE SATISFACTION AMONG UNMARRIED HETEROSEXUAL ADULTS. Pat Frazier, Dept. of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455.

Stanley O. Gaines, Jr.: IMPACT OF INTERPERSONAL TRAITS AND GENDER-ROLE COMPLIANCE ON INTERPERSONAL RESOURCE EXCHANGE AMONG DATING AND ENGAGED/MARRIED COUPLES. Stanley O. Gaines, Jr., Department of Psychology, Pomona College, 550 N. Harvard Ave., Claremont, CA 91711.

Mark A. Whisman & Laura E. Allan: ATTACHMENT AND SOCIAL COGNITION THEORIES OF ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS: CONVERGENT OR COMPLEMENTARY PERSPECTIVES? Mark A. Whisman, Yale University, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 208205, New Haven, CT, 06520-8205.

David A. Kenny: MODELS OF NONINDEPENDENCE IN DYADIC RESEARCH. David A. Kenny, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269-1020.

Brief Articles Beverly I. Fagot, Mary Gauvain & Kate Kavanagh: INFANT ATTACHMENT AND MOTHER-CHILD PROBLEM- SOLVING: A REPLICATION. Beverly Fagot, Oregon Social Learning Center, 207 5th Avenue, Suite 202, Eugene, OR 97401

William B. Stiles, Nicola C. Walz, Michelle A.B. Schroeder, Laura L. Williams & William Ickes: ATTRACTIVENESS AND DISCLOSURE IN INITIAL ENCOUNTERS OF MIXED-SEX DYADS. William B. Stiles, Department of Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056

Coby Gerlsma, Bram P. Buunk & Wim C. M. Mutsaers: CORRELATES OF SELF-REPORTED ADULT ATTACHMENT STYLES IN A DUTCH SAMPLE OF MARRIED MEN AND WOMEN. Bram Buunk, Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. ======

FAMILY RELATIONS Table of Contents for January 1996 kindly supplied by Editor Mark A. Fine (For details of these papers and addresses of authors, please contact Mark Fine, Dept. of Human Development and Family Studies, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA [email protected]) CHILD SUPPORT Accuracy and Ambiguity in the Application of State Child Support Guidelines Maureen A. Pirog-Good & Patricia R. Brown Child Support Reform: Lessons From Wisconsin Daniel R. Meyer, Judi Bartfeld, Irwin Garfinkel, & Patricia R. Brown Revising Child Support Orders: The Wisconsin Experience Kathleen A. Kost, Daniel R. Meyer, Tom Corbett, & Patricia R. Brown CAREGIVING Caregiving Across the Lifespan: National Prevalence and Predictors Nadine F. Marks The Case of Daughters-in-Law and Sons-in-Law in the Care of Relatives With Alzheimer's Disease Judith Globerman Wife Caregivers of Frail Elderly Veterans: Correlates of Caregiver Satisfaction and Caregiver Strain Lorraine T. Dorfman, Connie A. Holmes, & Karyn L. Berlin Intergenerational Ethics of Caring for Teenage Mothers and Their Children Lee SmithBattle GENERAL INTEREST The Impact of Parents' Marital Status on the Time Adolescents Spend in Productive Activities Cathleen D. Zick & Corinne Roylance Allen Impact of Home-Based Family Therapy on Maternal and Child Outcomes in Disadvantaged Adolescent Mothers Cary Cherniss &Elaine Herzog Implications of Feminist Scholarship for the study of Women's Beth Skilken Catlett & Patrick C. McKenry Postdivorce Economic DisadvantageFemale Victims of Spousal Violence: Factors Influencing Their Level of Fearfulness Alfred DeMaris &Steven Swinford LITERATURE AND RESOURCE REVIEW ESSAY 1995 - Twenty-Seventh Annual National Council on Family Relations Media Awards Competition Francisco A. Villarruel, Kathleen G. Zawacki,Ronald J. Wilson, Yolanda Sanchez, June Pierce Youatt, Daniel F. Perkins, Marjorie J. Kostelnik, & Harriette P. McAdoo BOOK REVIEWS ======

Article line-up for February issue of Journal of Marriage and the Family Kindly supplied by Editor Robert Milardo

MATE SELECTION and COHABITATION 1. Renate M. Houts, Elliot Robins, & Ted L. Huston Compatibility and the Development of Premarital Relationships 2. Jennifer A. Sacher, Mark A. Fine Predictors of Relationship Status and Satisfaction After Six Months Among Dating Couples 3. Renate Forste, Koray Tanfer Sexual Exclusivity Among Dating, Cohabiting, and Married Women 4. R.S. Oropesa Normative Beliefs about Marriage and Cohabitation: A comparison of Non-Latino Whites, Mexican-Americans, and Puerto Ricans 5. Wendy D. Manning, Nancy S. Landale Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Role of Cohabitation in Premarital Childbearing WORK and the FAMILY 6. Joe F. Pittman, David Blanchard The Effects of Work History and Timing of Marriage on the Division of Household Labor: A Life-Course Perspective 7. Anisa M. Zvonkovic, Kathleen M. Greaves, Cynthia J. Schmiege, Leslie D. Hall The Marital Construction of Gender Through Work and Family Decisions: A QualitativeAnalysis 8. Jeroen Smits, Wout Ultee, Jan Lammers Effects of Occupational Status Differences Between Spouses and the Wife's Labor Force Participation and Occupational Achievement: Findings from 12 European Countries 9. Martine Corijn, Aart C. Liefbroer, Jenny de Jong Gierveld It Takes Two to Tango, Doesn't It? The Influence of Couple Characteristics on the Timing of the First Birth CONFLICT and DISTRESS 10. Sherry L. Hamby, Valerie C. Poindexter, Bernadette Gray-Little Four Measures of Partner Violence: Construct Similarity and Classification Differences 11. Thomas L. Hanson, Sara S. McLanahan, Elizabeth Thomson Double Jeopardy: Parental Conflict and Stepfamily Outcomes for Children 12. Heather A. Turner, David Finkelhor Corporal Punishment as a Stressor Among Youth 13. Robert B. Schafer, K.A.S. Wickrama, Pat M. Keith Self-Concept Disconfirmation, Psychological Distress, and Marital Happiness INTERGENERATIONAL ISSUES 14. Colleen L. Johnson, Lillian Troll Family Structure and the Timing of Transitions from 70 to 103 Years of Age 15. Timothy J. Biblarz, Vern L. Bengston, Social Mobility Across Three Generations DIVORCE 16. Daniel R. Meyer, Judi Bartfield Compliance with Child Support Orders in Divorce Cases 17. F.L. Jones Convergence and Divergence in Ethnic Divorce Patterns: A Research Note 18. Vaughn R. A. Call, Jay D. Teachman Life-Course Thinking and Sequencing of Marriage and Military Service and Their Effect on Marital Stability OF GENERAL INTEREST 19. W. Keith Bryant, Cathleen D. Zick An Examination of Parent-Child Shared Time 20. Laura Duberstein Women's Decisions About Breastfeeding and Maternal and Maternal Employment

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ABSTRACT Annual conference in Seattle coming up and registration materials are available....Network Constitution adopted and transition team will take over... Network awards winners announced.

ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN SEATTLE - 29 JUNE - 3 JULY 1996

CONSTITUTION The INPR constitution was adopted by very significant margin in a postal ballot (221 for adoption-3 against adoption). Accordingly the transition team will now begin its work and Kathryn Dindia will become President at the end of the annual conference in Seattle . Nominations for elected officers will be proposed soon and we will move to a fully functioning elected society by this time next year. Thanks to all those who took the trouble to vote.

INPR’S AWARDS Gerald R. Miller Award for Early Career Achievement: Tom Bradbury is the winner. Dissertation Award: Michelle Miller is the winner for “a beautifully written dissertation on a fascinating question, with impressive data, rigorous execution, innovative and creative work that has a high level of social relevance in its implications for life-saving interventions.” The Committee was so impressed with the quality of another submission this year that they awarded an Honorable Mention to Sandra Murray. Steve Duck New Scholar Award: I) Grad student: Benjamin Karney ii) New Ph.D.. Yvonne Kellar-Guenther. Congratulations to all these winners who are setting the highest standards for the Network as it develops scholarship in the field.

Thanks to awards Chair, Linda Acitelli and Thanks to the committees. These were Dissertation Award: Michele Acker (Soc Psych); Mik Monsour (Comm.); Elliot Robins (Family Studies); Julie Fitness (Soc Psych); Sally Planalp (Comm.). G.R. Miller Award: Tom Power (Dev Psych), Karen Prager (Clin Psych), Renate Klein (Human Dev/Fam), Ann Ruvolo (Soc. Psych), Steve McCornack (Comm..). Duck New Scholar Awards: Leanne Lamke (Fam Studies); Bill Cupach (Comm.); Gregory Pierce (Soc Psych); Diane Holmberg (Soc Psych); Nelly Vanzetti (Clin Psych).

NEWS OF MEMBERS Larry FREY received both the 1995 Gerald R. Miller Book Award from the Interpersonal and Small Group Interaction Division and the 1994 Distinguished Book Award from the Applied Communication Division at the 1995 Speech Communication Association Convention for his edited text, Group Communication in Context: Studies of Natural Groups(1994, Erlbaum). He also received Honorable Mention for the 1995 Distinguished Book Award from SCA's Applied Communication Division for his edited text, Innovations in Group Facilitation: Applications in Natural Settings (1995, Hampton Press). Warren REICH has completed his dissertation on Identity structures and commitment to a dating relationship and started a new project with Albert Tuskenis on construal of self and others in significant attachment relationships

MEMBERS ON THE MOVE --ONWARDS AND UPWARDS Rebecca (“Deadhead”) ADAMS was recently elected as President of the Southern Sociological Society. Tara EMMERS has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma. Clyde HENDRICK has been named the Paul Whitfield Horn Professor at Texas Tech University. The Horn Professorship is the highest honor awarded a faculty member at Texas Tech University. Sally VOGL-BAUER has just accepted an Assistant Professor position at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. BOOK BY MEMBER Randy CORNELIUS (1996) The Science of Emotion. Research and Tradition in the Psychology of Emotion (Prentice- Hall) MEMBERS WINNING GRANTS Nancy BURRELL received a $20000 grant from the Milwaukee Foundation to create a mentoring program for peer mediators at UWM. Julie FITNESS: has won $117000 as an Australian Research Council Large Grant for a three year research project on anger and hatred, guilt and forgiveness in marriage CALL FOR PAPERS Call for chapter proposals Black and White Family Communication Recent societal events such as political platforms espousing a return to "family values," the Million Man March, and U.S. citizens' response to the O. J. Simpson case, highlight the important role that family communication plays in America's problems concerning race. The proposed edited volume seeks to provide a forum for reseachers interested in Black and White family communication, to report on research and engage in cultural dialogue about research. In particular, we are interested in bringing together African American and European American reseachers to dialogue about their work in order to begin to better understand the often differing assumptions, theories, and approaches taken to studying family communication from African American and European American perspectives. We are interested in including a broad array of family communication processes and functions such as decision making, conflict management, discipline, emotional communication, and so forth, as they exist in whole family systems and family relationships. Whatever the particular focus, the proposal must demonstrate its relevance to advancing our understanding of cultural family communication both within and between Black and White cultures. Proposals should: (a) discuss the goal(s) of the proposed chapter, (b) offer a rationale as to the importance of this work, (c) outline the approach to be taken, and (d) include a chapter outline as well as (e) a short biographical statement for each author. Reports of original research studies and overviews of research programs are especially encouraged. Please direct your questions and three copies of the proposal, no later than May 31, 1996 to either: Thomas Socha Department of Communication & Theatre Arts Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA. 23529 804-683-3833 [email protected] Rhunette Diggs Department of Speech Communication University of Louisville Louisville, KY 40292 502-852-6976 [email protected]

NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following who have joined the Network since January:

Mara ADELMAN, Sonia BERNARDES, Michelle BLAIN, Martha BRISTOR, Mariana BRUSSONI, Thomas P. CAFFERTY, Walter John CARL III, Bryan CRAIG, Eric DUBE, Sandra DUEMMLER, Antoinette FORSYTH, Amy Christine GREGG, Elizabeth GULLICKSON-TOLMAN, Richard HEM, Ed HEROLD, Annemarie HODGES, Danny HOYT, Debra HUGHES, Jenny JENKINS, Myra Christensen KAWAGUCHI, Barry KEATING, Christiane KRAFT ALSOP, Erika LAWRENCE, Mary J. LEVITT, Kristin B. LUDWIG, Yvan LUSSIER, Marian L. MacDONALD, Joao Manuel MOREIRA, David G. MYERS, John NICHOLSON, Leon NIEBRZYDOWSKI, Sandra PARKER, "Artemio RAMIREZ, Jr.", Dawn T. ROBINSON, Jennifer SAMP, Wendy SAMTER, Todd SHACKELFORD, Elizabeth THOMPSON, Sheila TYLER, Samantha WALKER, Andrew K.T. YIP

....WHO HAVE INDICATED THE FOLLOWING INTERESTS Mara ADELMAN, Community Relationships, Sexual Communication Sonia BERNARDES, Helping in the development of the Interpersonal Goals Inventory (IGI), Translating the measures mentioned above and using them to study the relationship of adult attachment, social competence, social support and interpersonal goals. Michelle BLAIN, Adolescent Attachment and separation/individuation typologies of abusive men, couple interactions and abuse. Mariana BRUSSONI, Currently undertaking a twin study examining adult attachment styles in order to determine whether there is a genetic component. Thomas P. CAFFERTY, Dimensions of Separation, Reactions to Separation. , Impact of temporary prolonged separation (e.g. business travel, military deployment, etc) on enduring adult relationships. Walter John CARL III, Studying intersections of Burke's dialectics in general with Baxter's dialectics in personal relationships. Eric DUBE, I am investigating levels of intimacy among young gay men as well as their relationships (sexual and romantic). Sandra DUEMMLER, Adaptation of Hazan's unpublished Important People Measure -assesses the degree to which important people in one's life fulfill attachment functions, Dissertation - A longitudinal study of the development of commitment in dating couples; specifically looking at the development of attachment components and conflict negotiation. Elizabeth GULLICKSON-TOLMAN, Telephone conversations and communication between involuntary childless couples. Ed HEROLD, Social Behavior of Students on Spring Break. Annemarie HODGES, Currently a PhD student at Michigan State University in communication. With Steve McCormact as advisor I have focused my studies on deception, romantic relationships and gender/sex issues. Debra HUGHES, Working on scale to tap spirituality (in marital commitment)., Predictors of commitment in premarital dating relationships (including measure of work commitment). Jenny JENKINS, Questionnaires & interviews to assess marital conflicts; Sociometric nomination and rating scales to assess peer relationships in children., Effects of parental marital conflict on children's social relationships. Emotion schemas, family relationships and child psychopathology, children's intentions in social relationships. Myra Christensen KAWAGUCHI, Developing an observational measure for intimacy in adolescent dating couples., Barry KEATING, I do research on ethnic identities and early childhood episodic memories., Am on the State Board of the New York State Psychological Association. Most recent work: Conference in April 1995 at Hunter College, CUNY, on Ethnic Conflicts in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the Former Yugoslavia. Christiane KRAFT ALSOP, Interview on the meaning of objects for couples., 1) Meaning of objects for couples in order to get information on communication and conflicts. 2) Secrets in love relationships. Erika LAWRENCE, Longitudinal course of physically aggressive and nonaggressive marriages: survival analyses examining differential risk of marital discord. Mary J. LEVITT, Children's Convoy Mapping Procedure, Spatial Relationships Closeness Scale , Social Convoy Development across the lifespan/Relationship Processes, Troublesome relationships. Kristin B. LUDWIG, Beginning doctoral work in the areas of power and close relationships. Yvan LUSSIER, Adult attachment, differentiation of self and marital adjustment. Joao Manuel MOREIRA, Developing the Interpersonal Goals Inventory (IGI) - a self report measure of goals in acquaintance situations., Using the measurers mentioned above and developing Portuguese translation of them, I am trying to study relationships among adult attachment, social support, social competence and interpersonal goals. John NICHOLSON, Work on step/blended families, metaphors, and religion as they relate to family processes and organization and communication. Leon NIEBRZYDOWSKI, Friendship and self-disclosure, self-esteem, self-realization, self-understanding in childhood and adolescence, friendship and self-disclosure as the factors conditioning a successful marriage. Artemio RAMIREZ, Jr. , In the process of creating a cross-contextual measure of commitment., Studying how friendships (long-term) develop into romantic relationships. Jennifer SAMP, Interested in the negotiation/explanation of potentially problematic events in relationships. Todd SHACKELFORD, Evolutionary psychological perspective on infidelity (causes and consequences), sexual jealousy; psychological manifestations of sperm competition. Sheila TYLER, I am a mainstream developmentalist psychologist (cog dev); I am intending to study socio-emotional indicators of popularity status/friendship/ friendship quality in drawing. Samantha WALKER, Operation Gray Matter: A study of the influence of personality, individual needs and competencies, and pr's on well being among health active older adults. Andrew K.T. YIP, Gay Christian Partnerships.

.... WHO USE THE FOLLOWING METHODS Sonia BERNARDES, Social Competence Questionnaire (ComQ), Adult Attachment paragraphs (Hazan & Shaver, Bartholomew & Horowitz), Social Support Question (SSQ, Sarason) Michelle BLAIN, Dyadic Adjustment Scale, Relationships Questionnaire, Perceived Social Support Scales Mariana BRUSSONI, Relationship Questionnaire and Relationship Scales Questionnaire (Bartholomew). Also Bartholomew's Peer Attachment Interview. Thomas P. CAFFERTY, Attachment Style Measures Sandra DUEMMLER, Marital Agendas Protocol (Notarius), Rusbult' Exit-Voice-Loyalty-Neglect measure Elizabeth GULLICKSON-TOLMAN, Conversation analysis/Qualitative methods Annemarie HODGES, BSRI Debra HUGHES, Stanley & Markman's Scales - Dedication and Constraint Commitment. Myra Christensen KAWAGUCHI, Orlofsky's Intimacy Interview, Miller Social Intimacy Scale, Video-taped interactions, Commitment Inventory, Quality of Relationships Inventory Christiane KRAFT ALSOP, Relationship Assessment Scale; Questionnaires; Interview Erika LAWRENCE, Marital Adjustment Text (MAT; Locke & Wallace, 1959); Conflict Tactics Scale (CAT; Straus, 1979). Mary J. LEVITT, Kahn & Antonucci Social Convoy Mapping Technique Kristin B. LUDWIG, Relationship Invents Scale, Need Satisfaction, Conflict Resolution Styles Inventory Yvan LUSSIER, Self report measures (e.g., Dyadic adjustment scale, Marital communication, attachment) Joao Manuel MOREIRA, Social Competence Questionnaire (ComQ), Adult Attachment paragraphs (Hazan & Shaver, Bartholomew & Horowitz), Social Support Question (SSQ, Sarason) John NICHOLSON, I use largely qualitative techniques, including content analysis. Leon NIEBRZYDOWSKI, LaGaipa Friendship Scale, Jourard Self-Disclosure Questionnaire, Coopersmith Self- Esteem Questionnaire, Wright Model and technique for studies of friendship Todd SHACKELFORD, 'Big 5' Personality Inventory; Eysenck Personality Inventory; Susceptibility to Infidelity

....AND HAVE PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING WORKS Mara ADELMAN, Adelman, M.B., & Frey, L. (in press). The Fragile community., Adelman, M. Beyond smiling: Social support and service quality. Research in Consumer Behavior., Michelle BLAIN, Blain, M.D., Thompson, J.M., & Whiffen, V.E. (1993). Attachment and perceived social support The interaction between working models of self and others. Journal of Adolescent Research, 8, 226-241., Lee, C.M., Picard, M., & Blain, M.D. (1994). A methodological review of studies examining the efficacy of interventions for families undergoing divorce. Journal of Family Psychology, 8, 3-15., Thompson, J.M., Whiffen, V.E., & Blain, M.D. (1995). Depressive symptoms, sex, and perceptions of intimate relations. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 12, 49-66. Martha BRISTOR, Bristor, M.W. (1995). Individuals and family systems in their environments. Second Edition. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt., Thomas P. CAFFERTY, Medway, F.J., Davis, K.E., Cafferty, T.P., Chappell, K.D., & O'Hearn, R.E. (1995). Family disruption and adult attachment correlates of spouse and child reactions to separation and reunion due to Ope, Cafferty, T.P., Davis, K.E., Medway, F.J., O'Hearn R.E., & Chappell, K.D. (1994). Reunion dynamics among couples separated during Operation Desert Storm: An attachment theory analysis. In K. Bartho, Sandra DUEMMLER, Kobak, R., & Duemmler, S. (1994). Attachment and conversation: Toward a discourse analysis of adolescent and adult security. In K. Bartholomew & D. Perlman (Eds), Attachment Processes in Adulthood., Ed HEROLD, Herold, E.S., & Mewhinney, D.M. (1995). Gender differences in casual sex and AIDS prevention: A survey of dating bars. Journal of Sex Research, 30, 36-42., Debra HUGHES, Surra, C.A., Batchelder, M.L., & Hughes, D.K. (1995). Accounts and the demystification of courtship. In M.A. Fitzpatrick & A.L. Vangelisti (Eds), Explaining family interaction, 112-141. Sage., Jenny JENKINS, Astington, J.W., & Jenkins, J.M. (1995). Theory of mind development and social understanding. Cognition and Emotion, 9, 151- 165., Oatley, K., & Jenkins, J.M. (in press). Understanding emotions: In psychology, psychiatry and social science. Blackwell: Cambridge, MA & Oxford, UK., Jenkins, J.M., Franco, F., Dolins, F., & Sewell, A. (1995). Toddlers' reactions to negative emotion displays: Forming models of relationships. Infant Behavior and Development, 18, 273-282. Myra Christensen KAWAGUCHI, Wlesh, D.P., Rostosky, S.S., & Kawaguchi, M.C. (in press). A normative perspective on adolescent girls' developing sexuality. In C. Travis & J. White (Eds), Sex, culture, and feminism: Psychologica, Christensen, M.J., etal. (1994). The prospective assessment of self-concent in physically abusive and neglectful low-income mothers. Child Abuse and Neglect, 18, 225-232., Christiane KRAFT ALSOP, Kraft Alsop, C. The Meaning of objects and places for couples: A cultural psychological view., Kraft Alsop, C. (1996). Secret objects in love relationships., Kraft Alsop, C. (1992). Ideas about love and relationship. Erika LAWRENCE, Lawrence, Heyman & O'Leary (1995). Correspondence between telepone and written assessments of physical violence in marriage. Behavior Therapy, 26, 671-680., Cascardi, O'Leary, Lawrence, & Schlee (1995). Characteristics of abused women seeking treatment regarding marital conflict. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 63, 616-623., Mary J. LEVITT, Levitt, M.J., Guacci-Franco, N., & Levitt, J.L. (1994). Social support and achievement in childhood and early adolescence: A multicultural study. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 15, 20, Levitt, M.J., Coffman, S., Guacci-Franco, N., & Loveless, S. (1994). Attachment relations and life transitions: An expectancy model. In M.B. Sperling & W.H. Berman (Eds), Attachment in adults: Clin, Levitt, M.J., Guacci-Franco, N., & Levitt, J.L. (1993). Convoys of social support in childhood and early adolescence: Structure and function. Developmental Psychology, 29, 811-818. Yvan LUSSIER, Lapointe, G., Lussier, Y., Sabourin, S., & Wright, J. (1994). La nataure et les correlates de l'attachment au sein des relations de couple. Revue Canadienne des Sciences du Comportment, 26, 551-565., Lancis, J., Sabourin, S., Lussier, Y., & Mathieu, M. (1994). Masculinity, femininity, and marital satisfaction: An examination of theoretical models. Journal of Personality, 62, 393-414., Lussier, Y., Sabourin, S., & Wright, J. (1993). On causality, responsibility and blame in marriage: Validity of the entailment model. Jouranl of Family Psychology 7, 1-11. Leon NIEBRZYDOWSKI, Niebrzydowski, L., Jaicka, I. (1994). Human communication in a future United Europe, London. The British Association for the Person-Centered Approach., Niebrzydowski, L. (1995). New horizons in contemporary social-education. Lodz: University of Lodz., Todd SHACKELFORD, Shackelford, T.K., & Buss, D.M. (in press). Betrayal in mateships, friendships and coalitions. Personality and Social Psych Bulletin., Shackelford, T.K. (in press). Perceptions of betrayal and the design of the mind. In D.T. Kenrick & J.A. Simpson (Eds), Evolutionary Approaches in personality and social psychology. Erlbaum., Shackelford, T.K., & Buss, D.M. (in press). Marital satisfaction in evolutionary psychological perspective. In R.J. Sternberg & M. Hojjat (Eds), Satisfaction in close relationships. NY: Guilford. Andrew K.T. YIP, Yip, A.K.T. (in press). Gay Christian couples and blessing ceremonies. Theology and Sexuality., Yip, A.K.T. (in press). Attacking the attacker: Gay Christians talk back. British Journal of Sociology.,

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Michael J. Boulton & Peter K. Smith: LIKING AND PEER PERCEPTIONS AMONG ASIAN AND WHITE BRITISH CHILDREN Study 1 investigated liking and perceptions of classmates in 140 Asian and White boys and girls in 3 racially mixed schools. All four groups selected significantly more own-race than other-race classmates as Like Most choices. For Like Least choices, White girls and boys selected significantly more other-race classmates, Asian boys significantly more own-race classmates, Asian girls did not differ in own-race and other-race choices. Using ratings, White children and Asian children showed greater liking of own-race than other-race classmates. White children received more nominations for Starts Fights and Disrupts from Asian than White raters, but more nominations for Cooperates from White than Asian raters. Perceptions of cooperation in individual peers were hypothesized to influence liking, and to explain the weak links between liking of classmates and liking expressed for unknown own-race and other-race children in photographs. Study 2 investigated further the reasons why children (N=124) like some classmates most, and others least. Supporting the hypothesis from study 1, the most common reasons given for liking classmates most were because they were cooperative and played with the interviewee; the most common reason given for why classmates were liked least was because they were bullies. The results are discussed in terms of the development of inter-racial liking in children, and attempts to enhance liking among children from different racial backgrounds by cooperative group work methods. Michael J. Boulton, Department of Psychology, University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, ENGLAND.

Melanie Hancock & William Ickes: EMPATHIC ACCURACY: WHEN DOES THE PERCEIVER-TARGET RELATIONSHIP MAKE A DIFFERENCE? This study sought to determine whether a friend-observer who eavesdrops on a friend-interactant's initial conversation with a stranger will be more accurate in inferring the friend-interactant's thoughts and feeling than will wither the stranger-interaction partner or a stranger-observer. The empirical answer in this case was "no," suggesting that the meaning context established in the interactants' initial conversation was generic rather than esoteric (i.e., it did not uniquely benefit the empathic accuracy of the friend- observer). The findings also revealed, however, that nearly half of the variance in the perceivers' empathic accuracy scores was accounted for by differences in the overall "readability" of the various targets; and that, contrary to the cultural stereotype regarding the superiority of "women's intuition," there was no reliable sex difference in the perceivers' empathic accuracy scores. The discussion focused on the conditions in which the hypothesized empathic advantage of the friend-observer might be evident. Melanie Hancock or William Ickes, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019-0528

Brant R. Burleson, Adrianne W. Kunkel, Wendy Samter & Kathy J. Werking: MEN'S AND WOMEN'S EVALUATIONS OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS; WHEN SEX DIFFERENCES MAKE A DIFFERENCE--AND WHEN THEY DON'T. Much recent research on gender and communication has emphasized differences in men and women's communicative conduct, with some theorists going so far as to claim that men and women constitute different cultures. However, comparatively little research has assessed both similarities and differences in men and women's communication to determine whether the sexes are more alike or different. The present paper provides such assessments with respect to men and women's evaluations of the importance of diverse communication skills in two relationships, friendship and romance. Two studies are reported. In Study 1, participants (N=382) evaluated the importance of eight communication skills in same-sex friendships. Results indicated that although females rated affectively oriented communication skills as somewhat more important than males, and males rated instrumentally oriented skills as somewhat more important than females, both males and females overwhelmingly viewed affectively oriented skills as more important than instrumental skills. Study 2 sought to replicate and extend the findings of Study 1 by having participants (N=685) evaluate the importance of eight communication skills for either same-sex friendship or opposite-sex romances. Results virtually identical to those of Study 1 were obtained in Study 2 for both friendship and romance. Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for our understanding of communication in personal relationships and the different cultures perspective. Brant R. Burleson, Dept. of Communication, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

Patricia Frazier, Nancy Arikian, Sonja Benson, Ann Losoff & Steven Maurer: DESIRE FOR MARRIAGE AND LIFE SATISFACTION AMONG UNMARRIED HETEROSEXUAL ADULTS. The purpose of this study was to examine factors that may underlie current marriage trends. A community sample of 217 unmarried adults over age 30 was surveyed regarding their reasons for being single, desire for marriage, and life satisfaction. Results suggest, first, that unmarried adults attribute being single to both barriers and choices. Second, men desire marriage more than do women and the never-married want to marry more than the divorced. Divorced women have the least desire for marriage. Divorced individuals also report more life satisfaction than never-married individuals. Mediational analyses suggest that men have more desire for marriage than do women because they have less social support that never-married individuals have more desire for marriage had lower life satisfaction than divorced individuals because they have lower self-esteem. Implications for counseling and future research are discussed. Pat Frazier, Dept. of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455.

Stanley O. Gaines, Jr.: IMPACT OF INTERPERSONAL TRAITS AND GENDER-ROLE COMPLIANCE ON INTERPERSONAL RESOURCE EXCHANGE AMONG DATING AND ENGAGED/MARRIED COUPLES. The following hypotheses regarding interpersonal resource exchange among (a) dating couples (n=206 couples) and (b) engaged/married couples (n=103 couples) were tested: (1) levels of affectionate behavior are reciprocated (i.e., paths are bidirectional) among couples; (2) levels of respectful behavior are reciprocated among couples; (3) individuals' reported affectionate and respectful behaviors are correlated positively; (4) individuals' affection-giving traits are better as positive predictors of individuals' affectionate behavior among engaged/married couples than among dating couples; (5) individuals' respectful behavior among engaged/married couples than among dating couples; (6) individuals' gender-role compliance is better as a negative predictor of individuals' affectionate behavior among dating couples than among engaged/married couples; and (7) individuals' gender-role compliance is better as a negative predictor of individuals' respectful behavior among dating couples than among engaged/married couples. Individuals' interpersonal traits and gender-role compliance were self-reported, whereas individuals' interpersonal behaviors were reported by their partners. Results supported Hypotheses 1 through 3 (derived from resource exchange theory proposed by Foa & Foa, 1974) but not Hypotheses 4 through 7 ( derived from the model of levels of relational involvement proposed by Levinger & Snoek, 1972). Unexpectedly, affection-giving traits generally were positive predictors of affectionate and respectful behavior, whereas respect-giving traits generally did not predict affectionate or respectful behavior. Implications for the study of interpersonal traits, gender roles, and behavioral reciprocity in heterosexual relationships are discussed. Stanley O. Gaines, Jr., Department of Psychology, Pomona College, 550 N. Harvard Ave., Claremont, CA 91711.

Mark A. Whisman & Laura E. Allan: ATTACHMENT AND SOCIAL COGNITION THEORIES OF ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS: CONVERGENT OR COMPLEMENTARY PERSPECTIVES? Adult attachment and social cognition perspectives of romantic relationships have developed relatively independently of one another, despite the fact that both stress the importance of cognitive conceptual frameworks of relationship functioning. The present investigation examined the strength of the association between constructs from the two perspectives, as well as their associations with concurrent relationship adjustment 6-month longitudinal relationship dissolution. Results from 68 dating couples suggested only a modest degree of convergence between measures of attachment, relationship beliefs, and relationship attributions. Moreover, measures of both adult attachment and relationship beliefs and attributions were uniquely related to concurrent relationship adjustment, although between-partner differences on attachment and social cognition measures were largely unrelated to relationship adjustment. Finally, the only relationship cognition variable that was predictive of subsequent relationship dissolution was stronger endorsement by women of partner responsibility attributions (i.e., viewing negative partner behavior as blameworthy, intentional, and selfishly motivated). Taken together, these results suggest that attachment and social cognition may off complementary perspectives of romantic relationships. Mark A. Whisman, Yale University, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 208205, New Haven, CT, 06520-8205.

David A. Kenny: MODELS OF NONINDEPENDENCE IN DYADIC RESEARCH. In dyadic research, the responses of the two members of the dyad are likely to be nonindependent. Statistical estimation for three different processes that bring about nonindependence are presented. In each, a variable X influences Y. First, the X variable of one person may influence the Y variable of his or her partner. Second, the Y variables of the two people may directly influence each other. Third, the two X and Y scores may e indicators of couple-level factors. David A. Kenny, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269-1020.

Brief Articles Beverly I. Fagot, Mary Gauvain & Kate Kavanagh: INFANT ATTACHMENT AND MOTHER-CHILD PROBLEM-SOLVING: A REPLICATION. Associations between children's attachment classification at 18 months and behavior in a mother child problem solving task at 30 months were examined. The study partially replicated previous findings of Matas et al. and Frankel & Bates in terms of differences in maternal behaviors with children whose attachment classifications had differed 12 months earlier. Just as child behaviors did not show high levels of replication across the Matas et al. and Frankel & Bates studies, so child behaviors in this study did not replicate either study exactly. Beverly Fagot, Oregon Social Learning Center, 207 5th Avenue, Suite 202, Eugene, OR 97401

William B. Stiles, Nicola C. Walz, Michelle A.B. Schroeder, Laura L. Williams & William Ickes: ATTRACTIVENESS AND DISCLOSURE IN INITIAL ENCOUNTERS OF MIXED-SEX DYADS. Physically attractive people describe their daily interactions as more disclosing, intimate, and satisfying than do unattractive people. We investigated the disclosing aspect of this description during naturally-occurring encounters. Six-minute interactions of 38 previously unacquainted mixed-sex dyads were videotaped using Ickes’ dyadic interaction paradigm. Physical attractiveness was rated reliably and videotape transcripts were coded according to a taxonomy of verbal response modes. Dyads' average attractiveness was significantly correlated with their average frequency of "pure Disclosure" (first person subjective utterances). Breakdowns revealed that both men and women disclosed more if they themselves were attractive and if their partner was attractive. Participants' self-reported shyness tended to suppress the frequency of "pure Edification" (third person objective utterances). William B. Stiles, Department of Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056

Coby Gerlsma, Bram P. Buunk & Wim C. M. Mutsaers: CORRELATES OF SELF-REPORTED ADULT ATTACHMENT STYLES IN A DUTCH SAMPLE OF MARRIED MEN AND WOMEN. The relationships between attachment style, recollections of the family of origin, working model of self, and current relational satisfaction were examined in a Dutch sample of married subjects from the general community. Measures were adapted from those developed by Hazan & Shaver (1987). Results generally corroborated the Hazan & Shaver (1987) analyses: subjects endorsing the avoidant and anxious-ambivalent styles reported more adverse childhood experiences, i.e. less affectionate and more rejecting parents, and more experiences related with separations, as well as a more fearful model of self and others. For men and women, the same-sex parent appear to be more important than the other-sex parent. Moreover, only among men, and not among women was attachment style related to current relational satisfaction. All effects were obtained while controlling for age and social desirability, thus enhancing the validity and generalizability of the findings. Bram Buunk, Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.

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Catherine H. Stein & Laurie Kramer: DIFFERENT PATHS, DIFFERENT VOICES: RETHINKING THE DEVELOPMENT OF FAMILIES

Peggye Dilworth-Anderson & Linda Burton: RETHINKING FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: CRITICAL CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF DIVERSE GROUPS Peggye Dilworth Anderson, Human Development and Family Studies, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27412

Susan G. Timmer, Joseph Veroff, & Shirley Hatchett: FAMILY TIES AND MARITAL HAPPINESS: THE DIFFERENT MARITAL EXPERIENCES OF BLACK AND WHITE NEWLYWED COUPLES Susan G. Timmer, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Thompson St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Pamela K. Adelmann, Kirsten Chadwick, & Dana Royce Baerger: MARITAL QUALITY OF BLACK AND WHITE ADULTS OVER THE LIFE COURSE Pamela K. Adelmann, Counseling Psychology and Human Development and Social Policy Programs, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.

Berit Ingersoll-Dayton, Ruth Campbell, Yukiko Kurokawa, & Marahiko Saito: SEPARATENESS AND TOGETHERNESS: INTERDEPENDENCE OVER THE LIFE COURSE IN JAPANESE AND AMERICAN MARRIAGES Berit Ingersoll-Dayton, School of Social Work, 1065 Frieze Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285

Deborah M. Merill: CONFLICT AND COOPERATION AMONG ADULT SIBLINGS DURING THE TRANSITION TO THE ROLE OF FILIAL CAREGIVER Deborah M. Merrill, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Clark University, 950 Main St., Worcester, MA 01610-1477.

David H. Demo & Katherine R. Allen: DIVERSITY WITHIN LESBIAN AND GAY FAMILIES: CHALLENGES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FAMILY THEORY AND RESEARCH David H. Demo, Dept. of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211

Andres G. Gil & William A. Vega: TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS: ACCULTURATION STRESS AND ADAPTATION AMONG CUBAN AND NICARAGUAN FAMILIES Andres G. Gil, University of Connecticut, School of Family Studies, 348 Mansfield Road, U-58, Room 106, Storrs, CT 06269-2058

Andrew L. Freeberg & Catherine H. Stein: FELT OBLIGATION TOWARDS PARENTS IN MEXICAN-AMERICAN AND ANGLO-AMERICAN YOUNG ADULTS Catherine H. Stein, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403

Joan Aldous: DEVELOPMENT, DIVERSITY , AND CONVERGING PATHS: A COMMENTARY Joan Aldous, The William R. Kenan Jr Department of Sociology, The University of Notre Dame, 325 O’Shaughnessy Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA

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FAMILY RELATIONS Table of Contents for April 1996 kindly supplied by Editor Mark A. Fine (For details of these papers and addresses of authors, please contact Mark Fine, Dept. of Human Development and Family Studies, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA [email protected])

FAMILY-RELATED PREVENTION PROGRAMS An Ecological Risk/Protective Theory for Building Prevention Programs, Policies, and Community Capacity to Support Youth Karen Bogenschneider A Theory-Based Parent Competency Model Incorporating Intervention Attendance Effects Richard Spoth & Cleve Redmond Preventing Serious Antisocial Behavior in Inner-City Children: An Empirically Based Family Prevention Program Patrick H. Tolan & Mary McKernan McKay The Prevention of Relationship Distress for Couples at Risk: A Controlled Evaluation With Nine-Month and Two- Year Follows Brigit Van Widenfelt, Clemens Hosman, Cas Schaap, & Cees van der Staak Culturally Specific Programs for Foster Care Youth: The Sample Case of an African American Rites of Passage Program Stephen M. Gavazzi, Keith A. Alford, &Patrick C. McKenry

GENERAL INTEREST Social Class Issues in Family Life Education Robert Hughes, Jr. & Maureen Perry-Jenkins Research on Difficult Family Topics: Helping New and Experienced Researchers Cope Gay C. Kitson, Richard D. Clark, Norman B. Rushforth, Paul M. Brinich, Howard S.Sudak, & Stephen J. Zyzanski Reflective Dialogue Parent Education Design: Focus on Parent Development Ruth Thomas Maternal Employment and Adolescent Achievement Revisited: An Ecological Perspective Sharon E. Paulson Adjustment to Motherhood by Single Adolescents Marguerite Stevenson Barratt, Mary A. Roach, Kari M. Morgan, & Karen K. Colbert Examination of the Cross-Cultural Cross-Language Equivalence and of the Parenting Self-Agency Measure Larry E. Dumka, Heather D. Stoerzinger, Kristina M. Jackson, & Mark W. Roosa Adoptive Couples: Communication and Changes Made in Openness Levels Tai J. Mendenhall, Harold D. Grotevant, & Ruth G. McRoy Residential and Nonresidential Parents' Perspectives on Visitation Problems Sharlene A. Wolchik, Andrea M. Fenaughty, & Sanford L. Braver

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ABSTRACT FIRST NOTICE OF TIME TO RENEW MEMBERSHIP RENEW BEFORE SEPT. 30TH TO USE DISCOUNTED RENEWAL RATES All set for Seattle annual conference in Seattle ... next year’s conference witll bne in Oxford Ohio ... ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN SEATTLE - 29 JUNE - 3 JULY 1996 All is now set for a fine annual conference in Seattle, with some 200 attenders and a strong slate of invited speakers, plus some special events for graduate students and those early in their careers wishing to get advice on puiblishing and conference presentations or share ideas about teaching relationships courses. Conference organizers are Barbara Sarason [sarasonb@ u.washington.edu] and Valerie Manusov [[email protected]]. ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN OXFORD, OHIO 28 JUNE - 2 JULY 1997 The 1997 INPR conference will be held on Saturday, June 28 through Wednesday, July 2, 1997 on the Miami University campus in Oxford, Ohio. Sally Lloyd and Paul Mongeau will act as local hosts. At press time, confirmed invited speakers include William Cupach, Illinois State University (Communication), Clyde and Susan Hendrick, Texas Tech University (Psychology) and Susan Mosley-Howard, Miami University (Educational Psychology and Black World Studies). Other invited speakers will be announced at a later date. Miami has some outstanding conference and housing facilities. A choice of hotel and dormitory style housing will be available. NEWS OF MEMBERS Linda SAPADIN was interviewed on the Today Show on June 11th about her new book “It’s about time” Steve WILSON received the 1995 Franklin M. Knower article award from the Interpersonal and Small Group Interaction Division of the Speech Communication Association for his article "An attributional analysis of compliance-gaining interactions," which was published in Communication Monographs, 60, 1993, 353-372. (Co-authors were Michael Curz, Linda J. Marshall, and Nagesh Rao) MEMBERS ON THE MOVE --ONWARDS AND UPWARDS Dawn BRAITHWAITE has been awarded Tenure and Promotion at ASU-West and has also been appointed the Interim Director of the Gerontology Program at ASU West. Sharon BREHM has been appointed Provost at the Ohio University in Athens OH effective July 1st and will hold a joint appointment in Psychology and in the School of Interpersonal Communication there. Marianne DAINTON has taken a position at the Department of Communication, LaSalle University David DEMO will be taking the position as Dept. Chair in Human Development and Family Studies at UNC-Greensboro, effective Aug.1. Larry ERBERT has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis and has taken a position as Assistant Professor at Baruch College in New York. Yvonne KELLAR GUENTHER has accepted an Assistant Professor position with Western Illinois University. Susan MCWILLIAMS has accepted a position at Department of Sociology, University of Southern Maine, 96 Falmouth Street, Portland, Maine 04103 [Phone (207)-780-4100] Connie PILKINGTON has been awarded tenure and promotion at the College of William and Mary. She is also 1 of 5 recipients of the W&M Alumni Fellowship Award which is given to faculty whose teaching has "achieved notoriety among students, colleagues and staff." Jim PONZETTI has accepted a faculty position in the Psychology Dept. at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois and will be moving this July. Pam REGAN has taken a tenure-track position at California State University, Los Angeles teaching statistics, sexuality, and social psych. Her address will be Department of Psychology, CSU-Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032-8227. Joann Wu SHORTT has completed her dissertation and is now a visiting researcher at the Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC) [[email protected] fax 541-485-7087] Gail WILLIAMSON has been appointed Chair of the Life-Span Developmental Psychology Program at the University of Georgia. BOOKS BY MEMBERS Bernard E. WHITLEY, Jr. (1996). Principles of Research in Behavioral Science. Mayfield. MEMBERS WINNING GRANTS Bernard E. WHITLEY, Jr. has received Faculty Research Grant of $11,285 from Ball State University to conduct a literature review of research on cheating among college students. MEMBERS SEEKING HELP Barbara HABERTHUR would like to hear from anyone working on narrative (functions of and usage in reconstructing experience). Jan YAGER, who continues her work on friendship through the life cycle, would like to receive copies of published scholarly research or papers about friendship from 1993-1996. Two areas of special interest are how friendship helped someone in a dysfunctional family to cope better or how friends at work or in one’s profession enhance one’s self esteem, productivity, or career. Please send to Jan Yager, PO Box 8038, Stamford, CT 06905-8038. NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following who have joined the Network since April: Robert B. ARUNDALE, Brenda BASS, Linda Potter CRUMLEY, S. Wayne DUNCAN, Vangie FOSHEE, Barbara A. HABERTHUR, Heather L. HARWARD, Pamela KELLY, Gayla MARGOLIN, Kirstie McKENZIE-McHARG, Christopher M. MURPHY, Pamella OLIVER, Ami ROKACH, Annette C. SCHMITT, Sandi W. SMITH, Shanna TRINKE, Mary C. WALDRON. ....WHO HAVE INDICATED THE FOLLOWING INTERESTS Robert B. ARUNDALE, Reconstructing Brown & Levinson's Politeness Theory. Linda Potter CRUMLEY, Family stories, transmission of family values need to use physiological measures in interpersonal communication. S. Wayne DUNCAN, Marital conflict patterns and their impact on children's conflict styles and sibling relationships; emotion regulation in the family. Vangie FOSHEE, Adolescent Partner/Dating Violence Barbara A. HABERTHUR, Content and pattern in the construal of self significant others. Narrative identity and the social reconstruction of negative experience. Heather L. HARWARD, Gender differences in conflict. Pamela KELLY, Compliance gaining strategies in dating relationships and dynamics of married dyads. Kirstie McKENZIE-McHARG, In-depth interview for family members covering all aspects of their lives as step families, Commencing a 5 year longitudinal study of the adjustment of children in step families with Professor Judy Dunn. Christopher M. MURPHY, Developing a measure of psychological abuse in dating relationships., Correlates, development, and treatment of abuse in dating and marital relationships. Ami ROKACH, Loneliness and coping with it. Annette C. SCHMITT, System of categories for the content analysis of statements in jealousy narratives (in German)., Analysis of emotion narratives, esp. jealousy; communication of emotions, knowledge of emotions, strategic communication. Sandi W. SMITH, Personal disclosures on talk shows, Persuasion in the health context, prototypes of outstanding professors. Mary C. WALDRON, ‘SIBS Sibling Interaction Behavior Scale (Waldron & Duncan) - behavior & emotion coding system developed to assess siblings during game interaction., .... WHO USE THE FOLLOWING METHODS Linda Potter CRUMLEY, Physiological measures in the works, have used analysis of talk (accounts, stories, conversations, etc.) S. Wayne DUNCAN, DAS, Locke-Wallace, Asher/Hymel/Renshaw's Childhood Loneliness Measure, Furman & Buhrmester's SRQ, Christensen's Communication Patterns Questionnaire Barbara A. HABERTHUR, HICLAS - a hierarchical clustering program - clusters things that co-occur Christopher M. MURPHY, Self-report and observational communication measures. Annette C. SCHMITT, Content Analytical Methods Mary C. WALDRON, SRQ Sibling Relationship Questionnaire (Furman & Buhrmester, 1985) & Loneliness & Social Dissatisfaction Questionnaire (Asher, Hymel & Renshaw, 1984) ....AND HAVE PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING WORKS S. Wayne DUNCAN, Duncan, S. W. (1994). Economic impact of divorce on children's development: Current findings and policy implications. J of Clinical Child Psychology, 23, 444-457. Duncan, S. W. (1990). Stability in young adulthood. Contemporary Psychology, 35, 562. Duncan, S. W., & Markman, H. J. Intervention programs for the transition to parenthood: Current status from a prevention perspective. In G. Y. Michaels & W. A. Goldberg (Eds), Transition to parenthood. Vangie FOSHEE, Foshee, V. (in press). Gender differences in adolescent dating abuse: Prevalence, type. Health Education Research. Foshee, V. (in press). The Safe dates project; Theoretical basis evaluation design and selected baseline finding. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Christopher M. MURPHY, Murphy, C. M. (1994). Dependency characteristics of partner assaultive men. Journal Abnormal Psychology, 103, 729- 735. Murphy, C. M. (1994). Factors associated with marital aggression in male alcoholics. Journal of Family Psychology, 8, 321-335. Murphy, C. M. (in press). Couple communication patterns of maritally aggressive and nonagressive male alcoholics. Journal Studies on Alcohol. Ami ROKACH, Rokach, A. (in press). Loneliness: A multi-dimensional experience. Psychology: A Journal of Human Behavior. Rokach, A. (in press). Causes of loneliness. Psychology: A Journal of Human Behavior. Rokach, A. (in press). Loneliness and the effects of life changes. The Journal of Psychology. Annette C. SCHMITT, Schmitt, A. (1996). The Logography of jealousy: A content analytic study of jealousy narratives). Lengerich: Pabst. , Schmitt, A., Daehne, M. Laucken, U., & Mees, U. (1994). A system of categories for the content analysis of statements in jealousy narratives. Reports from the Institute for Research into Man-Environment , Sandi W. SMITH, Smith, S. W. (1995). Perceptual processing of nonverbal relational messages. In DE Hewes (Ed), Cognitive bases of interpersonal communication, 87-115. Erlbaum. Marshall, A. A., Smith, S. W. & McKeon, J. (1995). Persuading low income women to engage in mammography screening: Source, message and channel preferences. Health Communication. Smith, S. W., et al (1994). The influence of prior thought and intent on the memorability and persuasiveness of organ donation message strategies.

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Laurie Kramer & Catherine H. Stein: DIFFERENT PATHS, DIFFERENT VOICES: RETHINKING THE DEVELOPMENT OF FAMILIES

Peggye Dilworth-Anderson & Linda Burton: RETHINKING FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: CRITICAL CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF DIVERSE GROUPS This article provides a discussion of conceptual issues that should be considered in reevaluating family development perspectives as they apply to the study of ethnically diverse populations. Four issues are identified: 1) values and value orientations, 2) hidden or conditioned theoretical assumptions, 3) accepted conceptual frameworks, and 4) limited methodologies used in the study of families. We focus on identifying how these issues have limited ways of thinking about family development among ethnically and racially diverse populations Suggestions are made to help guide researchers' theoretical and conceptual formulations in developing research agendas that include studying family development among diverse populations. Peggye Dilworth Anderson, Human Development and Family Studies, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27412

Susan G. Timmer, Joseph Veroff, & Shirley Hatchett: FAMILY TIES AND MARITAL HAPPINESS: THE DIFFERENT MARITAL EXPERIENCES OF BLACK AND WHITE NEWLYWED COUPLES This paper explores the relationship of family ties to black and white couples' marital happiness over the first three years of their marriages. Respondents were 115 black and 136 white couples interviewed as part of the "Early Years of Marriage" study. Although there were many similarities in the way blacks and whites felt about and interacted with their families, black couples were less likely to argue over matters pertaining to family, visited their families more often, but perceived fewer family members able to help if needed. Hierarchical panel regressions showed that close family ties had no effect on the marital happiness of whites, but significantly predicted black couples' marital happiness, particularly the ties to the husband's family. Predictions of marital happiness further varied by low and high structural stress (low income combined with early family formation), such that low-stress blacks increased closeness to their in-laws from year 1 to year 3 predicted marital happiness. For high-stress blacks, the couples' closeness to the husband's family in year 1, and increases in that closeness by year 3 predicted increased marital happiness. Findings point to the importance of accounting for both ethnicity and structural context for understanding the paths that couples take in establishing happy marriages. Susan G. Timmer, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Thompson St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Pamela K. Adelmann, Kirsten Chadwick, & Dana Royce Baerger: MARITAL QUALITY OF BLACK AND WHITE ADULTS OVER THE LIFE COURSE This paper tests family development and life course perspectives in explaining marital quality over the course of marriage for Black and White adults. The sample of 1430 adults (1097 White, 333 Black) in their first marriage was from a 1986 national survey. As expected, positive marital quality (satisfaction and interdependence) had significant curvilinear patterns across length of marriage, but only satisfaction showed the characteristic U-shape with a dip in the middle years which is consistent with a family life-cycle explanation. Furthermore, family structure variables did not eliminate this pattern although family financial factors reduced it to marginal significance. Negative marital quality (discord and spouse negative behavior) had significant negative linear patterns over the marital life course, which were unaffected by family life-cycle variables. All four patterns were similar for Blacks and Whites, except that Blacks had a stronger negative linear association between negative marital quality and marriage length. Marital quality was significantly lower among Blacks on all measures; kin relation and status inequality variables did not eliminate this difference. The results suggest that marital quality is better explained by a life course perspective than by the family development model. Pamela K. Adelmann, Counseling Psychology and Human Development and Social Policy Programs, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.

Berit Ingersoll-Dayton, Ruth Campbell, Yukiko Kurokawa, & Marahiko Saito: SEPARATENESS AND TOGETHERNESS: INTERDEPENDENCE OVER THE LIFE COURSE IN JAPANESE AND AMERICAN MARRIAGES This study examines cross-cultural conceptions of interdependence within marriage over the life cycle. Older Japanese and American couples participated in a narrative interview in which both spouses jointly discussed the story of their marriage. The resulting data were analyzed qualitatively and several salient themes emerged. Interdependence among couples varied across cultures and between racial groups. Further, the couples' feelings of intimacy and distance were renegotiated over the life course. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to family development theory. Berit Ingersoll-Dayton, School of Social Work, 1065 Frieze Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285

Deborah M. Merill: CONFLICT AND COOPERATION AMONG ADULT SIBLINGS DURING THE TRANSITION TO THE ROLE OF FILIAL CAREGIVER Based on data from 40 open-ended interviews with working and middle class adult children and children-in-law currently caring for an elderly parent, this study focused on the transition to the role of filial caregiver. Class differences in the formation of parent-caring networks among siblings and in the conflict that ensued when siblings did not provide assistance were examined. Although only one-third of the sample received assistance from siblings, it occurred more often in working class families and was usually the result of family values which emphasized helping one another and an obligation to provide care for one's parents. When siblings did not provide assistance, sisters were more likely to ask for help while brothers demanded it. Often, lack of sibling assistance was a reflection of prior family histories. Implications for later life families were discussed. Deborah M. Merrill, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Clark University, 950 Main St., Worcester, MA 01610-1477.

David H. Demo & Katherine R. Allen: DIVERSITY WITHIN LESBIAN AND GAY FAMILIES: CHALLENGES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FAMILY THEORY AND RESEARCH An exciting new area of study is emerging in research on lesbian and gay families. Although often viewed as a monolithic group, substantial diversity exists both across and within lesbian and gay families, presenting considerable challenges for family theory. This paper describes and discusses diversity among lesbian and gay families along central dimensions of social stratification: gender, sexual orientation, generation, age, race and ethnicity. We examine implications of this diversity for traditional family theories, identify and discuss sexist and heterosexist assumptions of dominant family theories, and suggest the usefulness of an integrative approach that combines insights from positivist and post positivist theories. We conclude by proposing research questions, directions, and methods to guide future empirical work, facilitate theory development, and enrich our understanding of diverse family forms. David H. Demo, Dept. of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211

Andres G. Gil & William A. Vega: TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS: ACCULTURATION STRESS AND ADAPTATION AMONG CUBAN AND NICARAGUAN FAMILIES This is a study of acculturation, and acculturation stress among Cuban and Nicaraguan adolescent males and their parents. The sample consisted of 674 Cuban American, and 211 Nicaraguan American 6th and 7th grade adolescents, and one of their parents. Hypotheses predicting group differences in acculturation stress were tested. Analyses were bivariate and multivariate in nature, using parent and adolescent data. Findings indicated important differences in acculturation stress for different cohorts of immigrants within the two ethnic groups (Cubans, and Nicaraguans), as well as differences between the Cuban and Nicaraguan subsamples. Important differences were also found between adolescent and parent acculturation stress, with more recent immigrants among the adolescents experiencing more stress, while the opposite was the case among parents. Adolescent and parent acculturation related stressors, as well as acculturation levels were strongly associated with lower levels of family cohesion, increased parent/child acculturation conflicts, as well as adolescent self-esteem and adolescent perceived teacher derogation. The implications of the differences and similarities found between the Cuban and Nicaraguan groups, and parents and adolescents, are discussed with a focus on the importance of the family as a coping source for the stresses associated with immigrant adaptation. Andres G. Gil, University of Connecticut, School of Family Studies, 348 Mansfield Road, U-58, Room 106, Storrs, CT 06269-2058

Andrew L. Freeberg & Catherine H. Stein: FELT OBLIGATION TOWARDS PARENTS IN MEXICAN-AMERICAN AND ANGLO-AMERICAN YOUNG ADULTS The present study compared self-reports of felt obligation toward parents, cultural attitudes about family functioning, and perceptions of family interactions in a sample of 100 Mexican-American and Anglo-American young adults. On average, Mexican- American men and women reported significantly higher levels of familism, more collectivist attitudes, and more helping behavior in relationships with parents than did Anglo-Americans, while Anglo respondents reported having more contact with social systems outside the family system. Mexican-American young adults generally reported feeling significantly more obligated to avoid conflict, provide assistance, and strive for self-sufficiency in their relationships with parents than did Anglo-Americans. Cultural attitudes of familism and collectivism were related to reports of felt obligation for Mexican-American respondents, but not for Anglo-American respondents. Implications of results or family development theory are discussed. Catherine H. Stein, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403

Joan Aldous: DEVELOPMENT, DIVERSITY, AND CONVERGING PATHS: A COMMENTARY Joan Aldous, The William R. Kenan, Jr. Department of Sociology, The University of Notre Dame, 325 O'Shaughnessy Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556

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Jackie D. Vorauer & Rebecca Ratner: WHO'S GOING TO MAKE THE FIRST MOVE? PLURALISTIC IGNORANCE AS AN IMPEDIMENT TO RELATIONSHIP FORMATION Jacquie Vorauer, Department of Psychology, Duff Roblin Building, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, CANADA, or to Rebecca Ratner, Department of Psychology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544-1010, USA

Michelle D. Sherman & Mark H. Thelen: FEAR OF INTIMACY SCALE: VALIDATION AND EXTENSION WITH ADOLESCENTS Mark H. Thelen, Department of Psychology, 210 McAlester Hall, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA

Mary J. Levitt, Marcia E. Silver & Nathalie Franco: TROUBLESOME RELATIONSHIPS: A PART OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE Mary J. Levitt, Department of Psychology, Florida International University, North Miami, FL 33181, USA

S. Donna Assh & E. Sandra Byers: UNDERSTANDING THE COOCCURRENCE OF MARITAL DISTRESS AND DEPRESSION IN WOMEN Sandra Byers, Department of Psychology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 6E4, CANADA

Steven R. Wilson, Ellen E. Whipple, & Jennifer Grau: REFLECTION-ENHANCING REGULATIVE COMMUNICATION: HOW DO PARENTS VARY ACROSS MISBEHAVIOR SITUATIONS AND CHILD RESISTANCE? Steve Wilson, Department of Communication, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA

Rob Palkovitch: PARENTING AS A GENERATOR OF ADULT DEVELOPMENT: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND IMPLICATIONS Rob Palkovitz, Dept. of Individual and Family Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA

Susan L. Kline, Laura Stafford, & Jill C. Miklosovic: WOMEN'S SURNAMES: DECISIONS, INTERPRETATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS WITH RELATIONAL QUALITIES Susan L. Kline, Laura Stafford, & Jill C. Miklosovic, 3016 Derby Hall, 154 N. Oval Mall, Dept. of Communication, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210,

Brief Articles Renate C. A. Klein & Helmut Lamm: LEGITIMATE INTEREST IN COUPLE CONFLICT Renate Klein, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5749, e-mail: [email protected]., USA

Samantha S. Kovach & James D. Robinson: THE ROOM-MATE RELATIONSHIP FOR THE ELDERLY NURSING HOME RESIDENT Samantha Kovach, Dept. of Communication, Box 871205, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1205, USA

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FAMILY RELATIONS Table of Contents for July 1996 kindly supplied by Editor Mark A. Fine (For details of these papers and addresses of authors, please contact Mark Fine, Dept. of Human Development and Family Studies, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA [email protected])

Family Programs Barriers to Participation in Family Skills Preventive Interventions and Their Evaluations: A Replication and Extension Richard Spoth, Cleve Redmond, Cathy Hockaday, & Chung Yeol Shin

The Effects of a Family Support Program and Other Factors on the Home Environments Provided by Adolescent Mothers Tom Luster, Harry Perlstadt, Marvin McKinney, Kathy Sims, & Linda Juang

General Interest Social Support of Homeless and Permanently Housed Low-Income Mothers With Young Children Bethany L. Letiecq, Elaine A. Anderson, & Sally A. Koblinsky

Patterns of Parenting Behavior in Young Mothers Leanne Whiteside, Sandra K. Pope, & Robert H. Bradley

Adolescents' Perceptions of Family System Characteristics, Parent-Adolescent Dyadic Behaviors, Adolescent Qualities, and Adolescent Empathy Carolyn S. Henry, David W. Sager, &Scott W. Plunkett

Work and Family in the Virtual Office: Perceived Influences of Mobile Telework E. Jeffrey Hill, Alan J. Hawkins, &Brent C. Miller

A Longitudinal Assessment of a Measure of Premarital Sexual Conflict Edgar C. J. Long, Rodney M. Cate, Del A. Fehsenfeld, & Kimberly M. Jones

The Social Construction of Adoption: Clinical and Community Perspectives Charlene E. Miall

Aging Women and Their Children With Chronic Disabilities: Perceptions of Sibling Involvement and Effects on Well-Being. Rachel A. Pruchno,Julie Hicks Patrick, & Christopher J. Burant

Cooperative Learning in the College Classrooms Alexis J. Walker

Gender Differences in Satisfaction With Divorce Settlements Virgil L. Sheets & Sanford L. Braver

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ABSTRACT JSPR TO PUBLISH SIX ISSUE PER YEAR SECOND NOTICE OF TIME TO RENEW MEMBERSHIP RENEW BEFORE SEPT. 30TH TO USE DISCOUNTED RENEWAL RATES ... CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR JSPR EDITOR .... CALLS FOR NOMINATIONS FOR INPR VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT, COMMITTEES, ..... CALLS FOR NOMINATIONS FOR AWARDS. FROM THE PRESIDENT First, on behalf of the entire INPR membership, I would like to thank Barbara Sarason and Valerie Manusov for organizing and sponsoring the 1996 INPR conference. Without question, every INPR conference gets better. The invited speakers, the paper and poster sessions, the social activities, the meals, and even the weather were superb at this conference. It takes a tremendous amount of time - time that could otherwise be spent teaching and doing research - to organize and run a conference. We appreciate the time and effort Barbara and Valerie spent performing this tremendous service for INPR. I would also like to encourage everyone who attended the conference to show their appreciation by writing to Barbara and Valerie. Be sure and copy your letter to their Dean, John B. Simpson, Jr., College of Letters and Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. Second, I would like to thank Steve Duck. Quite simply, if it weren't for Steve, INPR wouldn't exist. In 1987 Steve founded the Iowa Network on Personal Relationships which grew to become the International Network on Personal Relationships. Today, INPR has approximately 1,400 members. Steve organized the early conferences and graduate students workshops for INPR. Four times a year he edits the INPR Newsletter (he's still doing that job until we elect an secretary!). He's been the chief executive officer, conference planner, treasurer, secretary, editor, and committee organizer of INPR since 1987! Earlier, and separately from INPR, he founded the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships which is one of the top rated journals in Social Psychology and also in Communication, according to the Social Sciences Citation Index. At the 1996 INPR conference Steve announced that JSPR is now going to be published six times a year. And now, JSPR is allied with INPR. Finally, I would like to comment on the important change that INPR is now undergoing. The 1996 INPR conference marks a major turning point in the history of INPR. We are moving from an autocracy, a government by one person, to a democracy, a government by all the people. Again, we have Steve to thank for this; he spearheaded the effort to make this organization a democracy. Like most turning points, the move from an autocracy to a democracy does not take place over night. The 1996 conference marks the beginning, not the end, of this transition. Organizations, like personal relationships, are unfinished business. Steve initiated the effort to make this organization a democracy; now it is up to each of us to make INPR a fully functioning democracy. To do this we need to become involved. I'm asking each of us to take an active role in INPR, to volunteer for committees, to nominate yourself or others for positions, to vote in the upcoming election. This is no longer Steve Duck's organization. It is OUR organization. If INPR is to survive and flourish in the 21st century, it is up to us to work toward the goal stated in our constitution - an organization, whose membership and governance is multidisciplinary, dedicated to the multi/interdisciplinary study of personal relationships. Kathryn Dindia. President, INPR.

JSPR TO PUBLISH SIX ISSUES PER YEAR!!!!!!!!! SAGE is pleased to report that such has been the success of JSPR, increased subscriptions levels (7% higher last month than the highest previous level ever), significantly increased visibility in SSCI and other ranking services, [etc etc.... get on with it! -Editor] that JSPR will be published SIX TIMES per year, beginning with volume 14, i.e., starting in 1997. In addition, the total number of pages per volume will also increase some 25% and the previous 4x160 issues will be replaced with 6x144. JSPR will therefore be able to accept even more of the excellent work that is submitted to it at a time when such submissions have been increasing and causing pressure on space. ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN SEATTLE - 29 JUNE - 3 JULY 1996; SUCCESSFUL TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY The annual conference was a great success not only in terms of numbers of registrations (nearly 300 participants despite the distant location for many people!) but also in terms of and exciting program, wonderful atmosphere, and seamless administration and smoothness of arrangements. Barbara Sarason and Valerie Manusov put on a really extraordinary event and deserve INPR’s warmest thanks. The event also marked a milestone in INPR’s evolution as it was the meeting where the organization first acted under the adopted constitution and moved to a fully democratic organization with elected leadership and new officers and committees. Steve Duck now moves to the role of Past President and our 1996-1997 President is Kathryn Dindia, with Vice President Barbara Sarason taking over in 1997-1998, as elsewhere described in this Newsletter. These are exciting developments and the Network’s growth as an organization is entering an important new phase. We will of course need the involvement of members, both those who have always been generous and active in the past, and those who have not yet become as involved as they might like. The organization is as strong as those who work for it so we do encourage you to come forward and help shape up INPR’s future. Steve Duck, Past President

ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN OXFORD, OHIO 28 JUNE - 2 JULY 1997 As announced on the enclosed flyers, the next Annual Conference will be in Oxford (Ohio [USA]). Calls for papers and proposals are enclosed as is preliminary information about the conference. Since each INPR conference is even better than the last (Dindia, 1996), be sure to book the dates in your diary so as not to miss out!!

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS The Publications Committee of the International Network on Personal Relationships is calling for qualified individuals to nominate themselves or their colleagues for consideration for a three year term (with the possibility of a renewal) for the editorship of JSPR. The editorial term will begin in 1998, following a year of service as Deputy Editor, working with Steve Duck. Academics with a strong record of publication and professional activity in INPR are encouraged to apply. Applications should include: 1) cover letter stating either personal willingness to serve or that the nominee has been consulted and is willing to serve. 1) academic vita of the nominee. 2) description of past editorial experience. 3) names and phone numbers of three editors or associate editors with whom the nominee has worked. 4) statement indicating institutional support. 5) statement of the editorial philosophy & approach to be taken with JSPR, especially concerning inter-disciplinary matters and the inclusion of young authors and reviewers. 6) JSPR has the potential of including one issue devoted to a special topic each year, with one issue created by the editor and the other two created by guests editors. Any thoughts about special issues would be welcomed. For maximum consideration, please submit all materials by October 31st 1996. Direct questions about editorial responsibilities and procedures, and nomination materials to: Michael R. Cunningham, Ph.D., Chair, Publications Committee, Department of Psychology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292; (502) 852-5953; [email protected]

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR VICE-PRESIDENT-ELECT OF INPR The Elections Committee of INPR invites nominations and self-nominations for the position of Vice-President- Elect of INPR. The VP-Elect serves as Vice President from the close of the annual Business Meeting of INPR at the annual conference in Oxford, Ohio in 1997 and becomes President at the close of the following Annual Business Meeting, finally serving as Past President 1999-2000. Candidates must have been members of INPR for the past three years. The Elections Committee is required to consider candidates’ previous service to INPR, such as committee work, chairing of INPR committees, service as editor, associate editor or co-editor of INPR publications and will also attend to record of distinction in the field. Since the current President of INPR is from Communication Studies and the present Vice President is from Personality Psychology, persons who have given those disciplines as their primary affiliation on recent membership forms may not be considered for this election in order to secure rotation of the chief offices around different disciplines of this multidisciplinary organization (Constitution provision 3.2.3). Nominations should consist of the following materials for consideration: Vita, a letter from the candidate indicating awareness of the nomination and willingness to serve if elected, one page statement of goals, two letters of nomination (one of which may be a self-nomination). Materials must be received by last postal delivery on October 31st and should be submitted to the ex-officio Chair of the Elections Committee, Past President Steve Duck, 105 BCSB, Communication Studies Dept, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City IA 52242-1498 to whom inquiries should be directed [319-335-0579, steve- [email protected]] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR HON. SECRETARY OF INPR The Elections Committee of INPR invites nominations and self-nominations for the position of Honorary Secretary of INPR. The Hon Sec serves a three year term is responsible for collecting membership dues, maintaining records of membership (both in computer and in print), and providing written receipt of membership dues to members, and overseeing production and circulation of the quarterly Newsletters (INN). The Hon Sec also serves as ex officio as Chair of the Membership Benefits Committee, responsible for securing benefits for members and setting membership fees. The Hon Sec is also ipso facto directly elected to the Executive Committee for three years. Candidates must have been members of INPR for the past three years. The Elections Committee is required to consider candidates’ previous service to INPR, such as committee work, chairing of INPR committees, service as editor, associate editor or co-editor of INPR publications and will also attend to record of service to the field. By decision of the annual Business Meeting in Seattle and upon recommendation of the Executive Committee, this, the first election for the post, shall be completely open as to disciplinary affiliation and candidates may be from any discipline. Nominations should consist of the following materials for consideration: Vita, letter from the candidate indicating awareness of the nomination and willingness to serve if elected, one page statement of goals, two letters of nomination (one of which may be a self-nomination). Materials must be received by last postal delivery on October 31st and should be submitted to the ex-officio Chair of the Elections Committee, Past President Steve Duck, 105 BCSB, Communication Studies Dept, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City IA 52242-1498 to whom inquiries should be directed [319-335-0579, steve- [email protected]] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR COMMITTEE POSITIONS IN INPR The Elections Committee of INPR invites nominations and self-nominations for various committee positions, including nominations of graduate students. The election will be held in the Spring of 1997 and therefore is governed by the constitution’s requirements for “odd year” elections, which determine the number of vacancies arising in particular committees in odd numbered years. All positions on committees are for a two year term except for the At- Large positions on the Executive Committee, which are for a one year term. Contestable positions are as follows and the constitutional provision for rotation of disciplines in committee excludes nominations from the disciplines indicated in each case: Elections Committee (two positions, excluding candidates from Family Relations, Women’s Studies, and Communication, which will already be represented on the committee) [INPR Past President serves as chair of this committee ex officio] Publications Committee (two positions, excluding candidates from Communication, Gerontology, and Sociology, which will already be represented on the committee. Mike Cunningham is chair 1996-1997 and then one of the present members of the committee will become chair 1997-1998. The person receiving most votes in the 1997 election will become chair of the Committee in 1998 and will therefore also serve on the Executive Committee in 1998-1999.) Conference Planning Committee (two positions, excluding candidates from Developmental Psychology and Social Psychology which will already be represented on the committee) [INPR Vice President serves as chair of this committee ex officio] Awards Committee (two positions, excluding candidates from Developmental Psychology, and Clinical Psychology which will already be represented on the committee) [INPR Past President serves as chair of this committee ex officio] Mentorship Committee (two positions, excluding candidates from Social Psychology and Personality Psychology which will already be represented on the committee. Pam Kalbfleisch is chair 1996-1997 and then one of the present members of the committee will become chair 1997-1998. The person receiving most votes in the 1997 election will become chair of the Committee in 1998 and will therefore also serve on the Executive Committee in 1998-1999.) At Large members of the Executive Committee.(ONE YEAR TERM. Two vacant positions and all candidates for ONE of these positions must be graduate students.) Candidates should submit the following materials for consideration: Vita and either a) a self-nomination letter or b) a letter indicating awareness of the nomination and willingness to serve if elected and at least one letter of nomination. Materials must be received by last postal delivery on October 31st and should be submitted to the ex-officio Chair of the Elections Committee, Past President Steve Duck, 105 BCSB, Communication Studies Dept, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City IA 52242-1498 to whom inquiries should be directed [319-335-0579, [email protected]]

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR AWARDS: BERSCHEID HATFIELD AWARD, MILLER AWARD, DISSERTATION AWARD, RESEARCH AWARDS, MENTORING AWARD Annual dissertation award Nominations (including self nominations) for the Network’s Annual Dissertation Award are due November 1st. Dissertations defended during 1995 (i.e., before December 31st 1995) are eligible for the award. Submit a journal- paper length (up to 30 pages) paper for the award, or a copy of a published paper based on the dissertation. The award will be made by a committee chaired by Holly Latty-Mann and a committee appointed by the Chair of the Awards Committee. Submit materials to Steve Duck, 105 BCSB, Communication Studies Dept, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City IA 52242-1498 to whom inquiries should be directed [319-335-0579, [email protected]] Berscheid-Hatfield award for distinguished mid-career achievement Nominations (including self-nominations) of candidates "in mid career", operationally defined as between 15 and 25 years post Ph.D. Submit nominations (consisting of a letter, a vita, and ONE representative paper of the best work of each candidate). The award will be made by a committee appointed by the Chair of the Awards Committee. Submit materials to Steve Duck, 105 BCSB, Communication Studies Dept, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City IA 52242-1498 to whom inquiries should be directed [319-335-0579, [email protected]] Gerald R. Miller award for early career achievement Nominations (including self-nominations) of candidates "in early career" are due by October 13th. Candidates must have been granted the PhD degree no earlier than 1986. Submit nominations (consisting of a letter, a vita, and ONE representative paper of the best work of each candidate). The award will be made by a committee appointed by the Chair of the Awards Committee. Submit materials to Steve Duck, 105 BCSB, Communication Studies Dept, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City IA 52242-1498 to whom inquiries should be directed [319-335-0579, [email protected]] “1996 Steve Duck new scholar awards” Nominations for the research awards are now once again invited. Two small grants of $300 each will be awarded, one to a graduate student and one to a junior faculty member/post-doctoral researcher in his or her first three years beyond the PhD. Submit a grant proposal of absolutely no more than 5 single spaced pages that includes: 1) a brief review of relevant literature; 2) statement of purposes and hypotheses or questions of the proposed research; 3) Proposed design and measurement/data gathering procedure; 4) bibliography of cited work. A separate single sheet should specify clearly the manner in which you would use the money. Possible options include payment for subjects, printing, purchase of data set, equipment or supplies, and travel related to conduct and presentation of the research. Please also submit one letter of recommendation and a vita. The awards will be made by a committee appointed by the Chair of the Awards Committee. Submit materials by October 25th 1996 to Steve Duck, 105 BCSB, Communication Studies Dept, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City IA 52242-1498 to whom inquiries should be directed [319-335-0579, steve- [email protected]]. Mentoring award Nominations (including self-nominations) of candidates for the newly established Mentoring Award of INPR are due by October 13th. Candidates from any discipline and at any stage of their career may be nominated. Submit nominations (consisting of a letter, a vita, and evidence supporting the claim that the person has conducted mentoring relationships that have advance the professional development of those who are advised, supported, and sponsored by the mentor). The award will be made by a committee appointed by the Chair of the Awards Committee. Submit materials to Steve Duck, 105 BCSB, Communication Studies Dept, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City IA 52242-1498 to whom inquiries should be directed [319-335-0579, [email protected]] NEWS OF MEMBERS Dawn BRAITHWAITE has been named Interim Director of the Gerontology Program at Arizona State University West. John DELAMATER has been named the next Editor of the Journal of Sex Research Stan GAINES has received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Ford Foundation and will carry out the work at UNC-Chapel Hill. Rachel HSIUNG has successfully defended her dissertation!! Chris SEGRIN has won the Ned Fleming Award for Outstanding teaching at the University of Kansas.

MEMBERS ON THE MOVE --ONWARDS AND UPWARDS Kim BARTHOLOMEW has been granted tenure and promotion at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Kathryn DINDIA has been promoted to Full Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Pam KALBFLEISCH has received an Extraordinary Merit in Research Award from the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Wyoming, an award that only very rarely is given to social scientists. Pam also won a 1996 Advisor of the Year Award from the Office of the Provost. Obviously and excellent year for Pam! Now to look for some tall buildings to leap in a single bound..... Renee LYONS has been promoted to Full Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia. Marilyn MONTGOMERY has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Counselor Education in the Division of Educational Psychology at Texas Tech. [email protected] Chris SEGRIN has been promoted to Associate Professor and granted tenure at the University of Kansas. Barry WELLMAN has been elected President of the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and writes that “it is a strange feeling. Gosh, have I gone respectable?” [Please send your answers to Barry, not to me] BOOKS BY MEMBERS Leslie BAXTER & Barbara MONTGOMERY (1996) Relating: Dialogues and Dialectics. Guilford: New York. Dudley CAHN & Sally LLOYD (Eds.). (1996) Family Violence From A Communication Perspective. Sage, 1996. An interdisciplinary work on courtship, marital, and parent-child communication patterns that occur before, during, and after sexual, physical, and verbal abuse. Includes chapters from psychologists, sociologists, family studies, and communication studies scholars. Contains theory, research reviews, and implications for practitioners. MEMBERS SEEKING HELP Alberta CONTARELLO is working on the profitable use of literary texts in the framework of personal relationships. She is taking into account various uses of literary texts (mainly novels, short stories and biographies, popular literature). She would like to hear from anyone employing such kinds of sources [[email protected]] NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following who have joined the Network since August: Robert B. ARUNDALE, Brenda BASS, I-Li CHAO, Eileen COPE, Linda Potter CRUMLEY, S. Wayne DUNCAN, Vangie FOSHEE, Barbara A. HABERTHUR, Raeann R. HAMON, Heather L. HARWARD, Pamela KELLY, Marie KNOX, Gayla MARGOLIN, Kirstie McKENZIE-McHARG, Christopher M. MURPHY, Pamella OLIVER, Gretchen OWENS, Ami ROKACH, Annette C. SCHMITT, Sandi W. SMITH, Oguchi TAKASHI, Shanna TRINKE, Mary C. WALDRON ....WHO HAVE INDICATED THE FOLLOWING INTERESTS Robert B. ARUNDALE, Reconstructing Brown & Levinson's Politeness Theory. Linda Potter CRUMLEY, "Family stories, transmission of family values need to use physiological measures in interpersonal communication." S. Wayne DUNCAN, Marital conflict patterns and their impact on children's conflict styles and sibling relatonships; emotion regulation in the family. Vangie FOSHEE, Adolescent Partner/Dating Violence Barbara A. HABERTHUR, Content and pattern in the contrual of self significant others. Narrative identity and the social reconstruction of negative experience. Raeann R. HAMON, Critically thinking about marriage; Effects of adult children's divorce on their parents; intergenerational (parent-child relationships). Heather L. HARWARD, Gender differences in conflict. Pamela KELLY, Compliance gaining strategies in dating relationships and dynamics of married dyads. Marie KNOX, The development of a grounded theory depicting the means by which people with an intellectual disability manage relationshis within their personal community. Kirstie McKENZIE-McHARG, Indepth interview for family members covering all aspects of their lives as step families., Commencing a 5 year longitudinal study of the adjustment of children in step families with Professor Judy Dunn. Christopher M. MURPHY, Developing a measure of psychological abuse in dating relationships., "Correlates, development, and treatment of abuse in dating and marital relationships." Gretchen OWENS, "Current Relationship Interview (parallels AAI, but for adult romantic relationships)", "Looking at how standards and expectations for relationships, initially formed during childhood interactions with parents may later affect attitues toward and behavior in dating/marriage relationships." Ami ROKACH, Loneliness and coping with it. Annette C. SCHMITT, System of categories for the content analysis of statements in jealousy narratives (in German)., "Analysis of emotion narratives, esp. jealousy; communication of emotions, knowledge of emotions, strategic communication." Sandi W. SMITH, "Personal disclosures on talk shows, Persuasion in the health context, prototypes of outstanding professors." Oguchi TAKASHI, "Some works on self-disclosure, human service" Mary C. WALDRON, 'SIBS Sibling Interaction Behavior Scale (Waldron & Duncan) - behavior & emotion coding system developed to assess siblings during game interaction.,

.... WHO USE THE FOLLOWING METHODS Linda Potter CRUMLEY, "Physiological measures in the works, have used analysis of talk (accounts, stories, conversations, etc.)" S. Wayne DUNCAN, "DAS, Locke-Wallace, Asher/Hymel/Renshaw's Childhood Loneliness Measure, Furman & Buhrmester's SRQ, Christensen's Communication Patterns Questionnaire" Barbara A. HABERTHUR, HICLAS - a hierarchial clustering program - clusters things that co-occur Marie KNOX, In-depth interviews - 'quantitative' methodoldogy Christopher M. MURPHY, Self-report and observational communication measures. Gretchen OWENS, "Adult Attachment Interview, Current Relationship Interview, Assorted questionnaires" Annette C. SCHMITT, Content Analytical Methods Mary C. WALDRON, "SRQ Sibling Relationship Questionnaire (Furman & Buhrmester, 1985) & Loneliness & Social Dissatisfaction Questinnaire (Asher, Hymel & Renshaw, 1984("

....AND HAVE PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING WORKS S. Wayne DUNCAN, "Duncan, S.W. (1994). Economic impact of divorce on children's development: Current findings and policy implications. J of Clinical Child Psychology, 23, 444-457.", "Duncan, S.W. (1990). Stability in young adulthood. Contemporary Psychilogy, 35, 562.", "Duncan, S.W., & Markman, H.J. Intervention programs for the transition to parenthood: Current status from a prevention perspective. In G.Y. Michaels & W.A. Goldberg (Eds), Transition to parenthood:" Vangie FOSHEE, "Foshee, V. (in press). Gender differences in adolescent dating abuse: Prevalence, type. Health Education Research.", "Foshee, V. (in press). The Safe dates project; Theoretical basis evaluation design and selected baseline finding. American Journal of Preventive Medicine.", "Foshee, V. (in press). Adolescent dating violence: Differences between one sided and mutually violent profiles. Journal of Interpersonal Relationships." Raeann R. HAMON, "Hamon, R.R. (in press). Bahamian family life as depicted by wives' tales and other old sayings. Marriage and Family Review, 24.", "Hamon, R.R. (1995). Parents as resources when adult children divorce. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 23, 171- 183.", "Hamon, R.R. (in press). Filial responsibility. In T.H. Brubaker (Ed), Visions 2010: Families and Aging, Volume 3. Minneapolis, MN: NCFR." Marie KNOX, "Knox, M. If only they would listen: The needs of families living in the Macarthur Area who have a child with a disabiilty The View Points of Family Members", "Nox, M., & Poumentes, T.R. (1993). An examination of the social networks and social support mechanisms for people with a mild intellectual disability working in competitive employment settings. Inter", Christopher M. MURPHY, "Murphy, C.M. (1994). Dependency characteristics of partner assaultive men. Journal Abnormal Psychology, 103, 729- 735.", "Murphy, C.M. (1994). Factors associated with marital aggression in male alcoholics. Journal of Family Psychology, 8, 321- 335.", "Murphy, C.M. (in press). Couple communication patterns of maritally aggressive and nonagressive male alcoholics. Jouranal Studies on Alcohol." Gretchen OWENS, "Owens, G., et al (1995). The prototype hypothesis and the origins of attachment working models: Adult relationships with parents and romantic partners. Monographs of SRCD, No 244, 60, 2-3.", "Treboux, D., Crowell, J.A., Owens, G., & Pan, H. (1994). Attachment bheaviors and working models: Relation to best friendships and romantic relationships. Paper presented at SRA, San Diego, CA.", Ami ROKACH, "Rokach, A. (in press). Loneliness: A multi-dimensional experience. Psychology: A Journal of Human Behavior.", "Rokach, A. (in press). Causes of loneliness. Psychology: A Journal of Human Behavior.", "Rokach, A. (in press). Loneliness and the effects of life changes. The Journal of Psychology." Annette C. SCHMITT, "Schmitt, A. (1996). The Logography of jealousy: A content analytic study of jealousy narratives). Lengerich: Pabst.", "Schmitt, A., Daehne, M. Laucken, U., & Mees, U. (1994). A system of categoeis for the content analysis of statements in jealousy narratives. Reports from the Institute for Resarch into Man-Environme", Sandi W. SMITH, "Smith, S.W. (1995). Perceptual processing of nonverbal relational messages. In DE Hewes (Ed), Cognitive bases of interpersonal communication, 87-115. Erlbaum.", "Marshall, A.A., Smith, S.W. & McKeon, J. (1995). Persuading low income women to engage in mammography screening: Source, message and channel preferences. Health Communication.", "Smith, S.W., etal (1994). The influence of prior thought and intent on the memorability and persuasiveness of organ donation message strategies." Oguchi TAKASHI, "Takashi, O. (in press). Voice and interpersonal attraction. Journal of Japanese Psychological Research.",

======Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 13iv 1996 Submitted Contents

Jackie D. Vorauer & Rebecca Ratner: WHO'S GOING TO MAKE THE FIRST MOVE? PLURALISTIC IGNORANCE AS AN IMPEDIMENT TO RELATIONSHIP FORMATION Six studies were conducted to test the hypothesis that individuals contemplating "making the first move" in initiating a romantic relationship experience pluralistic ignorance (total N = 544). Studies 1 and 2 established the pre-conditions or the phenomenon: Participants indicated that they were more likely than a potential partner to be inhibited from making an initiative by a fear of rejection. Studies 3 and 4 demonstrated pluralistic ignorance: Although participants explained their own inaction in terms of their fear of being rejected, they attributed a potential partner's inaction to a lack of interest in developing a relationship with them. Study 5 utilized an open-ended thought-listing measure to demonstrate that individuals spontaneously perceive a potential partner's inaction as reflective of disinterest more so than they perceive their own inaction in these terms. Finally, Study 6 provided more definitive evidence that participants' divergent perceptions of their own versus their potential partner's underlying feelings stemmed from the biased interpretation of inaction. Implications for the formation of social bonds are discussed. Jacquie Vorauer, Department of Psychology, Duff Robin Building, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, CANADA, or to Rebecca Ratner, Department of Psychology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544-1010, USA

Michelle D. Sherman & Mark H. Thelen: FEAR OF INTIMACY SCALE: VALIDATION AND EXTENSION WITH ADOLESCENTS This study was designed to validate the Fear-of-Intimacy Scale (FIS) (Descutner & Thelen, 1991) with an adolescent population, with reference to both the measure's original target, a dating partner (FIS-D), and a new target of the closet same-sex friend (FIS-F). High school sophomores (158 males and 167 females) completed questionnaires pertaining to their relationships. Strong psychometric properties of both the FIS-D and FIS-F were evidenced in this study, and construct validity was supported by associations with related constructs (e.g., loneliness) and self report items. Notable-sex differences emerged, in that males reported higher fear of intimacy in their same-sex friendships, while females indicated higher fear of intimacy in their dating relationships. Mark H. Thelen, Department of Psychology, 210 McAlester Hall, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA

Mary J. Levitt, Marcia E. Silver & Nathalie Franco: TROUBLESOME RELATIONSHIPS: A PART OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE In a study of troublesome relationships, 343 university students and employees were surveyed. Issues addressed were the frequency, nature, and precursors of negative relationship experiences. Over half of the respondents (55.7%) reported a very troublesome relationship within the past five years. These were most often close relationships that deteriorated markedly as a result of the experience. Negative relationship involvement was related to insecure styles of attachment. Those with an insecure-avoidant attachment style were also more prone to use alcohol or drugs to cope with the troubled relationship and they were more likely to end the relationship. The results support the view that a history of poor attachment relations may compromise later relationships. However, the attachment effects were modest and the pervasiveness of troublesome relationship encounters suggest that these are an ubiquitous part of the human experience. Mary J. Levitt, Department of Psychology, Florida International University, North Miami, FL 33181, USA

S. Donna Assh & E. Sandra Byers: UNDERSTANDING THE COOCCURRENCE OF MARITAL DISTRESS AND DEPRESSION IN WOMEN This study investigated factors related to the co-occurrence of marital distress and depression using a community based sample of 128 women. Marital distress and depression were assessed at two levels of analysis: the global level and the level of daily marital satisfaction and dysphoric mood. Low rates of pleasing and high rates of displeasing marital exchanges were related to daily dysphoric mood and marital dissatisfaction as well as to global marital distress and depression. Marital exchanges were also related to both marital distress and depression at both levels of analysis when each disorder was considered separately. However, the association between depression and the quality of marital exchanges was accounted for by the degrees of marital distress. The quality of nonfamilial social interactions was not related to the co-occurrence of marital distress and depression. Overall, these findings suggest that, in women, the co-occurrence of marital distress and depression reflects the specific effects of marital exchanges. Dysfunctional beliefs were found to be common to both global marital distress and depression. Some evidence was found for some specificity in the maladaptive beliefs associated with marital distress and depressive symptomatology. Implications for further research are discussed. Sandra Byers, Department of Psychology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 6E4, CANADA

Steven R. Wilson, Ellen E. Whipple, & Jennifer Grau: REFLECTION-ENHANCING REGULATIVE COMMUNICATION: HOW DO PARENTS VARY ACROSS MISBEHAVIOR SITUATIONS AND CHILD RESISTANCE? This study examines parental regulative communication across misbehavior situations and child resistance. Regulative messages are analyzed using Applegate et al.'s (1985) hierarchical scheme for coding "reflection-enhancement," or the degree to which parents encourage their child to reflect on psychological consequences of misbehavior. We explore several questions about regulative communication that have been de-emphasized in previous research, including how parents mix power-assertion and reflection-enhancement within the same message, how parents as a group vary their responses depending on how their child has misbehaved, how parents also differ individually in the degree to which they vary across situations, and how parents respond after child resistance. Our findings tentatively suggest the need to develop more detailed and contingent views of parental regulative communication. Steve Wilson, Department of Communication, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA

Rob Palkovitch: PARENTING AS A GENERATOR OF ADULT DEVELOPMENT: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND IMPLICATIONS Professionals and laypersons frequently state that the transition to parenthood and engagement in parental roles set parents on strikingly different life course trajectories than they would have experienced if they had never raised children. Specialists in lifespan development and family studies discuss parenthood as though it is causally related to observed changes. However, while some theories and a handful of empirical studies have outlined differences between parents and non-parents there is great need for further conceptualization in this area before empirical evidence can be marshaled to support or refute the contention that parenting is causally related to development. This paper synthesizes theory and empirical evidence from the fields of lifespan development and family studies in an effort to further our understanding of the relationships between parenting and adult development. Rob Palkovitz, Dept. of Individual and Family Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA

Susan L. Kline, Laura Stafford, & Jill C. Miklosovic: WOMEN'S SURNAMES: DECISIONS, INTERPRETATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS WITH RELATIONAL QUALITIES There has been little systematic empirical research to date concerning women's choices to change or keep their surnames upon marriage. This study of 110 women employs a dialectical perspective to explore women's decisions concerning their surnames. Specifically, we identify the issues involved in making this decision, examine associations between the surname chosen and relational qualities (satisfaction, love, commitment, intimacy), and interpret the meanings of the surname in association with meanings of marriage for these women. A combination of open-ended questions and scale measures was used. The results show that while name changers, name keepers, and name combiners consider different issues when making their decisions, there are no significant differences in the three groups' relational characteristics. However, the meanings of marriage for these three groups clearly differ. The authors suggest avenues for further research. Susan L. Kline, Laura Stafford, & Jill C. Miklosovic, 3016 Derby Hall, 154 N. Oval Mall, Dept. of Communication, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA

Brief Articles Renate C. A. Klein & Helmut Lamm: LEGITIMATE INTEREST IN COUPLE CONFLICT The present study examined legitimate interest in couples' conflict-management. Based on observations of intergroup and organizational conflict we expected that partners who perceive each other's interests as legitimate are more likely to report cooperative conflict-management behaviors. Partners of 98 couples independently rated the legitimacy of each other's position in a recent conflict and reported on their self-expression, listening, and problem-solving behaviors. Partners who found their own position legitimate indicated they were more willing to express themselves openly, and partners who found the other's position legitimate indicated they were more willing to listen to the other side. In addition, self-expression and listening were positive predictors of problem-solving. Renate Klein, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5749, e-mail: [email protected]., USA

Samantha S. Kovach & James D. Robinson: THE ROOM-MATE RELATIONSHIP FOR THE ELDERLY NURSING HOME RESIDENT The purpose of this investigation was to explore the roommate relationship for the institutionalized elderly adult. More specifically, two research questions were examined: Does roommate rapport predict life-satisfaction for elderly nursing home residents? What variables contribute to roommate rapport for the elderly nursing home resident? For this study, 50 elderly persons from six different long-term care facilities were interviewed. The nursing home residents ranged in age from 58 to 98 with 43 persons 75 years of age or older. The participants completed the Life Satisfaction Index A, the Short Form of the Roommate Rapport Scale, and the Adult Communication Questionnaire through personal interviews. The results of this study indicted that roommate rapport predicted life satisfaction only for those who talked to their roommates. Perceived talk, engaging in activities with one's roommate, and talking about the topic of family predicted roommate rapport for the elderly. Nearly half of the elderly residents never talked to their roommates. Most of the reasons for this centered around physical barriers to communication such as hearing problems and speech impediments. Samantha Kovach, Dept. of Communication, Box 871205, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1205, USA

Book Reviews

Index for volume 13

======Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Submitted contents for vol 14i February 1997

Valentin Escudero, L. Edna Rogers & Emilio Gutierrez: PATTERNS OF RELATIONAL CONTROL AND NONVERBAL AFFECT IN CLINIC AND NON-CLINIC COUPLES L. Edna Rogers, Department of Communication, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Laura K. Guerrero: NONVERBAL INVOLVEMENT ACROSS INTERACTIONS WITH SAME-SEX FRIENDS, OPPOSITE- SEX FRIENDS, AND ROMANTIC PARTNERS: CONSISTENCY OR CHANGE? Laura Guerrero, Department of Communication, Stouffer Hall, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1205

Ivan H. Komproe, Mieke Rijken, Wynand J. G. Ros, Jacques A. M. Winnubst, & Harm "T Hart: AVAILABLE SUPPORT AND RECEIVED SUPPORT: DIFFERENT EFFECTS UNDER STRESSFUL CIRCUMSTANCES? Ivan H. Komproe, c/o Vaartsetraat 190, 3511 TG Utrecht, The NETHERLANDS

Marcel A. G. can Aken & Jens B. Asendorpf: SUPPORT BY PARENTS, CLASSMATE, FRIENDS, AND SIBLINGS IN PREADOLESCENCE: COVARIATION AND COMPENSATION ACROSS RELATIONSHIPS Marcel A. G. van Aken, Department of Psychology, University of Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9104, NL-6500 HE Nijmegen, The NETHERLANDS

Glen E. Ray, Robert Cohen, Mary E. Secrist & Melissa K. Duncan: RELATING AGGRESSIVE AND VICTIMIZATION BEHAVIORS TO CHILDREN'S SOCIOMETRIC STATUS AND FRIENDSHIPS Glen E. Ray, Department of Psychology, Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, AL 36117

Ersilia Menesini: BEHAVIORAL CORRELATE OF FRIENDSHIP STATUS AMONG ITALIAN SCHOOLCHILDREN Ersilia Menesini, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, ITALY

Brief Articles Lee Ann Bass & Catherine H. Stein: COMPARING THE STRUCTURE AND STABILITY OF NETWORK TIES USING THE SOCIAL SUPPORT QUESTIONNAIRE AND THE SOCIAL NETWORK LIST Catherine H. Stein, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403

Keith Sanford: TWO DIMENSIONS OF ADULT ATTACHMENT: FURTHER VALIDATION Keith Sanford, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1117

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FAMILY RELATIONS Table of Contents October 1996 kindly supplied by Editor Mark A. Fine, as his last issue!! (For details of these papers and addresses of authors, please contact Mark Fine, Dept. of Human Development and Family Studies, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA [email protected])

MARGINALIZED FAMILIES Mothers' Bereavement: Experiences of Marginalization, Stories of Change Elizabeth B. Farnsworth & Katherine R. Allen

Welfare Stigma Among Low-Income,African American Single Mothers Robin L. Jarrett

From Marginalized to Mainstreamed:The HEART Project Empowers the Homeless Kathryn W. Goetz &Cynthia J. Schmiege

Preteen Enrichment: Evaluation of a Program to Delay Sexual Activity Among Female Adolescents in Rural Appalachia Lynn Blinn-Pike

Parenting Practices and InterventionsAmong Marginalized Families in Appalachia: Building on Family Strengths The Rural and Appalachian Youth Families Consortium

Gays' and Lesbians' Families-of-Origin: Motherhood, Apple Pie, and Marginality Margaret Crosbie-Burnett, Tamar L. Foster, Colleen I. Murray, & Gary Bowen

PARENTING The Discipline Controversy Revisited Diana Baumrind

Family and Parenting Behaviors Predicting Middle School Adjustment: A Longitudinal Study Paula Duncan, Adele D'Ari, JeanPieniadz, Martha Fitzgerald, CraigAbrams, Barbara Frankowski, OscarFranco, Connie Hunt, & Susan Y. Oh

Parenting Versus Placing for Adoption:Consequences for Adolescent Mothers Brenda W. Donnelly & Patricia Voydanoff

MARRIAGE "Boomerang Kids" and Midlife Parental Marital Satisfaction Barbara A. Mitchell & Ellen M. Gee

Perceived Happiness Outside of MarriageAmong Black and White Spouses Mark R. Rank & Larry E. Davis

GENERAL INTEREST The Father's, Mother's, and Adolescent's Functioning With Breast Cancer Frances Marcus Lewis & Mary A. Hammond

Work Experience and Family FunctioningAmong Employed Fathers With Children of School Age Ulla Kinnunen, Jan Gerris, & Ad Vermulst

Single Mothers of Children With Develop-mental Disabilities: The Impact ofMultiple Roles Allison Stokes Gottlieb

Spending Time With the Kids: Meanings of Family Time for Fathers Kerry J. Daly

Book Reviews

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DON’T FORGET TO RENEW MEMBERSHIP AT ADVANTAGEOUS DISCOUNT RATES BEFORE SEPT. 30TH +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This Newsletter is compiled, edited, typed, and distributed by Steve Duck, 105B-BCSB, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 (319-338-3931 [email protected]), to whom materials for inclusion should be sent. DRAFT MINUTES, subject to approval

Executive Committee Meeting of INPR 8.00am 2 July 1996, Seattle Washington

Present: Paul Mongeau, Linda Acitelli, Kathryn Dindia, Michael Cunningham, Valerie Manusov, Pam Kalbfleisch, Steve Duck (Presiding)

1) The meeting opened with a discussion of the origins of the present Executive Committee representing those people elected into transitional posts by the adoption of the draft constitution by member vote. That transitional group of people had considered the best way to jump start the organization and create working committees as required by the constitution Section 6.1. This section required that once the skeleton transitional group of officers had been elected as above, all other positions could be treated as “early vacant” and that the other provisions of the constitution should be used to fill such posts as were at that time unfilled, pending the first full round of elections that the constitution then required. In particular, the transitional Executive Committee had seen the need to appoint a Vice-President Elect in order to start with a full slate of officers and it proposed Barbara Sarason in view of her distinction as a scholar, her suitability in terms of extraordinary service to the Network, and the fact that she was from a different discipline from the sitting President and Vice President as required in the constitution. A further rationale was that the VP-E role would soon translate into the Vice Presidency, a role whose primary function next year would be supervision of the annual conference, a role for which Barbara Sarason now had lots of experience! The Executive Committee agreed to this proposal along with the proposal that it seek direct member approval for this action at the Business Meeting. Furthermore and accordingly a group of people had been asked by the appropriate officer to fill certain vacant posts for specified lengths of time as appended below. These groups had then acted as the committees required by the constitution and proceeded to meet during the annual conference in Seattle to conduct initial business and set agendas. Each committee then in turn reported its work and its proposals to the Executive Committee and thence to the membership for proceeding to get the Network running according to the provisions of the constitution.

2) a) Elections Committee proposed two possible options for the appointment/election of Hon Sec, a three year position: the Executive could appoint person for the first three year term in order to get things moving immediately or the Executive could appoint someone for an interim term and then hold a full election for the role in the next round of elections in Spring 1997. After a short discussion the latter option was preferred. The Executive Committee noted that since no person presently occupied the role, the upcoming election could treat the position as “open as to discipline”, that self-nominations would be acceptable, and that the person appointed temporarily to the position would be eligible to stand for the election. b) The Executive Committee discussed the issue of preferential voting rather than single option voting and requested that the Elections Committee report back on that matter. c) The Executive committee decided to appoint a Membership Benefits Committee once the temporary Hon Sec (who ex officio chairs the Membership Benefits Committee) had been approved.

3) a) Publications Committee reported on its deliberations about the procedures for receiving and reviewing nominations for the Editorship of JSPR. Publications Committee proposed accepting both nominations and self- nominations and would request a vita, a statement of editorial philosophy, a statement of departmental support and resources, and indication of previous editorial experience, and plans for Special Issues. The committee proposed that it should come the Executive Committee with a complete list of nominees and an indication of no fewer than three persons on a shortlist for ultimate selection and nomination to SAGE. b) The Publications committee indicated its consideration of issues about editorial responsibility including the keeping of records of citation counts, review lags, the breakdown of submissions, acceptances and rejections by areas. c) The Publications committee proposed that each Editor should expect to produce one Special Issue of his or her own choice and two proposed competitively by INPR members or the Publications Committee during the three year editorial term of office. d) The Publications Committee reported that it expects the Hon Sec to collect materials for and take responsibility for publishing the quarterly INN Newsletters, but Steve Duck was willing to continue doing so for the August/September issue or until that person was able to take over. The Committee had not discussed Personal Relationship Issues which has just come under a new Editor (Tara Emmers). e) the Publications Committee proposed that it take responsibility for setting up a homepage on the WWW for INPR. The Executive Committee discussed the above proposals, thanked the Publications Committee for its work, and adopted their recommendations.

4) Conference Committee reported on progress on the setting up of the 1997 annual conference in Miami University Oxford, Ohio with Paul Mongeau and Sally Lloyd as principal local organizers. The Executive Committee noted with thanks the offer of Michele Acker to take responsibility for organizing a Graduate Workshop in conjunction with and just before the annual conference. Conference Committee also noted the need to decide sites for the 1998 annual conference and would initiate procedures for inviting nominations and selecting a site. The Conference Committee reported that it had appointed Sandra Petronio, Dawn Braithwaite, and Colleen Carey as an entertainments subcommittee for the annual conference in 1997.

5) Mentorship committee reported that it strongly supported the idea of a Graduate Workshop at all annual conferences and was reluctant to limit the numbers, although it recognized that previous such events had topped out at about 50 participants. The committee strongly endorsed the INPR constitutional provisions for student members to be included on INPR committees, and urged the Executive Committee and Publications Committee, and all appropriate Editors and Associate Editors, to ensure that graduate students were given opportunities for book reviewing and manuscript reviewing for INPR publications. The committee proposed the following resolution: Whereas INPR recognizes that mentoring relationship are unique voluntary helping relationships that may advance the professional development of those who are advised, supported, and sponsored by mentors, be it resolved that INPR encourages INPR member departments, INPR divisions and interest groups and INPR as a whole to recognize mentoring behavior and reward this behaviors as other professional service is recognized and rewarded in these departments, divisions and interest groups and in INPR as a whole. The Executive Committee adopted and endorsed the resolution and proposed the addition of a mentoring award to the Awards Committee.

6) Awards Committee proposed that the Miller Early Career Award and the Berscheid/Hatfield Mid Career awards continue to be awarded every two years but that the two awards be alternated, such that one be awarded in the “odd” years and one in the “even” years. After some discussion the Executive Committee adopted and endorsed this proposal. The Awards committee also indicated that if a Mentoring Award were established then it would make sense for each member of the Awards Committee to act as chair of one of the award sub committees and that the Chair of the Awards committee serve as the coordinator of the whole enterprise, an idea that the Executive committee agreed to.

7) At 9.02 Steve Duck yielded the Chair to Vice President Dindia and left the meeting at the request of the Executive Committee.

8) On a resolution proposed by Vice-President Dindia, the Executive Committee unanimously agreed to award Honorary Life Membership of INPR to Steve Duck.

The meeting closed at 9.04.

Appendix of officers and committee members appointed as indicated in the minutes:

Mentorship Committee: Appoint for one year (“odd year members”): Pam Kalbfleisch (Communication) chair, one vacant slot; Appoint for two years (“even year members”): Michele Acker (Social), Dana DeHart (Personality Psych), and Wade Rowatt, and Tammy Lawrence (Student members for one year). (Pam Kalbflesich stays chair till next election and serves on the Executive Committee 1996-1997, and then one of the “even year members” becomes chair for one year and therefore will serve also on the Executive Committee 1997-1998. The person receiving most votes in the 1997 election will become chair of the Committee in 1998 and will therefore also serve on the Executive Committee in 1998-1999)

At large Executive members, one year term 1996-1997: Valerie Manusov (Communication), one student member to be appointed.

Elections Committee: for 2 years (“even year members”): Mark Fine (Family Relations); Jackie Weinstock (Women’s Studies), Becky Omdahl (Communication); for one year till next election (“odd year members”); David Morgan (Sociology/Gerontology); Rosemary Mills (Developmental Psych).

Publications Committee: For one year till next election (“odd year members”): Stan Gaines (Social Psych), Laurie Kramer (Family); for two years (“even year members”) Dawn Braithwaite (Communication), Robert Hansson (Gerontology), Graham Allan (Sociology) (Mike Cunningham stays chair till next election and serves on the Executive Committee 1996-1997, and then one of the “even year members” becomes chair for one year and therefore will serve also on the Executive Committee 1997-1998. The person receiving most votes in the 1997 election will become chair of the Committee in 1998 and will therefore also serve on the Executive Committee in 1998-1999)

Member Benefits Committee: To be appointed at conference by Executive as per constitution (Hon Sec once elected, chairs)

Awards Committee: appointed for one year till next election (“odd year members”): Julie Yingling (Communication) [Linda Acitelli (Social and Personality Psych and previous chair) to continue in an advisory capacity only]; appointed for two years (“even year members”), Holly Latty-Mann (Clinical Psychology), Greg Pettit (Developmental Psychology).

Conference Committee (VP Sarason chairs) Appointed for one year (“Odd year members”): Paul Mongeau (Communication), Sally Lloyd (Family and Consumer Science); appointed for two years (“even year members”): Bringle (Social Psychology), C. Storm (Developmental Psych). Local Committee: Lloyd, Mongeau with two students and anyone else they want to help.

DRAFT MINUTES subject to approval

ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING OF THE International Network on Personal Relationships

The First Annual Business Meeting of INPR opened at 11.05 on July 2nd 1996, in Seattle Washington, Steve Duck Presiding.

The meeting heard the report of the Executive on its deliberations concerning the constitutional condidtions concerning filling of vacant positions in the organization (Section 6.1) and gave voice-vote approval to the Executive Committee’s actions and suggestions.

The Executive committee reported that it proposed to appoint Barbara Sarason to the vacant post of Vice-President- Elect in order to complete the slate of presidential officers necessary for the constitution to begin to run, to provide for a person to be in the Vice Presidency at the close of the business meeting and for the provisions of the new constitution about elections across disciplines to be properly conducted for the 1997 election. This proposal was unanimously approved by the members on a voice vote. The Executive Committee also reported that it proposed NOT appointing a Hon Sec for three years (and hence having no election for the position for four years) but instead appointing someone to the position temporarily and then holding full elections in the next election cycle in Spring 1997, giving its rationale for so doing as recorded in the Executive Committee minutes. The Executive Committee indicated that a call for nominees would be put out in the August/September INN and that the Executive Committee would appoint a Membership Benefits Committee later this year. The members approved these proposals on a voice vote.

The Publications Committee reported its proposals for seeking nominations for the JSPR editorship, for defining editorial responsibilities and other matters recorded in the Executive Committee minutes. In a report on JSPR, Steve Duck the current Editor, announced that SAGE has recently agreed to recognize the success of JSPR by increasing its frequency of publication to six times per year and to publish 6x144 pages instead of 4x160, a further overall increase of 25% over the 20% increase started with the 1995 volume.

The Conference Committee reported its plans for the 1997 annual conference and indicated its interest in receiving suggestions about possible sites in the midwest for 1998 annual conference.

The Mentorship Committee reported on its deliberations recorded in the Executive committee minutes and brought to the floor of the meeting its resolution for the inception of a mentoring award, which was adopted by the meeting on a voice vote.

The Awards Committee reported on its proposals of the administration of the awards and there was considerable discussion of the merits of awarding the Miller and the Berscheid/Hatfield award each year instead of in alternate years. After several members had spoken on the matter it was put to a vote and decided by majority on a show of hands that the two awards would both be offered every year.

Vice President Dindia reported that the Executive Committee had unanimously voted to award Steve Duck Life Membership of INPR and this proposal was approved by a voice vote.

The President then handed the gavel to his successor and became Past President as President Dindia and Vice President Sarason also assumed their new roles. The meeting closed at 12.03.

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ABSTRACT Annual election materials are encloses with this mailing. Please vote and take best advantage of the transition to democratic running of the organization ...... Graduate/Young professional conference will take place in June ..... Annual conference set for June in Oxford, Ohio .... JSPR begins to be published six times per year this year ... LATE NEWS: MARK FINE IS NEW EDITOR OF JSPR SEE FINAL PAGE ANNUAL ELECTIONS -- PLEASE GET DEMOCRACY ON THE ROAD AND *VOTE*!!@ This is the first year that our annual elections are being held as we complete the transition to democracy and the ballots are enclosed along with brief statements from those candidates who chose to supply them. PLEASE VOTE and return your ballots to Past President and Ex Officio Chair of Elections Committee as noted on the ballots. Counting will take place on Feb. 28th and ballots must have been received by that date. Late ballots will not be counted. Results will be announced in the March INN and candidates will take office at the end of the Business Meeting of the Annual Convention. INPR GRADUATE STUDENT/YOUNG PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE JUNE 1997 Mark your calendars now for the 9th INPR graduate student/young professional conference. It will be held June 27-28 as a pre-conference to this year's INPR conference at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The pre-conference will feature a number of workshops on areas such as qualitative research, issues relating to research on gay/lesbian relationships, longitudinal research methods, and more. In addition, there will be a panel presentation on "Tips for survival after graduate school", and a "work-in-progress" poster session. All this coupled with exciting social activities and delicious food make it a "can't miss" event of 1997! See the enclosed flier for more details or email the pre- conference organizer Michele Acker at [email protected] or check the pre-conference webpage at http://www.wittenberg.edu/academics/psyc/inpr/gradconf.htm. ANNUAL CONFERENCE JUNE 1997 OXFORD OHIO The annual conference of the Network will be held in Oxford, Ohio June 1997 and details are enclosed with this mailing./ 1999 INPR CONVENTION PROPOSALS INVITED Bids for the Annual conference site for 1999 are now invited. All those who are interested in volunteering TO HOST, or in getting a realistic preview about what is involved in hosting, a convention should contact Barbara Sarason, Dept. of Psychology, University of Washington, Box 351525, Seattle, WA 98195-1525, phone (206) 543-6786 or email at [email protected]. DEATH OF MEMBER Andy SCHWEBEL died on June 4th 1996 NEWS OF MEMBERS Arthur P. BOCHNER received the William R. Jones Most Valuable Mentor Award 1995-96 from the McKnight Foundation, a supporter of African American doctoral students Dudley CAHN & Sally LLOYD’s (1996) Family Violence from a Communication Perspective has been awarded the 1996 Distinguished Book Award by the Applied Communication Division of the Speech Communication Association. Kenneth N. CISSNA won the Outstanding Book in Applied Communication from SCA for his 1995 edited book: Applied Communication in the 21st Century. Erlbaum: Mahwah, NJ. Steve DUCK’s 1994 book Meaningful Relationships: Talking, Sense, and Relating has been awarded the G. R. Miller Book Award by the Interpersonal and Small Group Interaction Division of the Speech Communication Association. Michael HECHT has recently been visiting the Department of Psychology at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is working on projects focusing on drug resistance and on ethnic identity and intergroup communication. Joe HOPPER has begun a three year term as William Rainey Harper Instructor in The College and Department of Sociology at The University of Chicago. Ron RIGGIO was named the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology at Claremont McKenna College where he is Director of the Kravis Leadership Institute. MEMBERS ON THE MOVE --ONWARDS AND UPWARDS Heather M. CHIPUER has taken a position as Lecturer at the School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Kessels Road, Nathan, Queensland 4111 Australia Valerie COLE is now an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Dept at St. John Fisher College, 3690 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618, (716)385-8440) e-mail: [email protected] Laurie COUCH has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Fort Hays State University in Kansas. Fran C. DICKSON has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Denver. Robert MILARDO has been promoted to Full Professor at University of Maine. Rody MILLER has been named an Associate Editor of the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. Anne M. NICOTERA has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Howard University. Greg PIERCE has been granted tenure at Hamilton College. Ron RIGGIO has been named the new Editor of the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior beginning January 1997. BOOKS BY MEMBERS Irwin ALTMAN & Joseph Ginat (1996) Polygamous families in contemporary society. Cambridge. Brant BURLESON [Ed.] (1996) Communication Yearbook 20 SAGE: Thousand Oaks. Dan CANARY, Bill CUPACH & Susan MESSMAN (1996) Relationship Conflict: Conflict in parent- child, friendship, and romantic relationships SAGE Thousand Oaks, CA Steve DUCK [Ed], (1997) Kathryn DINDIA, Bill ICKES, Bob MILARDO, Rosemary MILLS, Barbara SARASON [Section Eds] Handbook of Personal Relationships 2nd Edition Wiley: Chichester, UK Bill ICKES (1997) Empathic Accuracy Guilford: New York. Rody MILLER (1996) Embarrassment: Poise and Peril in Everyday Life Guilford Press, New York. Rebecca RENWICK, I. Brown & M. Nagler (1996) Quality of life in health promotion and rehabilitation: Qualitative approaches, issues and applications. SAGE Thousand Oaks, CA Linda SAPADIN (1996) It’s about time Viking Press. Liz and John SHERBLOM (1996) Much more than sexuality: Listening to 70 Gay people talk about their lives Audenreed Press: Brunswick, ME. Stephan VAN DEN BROUCKE, W. Vandereycken & J. Norre (1997, May) Eating disorders and marital relationships. Routledge. Jacqueline S. WEINSTOCK & Esther D. Rosenblum [Eds.] (1996) Lesbian Friendships: For ourselves and each other. NYU Press: New York MEMBERS WINNING GRANTS Annette SCHMITT has received a research fellowship from the DFG (German Research Foundation) and will work on the strategic communication of emotions after the break-up of the romantic relationship. MEMBERS SEEKING HELP COMMUNICATION YEARBOOK Volume 22 Michael ROLOFF is soliciting manuscripts and proposals for Communication Yearbook 22. Communication Yearbook publishes state-of-the-art literature reviews, and thus seeks articles providing comprehensive syntheses of literature (i.e., articles that survey, critique, and integrate a large body of literature that has appeared on a specific, relatively narrow topic). Reviews from all areas of the communication discipline are welcome; CY seeks to represent the diverse range of philosophical, theoretical! and methodological perspectives informing contemporary communication scholarship. Literature reviews employing both narrative and quantitative (i.e.. meta-analytic) methodologies are sought. Contributions from scholars residing outside the United States are especially welcome. Completed reviews or extended proposals (15-30 pages) will be considered; brief proposals are not acceptable and will be returned to the author. Proposals should (a) identify a specific topic on which an extensive body of material has been published, (b) develop a rationale for the review of this literature, (c) delineate the approach and methodology to be used in the review, (d) provide a detailed outline of the review, and (e) present a working bibliography. A cover letter addressed to the Editor should briefly describe the qualifications of the author(s) to undertake a literature review in the designated area. All submissions to CY undergo blind review by at least two experts in the field. Send Complete manuscripts or proposals must be received by March 3, 1997 three high-quality copies to: Michael E. Roloff, Editor, Communication Yearbook, Dept. of Communication Studies, 23 Harris Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA Phone: (847) 491-5834; FAX: (847) 467-1171 Internet: [email protected]

NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following who have joined the Network since August: Joan ALDOUS, Lara AULT, John R. BALDWIN, Ramat BASI, Roger BAUMGARTE, Sandra BYERS, James V. CORDOVA, Marciana CROTHERS, Susanne DENHAM, Sabrina GESELL, Frances GOLDSCHEIDER, Vickie HARVEY, Laurel Traynowicz HETHERINGTON, Hyo-Jeon JEON, Susan L. KLINE, Ulrich MEES, Rowan MYRON-WILSON, Ruth V. NINA, Lucia O'SULLIVAN, Sue D. PENDELL, Aleksander PULVER, Maj. Derek REINHARD, Michael REMSHARD, Richard SABATINO, Rebecca L. SCHAEFER, Susan G. TIMMER, Kathleen VALDE, Denise VINOGRADE, Harry W. WEGER, Robert S. WEISS, Anie WHEATLEY, Mari WILHELM, Paul E. YARAB, Ann ZAK ....WHO HAVE INDICATED THE FOLLOWING INTERESTS Lara AULT, Awkward attraction in heterosexual interactions. John R. BALDWIN, "Conference papers, including annotated bib on intercultural marriage. Also work on intolerance." Ramat BASI, "Jealousy with cyber-relationships, child custody with homosexual parents, sexual aggression in athletes." Roger BAUMGARTE, "Cultural comparisons in friendship patterns (Korea, France, US ...), Life span (cross-sectional) comparisons of friendship in US." James V. CORDOVA, "In-session communication change in couples therapy, communication differences between distressed and nondistressed couples." Marciana CROTHERS, Working on a model that addresses how identity develops in intimate relationships and the psychological effects that may occur in relationships where there is a lack of mutuality. Susanne DENHAM, "Emotional competence, its socializlation within the parent-child relationship, and its contribution to young children's peer relationships." Sabrina GESELL, Relationship well-being and general well-being. Frances GOLDSCHEIDER, Vickie HARVEY, "Cross-sex friendship: An examination of the challenges confronting cross-sex friends; The roles of public speaking, interpersonal and intrapersonal communication skills in speaker improvement." Laurel Traynowicz HETHERINGTON, Dyadic and triadic intimacy; relationships within organizations; organizational change; decision points Rowan MYRON-WILSON, "Studying under Professor P.V. Smith for PhD. Topic is generally The Parent-Child relationship, attachment and its affect on bullying." Lucia O'SULLIVAN, "Communication in heterosexual dating relationships, stereotypes, gender roles." Aleksander PULVER, "Attachment styles and personality, social support, coping styles and intimacy." Maj. Derek REINHARD, Use of metaphors and stories in relationships. Michael REMSHARD, "Dissertation: The relationship among adult attachment styles, love styles, sexual attitudes and sexual behaviors of college students." Rebecca L. SCHAEFER, "Dissertation (in progress): Relationship between attributions, behavioral reactions, and relationship satisfaction." Susan G. TIMMER, Discontinuity of divorce - impact of family relationsions on new marriages in high risk for divorce populations. Effects of premarital conception on marriages. Kathleen VALDE, Personal relationships in organizations with an intrest in mentoring relationships Denise VINOGRADE, Mutuality and marital communication; conlfict resolution style. Anie WHEATLEY, Self-efficacy as a factor in young womens' same-sex friendships Paul E. YARAB, "Social and biological basis of jealousy, 'unfaithfulness' in dating relationships." Ann ZAK, "Conflict & control in intimate relationships, relationship to satisfaction." .... WHO USE THE FOLLOWING METHODS John R. BALDWIN, In-depth interviews, Content Anlyses, Roger BAUMGARTE, Questionnaires, Focus groups, ,I have developed a questionnaire .... it needs revision! Sandra BYERS, , Interpersonal Exchange Model of Sexual Satisfaction Questionnaire, Attitudes to Dating Violence Scales., James V. CORDOVA, Dyadic Adjustment Scale, Marital Interaction Coding System, Conflict Tactic Scale, ,Differential Change in Couples Therapy Rating Scale. Marciana CROTHERS, Intimacy, Codependency, Identity status, Loss of Self, Mutuality, Conflict style. Attachment style, Gender roles, Susanne DENHAM, Naturalistic observation, Attachment Q-sort, , Puppet measure of preschoolers' emotion knowledge, Denham 1986, Denham & Couchoud, 1990a&b; Codifying Parent-child emotion language, Denham, Cook, Zol, Sabrina GESELL,Crohan & Veroff's Marital Well-Being Scale (1989). National Opinion Research Center Happiness Measure. Frances GOLDSCHEIDER, Goldscheider, F., & Kaufman, G. Fertility and commitment: Bringing men back in. In J. Casterline & R. Lee (Eds), Fertility in the United States: Ne, , Goldschedier, F., Webster, P., & Kaufman, G. Men, parenthood and divorce in the era of the second demographic transition. In C. Beldsoe, J. Guyer, &, Vickie HARVEY, O'Meara (1989) & Rawlins (1982) Challenges; Davis & Todd (1984), Peter Ossorio (1975) Friendship instruments-challenges of cross-sex friendships., , Emotional Challenge as originally researched by Ossono, P. & Davis & Todd., Laurel Traynowicz HETHERINGTON,Videotape lab conversation analyzed via New Iowa School Approach Hyo-Jeon JEON, Conflict Resolution Strategies Across Situations Susan L. KLINE, Women’s choices to use or not to use husband’s surname Ulrich MEES,Questionnaires/Content Analysis of written stories. Rowan MYRON-WILSON, Adult Attachment Interview (AAI), Parental Styles Questinnaire (PSQ), Fast, PAB., Ruth V. NINA, Comayi, ECOM, AVECO Scales, , Above are scales of marital communication, styles and verbal aggression., Lucia O'SULLIVAN,Sex Role Ideology Scale (Kalin & Tilby),Sexual Situation Questinnaire - Assess communication between partners ins exual situations. Aleksander PULVER, Parental Bonding Instrument, NEO-PI, SSQ, Various attachment & love scales., , Various scales on Estonias language: COPE, PSS, NEO-PI, IPP, etc., Michael REMSHARD, Feeney, Noller & Hanrahan's (1994) Attachment Styles Questionnaire; Hendrick's (1986) Love Styles - Love Attitudes Scale, Kathleen VALDE,Quantitative & Qualitative methods Robert S. WEISS,Qualitative Interviews Ann ZAK, Rempel & Holmes' Trust Scale, Various satisfaction scales., ,Developed need for control & conflict scales (6-9 items). ....AND HAVE PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING WORKS John R. BALDWIN, Ribeau, Baldwin, & Hecht (1997). An African-American communication perspective. In Samovar & Porter (Eds), Intercultural Communication: A Reader. Belmont: Wadsworth., Baldwin & Hecht (1995). A layered perspective of cultural (in)tolerance(s). In Wiseman (Ed), Intercultural Communication Theory. Thousand Oaks: Sage. Sandra BYERS, Byers, E.S., & O'Sullivan, L.F. (1996). Sexual coercion in dating relationships. New York: Howarth., Assh, D.S., & Byers, E.S. (in press). Understanding the co-occurrence of marital distress and depression in women. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships., Grenier, G., & Byers, E.S. (in press). The relationship between ejaculatory control, ejaculatory latency and attempts to prolong heterosexual intercourse. Archives of Sexual Behavior. James V. CORDOVA, Cordova, J.V., Jacobson, N.S., Gottman, J.M., etal (1993). Negative reciprocity and communication in couples with a violent husband. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 102, 559-564., Cordova, J.V., & Jacobson, N.S. Acceptance in couples therapy: Implications for the treatment of prevention of depession. In Sternberg & Hojjat (Eds), Satisfaction in close relationships. NY: Guilford, Cordova, J.V., & Koerner, K. (1993). Persuasion criteria in research and practice: Gathering more meaningful psychotherapy data. The Behavior Analyst, 16, 317-330. Marciana CROTHERS, Crothers, M., & Warren, L.W. (1996). Parental antecedents of adult codependency. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 52 (2), 231-239. Susanne DENHAM, Denham, S.A., Renwick, S., & Hewes, S. (1994). Emotional communication between mothers and preschoolers: Relations with social- emotional competence. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 40, 488-508., Denham, S.A., Zoller, D., & Couchoud, E.A. (1994). Socialization of preschoolers' emotion understanding. Developmental Psychcology, 30, 928-936., Denham, S.A., & Holt, R. (1993). Preschoolers' peer status: A cause or consequence of behavior? Developmental Psychology, 29, 271- 275. Frances GOLDSCHEIDER, Goldschedier, F., & Goldscheider, C. (1994). Family structure, leaving home, and investments in young adulthood. In N. Marcil-Gratton, A Norves, C. Le Bourdais & C. Roilet (Eds), Cahiers Quebecois d Vickie HARVEY, Harvey, V. (in press). Problem solving in personal relationships. In J. Ceci & W. Williams (Eds). Cornell University. Ulrich MEES, Mees, U. (1977). Die struktur der emotionen (The Structure of Emotion). Gottingen. Lucia O'SULLIVAN, O'Sullivan, L.F., & Byers, E.S. (1996). Gender differences in responses to discrepancies in desired level of sexual intimacy. J of Psych and Human Sexuality, 8, 49-67., O'Sullivan, L.F. (1995). Less is more: The effects of sexual experience on judgments of men's and women's personality characteristics and relationship desirability. Sex Roles, 33, 159-181., O'Sullivan, L.F., & Allgeier, E.R. (1994). Disassembling a stereotype: Gender differences in the use of token resistance. J. of Applied Soc. Psych, 24, 1035-1055. Aleksander PULVER, Pulver, A. (1995). A Big Five Personality inventory in two non-Indo European languages.,Pulver, A. (1991). Coping with stress. Susan G. TIMMER, Timmer, S., Veroff, J., & Hatcheff, S. (1996). Family ties and marital happiness: The different marital experiences of black and white newlywed couples. JSPR, 13, 335-359. Robert S. WEISS, Weiss, R.S. (1993). Learning from strangers: The art and method of qualitative interview studies. New York: Free Press., Weiss, R.S., & Richards, A. (in press). A scale for the prediction of persistence of distress in men whose partners died of AIDS. JSPR., Weiss, R.S. (in press). Remembrance of Everett Hughes. In I Gotlib & B. Wheaton (Eds), Stress and adversity over the life course. New York: Cambridge University Press. Paul E. YARAB,S ensibaugh, C.C., & Yarab, P.E. (in press). Family formation preferences in newlyweds. Journal of Psychology. Ann ZAK, Zak, A. (1995). The relationship orientation induction procedure. Perceptual & motor skills.,Zak, A. (1995). Recollection of trusting and nontrusting behaviors in intimate relationships. Psychological Reports.

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Valentin Escudero, L. Edna Rogers & Emilio Gutierrez: PATTERNS OF RELATIONAL CONTROL AND NONVERBAL AFFECT IN CLINIC AND NON-CLINIC COUPLES The purpose of this study is to analyze, separately and in combination, the patterns of relational control and nonverbal affect in clinic-distressed and nonclinic-nondistressed couples' interaction. The results indicated a low to moderate relationship between control and affect, however, each dimension conveyed nonredundant interactional information. Clinic couples displayed more domineeringness, more affect negativity, and a stronger association between one-up control and negative affect than nonclinic couples. Lower levels of neutral affect reciprocity and one-down/one-across ( ) transitory control interacts were also salient characteristics in differentiating clinic from nonclinic couples' interaction. Further, the combined control-affect analysis indicated a higher proportion of escalating competitive symmetry with negative affect for clinic couples. For nonclinic couples, competitive symmetry with negative affect was counterbalanced by competitive symmetry with neutral affect and diverse transitory patterns with neutral or positive affect. Implications of these results are discussed. L. Edna Rogers, Department of Communication, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Laura K. Guerrero: NONVERBAL INVOLVEMENT ACROSS INTERACTIONS WITH SAME-SEX FRIENDS, OPPOSITE- SEX FRIENDS, AND ROMANTIC PARTNERS: CONSISTENCY OR CHANGE? The degree of consistency and change in communication across different dyadic partners is an important issue in theory on interpersonal interaction. Factors such as communicator sex and predisposition toward approach/avoidance are likely to contribute to consistency, whereas factors such as target sex, relationship type, intimacy, and impression management are likely to contribute to change. Using a partial round-robin design, this study investigates how individuals' involvement behavior changes across interactions with same-sex friends, opposite-sex friends, and romantic partners. Results showed that close proximity, touch, gaze, general interest, less fluency, longer response latencies, and more silence distinguished romantic relationships from friendships. Frequent nodding and vocal interest were more prevalent in friendships than romantic relationships. Postural congruence occurred more in same- rather than opposite-sex dyads. Sex differences also emerged: Females displayed more direct body orientation and gaze, whereas males engaged in more forward lean and postural congruence. Overall, results indicate that while there is considerable consistency across an individual's interactions with various relational partners, there are important differences due to relationship type. Laura Guerrero, Department of Communication, Stouffer Hall, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1205

Ivan H. Komproe, Mieke Rijken, Wynand J. G. Ros, Jacques A. M. Winnubst, & Harm "T Hart: AVAILABLE SUPPORT AND RECEIVED SUPPORT: DIFFERENT EFFECTS UNDER STRESSFUL CIRCUMSTANCES? Knowledge about how social support operates under specific circumstances lags behind the amount of research on the relationship between social support and well-being. Therefore, the purpose of our research was to study the mechanisms through which social support influences psychological well-being under stressful circumstances. We distinguished between perceived available support and received support in evaluating a hypothetical model specifying the direct and indirect effects of support on depression of recently diagnosed breast cancer patients. Results from structural equation modeling show that available support has direct beneficial effects on depression and received support has indirect effects (via appraisal and coping). Moreover, dependent on the type of support and coping strategy in the analyses, other effects of available and received support were found. Ivan H. Komproe, c/o Vaartsetraat 190, 3511 TG Utrecht, The NETHERLANDS

Marcel A. G. can Aken & Jens B. Asendorpf: SUPPORT BY PARENTS, CLASSMATE, FRIENDS, AND SIBLINGS IN PREADOLESCENCE: COVARIATION AND COMPENSATION ACROSS RELATIONSHIPS A sample of 139 6th graders completed a social network interview and rated their network members on various dimensions of social support. Low support showed some consistency across members of the nuclear family but was fairly specific for particular network members outside of the family. Children with low support from their mother, father, or classmates reported a low general self-worth, but not those with low support from sibling or nonschool peers. Low support by one parent could only be compensated for by a supportive relationship with the other parent. Low support by a classmate was not compensated by supportive siblings or nonschool peers. These finding underscore the relationship specificity of social support and of its relation to self-esteem in preadolescence. Marcel A. G. van Aken, Department of Psychology, University of Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9104, NL-6500 HE Nijmegen, The NETHERLANDS

Glen E. Ray, Robert Cohen, Mary E. Secrist & Melissa K. Duncan: RELATING AGGRESSIVE AND VICTIMIZATION BEHAVIORS TO CHILDREN'S SOCIOMETRIC STATUS AND FRIENDSHIPS The present study examined third through sixth graders' peer nominations for aggressive and victimization behaviors in relation to peer group sociometric status (popular, average, rejected) and number of mutual friends (reciprocal nominations). Rejected children, relative to other children, were perceived as higher both in aggression and in being victimized (both physically and verbally) and had the smallest number of mutual friends. In addition, the mutual friends of rejected status boys were perceived as higher in being victimized than were the friends of other children. Neither level of aggression nor level of victimization predicted number of mutual friendships However, significant positive correlations for both aggressive and victimization behaviors were revealed between popular and average status children and their mutual friends. This research highlights the complexity and importance of evaluating the form and function of social behaviors within multiple levels of children's peer social relationships. Glen E. Ray, Department of Psychology, Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, AL 36117

Ersilia Menesini: BEHAVIORAL CORRELATE OF FRIENDSHIP STATUS AMONG ITALIAN SCHOOLCHILDREN The purpose of the present study is to examine whether friendship status, in terms of reciprocity and perceived quality of the relationship, is related to behavioral characteristics of school-aged children, as evaluated by themselves and their teachers. Children's nominations for "best friends", a questionnaire on children's perception of friendship quality and self-evaluation of social behaviour were administered to middle class Italian primary school children, aged 9-10. Teachers' ratings of each pupil's social behaviour were also obtained. Partners in reciprocal friendships (both boys and girls) estimated their own prosocial behaviour higher than children who did not have any reciprocal friends in their classes. Higher scores for perceived friendship quality were positively related with higher scores on self-perceptions of prosocial behaviour. Also the teachers' ratings depict children with reciprocal friends as more prosocial, less aggressive and less emotionally unstable than others. Ersilia Menesini, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, ITALY

Brief Articles Lee Ann Bass & Catherine H. Stein: COMPARING THE STRUCTURE AND STABILITY OF NETWORK TIES USING THE SOCIAL SUPPORT QUESTIONNAIRE AND THE SOCIAL NETWORK LIST To compare the structure and stability of personal networks elicited by two popular network assessment instruments, 102 undergraduates completed the Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ) and the Social Network List (SNL) twice over a four week interval. At both times of measurement, respondents delineated significantly larger networks using the SNL than using the SSQ, with a larger average number of friends being elicited by the SNL. Respondents averaged significantly higher global network satisfaction ratings for SSQ networks relative to SNL networks at both times of measurement. More of the same individual network members' names were repeated at the second time of measurement and more new network members were added at the second time of measurement on the SNL than on the SSQ. Implications for network research are discussed. Catherine H. Stein, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403

Keith Sanford: TWO DIMENSIONS OF ADULT ATTACHMENT: FURTHER VALIDATION The present study used confirmatory factor analysis to identify two dimensions of adult attachment, analogous to infant attachment theory, using items derived from Hazan & Shaver's (1987) widely used self-report measure. Subjects were 571 private university or community college students. Results indicated that a two dimensional model best fit the data, that a three dimensional model fit slightly less well and was simply less parsimonious, and that a one dimensional model fit less than adequately. The same two dimensional model fit both married and non-married adults. Loneliness, dating frequency, and dating/marital status showed a different pattern of correlations with the two attachment dimensions. Heterosexual confidence and parental divorce, although correlated with attachment dimensions, did not produce significantly different patterns of correlation with the two dimensions. Keith Sanford, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1117

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Susan Harter, Patricia L. Waters, Lisa M. Pettitt, Nancy Whitesell, Jennifer Kofkin & Judith Jordan: AUTONOMY AND CONNECTEDENESS AS DIMENSIONS OF RELATIONSHIP STYLES IN MEN AND WOMEN Susan Harter, Department of Psychology, University of Denver, 2155 S. Race Street, Denver, CO 80208

Robert L. Duran & Diane T. Prusank: RELATIONAL THEMES IN MEN’S WOMEN’S POPULAR NONFICTION MAGAZINE ARTICLES Robert L. Duran, School of Communication, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117

Daniel L. Kaplan & Christopher B. Keys: GENDER AND RELATIONSHIP VARIABLES AS PREDICTORS OF SEXUAL ATTRACTION IN CROSS-SEX PLATONIC FRIENDSHIPS BETWEEN YOUNG HETEROSEXUAL ADULTS Daniel Kaplan, University of Illinois, Dept. of Psychology (M/C 285), 1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607-7173

Carol Masheter: FORMER SPOUSES WHO ARE FRIENDS; THREE CASE STUDIES Carol Masheter, Family and Consumer Studies, 228 AEB, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Ann P. Ruvolo & Joseph Veroff: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE; REAL-IDEAL DISCREPANCIES AND THE MARITAL WELL-BEING OF NEWLYWEDS Ann P. Ruvolo, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556

Invited Program Overview Linda K. Acitelli: SAMPLING COUPLES TO UNDERSTAND THEM: MIXING THE THEORETICAL WITH THE PRACTICAL Linda K. Acitelli, University of Houston, Department of Psychology, 101 Heyne Building, Houston, TX 77204-5341

Brief Articles Jeannine Monnier & Stevan E. Hobfoll: CROSSOVER EFFECTS OF COMMUNAL COPING Steven E. Hobfoll, Applied Psychology Center, Kent Hall, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242

Frederick G. Lopez: STUDENT-PROFESSOR RELATIONSHIP STYLES, CHILDHOOD ATTACHMENT BONDS AND CURRENT ACADEMIC ORIENTATIONS Frederick G. Lopez, 441 Erickson Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824

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Linda K. Acitelli, Elizabeth Douvan & Joseph Veroff: THE CHANGING INFLUENCE OF INTERPERSONAL PERCEPTIONS ON MARITAL WELL-BEING AMONG BLACK AND WHITE COUPLES Linda K. Acitelli, Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5341

Franz J. Neyer: FREE RECALL OR RECOGNITION OF COLLECTING EGOCENTERD NETWORKS: THE ROLE OF SURVEY TECHNIQUE Franz J. Neyer, Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Leopoldstr. 24, D-80802 Munich, Germany

Daena J. Goldsmith & Susan A. Dun: SEX DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES IN THE COMMUNICATION OF SOCIAL SUPPORT Daena J. Goldsmith, Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801

Gregory R. Pierce, Irwin G. Sarason, Barbara R. Sarason, Jessica A. Solky & Lauren C. Nagle: ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Gregory R. Pierce, Department of Psychology, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 13323

Wendy C. Gamble & Rochelle L. Dalla: YOUNG CHILDREN’S PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR SOCIAL WORLDS IN SINGLE- AND TWO-PARENT, EURO-AND MEXICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES Wendy C. Gamble, Division of Family Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721

Richard L. Conville: BETWEEN SPEARHEADS:BRICOLAGE AND RELATIONSHIPS Richard L. Conville, Department of Speech Communication, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406

Invited article Robert E. Sanders: FIND YOUR PARTNER AND DO-SI-DO: THE FORMATION OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SOCIAL BEINGS Robert E. Sanders, Department of Communication, University of Albany SUNY, Albany NY 12222

Invited Program Overview Donn Byrne: AN OVERVIEW (AND UNDERVIEW) OF RESEARCH AND THEORY WITHIN THE ATTRACTION PARADIGM Donn Byrne, Department of Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12222

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IMPORTANT LATE BREAKING NEWS

The Executive Committee of INPR recently approved the appointment of MARK FINE as the next Editor of JSPR., Mark will serve Calendar 1997 as Deputy Editor and become Editor on 1 Jan 1998. There will be a later announcement about the time when he will begin to receive manuscripts.

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ANNUAL ELECTION RESULTS Congratulations to the following who were elected in the recent annual elections: Vice-President Elect: Susan Hendrick ; Hon Sec: Valerie Manusov; At Large Member of Executive: Linda Acitelli; Student Member At Large: Amy Young; Publications Committee: Larry Ganong, Nancy Genero (who will serve as Chair of the Publications Committee after her first year of service on the committee); Elections Committee: Karen Prager and Donna Sollie; Awards Committee: Ann Ruvolo and Denise Solomon; Conference Planning Committee: Melanie Trost and Marcia Dixson; Mentoring Committee: Walt Zakahi and Em Griffin (who will serve as Chair of the Mentoring Committee after his first year of service on the committee). INPR GRADUATE STUDENT/YOUNG PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE JUNE 1997 Mark your calendars now for the 9th INPR graduate student/young professional conference. It will be held June 27-28 as a pre-conference to this year's INPR conference at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The pre-conference will feature a number of workshops on areas such as qualitative research, issues relating to research on gay/lesbian relationships, longitudinal research methods, and more. In addition, there will be a panel presentation on "Tips for survival after graduate school", and a "work-in-progress" poster session. All this coupled with exciting social activities and delicious food make it a "can't miss" event of 1997! See the enclosed flier for more details or email the pre- conference organizer Michele Acker at [email protected] or check the pre-conference webpage at http://www.wittenberg.edu/academics/psyc/inpr/gradconf.htm. ANNUAL CONFERENCE 29 JUNE - 2 JULY 1997 OXFORD OHIO We are busy putting together the intellectually and socially stimulating INPR conference that you have come to know and love. By now you should have received your letters indicating when your paper, poster, or panel will be presented and have both the conference and housing registration materials. One hint, though. Make your housing reservations early. Miami University will be holding summer orientation concurrently with the conference and that causes hotel rooms to be relatively scarce. We have the entire campus hotel facilities reserved through the reservation deadline. We will have plenty of housing, but as the conference approaches choice will dwindle so make your reservations early. Conference organizers are Paul Mongeau and Sally Lloyd [email protected] and [email protected]. ANNUAL PRIZE WINNERS ANNOUNCED The winner of the Network’s Annual Dissertation Award is Kelly K. Bost, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign for her dissertation entitled “Preschool Children's Social Competencies with Peers: Supports for Competence from Interpersonal Relationships” Thanks to Julie Yingling (Chair) Greg Morrow, Julie Torquati, Glen Stamp, and Becky Omdahl who served as willing, enthusiastic, and prompt committee members! The winner of the Gerald R. Miller Award for Early Career Achievement is Anita Barbee;. Thanks to Greg Pettit (Chair) , Leanne Lamke and Jackie Mize. The winner of the Network’s Mentoring Award is Joe Veroff. Thanks to Holly Latty-Mann (Chair) The joint winners of the Berscheid Hatfield Award for Distinguished Mid Career Achievement are Julia T. Wood and Bill Ickes. Thanks to Pam Kalbfleisch, Brian Bigelow, Karen Prager, Pepper Schwartz, Edna Rogers, Lynn Miller. The winners of the Steve Duck New Scholar Awards are Catherine Cohan (Faculty award) and Kory Floyd (Student Award). Thanks to Tim Dun, Erin Sahlstein and Dan DeGooyer. NEWS OF MEMBERS Joe WALTHER has a copy of his work with Mac PARKS (presented at INPR 96 in Seattle) on Web and relationships. It is available -- where else? -- on the Web at http://faculty- web.at.nwu.edu/jwalther/inpr96/ BOOKS BY MEMBERS Ann Elisabeth AUHAGEN & Maria Von Salisch The Diversity of Human Relationships Cambridge: Cambridge, UK Luciano L’ABATE with M. S. Baggett (1997) The self in the family: A Classification of personality, criminality and psychopathology. Wiley. MEMBERS SEEKING HELP OR MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS Family Psychology Conference Proposals are now being accepted for the 3rd Congress of the International Academy of Family Psychology to be held in Athens, GA Aug 6th-9th 1998. Write or email ([email protected]) by May 31st to Luciano L’Abate, Department of Psychology, Georgia State Univ, Atlanta, GA 30303. Henry A. Murray Center The Henry A. Murray Research Center of Radcliffe College is pleased to announce the availability of grant funds for postdoctoral level research drawing on the Murray Center's data resources and for doctoral dissertations in the topic areas listed below. The Center also offers a visiting scholars-in-residence program. The Murray Center is a national repository of social and behavioral sciences data for the study of lives over time with a special focus on the lives of American women on such topics as political participation, women and work, family life, sex roles, and mental health. Over 200 studies in the archive are available for secondary analysis, replication or longitudinal follow-up. Programs include the following THE RADCLIFFE RESEARCH SUPPORT PROGRAM offers small grants of up to $5,000 to post-doctoral investigators for research drawing on the center's data resources. Funds are provided for travel to the center, duplicating, computer time, assistance in coding data and other research expenses. The deadlines are October 25 and April 15. For more information, contact the Murray Research Center, Radcliffe College, 10 Garden St.. Cambridge, MA 02138. (617) 495-8140 E-mail: [email protected]: Web: http://www. radcliffe.edu/murray. THE JEANNE HUMPHREY BLOCK DISSERTATION AWARD PROGRAM offers a grant of $2.500 to a woman doctoral student. Proposals should focus on sex and gender differences or some developmental issue of particular concern to American girls or women. Projects drawing on center data will be given priority, although this is not a requirement. The application deadline is April 1. For more information, contact the Murray Research Center, Radcliffe College, 10 Garden St.. Cambridge, MA 02138. (617) 495-8140; E-mail: [email protected]: Web: http://www. radcliffe.edu/murray. THE HENRY A. MURRAY DISSERTATION AWARD PROGRAM offers grants of $2,5OO to doctoral student. Projects should focus on some aspect of "the study of lives”, concentrating on issues in human development or personality. Priority will be given to projects drawing on center data. The application deadline is April 1. For more information, contact the Murray Research Center, Radcliffe College, 10 Garden St.. Cambridge, MA 02138.(617) 495- 8140; E-mail; [email protected]; Web: http://www. radcliffe.edu/murray. THE OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES DISSERTATION AWARD PROGRAM offers grants up to $2,500 to doctoral students. Projects must use data from the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation's Observational Studies, comprising studies of two different welfare intervention programs. The data set, which includes computer-accessible and videotaped data of mothers and their children, is available through the Murray Center. The application deadline is April 1. For more information, contact the Murray Research Center, Radcliffe College, 10 Garden St., Cambridge. MA 02138. (617) 495-8140 E-mail: [email protected]: Web: http://www. radcliffe.edu/murray.

NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following who have joined the Network since August: Christopher R. AGNEW, Richard Almond, Frits Boer, Wendy DAVIES-POPELKA, Stephen M. HAAS, Jane Ann McCARDELL, Dan O'HAIR, Andrea Scott, JoNell STROUGH ....WHO HAVE INDICATED THE FOLLOWING INTERESTS Christopher R. AGNEW, Models of behavioral prediction; Interdependence processes in close relationships, including couple decision-making and the cognitive representation of interpersonal relationships. Research addresses theoretical, applied & methodological questions in these areas., Richard ALMOND,Analysis of patient and therapist role concepts. Frits BOER,Sibling relationships; anxiety disorders. Stephen M. HAAS,Relationship maintenance strategies in both heterosexual and gay & lesbian couples. Jane Ann McCARDELL,Message-based analyses of interdisciplinary hospice teams. Dan O'HAIR, Deception, physician-patient interaction., JoNell STROUGH, Peer relations and gender with foci on friendship, conversational strategies, collaborative problem solving. .... WHO USE THE FOLLOWING METHODS Christopher R. AGNEW, Investment Model Scale (Rusbult, Martz & Agnew); Interdependence Scale (Agnew, Martz, & Rusbult), Richard ALMOND,Clinical observation - psychotherapy; psychoanalysis, Frits BOER, Sibling Relationship Inventory (Stocker & McHale), EAS (Buss & Plomin), , Dutch Version of SRI, Dutch Version of EAS, JoNell STROUGH, Parker & Asher's Friendship Quality Questionaire, Leaper's Psychological Processes coding scheme (with some modifications), ,Perceptions of Peer Collaboration; Goals for Peer Collaboration

....AND HAVE PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING WORKS Christopher R. AGNEW, Agnew, C.R. (in press). Power over interdependent behavior within the dyad: Who decides what a couple does? In L.J. Severy & W.B. Miller (Eds), Advances in population: Psychosical perspectives, V3, Van Lange, P.A.M., Agnew, C.R., Harinck, F., & Steemers, G.E.M. (in press). From game theory to real life: How social value orientation affects willingness to sacrifice in ongoing close relationships, Agnew, C.R. (in press). Modal versus individually-derived beliefs about condom use: Measuring the cognitive underpinnings of the theory of reasoned action. Psychology and Health., Richard ALMOND, Almond, R. (1995). The analytic role: Transference-counter transference interplay. Journal of American Psychoanaly Assn, 43., Almond, R. (1996). The therapeutic narrative: Fictional relationships and the process of psychological change. Westport, CT: Praeger., Frits BOER, Boer, F., Westenberg, P.M., & van Ooyen, M.M.J. (1995). How do sibling placements differ from placements of individual children? Child & Youth Care Forum, 24, 261-268., Boer, F., & Westenberg, P.M. (1994). The factor structure of the Buss and Plomin EAS Temperament Survey (Parental Ratings) in a Dutch sample of elementary school children. J of Personality Assessmen, Boer, F., Versluis-den Bieman, H.J.M., & Verhulst, F.C. (1994). International adoption of children with siblings: Behavioral outcomes. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 64, 252-262., Dan O'HAIR, O'Hair, D., Allman, J., & More, S. (1996). A cognitive-affective model of relational expectations in the provider-patient context. Journal of Health Psychology, 1, 307-322., Kreps, G., & O'Hair, D. (Eds) (1995). Communication and health outcomes (5-18). Norwood, NJ: Hampton Press., O'Hair, D., & Cody, M.J. (1994). Deception as moral and behavioral constructs in interpersonal relationships. In W. Cupach & B. Spitzburg (Eds), The darkside of interpersonal communication, 181-214., JoNell STROUGH, Strough, J., Berg, C.A., Sansone, C. (1996). Goals for solving everyday problems across the life span: Age and gender differences in the salience of interpersonal concerns. Devel Psych, 32, 1106-11, Berg, C.A., Strough, J., Calderone, K.S., Sansone, C., & Weir, C. (in press). The role of problem definitions in understanding age and context effects on strategies for solving everday problems.,

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Submitted contents for vol. 14ii April 1997 Susan Harter, Patricia L. Waters, Lisa M. Pettitt, Nancy Whitesell, Jennifer Kofkin & Judith Jordan: AUTONOMY AND CONNECTEDNESS AS DIMENSIONS OF RELATIONSHIP STYLES IN MEN AND WOMEN This study identified a trichotomy of styles that characterize adults’ relationships with partners: self-focused autonomy, other-focused connection, and mutuality. Each style was defined by several dimensions; dominance-submission, whose needs are met, sensitivity to the partner’s feelings, clarity of feelings, separateness versus intimacy, and concern with the relationship. Participants were adults, ages 18-70, who responded to a newspaper survey in which they identified their own style and that of their partner. Mutual individuals most often reported that their partners shared the same style. Other-focused women most often reported self-focused male partners, and self-focused men most often identified their female partners as other-focused. Correlates of these partner combinations included perceived validation by one’s partner and the ability to be one’s authentic self within the relationship. Findings revealed that mutual individuals with mutual partners reported the highest levels of perceived validation and authentic-self behavior. Other-focused women paired with self-focused men reported the lowest levels of validation and authentic self behavior, with self-focused men paired with other-focused women falling in between. Discussion focused on the liabilities of the two more extreme styles, self-focused autonomy and other-focused connection, as well as the dynamics of the different partner combinations. Susan Harter, Department of Psychology, University of Denver, 2155 S. Race Street, Denver, CO 80208

Robert L. Duran & Diane T. Prusank: RELATIONAL THEMES IN MEN’S WOMEN’S POPULAR NONFICTION MAGAZINE ARTICLES Popular magazines serve as an important source of relational information for millions of individuals in this culture. Dependency Theory (Ball-Rokeach & DeFleur, 1976), which specifies a tripartite media-audience-society model, serves as the framework for the present study which explores similarities and differences in relational issues and the manner in which they are discussed in popular men’s and women’s magazine articles. The sample of nonfiction articles (n=108) was drawn from three men’s (Playboy, Penthouse, and G.Q.) and three women’s (Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Self) popular magazines. The articles were compared on types of relationships (e.g. marriage, dating, friendship, etc.), relational issues (e.g. conflict, sexual relations, initiating relationships, etc.), and rhetorical presentation. Results indicate similarities between men’s and women’s magazine articles regarding the relationship types and issues discussed. Differences were found between the men’s and women’s magazines in the portrayal of relationships and in the advice proffered. The implications of the results and suggestions for future research are discussed. Robert L. Duran, School of Communication, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117

Daniel L. Kaplan & Christopher B. Keys: GENDER AND RELATIONSHIP VARIABLES AS PREDICTORS OF SEXUAL ATTRACTION IN CROSS-SEX PLATONIC FRIENDSHIPS BETWEEN YOUNG HETEROSEXUAL ADULTS This study examined factors associated with sexual attraction in close, platonic, cross-sex friendships. Male (n=83) and female (n=103) heterosexual undergraduates were surveyed about their relationships with their closest current platonic cross-sex friend. Results suggest that sexual attraction is often present in cross-sex friendships, common to both sexes, and is more frequently evidenced by males. Regression analysis revealed that the variables of sex, loving, previous romantic involvement and the interaction of loving and (biological) sex all accounted for significant amounts of variance in predicting sexual attraction, while liking, relationship duration and current romantic status did not. Loving accounted for the most variance in predicting sexual attraction. Daniel Kaplan, University of Illinois, Dept. of Psychology (M/C 285), 1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607-7173

Carol Masheter: FORMER SPOUSES WHO ARE FRIENDS; THREE CASE STUDIES Within the larger context of modified analytic induction, each of the three case-study couples in this article was selected to address questions that emerged during the research process about the nature and development of friendships between former spouses. The cases confirmed earlier descriptive findings on these friendships, the importance of perceived intentions, and de- escalation as a path to friendship after romantic involvement. The cases also yielded new findings. Modification and de-escalation emerged as additional paths to friendship. Partners of one couple disagreed whether they were friends, yet they were able to coparent cooperatively. Also, focus of friendship varied; the partners of one couple focused on their children, whereas the partners of the other two couples focused on each other. These findings bridge the divorce and friendship literatures and have relevance for other types of friendships. Carol Masheter, Family and Consumer Studies, 228 AEB, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Ann P. Ruvolo & Joseph Veroff: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE; REAL-IDEAL DISCREPANCIES AND THE MARITAL WELL-BEING OF NEWLYWEDS This study examined the relationship between an individual’s real-ideal discrepancy about the spouse and the marital well- being of both spouses. In the first year of the study, individuals from 153 African American couples and 160 White couples rated their partners and their ideals for their partners on 12 characteristics. Discrepancies between ratings of the partner and ideals for the partner were negatively correlated with the Year 1 marital well-being of each spouse. Also, while controlling for the Year 1 marital well-being of both partners, wives’ real-ideal discrepancies about their husbands were negatively related to the Year 2 marital well- being of both partners, but husbands’ discrepancies did not predict the Year 2 marital well-being of either partner. When the separate effects of discrepancies, ratings of the partner, and ideals were examined, women’s discrepancies predicted the Year 2 marital well-being of both partners, and men’s rating of their wives predicted their own Year 2 marital well being. Ann P. Ruvolo, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556

Invited Program Overview Linda K. Acitelli: SAMPLING COUPLES TO UNDERSTAND THEM: MIXING THE THEORETICAL WITH THE PRACTICAL The project described here is one of the first to obtain a probability sample of couples based on characteristics of both partners. The undertaking is presented as a mix of theoretical and practical concerns. First, I present the theoretical background justifying the need for such a sample and outline the methods of the longitudinal study of couples. Then the steps taken to recruit the sample (238 couples) are traced, including the process of screening for eligible respondents. Several unforeseeable problems occurred that required more time, and thus money, than was originally budgeted. This paper exposes these difficulties in a straightforward manner not often seen in journal articles that typically cover up or smooth out all blemishes. I also offer suggestions for ways to diminish the effects of such problems. The hope is that other researchers who wish to follow a similar path will find this paper helps make their journeys smoother than the one described here. Linda K. Acitelli, University of Houston, Department of Psychology, 101 Heyne Building, Houston, TX 77204-5341

Brief Articles Jeannine Monnier & Stevan E. Hobfoll: CROSSOVER EFFECTS OF COMMUNAL COPING We examined how women’s clinical depression was impacted by the coping of their significant other, by interviewing pregnant, inner-city (n=54) and those people whom these women felt were closet to them (n=54) (e.g. partner, family member, friend). In particular we were interested in communal aspects of coping (i.e., its social component). We predicted that only significant others’ active-prosocial coping would be related to women’s lower depression. However, we found that both their active- prosocial and active-antisocial coping was related to women’s lower depression, suggesting it was most important for significant others to be active, rather than passive. The importance of considering the ecological context of coping was discussed. Steven E. Hobfoll, Applied Psychology Center, Kent Hall, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242

Frederick G. Lopez: STUDENT-PROFESSOR RELATIONSHIP STYLES, CHILDHOOD ATTACHMENT BONDS AND CURRENT ACADEMIC ORIENTATIONS Within the past decade, attachment theory has been productively extended into the domains of close adult relationships. Indeed, a key theoretical construct attachment security has been shown to predict a variety of important relationship outcomes, including perceived trust, affect self-regulation, and overall dyadic adjustment. More recently, attachment theory has guided research into non-intimate relationships, again with supportive results. In keeping with this initiative, the present study explored whether college students adopting typically secure vs. insecure styles of relating to professors also differed in their descriptions of early attachment bonds with parents, and in their responses to measures of current academic motivation and adjustment. Findings indicated that, relative to their peers with insecure relationship styles, students in secure relationships with their professors experienced significantly warmer and more supportive childhood emotional bonds with their mothers. In addition, they evidenced significantly more favorable academic attitudes and stronger feelings of social integration and connectedness within the university community. Frederick G. Lopez, 441 Erickson Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824

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Linda K. Acitelli, Elizabeth Douvan & Joseph Veroff: THE CHANGING INFLUENCE OF INTERPERSONAL PERCEPTIONS ON MARITAL WELL-BEING AMONG BLACK AND WHITE COUPLES This study is the longitudinal extension of an earlier study of perceptions of conflict in the first year of marriage (Acitelli, et al, (1993). In both studies, we examined the relative importance (to marital well-being) of partners’ similarity and understanding of conflict styles. While the earlier study related perceptions of conflict in the first year with first year marital-well being, the present study related the same first year perceptions with third year marital well-being. Two important changes appearing in the findings for the third year compared to the first year are: (1) constructive acts appeared more important than destructive acts to third year marital well-being, whereas destructive acts were more predictive than constructive acts of first year marital well-being; (2) the association of wives’ understanding of husbands to third year marital well-being was positive for black couples and negative for white couples. This association was positive for both groups in the first year. Results are discussed in terms of the ambiguity of positive interactions as well as the dissolution of the romantic myth in the course of relationship development in early marriage. Linda K. Acitelli, Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5341

Franz J. Neyer: FREE RECALL OR RECOGNITION OF COLLECTING EGOCENTERED NETWORKS: THE ROLE OF SURVEY TECHNIQUE The egocentered networks of 479 young adults were studied twice over a 1.5 year period using two different techniques of collecting egocentered network data. In the first study - conducted in 1988 - a free recall technique was employed, whereas the second study, starting from 1990, used a recognition technique in generating egocentered networks. It was shown that both techniques lead to different networks not only with respect to morphological features of social networks, but also and more importantly with respect to functional and relational features. The recognition technique seems to be useful in collecting exchange networks with high numbers and strong activity, while free recall technique produces networks which are smaller and less active in comparison, but nevertheless can be identified as networks of significant others. Franz J. Neyer, Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Leopoldstr. 24, D-80802 Munich, Germany

Daena J. Goldsmith & Susan A. Dun: SEX DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES IN THE COMMUNICATION OF SOCIAL SUPPORT A popular view holds that men and women differ in the types of social support they provide to distressed others: Women provide emotional support and empathy while men offer instrumental support or try to minimize the importance of problems. Despite the prevalence of this view, there is limited evidence to support it. The present study sought to empirically assess the merit of this view. One hundred nineteen college students responded to seven situations involving a distressed other. Although women’s responses were longer and contained more talk about emotions, women also talked more about instrumental actions than men did. Men devoted a greater proportion of their responses to talk about the problem and a larger proportion of their problem talk involved denying the problem. However, there were substantial similarities between men and women in the relative frequencies of different types of supportive responses used, and sex differences accounted for small percentages of variance. In contrast, situation exerted a strong, consistent influence on the responses of men and women alike. Daena J. Goldsmith, Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801

Gregory R. Pierce, Irwin G. Sarason, Barbara R. Sarason, Jessica A. Solky & Lauren C. Nagle: ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS We report two studies investigating the psychometric properties and construct validity of the Quality of Relationships Inventory (QRI), self-report measure of support, conflict, and depth in specific family and peer relationships. Study 1 showed that the QRI scales possess high internal consistency, are stable across a period of one year, show moderate agreement between participants’ perceptions of the same relationship, and predict depressive symptoms beyond the contribution made by measures of general perceived support. In Study 2, adult children’s and their mothers’ QRI scales assessing the quality of their relationship with one another, but not with other family members or friends, predicted observers’ global judgments of their behavior as they discussed a current source of conflict in their relationship. These studies suggest the reliability and construct validity of the QRI scales as measures of the quality of specific relationships. The implications of these results for the conceptualization and assessment of personal relationships are discussed. Gregory R. Pierce, Department of Psychology, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 13323

Wendy C. Gamble & Rochelle L. Dalla: YOUNG CHILDREN’S PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR SOCIAL WORLDS IN SINGLE- AND TWO-PARENT, EURO-AND MEXICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES This investigation examined social support available to Euro- and Mexican-American children (N=88), as reported by children residing in single and two-parent homes. Mothers provided descriptions of their own social networks and of their child’s adjustment. Child reports of network size and composition varied by ethnicity and maternal marital status, with children from intact, Euro-American homes reporting the fewest network members and those from intact, Mexican-American families reporting the most. No significant group differences emerged in child reports of the amount of, or satisfaction with, support received. The children’s reports of total frequency of receiving support was associated with lower rates of externalizing behaviors. Similarly, children whose mothers reported more supportive networks were rated as lower in externalizing behavior, regardless of marital status or ethnicity. In regression analyses, both the mothers’ reports of support and the children’s reports of support contributed significantly to the prediction of externalizing behaviors. Wendy C. Gamble, Division of Family Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721

Richard L. Conville: BETWEEN SPEARHEADS: BRICOLAGE AND RELATIONSHIPS A narrative perspective was employed to explore the problematic concept, “relationship.” Relationships are said to exist either in relational partners’ patterned behaviors or in their shared perceptions, although neither alternative is well supported in the literature. In response, the claims were made (1) that relationship narratives transcend the behavior/perception dilemma by both depicting partners’ behaviors and reporting their perceptions and (2) that relationship stories are our primary source of knowledge about relationships. Certain advantages of this approach were developed, and to illustrate them, Levi-Strauss’s concepts of bricoleur and bricolage were used as analytical tools for examining selected relationship stories. The narratives examined were excerpts from James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Russell Baker’s Growing Up, and Eudora Welty’s One Writer’s Beginnings. Their accounts were found to depict persons-in-relationship as well as certain commonly encountered episode types. In addition, the concept of the bricoleur called attention to the centrality of process in relationships, and the concept of bricolage pointed to the nature and source of materials for conducting relationships, their portability from one relationship to another, and their social- dialogical dimension. Richard L. Conville, Department of Speech Communication, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406

Invited article Robert E. Sanders: FIND YOUR PARTNER AND DO-SI-DO: THE FORMATION OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SOCIAL BEINGS Personal relationships have generally been studied from the perspective that the persons involved are psychological beings who are drawn together as they come to know, value, and share their respective inner qualities and experiences. However, it is also possible to examine relationships from the perspective that the persons involved are social beings who are drawn together as they each come to find the other’s ways of participating in communal life to be attractive and compatible. From the latter perspective, an established, committed relationship between two social beings would consist of an effective partnership in a variety of arenas of communal life because their respective ways of participating are mutually facilitative. Comparisons of the two perspectives on empirical grounds indicates that they are surprisingly congruent, and that integrating them is more productive than trying to promote one over the other. This comparison also indicates that communication plays multiple roles in the process of engaging in personal relationship, and is suggestive about how much we till need to find out about the lived experience of persons in relationships, and how research might proceed in that regard. Robert E. Sanders, Department of Communication, University of Albany SUNY, Albany NY 12222

Invited Program Overview Donn Byrne: AN OVERVIEW (AND UNDERVIEW) OF RESEARCH AND THEORY WITHIN THE ATTRACTION PARADIGM The initiation and subsequent development of what I once immodestly labeled “the attraction paradigm” are described. Though an after-the-fact reconstruction of a given program of research and theory may appear to result from planful, rational, insightful, and even prescient actions, the actual process is more often a combination of multiple personal motives, semi-random input from a wide variety of sources, sheer luck , and semi-delusional tenacity. In any event, some highlights and landmarks of over 35 years of attraction research are summarized. The story includes the initial decision to investigate the effect of attitude similarity- dissimilarity on attraction, the gradual development of the linear function that specifies the relationship between seemingly diverse stimulus events and evaluative responses such as attraction, and the construction of a theoretical model that began with a focus on conditioning but was eventually expanded as “the behavior sequence,” incorporating cognitive constructs in order to deal with such interpersonal complexities as love. As a postscript, I describe our current efforts to place the components of adult attachment patterns within this model in an effort more precisely to predict various aspects of interpersonal relationships. Donn Byrne, Department of Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12222

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Gregory S. Pettit & Susan Lollis: RECIPROCITY AND BIDIRECTIONALITY IN PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS: NEW APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF ENDURING ISSUES Greg Pettit, Department of Family and Child Development, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849 or Susan Lollis, Department of Family Studies, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, CANADA

Susan Lollis & Leon Kuczynski: SEEING BIDIRECTIONALITY IN PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS Susan Lollis, Department of Family Studies, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, CANADA

Michal Perlman & Hildy S. Ross: WHO’S THE BOSS? PARENTS’ FAILED ATTEMPTS TO INFLUENCE THE OUTCOMES OF CONFLICTS BETWEEN THEIR CHILDREN Hildy Ross, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, CANADA

George W. Holden, Elizabeth E. Thompson, Robert J. Zambarano, & Lisa A. Marshall: CHILD EFFECTS AS A SOURCE OF CHANGE IN MATERNAL ATTITUDES TOWARD CORPORAL PUNISHMENT George Holden, Institute of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

Thomas G. O’Connor, E. Mavis Hetherington, and W. Glenn Clingempeel: SYSTEMS AND BIDIRECTIONAL INFLUENCES IN FAMILIES Thomas G. O’Connor, Department of Psychology & Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, 113 Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AF, UNITED KINGDOM

Beth Manke & Robert Plomin: ADOLESCENT FAMILIAL INTERACTIONS: A GENETIC EXTENSION OF THE SOCIAL RELATIONS MODEL Beth Manke, 4800 Calhoun, Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5341

Eric W. Lindsey, Jacquelyn Mize & Gregory S. Pettit: MUTUALITY IN PARENT-CHILD PLAY: CONSEQUENCES FOR CHILDREN’S PEER COMPETENCE Eric W. Lindsey, Department of Family and Child Development, 206 Spidle Hall, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849

Alan Russell & Elaine Searcy: THE CONTRIBUTION OF AFFECTIVE REACTIONS AND RELATIONSHIP QUALITIES TO ADOLESCENTS’ REPORTED RESPONSES TO PARENTS Alan Russell, School of Education, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, 5001, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Robert G. Wahler & Allen Bellamy: GENERATING RECIPROCITY WITH CONDUCT PROBLEM CHILDREN AND THEIR MOTHERS: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPLIANCE TEACHING AND RESPONSIVE PARENTING Robert G. Wahler, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, 307 Austin Peay Building, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996

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Judy Dunn: LESSONS FROM THE STUDY OF BI-DIRECTIONAL EFFECTS Judy Dunn, Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, London, SE5 8AF, ENGLAND

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ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1998 IN OKLAHOMA INPR 1998 will be held between May 23rd and May 26th at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. Contact the local host Tara Emmers-Sommer at (405) 325-3154 or [email protected] for additional local information. NEWS OF MEMBERS Michelle ACKER has good news: she has a tenure-track job at Otterbein College in Columbus, OH. No more moving around! Catalin MAMALI has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Loss and Personal Relationships and has also published a chapter on relationships in totalitarian societies in a book edited by William GUDYKUNST, Stell Ting-Toomey & Tsukasa Nishida (1996) Communication in Personal Relationships across Cultures SAGE Heidi REEDER has finished her dissertation on cross-sex friendships last July, and is moving this July to a new job at University of North Carolina-Greensboro. BOOKS BY MEMBERS Steve DUCK (1997/8) Human Relsationships, 3rd Edn. SAGE: London Elisabeth GAREIS (1995) Intercultural friendship: A qualitative study. Univ Press of America: Lanham MD. Barry GINSBERG (1997) Relationship enhancement family therapy. Wiley: New York Andrew YIP (1997) Gay Male Christian Couples: Life Stories Praeger (June 1997).

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR SPECIAL ISSUE OF JSPR ON SOCIAL COGNITION AND RELATIONSHIPS A special issue of JSPR will be published on the topic of social cognition and relationships. Authors are invited to submit empirical, theoretical, or review manuscripts that address aspects of social cognition and its links to relationships. Social cognition will be defined broadly for the special issue and interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work is strongly encouraged. The submission deadline is August 15, 1998. The special issue will be published in the 1999 volume. Please submit four copies of the manuscript to Mark A. Fine, Deputy Editor; Journal of Social and Personal Relationships; Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Missouri, 31 Stanley Hall, Columbia, MO 65211; 573-884-6301; [email protected]. edu.

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Proposals should include the names of the guest editors; a brief description of their qualifications to guest edit the special issue; the topic for the special issue; a justification of why this topic is an appropriate one for the special issue; a description of how manuscripts for the special issue will be solicited (all manuscripts have to go through a peer review process); how many manuscripts will be invited, if any; a description of how the guest editors will process and review manuscripts; and a tentative timetable for the various stages of developing the special issue. The deadline for submitting proposals is December 1, 1997. Please submit three copies of the proposal (and direct any questions or comments) to Mark A. Fine, Deputy Editor; Journal of Social and Personal Relationships; Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Missouri, 31 Stanley Hall, Columbia, MO 65211; 573-884-6301; [email protected]. edu. MEMBERS SEEKING HELP OR MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS Call for Contributions COMMUNICATION YEARBOOK Volume 23 Editor Michael Roloff is soliciting manuscripts and proposals for Communication Yearbook 23. Communication Yearbook publishes state-of-the-art literature reviews, and thus seeks articles providing comprehensive syntheses of literature (i.e., articles that survey, critique, and integrate a large body of literature that has appeared on a specific, relatively narrow topic). Reviews from all areas of the communication discipline are welcome; CP seeks to represent the diverse range of philosophical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives informing contemporary communication scholarship. Literature reviews employing both narrative and quantitative (i.e., meta-analytic) methodologies are sought. Contributions from scholars residing outside the United States are especially welcome. Completed reviews or extended proposals (15-30 pages) will. be considered; brief proposals are not acceptable and will be returned to the author. Proposals should (a) identify a specific topic on which an extensive body of material has been published, (b) develop a rationale for the review of this literature. (c) delineate the approach and methodology to be used in the review. (d) provide a detailed outline of the review, and (e) present a working bibliography. A cover letter addressed to the Editor should briefly describe the qualifications of the author(s) to undertake a literature review in the designated area. All submissions to CY undergo blind review by at least two experts in the field. Complete manuscripts or proposals must be received by December 15, 1997. Send three high-quality copies to: Michael E. Roloff, Editor Communication Yearbook Dept. of Communication Studies 23 Harris Hall Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60208 USA Phone: (847) 491-5834 FAX: (847) 467- 1 171 Internet [email protected] LECTURESHIP, UNIVERSITY OF WALES, CARDIFF The School of Psychology at the University of Wales, Cardiff, is seeking to appoint a Lecturer with research interests in the area of PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. The research may focus on any aspect of personal relationships (whether functional or dysfunctional), at any point in the life-span from infancy through old age. Candidates from a variety of subdisciplines in psychology (e.g., social, clinical, developmental) relevant to the understanding of personal relationships are encouraged to apply for this position. Current staff in the area of personal relationships include: Jacky Boivin (health psychology,impact of medical conditions on marital adjustment), Kathy Carnelley (attachment, widowhood), Frank Fincham (marital relationships, interparental conflict and child adjustment), Neil Frude (domestic violence and child abuse), Gordon Harold (marital conflict and children's well-being, application of multivariate techniques to the study of family issues), and Michelle Morgan (peer tutoring). Applicants should be establishing (or have established) a record of publishing good research and be committed to obtaining external research funding. The salary for the position is 16,045-27,985 (British Sterling). Information about the School of Psychology and how to apply for the post appear below. THE SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY The School of Psychology has a complement of 36 full-time teaching staff, nine of whom are Professors, making it one of the largest in the UK. In addition there are three temporary or part-time staff, 17 research staff, nine technical staff and seven secretarial staff. Presently the School occupies 2612m2 including 383m2 of specialist laboratories but there are plans to soon increase this allowance to 3530m2. By 1998 the School will occupy all 12 floors of the Tower Building, together with a Neuroscience laboratory (345m2) in the Basement area. Currently there are 31 full-time PhD students. Research The School has a strong and growing commitment to applied as well as theoretically-driven research. It has received a top rating of '5' in formal Research Assessment Exercises conducted in 1992 and 1996. The general resources in the School are excellent and the provision of equipment is second to none. The successful candidate can expect appropriate laboratory space and a start up grant for equipment. All assistance possible will be given to ensure a quick and smooth start to his or her research. Teaching The School of Psychology is a member of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. Each year it admits around 160 FTE students to single honours degrees in either Psychology or Applied Psychology; and to joint honours degrees with Physiology, Education, English, Philosophy or Sociology. In addition it offers introductory modules to first year students not proceeding in Psychology and a course on Behavioural Science to medical students. The School also delivers courses to the Neuroscience degree course. In 1996, the School's teaching received the top rating, "excellent," from an independent Teaching Quality Assessment Panel. At postgraduate level the School runs two MSc courses (Occupational Psychology and Educational Psychology) and, with the South Wales Clinical Training team based at Whitchurch Hospital, offers a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. The person appointed to the lectureship will be expected to take an active role in taught courses. In addition he or she will be expected to give tutorials and supervise research projects and take a share of administrative duties. APPLICATION PROCESS The closing date for applications is July 18, 1997. To obtain further information about the post and a set of application forms, please contact the Personnel Department, 50 Park Place, Cardiff CF1 3AT, Great Britain. Fax: 44 (country code) 1222 (city code) 874788. Tel: 44-1222-874897 e-mail: [email protected] Any additional information can be obtained by contacting Professor Hadyn Ellis: (tel: 44 (country code)-1222(city code)-874867 fax: 44-1222-874858 e- mail: [email protected] NEW MEMBERS We welcome the following who have joined the Network since April: Elizabeth BERNAT, Kelly BOST, Samuel CAMERON, Pamela CHOICE, Jebber J. COZZI, Elisabeth GAREIS, Jami GRICH-STEVENS, Kimberly J. KLINGBEIL, Beth MANKE, Drue-Marie McKELTON, John K. REMPEL, Renee SCHUH, Gail G. WHITCHURCH ....WHO HAVE INDICATED THE FOLLOWING INTERESTS Kelly BOST,"Relations between parent-child interaction, children's social networks and children's social adaptation with peers." Samuel CAMERON,Male homosexual prostitution services/Commitment levels in relationships. Choosing partner age in personal ads. Elisabeth GAREIS,"Intercultural friendship patterns, turning points in intercultural adjustment." Jami GRICH-STEVENS,Labs tudies looking at attachment in dating couples; 'Earned' secure attachment and attachment in therapy. Beth MANKE,A multi-ethnic sibling study (children ages 8-14) - examination of how children use humor in relationships. Gail G. WHITCHURCH,Couple violence and communicaton; Communication and family life cycles. .... WHO USE THE FOLLOWING METHODS Kelly BOST, Children's Social Support Interview, Parental Social Network & Support Interview (Zelkowitz, 1989); Observational Measures of Peer Interaction Samuel CAMERON, Economic models using OLS Regression and Logit Models on personal ads. Data codings., Elisabeth GAREIS, Qualitative research (interview) Jami GRICH-STEVENS, Attachment Style Measures (Simpson's; Hazan & Shaver's, AAI) plus lots of others. Beth MANKE, Social Relations Model, CPIC, Gail G. WHITCHURCH, Qualitative Methods ....AND HAVE PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING WORKS Kelly BOST,"Bost, K.K., Vaugn, B.E., & Heller, C. (in press). Secure base behavior as supports for social competence: Q-sort descriptions for preschool children attending Head Start. In Waters etal (Eds), Patt","Vaughn, B.E., & Bost, K.K. (in press). Attachment and temperament: Independent, interactive, or redundant bases for interpersonal adaptation and personality development. In Shave & Cassidy (Eds),","Abell, E., Clawson, M., Washington, W., Bost, K.K., & Vaugn, B.E. (1996). Parenting values, attitudes, behaviors, and goals of African-American mothers from a low income population in relation to soc" Samuel CAMERON,"Cameron, S., & Collins, A. (in press). Estimates of a hedonic ageing equation. Kyklos, 50 (1).","Cameron, S. (in press). Personal introduction agencies in the United Kingdom: Estimats of an average cost function. Applied Economics Letters.","Cameron, S. (1996). Shifting parameters in the economic model of divorce: Some UK evidence. Journal of Socio-Economics, 25 (6), 663-670." Elisabeth GAREIS,"Gareis, E. (1995). Intercultural friendship: A Qualitative study. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.","Gareis, E. (1995). Community involvement and friendship formation. Idiom, 25 (1), 7, 19.","Gareis, E. (1994). Promoting intercultural friendship in the ESL classroom. Intensive English Programs Newsletter, 12, 8-12." Jami GRICH-STEVENS,"Rholes, S.W., Simpson, J.A., & Grich-Stevens, J. (in press). Attachment orientations, social support, and conflict resolution in close relationships. Simpson & Rholes (Eds), Attachment theory & close",, Beth MANKE,"Manke, B. (in press). Adolescent familial interactions: A genetic extension of the social relations model. JSPR.","Manke, B., McGuire, S., Reiss, D., Hetherington, E.M., & Plomin, R. (1995). Genetic contributions to adolescents' extrafamilial social interactions. Teachers, Best Friends, Peers, 4, 238-256.", Gail G. WHITCHURCH,"Whitchurch, G.G., & Dickson, F.C. (in press). A Communication perspective on families. In M.B. Sussman, S.K. Steinmetz, & G. Peterson (Eds), Handbook of marriage and the family (2nd Ed). NY: Plenu","Whitchurch, G.G., & Webb, L.M. (1995). Applied family communication research: Casting light upon the demon. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 23, 239-246.","Whitchurch, G.G., & Constantine, L.L. (1993). Systems theory. In P. Boss, W. Doherty, R. LaRossa, W. Schumm, and S. Steinmetz (Eds), Sourcebook of family theories and methods: A contextual approach"

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Linda K. Acitelli, Elizabeth Douvan & Joseph Veroff: THE CHANGING INFLUENCE OF INTERPERSONAL PERCEPTIONS ON MARITAL WELL-BEING AMONG BLACK AND WHITE COUPLES This study is the longitudinal extension of an earlier study of perceptions of conflict in the first year of marriage (Acitelli, et al, (1993). In both studies, we examined the relative importance (to marital well-being) of partners’ similarity and understanding of conflict styles. While the earlier study related perceptions of conflict in the first year with first year marital-well being, the present study related the same first year perceptions with third year marital well-being. Two important changes appearing in the findings for the third year compared to the first year are: (1) constructive acts appeared more important than destructive acts to third year marital well-being, whereas destructive acts were more predictive than constructive acts of first year marital well-being; (2) the association of wives’ understanding of husbands to third year marital well-being was positive for black couples and negative for white couples. This association was positive for both groups in the first year. Results are discussed in terms of the ambiguity of positive interactions as well as the dissolution of the romantic myth in the course of relationship development in early marriage. Linda K. Acitelli, Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5341

Franz J. Neyer: FREE RECALL OR RECOGNITION OF COLLECTING EGOCENTERED NETWORKS: THE ROLE OF SURVEY TECHNIQUE The egocentered networks of 479 young adults were studied twice over a 1.5 year period using two different techniques of collecting egocentered network data. In the first study - conducted in 1988 - a free recall technique was employed, whereas the second study, starting from 1990, used a recognition technique in generating egocentered networks. It was shown that both techniques lead to different networks not only with respect to morphological features of social networks, but also and more importantly with respect to functional and relational features. The recognition technique seems to be useful in collecting exchange networks with high numbers and strong activity, while free recall technique produces networks which are smaller and less active in comparison, but nevertheless can be identified as networks of significant others. Franz J. Neyer, Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Leopoldstr. 24, D-80802 Munich, Germany

Daena J. Goldsmith & Susan A. Dun: SEX DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES IN THE COMMUNICATION OF SOCIAL SUPPORT A popular view holds that men and women differ in the types of social support they provide to distressed others: Women provide emotional support and empathy while men offer instrumental support or try to minimize the importance of problems. Despite the prevalence of this view, there is limited evidence to support it. The present study sought to empirically assess the merit of this view. One hundred nineteen college students responded to seven situations involving a distressed other. Although women’s responses were longer and contained more talk about emotions, women also talked more about instrumental actions than men did. Men devoted a greater proportion of their responses to talk about the problem and a larger proportion of their problem talk involved denying the problem. However, there were substantial similarities between men and women in the relative frequencies of different types of supportive responses used, and sex differences accounted for small percentages of variance. In contrast, situation exerted a strong, consistent influence on the responses of men and women alike. Daena J. Goldsmith, Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801

Gregory R. Pierce, Irwin G. Sarason, Barbara R. Sarason, Jessica A. Solky & Lauren C. Nagle: ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS We report two studies investigating the psychometric properties and construct validity of the Quality of Relationships Inventory (QRI), self-report measure of support, conflict, and depth in specific family and peer relationships. Study 1 showed that the QRI scales possess high internal consistency, are stable across a period of one year, show moderate agreement between participants’ perceptions of the same relationship, and predict depressive symptoms beyond the contribution made by measures of general perceived support. In Study 2, adult children’s and their mothers’ QRI scales assessing the quality of their relationship with one another, but not with other family members or friends, predicted observers’ global judgments of their behavior as they discussed a current source of conflict in their relationship. These studies suggest the reliability and construct validity of the QRI scales as measures of the quality of specific relationships. The implications of these results for the conceptualization and assessment of personal relationships are discussed. Gregory R. Pierce, Department of Psychology, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 13323

Wendy C. Gamble & Rochelle L. Dalla: YOUNG CHILDREN’S PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR SOCIAL WORLDS IN SINGLE- AND TWO-PARENT, EURO-AND MEXICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES This investigation examined social support available to Euro- and Mexican-American children (N=88), as reported by children residing in single and two-parent homes. Mothers provided descriptions of their own social networks and of their child’s adjustment. Child reports of network size and composition varied by ethnicity and maternal marital status, with children from intact, Euro-American homes reporting the fewest network members and those from intact, Mexican-American families reporting the most. No significant group differences emerged in child reports of the amount of, or satisfaction with, support received. The children’s reports of total frequency of receiving support was associated with lower rates of externalizing behaviors. Similarly, children whose mothers reported more supportive networks were rated as lower in externalizing behavior, regardless of marital status or ethnicity. In regression analyses, both the mothers’ reports of support and the children’s reports of support contributed significantly to the prediction of externalizing behaviors. Wendy C. Gamble, Division of Family Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721

Richard L. Conville: BETWEEN SPEARHEADS: BRICOLAGE AND RELATIONSHIPS A narrative perspective was employed to explore the problematic concept, “relationship.” Relationships are said to exist either in relational partners’ patterned behaviors or in their shared perceptions, although neither alternative is well supported in the literature. In response, the claims were made (1) that relationship narratives transcend the behavior/perception dilemma by both depicting partners’ behaviors and reporting their perceptions and (2) that relationship stories are our primary source of knowledge about relationships. Certain advantages of this approach were developed, and to illustrate them, Levi-Strauss’s concepts of bricoleur and bricolage were used as analytical tools for examining selected relationship stories. The narratives examined were excerpts from James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Russell Baker’s Growing Up, and Eudora Welty’s One Writer’s Beginnings. Their accounts were found to depict persons-in-relationship as well as certain commonly encountered episode types. In addition, the concept of the bricoleur called attention to the centrality of process in relationships, and the concept of bricolage pointed to the nature and source of materials for conducting relationships, their portability from one relationship to another, and their social- dialogical dimension. Richard L. Conville, Department of Speech Communication, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406

Invited article Robert E. Sanders: FIND YOUR PARTNER AND DO-SI-DO: THE FORMATION OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SOCIAL BEINGS Personal relationships have generally been studied from the perspective that the persons involved are psychological beings who are drawn together as they come to know, value, and share their respective inner qualities and experiences. However, it is also possible to examine relationships from the perspective that the persons involved are social beings who are drawn together as they each come to find the other’s ways of participating in communal life to be attractive and compatible. From the latter perspective, an established, committed relationship between two social beings would consist of an effective partnership in a variety of arenas of communal life because their respective ways of participating are mutually facilitative. Comparisons of the two perspectives on empirical grounds indicates that they are surprisingly congruent, and that integrating them is more productive than trying to promote one over the other. This comparison also indicates that communication plays multiple roles in the process of engaging in personal relationship, and is suggestive about how much we till need to find out about the lived experience of persons in relationships, and how research might proceed in that regard. Robert E. Sanders, Department of Communication, University of Albany SUNY, Albany NY 12222

Invited Program Overview Donn Byrne: AN OVERVIEW (AND UNDERVIEW) OF RESEARCH AND THEORY WITHIN THE ATTRACTION PARADIGM The initiation and subsequent development of what I once immodestly labeled “the attraction paradigm” are described. Though an after-the-fact reconstruction of a given program of research and theory may appear to result from planful, rational, insightful, and even prescient actions, the actual process is more often a combination of multiple personal motives, semi-random input from a wide variety of sources, sheer luck , and semi-delusional tenacity. In any event, some highlights and landmarks of over 35 years of attraction research are summarized. The story includes the initial decision to investigate the effect of attitude similarity- dissimilarity on attraction, the gradual development of the linear function that specifies the relationship between seemingly diverse stimulus events and evaluative responses such as attraction, and the construction of a theoretical model that began with a focus on conditioning but was eventually expanded as “the behavior sequence,” incorporating cognitive constructs in order to deal with such interpersonal complexities as love. As a postscript, I describe our current efforts to place the components of adult attachment patterns within this model in an effort more precisely to predict various aspects of interpersonal relationships. Donn Byrne, Department of Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12222

Book Reviews

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Submitted contents for vol. 14iv August 1997 SPECIAL ISSUE RECIPROCITY AND BIDIRECTIONALITY IN PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS Edited by Greg Pettit and Susan Lollis Gregory S. Pettit & Susan Lollis: RECIPROCITY AND BIDIRECTIONALITY IN PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS: NEW APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF ENDURING ISSUES A long history of research on parent-child relationships has been premised on the assumption that parents socialize their children to a greater degree than children socialize their parents. Increasingly, however, it has been recognized that parent-child relationships are co-constructed and are embedded in a social matrix that is defined by patterns of reciprocal influence over time. This Special Issue provides a sampling of the energetic work currently being conducted in the parent-child relationships field that bears directly on issues of reciprocity and bidirectionality. Our goal in assembling this collection of papers is to focus greater attention on the centrality of bidirectional concepts in current research and thinking about parent-child relationships in particular, and interpersonal relationships more generally. Greg Pettit, Department of Family and Child Development, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849 or Susan Lollis, Department of Family Studies, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, CANADA

Susan Lollis & Leon Kuczynski: SEEING BIDIRECTIONALITY IN PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS This article discusses the dynamic that exists between interactions and relationships and explores the implications of this dynamic for the systematic study of bidirectionality in parent-child relations. Global perspectives on relationships emphasize coherence and stable causes but often neglect origins in social interactions. Research on social interactions emphasize bidirectionality and agency but often neglect the relationship context. A model of parent-child interactions in the context of parent- child relationships is presented to illustrate the many levels at which bidirectionality may occur between the microanalytic investigation of interactions and the macroanalytic investigation of relationships. Research directions highlighted by the model include investigation of emergence of stability and change, distinctiveness, interdependence, agency, and cognitions. Susan Lollis, Department of Family Studies, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, CANADA

Michal Perlman & Hildy S. Ross: WHO’S THE BOSS? PARENTS’ FAILED ATTEMPTS TO INFLUENCE THE OUTCOMES OF CONFLICTS BETWEEN THEIR CHILDREN Using home observations of 40 families with 2 preschool aged children, we examined sibling conflicts in which parents intervened and yet the outcomes were discordant with their positions. Our specific interest was to discover the processes by which young children influenced the outcome of these conflicts. We found that in 30% of conflicts in which parents became involved, the outcome of the conflict was discordant with the parents’ position. In such conflicts children were more engaged (such conflicts were nearly twice as long) and justified their positions more often while ignoring their opponents less often than in conflicts that ended in accord with their parents’ positions. Three patterns by which parents failed in their attempts to influence the outcome of sibling conflicts were identified: cases where parents Persevered (48%), Abandoned (29%), or Changed (24%) their initial position. We argue that conflicts in which parents Changed positions provide the clearest example of sophisticated bi-directional processes of conflict resolution by all family members. Hildy Ross, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, CANADA George W. Holden, Elizabeth E. Thompson, Robert J. Zambarano, & Lisa A. Marshall: CHILD EFFECTS AS A SOURCE OF CHANGE IN MATERNAL ATTITUDES TOWARD CORPORAL PUNISHMENT It is commonly believed that parental attitudes toward child rearing are largely determined by the process of intergenerational transmission. Such a view neglects potential influences from the targets of child rearing in the children. In this study we examined bidirectional influences on mothers’ attitudes toward corporal punishment by interviewing 108 mothers of 3- year-old children. Two-thirds of the mothers reported significant shifts in their attitudes since becoming mothers. The major source of that change was their children’s reaction to being spanked. These date reveal how child behavior can impact parental attitudes and behavior and call for a more dynamic and multi-determined model of the determinants of child-rearing behavior. George Holden, Institute of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

Thomas G. O’Connor, E. Mavis Hetherington, and W. Glenn Clingempeel: SYSTEMS AND BIDIRECTIONAL INFLUENCES IN FAMILIES Family systems theory and bidirectionality are two models that seek to explain the nature of relationship influences on children’s and adults’ development. Points of convergence and divergence between the models are discussed and empirically examined in a sample of 72 nondivorced and 56 stepfather families. A multirater, multimethod design was used to model effects of family relationships on adolescent social competence, cognitive agency and externalizing behavior. The major findings were that a) adolescent>parent behavior was as robust as parent>adolescent behavior in predicting adolescent adjustment, b) family relations were less coherent or connected in stepfamilies compared to nondivorced, and c) the configuration of family relationships moderated the effect of a specific relationship on adolescent adjustment. We discuss the implications for how family systems theory qualifies and extends bidirectional models and how contextual influences, especially family type, modify bidirectional and systems models of relationship. Thomas G. O’Connor, Department of Psychology & Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, 113 Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AF, UNITED KINGDOM

Beth Manke & Robert Plomin: ADOLESCENT FAMILIAL INTERACTIONS: A GENETIC EXTENSION OF THE SOCIAL RELATIONS MODEL The purpose of the present paper was to investigate genetic and environmental contributions to significant child actor effects (i.e., a person’s tendency to behave in a similar way to all family members), child partner effects (i.e., a person’s tendency to elicit similar interactions from all family members), and sibling relationship effects (i.e., factors unique to the sibling dyadic relationship) identified in an application of the Social Relations Model (SRM: Kenny & La Voie, 1984) to familial interaction data. We examined familial warmth, conflict, and self-disclosure about both positive and negative things in 60 nonadoptive and 44 adoptive families with siblings aged 8-17. Our goals were to assess sibling resemblance and to disentangle resemblance due to genetic heritage from resemblance due resemblance due to environmental experiences from SRM effects identified as significant. Genetic influence was found for actor effects for conflict and self-disclosure about positive things. In contrast, dyadic relationship effects for warmth and self-disclosure about both positive and negative things showed no significant genetic influence. Moderate shared environmental influences were found for both actor and sibling relationship effects. However, most of the environmental influences for both actor and sibling relationship effects ere of the nonshared variety, suggesting that unique environmental experiences are important for children’s familial interactions. Beth Manke, 4800 Calhoun, Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5341

Eric W. Lindsey, Jacquelyn Mize & Gregory S. Pettit: MUTUALITY IN PARENT-CHILD PLAY: CONSEQUENCES FOR CHILDREN’S PEER COMPETENCE This study examines links between relative balance, or mutuality, in parent-child play and children’s social competence. Thirty-five preschoolers and their parents were observed in a laboratory dyadic play session. Videorecords were coded for play initiations and compliance to partner’s initiations. Mutuality was operationalized as the relative balance in (a) rate of play initiations between partners and (b) partners’ compliance to these initiations. Ratings also were made for dyadic synchrony, based on the extent to which parent and child shared the same focus of attention and engaged in reciprocal and responsive interaction. Children’s social competence was assessed with teacher ratings and sociometric interviews. More synchronous mother-child and father-child dyads had higher mutual initiation and mutual compliance scores. Mutual compliance was associated with higher levels of social competence. For father-child dyads, this association held even after controlling for individual dyad members’ rates of initiation and compliance. It is argued that parent-child mutuality in play provides children with an opportunity to practice mutual regulation and accommodation, a behavioral style that may translate to cooperative peer play. Eric W. Lindsey, Department of Family and Child Development, 206 Spidle Hall, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849

Alan Russell & Elaine Searcy: THE CONTRIBUTION OF AFFECTIVE REACTIONS AND RELATIONSHIP QUALITIES TO ADOLESCENTS’ REPORTED RESPONSES TO PARENTS We examined influences on reciprocity in early adolescents’ responses to parental behavior presented in vignettes. The parental behaviors were either warm/affectionate or mildly controlling, and the influence of the following were investigated: (a) adolescents’ affective reactions to the parental behavior, (b) their perceptions of the degree of parental acceptance, and (c) relationship type (birth-parent versus stepparent). Relationship type made little independent contribution to the adolescents’ reported responses. Both affective reactions and perceptions of acceptance contributed to reported responses, depending on the parental behavior and the type of response. The results suggest that reciprocity in adolescents’ responses to parents can occur through the return of perceived parental behavior or through the return of perceived relationship qualities. Alan Russell, School of Education, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, 5001, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Robert G. Wahler & Allen Bellamy: GENERATING RECIPROCITY WITH CONDUCT PROBLEM CHILDREN AND THEIR MOTHERS: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPLIANCE TEACHING AND RESPONSIVE PARENTING Two conduct problem boys and their mothers participated in parent training interventions focused on compliance teaching and responsive parenting. After baseline observations at home and in a clinic playroom, the two interventions were scheduled separately in alternating phases such that each occurred twice. Compared to their baseline behavior, the children showed increased compliance with their mothers during either intervention. The children also showed other patterns of prosocial reciprocity when their mothers were engaged in responsive parenting. These findings were discussed within a theoretical framework describing the relationship enhancing properties of interactional synchrony. Robert G. Wahler, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, 307 Austin Peay Building, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996

Commentary: Judy Dunn: LESSONS FROM THE STUDY OF BI-DIRECTIONAL EFFECTS Three kinds of achievement evident in the contributions to this issue are discussed. First, the systematic evidence for significant bi-directional effects in parent-child relationships is considered and some key principles are highlighted. Second, the information on the nature of parent-child relationships, as in the studies of discipline and play, is considered. Third, challenges and questions raised by, but not necessarily answered in, the articles are considered, with a focus on four topics: The processes implicated in bi-directional influence, the issue of how different levels of analysis illuminate but also constrain the kinds of conclusion that can be drawn, the issue of how developmental change affects patterns of influence within parent-child relationships, and the issue of our biases in interpreting patterns of influence within parent-child relationships. Judy Dunn, Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, London, SE5 8AF, ENGLAND

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Submitted contents for vol. 14v October 1997

Simon Larose & Michel Boivin: STRUCTURAL RELATIONS AMONG ATTACHMENT WORKING MODELS OF PARENTS, GENERAL AND SPECIFIC SUPPORT EXPECTATIONS, AND PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT IN LATE ADOLESCENCE Simon Larose, department de psychopedagogie, Faculte des sciences de l’education, Universite Laval, Quebec CANADA G1K 7P4

Shanna J. Trinke & Kim Bartholomew: HIERARCHIES OF ATTACHMENT RELATIONSHIPS IN YOUNG ADULTHOOD Shanna Trinke or Kim Bartholomew, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, CANADA, V5A 1S6

Thomas L. Morrison, Anthony J. Urquiza & Beth L. Goodlin-Jones: ATTACHMENT RELATIONSHIPS IN YOUNG ADULTHOOD Thomas L. Morrison, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Davis, 4430 V Street, Sacramento, CA 95817

Gurit E. Birnbaum, Idit Orr, Mario Mikulincer & Victor Florian: WHEN MARRIAGE BREAKS UP - DOES ATTACHMENT STYLE CONTRIBUTE TO COPING AND MENTAL HEALTH? Mario Mikulincer, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, ISRAEL

Leslie Baxter, Michael Mazanec, John Nicholson, Garth Pittman, Kathy Smith & Lee West: EVERYDAY LOYALTIES AND BETRAYALS IN PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Leslie A. Baxter, 105 BCSB, Communication Studies, University of Iowa,. Iowa City, IA 52241-1498 Anita L. Vangelisti & John P. Caughlin: REVEALING FAMILY SECRETS: THE INFLUENCE OF TOPIC, FUNCTION, AND RELATIONSHIPS Anita L. Vangelisti, Department of Speech Communication, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

Brief Article Shannon Greenfield & Mark Thelen: VALIDATION OF THE FEAR OF INTIMACY SCALE WITH A LESBIAN AND GAY MALE POPULATION Mark Thelen, University of Missouri-Columbia, Department of Psychology, 210 McAlester Hall, Columbia, Missouri, 65211

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Submitted contents for vol. 14vi December 1997 Debra Umberson & Toni Terling: THE SYMBOLIC MEANING OF RELATIONSHIPS: IMPLICATIONS FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS FOLLOWING A RELATIONSHIP LOSS Debra Umberson, University of Texas-Austin, Population Research Center, 1800 Main Building, Austin, TX 78712

David Morgan, Paul Carder & Margaret Neal: ARE SOME RELATIONSHIPS MORE USEFUL THAN OTHERS? THE VALUE OF SIMILAR OTHERS IN THE NETWORKS OF RECENT WIDOWS David L. Morgan, Institute on Aging, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207

Duncan Cramer, Scott Henderson & Ruth Scott: MENTAL HEALTH AND DESIRED SOCIAL SUPPORT: A FOUR WAVE PANEL STUDY Duncan Cramer, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, ENGLAND

Yvan Lussier, Stephane Sabourin & Chantal Turgeon: COPING STRATEGIES AS MODERATORS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ATTACHMENT AND MARITAL ADJUSTMENT Yvan Lussier, Department of Psychology, Universite du Quebec, Trois-Rivieres, C.P. 500, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, G9A 5H7, CANADA

Todd K. Shackelford & David M. Buss: ANTICIPATION OF MARITAL DISSOLUTION AS A CONSEQUENCE OF SPOUSAL INFIDELITY Todd K. Schackelford, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Psychology, Austin, TX 78712

Diane C. Fujino: THE RATES, PATTERNS AND REASONS FOR FORMING HETEROSEXUAL INTERRACIAL DATING RELATIONSHIPS AMONG ASIAN AMERICANS Diane C. Fujino, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Jennifer Katz, Page Anderson & Steven R. Beach: DATING RELATIONSHIP QUALITY: EFFECTS OF GLOBAL SELF- VERIFICATION AND SELF-ENHANCEMENT Steven r. H. Beach, Department of Psychology, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-3013

Brief Articles Annette L. Folwell, Leeva C. Chung, Jo Anna Grant, Jon F. Nussbaum & Lisa Sparks Bethea: DIFFERENTIAL ACCOUNTS OF CLOSENESS IN OLDER ADULT SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS Jon F. Nussbaum, Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma, 610 Elm Ave., Norman, OK 73019

Frits Boer, P. Michiel Westenberg, Susan M. McHale, Kimberly A. Updegraff & Clare M. Stocker: THE FACTORIAL STRUCTURE OF THE SIBLING RELATIONSHIP INVENTORY (SRI) IN AMERICAN AND DUTCH SAMPLES Frits Boer, Academisch Centrum Kinder- en Jeugdpsychiatrie Curium, Endegeesterstraatweg 27, 2342 AK Oegstgeest, The NETHERLANDS Index

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Submitted contents for vol. 15i February 1998 Douglas M. Brock, Irwin G. Sarason, Hari Sanghvi & Regan A. R. Gurung: THE PERCEIVED ACCEPTANCE SCALE: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION Douglas Brock, Microsoft Corporation, Building 16, room 3229, One Microsoft Way, Redmont, WA 98052

Gina M. Hayashi & Bonnie R. Strickland: THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF PARENTAL DIVORCE ON LOVE RELATIONSHIPS: DIVORCE AS ATTACHMENT DISRUPTION Gina Hayashi, Cowell Student Health Center, CAPS, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

Lawrence H. Ganong & Marilyn Coleman: GRANDPARENTS’ STEPGRANDPARENTS’ FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS TO GRANDCHILDREN AND STEPGRANDCHILDREN Lawrence H. Ganong, Human Development & Family Studies, University of Missouri, 18B Gwynn Hall, Columbia, MO 65211

Karen Klein Ikkink & Theo van Tilburg: DO OLDER ADULTS’ NETWORK MEMBERS CONTINUE TO PROVIDE INSTRUMENTAL SUPPORT IN UNBALANCED RELATIONSHIPS? Karen Klein Ikkink, Department of Sociology and Social Gerontology, Vrije Universiteit, de Boelelaan 1081c, 1081 HV Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS

Jeffrey Lee Rasmussen, D. W. Rajecki, Anita A. Ebert, Kathy Lagler, Candice Brewer & Elizabeth Cochran: AGE PREFERENCE IN PERSONAL ADS: TWO LIFE HISTORY STRATEGIES OR ONE MATCHING TACTIC? Jeffrey Lee Rasmussen, Department of Psychology, LD124, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, 402 North Blackford Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202-3275

Nancy K. Grote & Irene H. Frieze: “REMEMBERANCE OF THINGS PAST”: PERCEPTIONS OF MARITAL LOVE FROM ITS BEGINNINGS TO THE PRESENT Nancy K. Grote, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213.

Invited article Kenneth J. Gergen with Regine Walter: REAL/IZING THE RELATIONAL Kenneth J. Gergen, Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19801

Brief Article Eddie M. Clark, Gregory D. Morrow, Karla F. Brock, Annette C. McGaha & Shannon M. Frauenhoffer: PERCEPTUAL ACCURACY IN THE BALANCE: THE WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE AND THE EVIDENCE OF WEIGHT Eddie M. Clark, Department of Psychology, Saint Louis University, 221 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63103

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