Boutros, Akram/ Joseph, Claire B. Building, Maintaining and Recovering Trust: A Core Leadership Competency. The Physician Executive Jan/Feb 2007, 38 – 41.

Foster Bachman, Guy/ Guerrero, Laura K. Relational quality and communicative responses following hurtful events in dating relationships: An expectancy violations analysis. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 2006, 23(6), 943–963.
Abstract
The present study uses expectancy violations theory to investigate hurtful events, relational quality, and communication in dating relationships. Participants ( N= 263) described a hurtful behavior performed by their dating partner and recalled their reaction to that behavior. When respondents evaluated the hurtful event as a highly negative expectancy violation and judged their partner as unrewarding, they were more likely to report breaking up, being less satisfied and committed, and using destructive rather than constructive communication. Individuals who were deeply hurt reported being slightly less likely to break up, more likely to be satisfied and committed, and more likely to use both constructive and destructive communication. Finally, victims who perceived their partners’ actions as intentional were more likely to report using destructive communicative responses.

Helms, Heather M./ Proulx, Christine M./ Klute, Mary Maguire/ McHale, Susan M./ Crouter, Ann C. Spouses’ gender-typed attributes and their links with marital quality: A pattern analytic approach. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 2006, 23(6), 843–864.
Abstract
Using data from interviews with 194 midlife couples, we: (i) identified a typology of couple groups based on spouses’ gender-typed attributes; (ii) described couple groups in terms of individual, contextual, and attitudinal characteristics; and (iii) linked couple groups with emotional, cognitive, and behavioral qualities of marriage across 3 years. Four couple types that differed in spouses’  instrumental and expressive attributes were identified and replicated via cluster analysis. Gender-typed wives/extreme gender-typed-husband couples reported significantly lower levels of marital quality across the 3 years. Underscoring the importance of a dyadic approach, the research identifies common couple configurations based on spouses’ gender-typed attributes, identified couples with lower marital quality, and offers insights into personal-social attributes that may be protective in marriage.

Hendrick, Susan S./ Hendrick, Clyde.  Measuring respect in close relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 2006, 23(6), 881–899.
Abstract
We developed a brief rating scale to measure participants’ respect for their romantic partner. Factor analyses (including confirmatory factor analysis) and correlations of Study 1 ( N = 257 college participants) data provided initial validation of a 6-item scale entitled the Respect Toward Partner Scale. The scale correlated with several love and sexual attitudes, relationship satisfaction, commitment, and self-disclosure, as hypothesized. Study 2 ( N = 214 college participants) employed this new scale, the other measures used in Study 1, and Frei and Shaver’s (2002) Respect for Partner Scale. The two respect measures were correlated; other results were largely consistent with Study 1. Study 3 largely replicated previous results, but with an older, nonstudent sample ( N = 236). Respect merits increased attention in future relationship research.

Kim, Heejung S./ Sherman, David K./ Ko, Deborah/ Taylor, Shelley E.
Pursuit of Comfort and Pursuit of Harmony: Culture, Relationships, and Social Support Seeking. PSPB December 2006, 32(12), 1595-1607.
This research examined whether people from collectivistic cultures are less likely to seek social support than are people from individualistic cultures because they are more cautious about potentially disturbing their social network. Study 1 found that Asian Americans from a more collectivistic culture sought social support less and found support seeking to be less effective than European Americans from a more individualistic culture. Study 2 found that European Americans’ willingness to seek support was unaffected by relationship priming, whereas Asian Americans were willing to seek support less when the relationship primed was closer to the self. Study 3 replicated the results of Study 2 and found that the tendency to seek support and expect social support to be helpful as related to concerns about relationships. These findings underscore the importance of culturally divergent relationship patterns in understanding social support transactions.

Lutz-Zois, Catherine J./ Bradley, Angela C./ Mihalik, Jennifer L./ Moorman-Eavers, Erika R. Perceived similarity and relationship success among dating couples: An idiographic approach. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 2006, 23(6), 865–880.
Abstract
This study utilized an idiographic approach to investigate the relation between similarity on valued characteristics and relationship success. College students ( N = 247) rated their current romantic partner on perceived similarity in personality, attitudes, interests, and religious affiliation; the importance of similarity in these dimensions; and relationship satisfaction. Relationship status was assessed 6 weeks later. Results revealed significant similarity by importance interactions for religion and interests in predicting satisfaction.
Participants with high perceived similarity in religion or interests reported greater satisfaction than did their low similarity counterparts, but only to the extent that they rated this type of similarity as being important to them. Similar results were found for attitudes in predicting Time 2 outcomes.

McWilliams, Lachlan A./ Asmundson, Gordon J.G. The relationship of adult attachment dimensions to pain-related fear, hypervigilance, and catastrophizing. Pain 2007, 127, 27–34.
Abstract
Despite the prominence of fear-avoidance models of chronic pain, there is a paucity of research regarding the origins of painrelated fear. Based on the premise that insecure attachment could be a developmentally based origin of elevated fear of pain, associations between adult attachment dimensions and constructs included in fear-avoidance models of chronic pain were investigated.
Consistent with Bartholomew and Horowitz’s [Bartholomew K, Horowitz LM. Attachment styles among young adults: a test of a four-category model. J Pers Soc Psychol 1991;61:226–44.] model, attachment was conceptualized as being comprised of a model of self dimension (i.e., degree of anxiety regarding rejection based on beliefs of personal unworthiness) and a model of others dimension (i.e., degree of interpersonal mistrust and discomfort with  interpersonal closeness). A large university student sample free of chronic pain (N = 278) completed a measure of adult romantic attachment (i.e., Experiences in Close Relationships Questionnaire; [Brennan KA, Clark CL, Shaver PR. Self-report measurement of adult attachment: an integrative overview. In: Simpson JA, Rholes WS, editors. Attachment theory and close relationships. New York: The Guilford Press, 1998. p. 46–76.]), the Fear of Pain Questionnaire-III [McNeil DW, Rainwater AJ. Development of the fear of pain questionnaire – III. J Behav Med 1998;21:389–410.], the Pain Vigilance and Awareness Questionnaire [McCracken LM. Attention to pain in persons with chronic pain: a behavioural approach. Behav Ther 1997;28:271–84.], and the Pain Catastrophizing Scale [Sullivan MJ, Bishop SR, Pivik J. The pain catastrophizing scale: development and validation. Psychol Assess 1995;7:24–532.]. It was hypothesized that insecure attachment would be positively associated with reports of pain-related fear, hypervigilance, and catastrophizing and that the model of self dimension would be the attachment variable most strongly associated with these variables. Correlation and multiple regression analyses supported these hypotheses. The model of self dimension had signi.cant positive associations with each of the fear-avoidance constructs. The model of others dimension had a significant positive association with pain catastrophizing, but was not significantly associated with fear of pain and pain hypervigilance. Future research directions and potential clinical implications are discussed.

Stafford, Laura/ Merolla, Andy J./ Castle, Janessa D. When long-distance dating partners become geographically close. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 2006, 23(6), 901–919.
Abstract
This study explored long-distance dating relationships’ (LDDRs) transition to geographic proximity. About half of LDDR partners experience this transition, whereas the other half end their relationships during separation. Among reunited relationships, one-third terminate within 3 months of reunion. Participants’ open-ended responses highlight changes associated with reunion, including the loss of autonomy; increased positive and negative knowledge; time management difficulties; and heightened conflict and jealousy. Desirable features of LDDRs (e.g., autonomy and novelty) appear to be lost, and missed, upon reunion. Individuals whose relationships terminated upon reunion were more likely to report missing aspects of LDDRs. Overall, we propose reunions facilitate relational and partner knowledge acquisition, the dissipation of quixotic ideals, and increased partner interdependence.

Strachman, Amy/ Schimel, Jeff. Terror management and close relationships: Evidence that mortality salience reduces commitment among partners with different worldviews. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 2006, 23(6), 965–978.
Abstract
This study examined the effects of partner similarity versus differences from the perspective of terror management theory. Two hundred and sixty-six undergraduate students currently in a romantic relationship were randomly assigned to either a mortality salience or control condition, and a worldview prime condition in which they were asked to describe the similarities or differences  between themselves and their partner. Following this procedure, participants’ commitment to their romantic partner was assessed. The results indicated that mortality salience reduced feelings of commitment to their partner if they were first asked to ponder worldview differences. The role of worldview compatibility under conditions of existential threat in relationships is discussed.

Widmer, Eric D. Who are my family members? Bridging and binding social capital in family configurations. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 2006, 23(6), 979–998.
Abstract
This study tests the hypothesis that individuals’ identification of family members has an impact on the type of family-based social capital available to them. Data from a sample of college students from three universities in Switzerland ( N = 229), provided evidence that seven typical family configurations coexist. These configurations vary with respect to the importance given to partnerships, friendships, stepparents and parents’ relatives. Family configurations based on blood connections provide a ‘binding’ type of social capital, that is, densely connected family networks with low individual centrality, whereas family configurations based on friendship provide a ‘bridging’ type of social capital, that is, sparsely connected family networks with high individual centrality. Post-divorce family configurations are associated with neither type of social capital.

Zayas, Vivian/ Shoda, Yuichi. Predicting Preferences for Dating Partners From Past Experiences of Psychological Abuse: Identifying the Psychological Ingredients of Situations. PSPB Jan 2007, 33(1), 123-138.
Are women who have been the victim of psychological abuse in the past more likely to prefer an abusive dating partner in the future? Are men who have been the perpetrator of abuse more likely to prefer a dating partner with high attachment anxiety, a characteristic associated with victims of abuse? The present research used a highly repeated, within-subject, multilevel approach to identify the characteristics of potential dating partners that constitute salient psychological ingredients of situations influencing partner preference. Study 1 found that collegeage women who reported more instances of receiving psychological abuse, compared to women who did not, showed a stronger preference for male dating partners who possessed characteristics associated with an abusive personality (e.g., possessiveness). Study 2 found that college-age men who reported more instances of inflicting psychological abuse, compared to men who did not, showed a stronger preference for female dating partners characterized by high attachment anxiety.

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