Sandra Metts
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6487989 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sandra Metts |
| PRENOMES | Sandra |
| SOBRENOME | Metts |
| ASSINATURA | METTS S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Illinois State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 332 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Stepchildren’s Communicative and Emotional Journey from Divorce to Remarriage
This study explores the emotional and communicative profiles of young adults who have experienced a parental divorce and the emergence of a stepfamily to better understand influences on stepfamily satisfaction. Results of regression analyses indicate that strong negative emotions experienced at the time of the divorce are a negative predictor of current stepfamily satisfaction, even after controlling for age at the time of the divorce. In additio…
The Experience and Expression of Stepchildren's Emotions at Critical Events in Stepfamily Life
This study explored the experience and expression of emotions of adult stepchildren during four critical events in stepfamily life. During semistructured, in-depth interviews, 57 adult stepchildren shared stories about four critical events: the parental divorce, remarriage of one of the parents, an event in the stepfamily that generated feeling more like a family, and an event in the stepfamily that generated feeling less like a family. A total o…
Romantic Beliefs
The romantic ideology is a pervasive construct in Western culture, but we know relatively little about how it influences the unfolding of particular relationships. One purpose of this investigation was to examine how romantic beliefs are related to love for partner, other positive feelings in the relationship, and the stability of the relationship. A second purpose was to examine how romantic beliefs change with the passage of time and with relat…
Characteristics and Consequences of Expectation Violations in Close Relationships
Research on expectation violations in relationships has adopted a conceptual framework of violations that constrains our understanding of the role that unexpected behaviors play in relationships. First, the relational literature has generally studied extreme and highly salient violations in relationships. Second, much of the research on relationship violations has considered only negatively valenced behaviors. Third, violations have almost univer…
Factors Associated with Distress Following the Breakup of a Close Relationship
The purpose of this investigation was to identify the factors associated with the distress experienced after the breakup of a romantic relationship, both at the time of the breakup (assessed retrospectively) and at the time the questionnaire was completed. Four categories of variables were examined as possible correlates of post-breakup distress: variables associated with the initiation of the relationship, characteristics of the relationship whi…
Prologue
Sexual Communication in Interpersonal Contexts
Sexual communication is the means by which individuals come to select potential partners for sexual relations, and through which the meanings, functions, and effects of sexual relations are negotiated. Most cultures, relationships, and individuals develop standard expectancies and practices through which sexual relations are initiated and completed. These standard expectancies and practices can be viewed as scripts that identify some degree of th…
Social Support Structures and Predictors of Depression in Persons Who Are Seropositive
Survey data from 87 seropositive individuals were analysed to assess the extent to which: (1) the social-support network changes over the course of three levels of seropositivity (HIV asymptomatic, HIV symptomatic and AIDS); (2) certain types of support providers are associated with lower depression; and (3) the relative contribution of support network diversity, emotional support from several categories of providers (family of origin, friends, s…
The role of sexual attitude similarity in romantic heterosexual relationships
This investigation explored the role of sexual attitude similarity in sexually involved romantic couples. Findings indicate that sexual attitudes of partners are positively correlated, and that partners exhibit significantly greater levels of similarity than randomly generated couples. Similarity in sexual attitudes did not vary as a function of length of relationship or length of sexual involvement. Gender differences were evident in the correla…
Three Questions for Consideration
Facework
Gaining face, maintaining face, and losing face all have numerous implications in the management of close relationships. Cupach and Metts make a compelling case for facework as basic relationship currency at any stage of a relationship, whether it be formation, maintenance, or disengagement. Written in a clear, humorous style, Facework offers the reader a very pleasurable learning experience and the opportunity to gain deeper insight into the man…
Self-Disclosure
Liking, Loving, and Relating
Studying close relationships. Part One: Liking. Attraction. Affiliation and friendship. Part Two: Loving. Love. Sexual love. Part Three: Relating. Courtship. The marriage relationship. Issues in contemporary relationships. References. Name index. Subject index
Remedial Processes in Embarrassing Predicaments
Embarrassing predicaments are a routine pari of social interaction arising from the display of untoward or inappropriate behavior. Such events create feelings of chagrin, engender negative attributions about the embarrassed person, and disrupt social interaction. Consequently, both embarrassed acton and observers employ remedial face work in response to embarrassing predicaments in order to repair damaged identities, maintain face, and restore in…
Situational influence on the use of remedial strategies in embarrassing predicaments
The present study investigated how the use of remedial strategies for coping with embarrassment is affected by various types of embarrassing predicaments. Respondents completed surveys in which they described a significant embarrassing event, what they did to reduce their felt embarrassment, and what other social actors present did to reduce the respondent's embarrassment. Log‐linear analysis of frequency distributions indicated that for embarras…
Development of the `Romantic Beliefs Scale' and Examination of the Effects of Gender and Gender-Role Orientation
Through a program of research, a scale was developed to measure beliefs that have been identified in the literature as constituting an ideology of romanticism. The final scale items were selected and subjected to several reliability and validity tests in a survey study conducted with 730 undergraduate students. The results provided strong support for the validity and reliability of the Romantic Beliefs Scale as well as for the four beliefs compri…
I Love You Too Much to Ever Start Liking You
The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting the likelihood that a disengaged romantic relationship will be redefined as a friendship rather than completely terminated. College students were surveyed about a recalled romantic relationship that either broke up or evolved into a friendship. Respondents answered questions regarding characteristics of the relationship prior to its decline, strategies used to disengage the relation…
An Exploratory Investigation of Deception in Close Relationships
This study explores the form and function of deception in close relationships. Free response descriptions of situations involving the deception of a relational partner were obtained from 357 university students and other adults. Descriptions were coded for type of deceptive communication, antecedent condition, type of information and reasons given for being deceptive. Results indicated that falsification was the most frequently reported type of d…
Accounts of relational dissolution
Verbal accounts are the principal means by which individuals personally cope with spoiled relationships and socially manage relationship dissolution. The aims of this study are to illuminate the process of relational dissolution through analysis of personal accounts and to identify similarities and differences in the disengaging process for marriages versus dating relationships. Personal accounts of the dissolution of 50 marital and 50 pre‐marita…
Coping with Embarrassing Predicaments
Two studies into the use and perceived utility of remedial strategies for coping with embarrassing predicaments are reported. In both studies, subjects were presented with two scenarios depicting embarrassing situations: one representing a loss of poise, and the other representing an inappropriate indentity display. In the first study, subjects rated four researcher-supplied strategies in terms of appropriateness, effectiveness, and satisfaction …
Development of the `Romantic Beliefs Scale' and Examination of the Effects of Gender and Gender-Role Orientation
Through a program of research, a scale was developed to measure beliefs that have been identified in the literature as constituting an ideology of romanticism. The final scale items were selected and subjected to several reliability and validity tests in a survey study conducted with 730 undergraduate students. The results provided strong support for the validity and reliability of the Romantic Beliefs Scale as well as for the four beliefs compri…
Characteristics and Consequences of Expectation Violations in Close Relationships
Research on expectation violations in relationships has adopted a conceptual framework of violations that constrains our understanding of the role that unexpected behaviors play in relationships. First, the relational literature has generally studied extreme and highly salient violations in relationships. Second, much of the research on relationship violations has considered only negatively valenced behaviors. Third, violations have almost univer…
An Exploratory Investigation of Deception in Close Relationships
This study explores the form and function of deception in close relationships. Free response descriptions of situations involving the deception of a relational partner were obtained from 357 university students and other adults. Descriptions were coded for type of deceptive communication, antecedent condition, type of information and reasons given for being deceptive. Results indicated that falsification was the most frequently reported type of d…
Factors Associated with Distress Following the Breakup of a Close Relationship
The purpose of this investigation was to identify the factors associated with the distress experienced after the breakup of a romantic relationship, both at the time of the breakup (assessed retrospectively) and at the time the questionnaire was completed. Four categories of variables were examined as possible correlates of post-breakup distress: variables associated with the initiation of the relationship, characteristics of the relationship whi…
Romantic Beliefs
The romantic ideology is a pervasive construct in Western culture, but we know relatively little about how it influences the unfolding of particular relationships. One purpose of this investigation was to examine how romantic beliefs are related to love for partner, other positive feelings in the relationship, and the stability of the relationship. A second purpose was to examine how romantic beliefs change with the passage of time and with relat…
Accounts of relational dissolution
Verbal accounts are the principal means by which individuals personally cope with spoiled relationships and socially manage relationship dissolution. The aims of this study are to illuminate the process of relational dissolution through analysis of personal accounts and to identify similarities and differences in the disengaging process for marriages versus dating relationships. Personal accounts of the dissolution of 50 marital and 50 pre‐marita…
I Love You Too Much to Ever Start Liking You
The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting the likelihood that a disengaged romantic relationship will be redefined as a friendship rather than completely terminated. College students were surveyed about a recalled romantic relationship that either broke up or evolved into a friendship. Respondents answered questions regarding characteristics of the relationship prior to its decline, strategies used to disengage the relation…
Situational influence on the use of remedial strategies in embarrassing predicaments
The present study investigated how the use of remedial strategies for coping with embarrassment is affected by various types of embarrassing predicaments. Respondents completed surveys in which they described a significant embarrassing event, what they did to reduce their felt embarrassment, and what other social actors present did to reduce the respondent's embarrassment. Log‐linear analysis of frequency distributions indicated that for embarras…
Coping with Embarrassing Predicaments
Two studies into the use and perceived utility of remedial strategies for coping with embarrassing predicaments are reported. In both studies, subjects were presented with two scenarios depicting embarrassing situations: one representing a loss of poise, and the other representing an inappropriate indentity display. In the first study, subjects rated four researcher-supplied strategies in terms of appropriateness, effectiveness, and satisfaction …
Sexual Communication in Interpersonal Contexts
Sexual communication is the means by which individuals come to select potential partners for sexual relations, and through which the meanings, functions, and effects of sexual relations are negotiated. Most cultures, relationships, and individuals develop standard expectancies and practices through which sexual relations are initiated and completed. These standard expectancies and practices can be viewed as scripts that identify some degree of th…
Social Support Structures and Predictors of Depression in Persons Who Are Seropositive
Survey data from 87 seropositive individuals were analysed to assess the extent to which: (1) the social-support network changes over the course of three levels of seropositivity (HIV asymptomatic, HIV symptomatic and AIDS); (2) certain types of support providers are associated with lower depression; and (3) the relative contribution of support network diversity, emotional support from several categories of providers (family of origin, friends, s…
Three Questions for Consideration
Self-Disclosure
Accounts of relational dissolution
Verbal accounts are the principal means by which individuals personally cope with spoiled relationships and socially manage relationship dissolution. The aims of this study are to illuminate the process of relational dissolution through analysis of personal accounts and to identify similarities and differences in the disengaging process for marriages versus dating relationships. Personal accounts of the dissolution of 50 marital and 50 pre‐marita…
Coping with Embarrassing Predicaments
Two studies into the use and perceived utility of remedial strategies for coping with embarrassing predicaments are reported. In both studies, subjects were presented with two scenarios depicting embarrassing situations: one representing a loss of poise, and the other representing an inappropriate indentity display. In the first study, subjects rated four researcher-supplied strategies in terms of appropriateness, effectiveness, and satisfaction …
Situational influence on the use of remedial strategies in embarrassing predicaments
The present study investigated how the use of remedial strategies for coping with embarrassment is affected by various types of embarrassing predicaments. Respondents completed surveys in which they described a significant embarrassing event, what they did to reduce their felt embarrassment, and what other social actors present did to reduce the respondent's embarrassment. Log‐linear analysis of frequency distributions indicated that for embarras…
Development of the `Romantic Beliefs Scale' and Examination of the Effects of Gender and Gender-Role Orientation
Through a program of research, a scale was developed to measure beliefs that have been identified in the literature as constituting an ideology of romanticism. The final scale items were selected and subjected to several reliability and validity tests in a survey study conducted with 730 undergraduate students. The results provided strong support for the validity and reliability of the Romantic Beliefs Scale as well as for the four beliefs compri…
I Love You Too Much to Ever Start Liking You
The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting the likelihood that a disengaged romantic relationship will be redefined as a friendship rather than completely terminated. College students were surveyed about a recalled romantic relationship that either broke up or evolved into a friendship. Respondents answered questions regarding characteristics of the relationship prior to its decline, strategies used to disengage the relation…
An Exploratory Investigation of Deception in Close Relationships
This study explores the form and function of deception in close relationships. Free response descriptions of situations involving the deception of a relational partner were obtained from 357 university students and other adults. Descriptions were coded for type of deceptive communication, antecedent condition, type of information and reasons given for being deceptive. Results indicated that falsification was the most frequently reported type of d…
Remedial Processes in Embarrassing Predicaments
Embarrassing predicaments are a routine pari of social interaction arising from the display of untoward or inappropriate behavior. Such events create feelings of chagrin, engender negative attributions about the embarrassed person, and disrupt social interaction. Consequently, both embarrassed acton and observers employ remedial face work in response to embarrassing predicaments in order to repair damaged identities, maintain face, and restore in…
Liking, Loving, and Relating
Studying close relationships. Part One: Liking. Attraction. Affiliation and friendship. Part Two: Loving. Love. Sexual love. Part Three: Relating. Courtship. The marriage relationship. Issues in contemporary relationships. References. Name index. Subject index
Self-Disclosure
Facework
Gaining face, maintaining face, and losing face all have numerous implications in the management of close relationships. Cupach and Metts make a compelling case for facework as basic relationship currency at any stage of a relationship, whether it be formation, maintenance, or disengagement. Written in a clear, humorous style, Facework offers the reader a very pleasurable learning experience and the opportunity to gain deeper insight into the man…
The role of sexual attitude similarity in romantic heterosexual relationships
This investigation explored the role of sexual attitude similarity in sexually involved romantic couples. Findings indicate that sexual attitudes of partners are positively correlated, and that partners exhibit significantly greater levels of similarity than randomly generated couples. Similarity in sexual attitudes did not vary as a function of length of relationship or length of sexual involvement. Gender differences were evident in the correla…
Three Questions for Consideration
Sexual Communication in Interpersonal Contexts
Sexual communication is the means by which individuals come to select potential partners for sexual relations, and through which the meanings, functions, and effects of sexual relations are negotiated. Most cultures, relationships, and individuals develop standard expectancies and practices through which sexual relations are initiated and completed. These standard expectancies and practices can be viewed as scripts that identify some degree of th…
Social Support Structures and Predictors of Depression in Persons Who Are Seropositive
Survey data from 87 seropositive individuals were analysed to assess the extent to which: (1) the social-support network changes over the course of three levels of seropositivity (HIV asymptomatic, HIV symptomatic and AIDS); (2) certain types of support providers are associated with lower depression; and (3) the relative contribution of support network diversity, emotional support from several categories of providers (family of origin, friends, s…
Prologue
Characteristics and Consequences of Expectation Violations in Close Relationships
Research on expectation violations in relationships has adopted a conceptual framework of violations that constrains our understanding of the role that unexpected behaviors play in relationships. First, the relational literature has generally studied extreme and highly salient violations in relationships. Second, much of the research on relationship violations has considered only negatively valenced behaviors. Third, violations have almost univer…
Factors Associated with Distress Following the Breakup of a Close Relationship
The purpose of this investigation was to identify the factors associated with the distress experienced after the breakup of a romantic relationship, both at the time of the breakup (assessed retrospectively) and at the time the questionnaire was completed. Four categories of variables were examined as possible correlates of post-breakup distress: variables associated with the initiation of the relationship, characteristics of the relationship whi…
Romantic Beliefs
The romantic ideology is a pervasive construct in Western culture, but we know relatively little about how it influences the unfolding of particular relationships. One purpose of this investigation was to examine how romantic beliefs are related to love for partner, other positive feelings in the relationship, and the stability of the relationship. A second purpose was to examine how romantic beliefs change with the passage of time and with relat…
The Experience and Expression of Stepchildren's Emotions at Critical Events in Stepfamily Life
This study explored the experience and expression of emotions of adult stepchildren during four critical events in stepfamily life. During semistructured, in-depth interviews, 57 adult stepchildren shared stories about four critical events: the parental divorce, remarriage of one of the parents, an event in the stepfamily that generated feeling more like a family, and an event in the stepfamily that generated feeling less like a family. A total o…
Stepchildren’s Communicative and Emotional Journey from Divorce to Remarriage
This study explores the emotional and communicative profiles of young adults who have experienced a parental divorce and the emergence of a stepfamily to better understand influences on stepfamily satisfaction. Results of regression analyses indicate that strong negative emotions experienced at the time of the divorce are a negative predictor of current stepfamily satisfaction, even after controlling for age at the time of the divorce. In additio…
Psychology (19 obras) · Social Psychology (16 obras) · Social Psychology (13 obras) · Developmental psychology (11 obras) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (10 obras) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (5 obras) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (4 obras) · Romance (4 obras) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (3 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras)