Everyday Loyalties and Betrayals in Personal Relationships
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2930604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leslie A Baxter (University of Iowa), Michael Mazanec (University of Iowa), Michael J Mazanec (University of Iowa), John Nicholson (0000-0002-8085-625X, University of Iowa), Garth Pittman (University of Iowa), Kathy Smith (0000-0003-0884-3750, University of Iowa), Lee West (University of Iowa) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 655-678 |
| Publication date | 1997-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0265-4075 • E-ISSN: 1460-3608 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0265407597145005 |
| OpenAlex | W2133762160 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 18 |
Scholars typically have conceptualized loyalty (and its opposite, betrayal) as a manifestation of individual dispositions of a state-like or trait-like nature. By contrast, the present study takes a dialectical perspective, arguing that loyalty is a social experience in which relationship parties face a cross-current of competing and oppositional loyalty demands. As a consequence, when parties are loyal to one relational expectation they simultaneously are likely to be disloyal to another expectation. Two-hundred and seventy-three informants provided accounts of everyday competing loyalties of two kinds for a friendship and for a romantic relationship: external competing loyalties in which one faces a dilemma between the relationship and some other demand outside the boundary of the dyad; and internal competing loyalties in which one faces a dilemma between one relational expectation and another within the boundary of the dyad. We analyzed the 1092 accounts using the constant comparative method, resulting in nine kinds of external competing loyalty dilemmas and six kinds of internal competing loyalty dilemmas. In addition, findings address how relationship parties managed the dilemmas
Dialectic · Dilemma · Dyad · Epistemology · Friendship · Loyalty · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Cultural Differences and Values · Customer Service Quality and Loyalty · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2026 (30) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |