Serial Argument Goals and Changes in Perceived Conflict Resolution: A Dyadic Analysis

Worley, Timothy R.; Samp, Jennifer A.

doi:10.1080/10570314.2016.1143961

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“…The study reported here contributed to two previously published manuscripts. The measures reported here are completely distinct from those reported by Worley and Samp (). The goals and perceived resolvability measures were previously published in Worley and Samp ().…”

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“…Prior research suggests that prosocial goals are associated with more positive conflict tactics (Bevan et al, ; Keck & Samp, ), cognitions (Hample et al, ), and perceptions of argument resolvability (Bevan et al, 2007), whereas non‐prosocial goals are associated with negative tactics, cognitions, and resolution/resolvability perceptions. The pursuit of prosocial goals generally predicts perceived increases in conflict resolution over the course of a serial argument episode, whereas the pursuit of goals such as gaining control over a partner, expressing negative affect, and benefiting oneself at a partner's expense predicts decreases in resolution over the course of a serial argument episode (Worley & Samp, ).…”

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“…Prior research suggests that individuals' global goals for an episode of a recurring argument (known as a serial argument) may set a tone that influences whether communicators make progress toward or away from resolving the argument (Worley & Samp, ). We propose that both people's initial goals and changes in goals across the course of a serial argument have implications for both their own and their partners' argument outcomes.…”

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Initial goals, goal trajectories, and serial argument resolvability: A growth curve analysis

Worley

Samp

2018

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This study examines dyadic patterns of goal pursuit during a serial argument interaction and their associations with perceived argument resolvability. The authors utilize a growth curve framework to highlight how both initial importance and trajectories (i.e., over‐time increases/decreases) of goal importance predicted perceived resolvability. Seventy‐six heterosexual couples discussed a current serial argument and reported their goals at 1‐min increments, using a video‐assisted recall method. Both initial importance and increases in actors' partner‐focused goals were positively associated with perceived resolvability, and increases in a partners' self‐focused goal importance across the course of the interaction were negatively associated with actors' postinteraction resolvability perceptions. Results suggest that partners should attend to both initial goals and trajectories of goal pursuit during argumentative interactions.

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Initial goals, goal trajectories, and serial argument resolvability: A growth curve analysis

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Samp

2018

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“…Thus, definitive causal claims are not possible. However, additional research by the current authors (Worley & Samp, 2014) has observed that communicators’ serial argument goals prospectively predict changes in reports of argument resolution from pre- to post-argument. Although perceived resolvability and resolution are admittedly distinct, these results (which are based on additional data from the study reported in this article) provide evidence consistent with the causal logic underlying our arguments above.…”

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Goal Variability and Perceived Resolvability in Serial Argumentation

Worley

Samp

2015

Communication Research

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A fundamental premise of much interpersonal communication scholarship is that communicators' goals may change during the course of interaction. Yet, the implications of these changes remain underexplored. This study examines the associations between goal variability and perceived resolvability of serial arguments. Seventy-five heterosexual romantic couples discussed a current serial argument and reported their interaction goals at 1-minute intervals, using a video-recall method. Within-interaction variability in self-focused and relational goals had positive curvilinear (i.e., U-shaped) associations with at least one partner's perceptions of perceived resolvability in each model tested. This study demonstrates the potential for goal variability to shape global interaction outcomes in the context of relational conflict.

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“…Several recent studies have examined the dynamic nature of serial arguments from a dyadic perspective, based on both partners’ perceptions and behaviors (Bevan, 2014; Worley & Samp, 2016, 2018). For example, Bevan (2014) found that one’s perception of their partner’s conflict goals influenced one’s own conflict tactics.…”

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Argument interdependence: Connections to serial argument goals and tactics in romantic relationships

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Johnson

Bostwick

2018

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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This study examined the predictive utility of a new construct—argument interdependence—on serial argument goals (positive relational expressiveness, mutual understanding, desire to change the other person, negative expressiveness, dominance, desire to hurt the other while benefitting the self, and relational termination), tactics arguers report using to accomplish their goals (integrative and distributive), and arguers’ change in relational satisfaction following an episode of their serial argument. Participants (N = 675) provided cross-sectional data via an online questionnaire. A structural equation model (SEM) was conducted to examine the study’s predictions. Argument interdependence was associated with four of the seven goals examined: positive relational expressiveness, mutual understanding, desire to hurt other, and relational termination. It was also associated with integrative tactics both directly and indirectly, and distributive tactics indirectly. Mutual understanding was positively associated, whereas dominance and hurting the other while benefiting the self were negatively associated, with integrative tactics. Relational expressiveness was negatively associated, whereas negative expressiveness, changing the other, dominance, and hurting the other while benefiting the self were positively associated, with distributive tactics. Both tactics were related to changes in relational satisfaction, as were indirect effects from argument interdependence and goals. We discuss these results by focusing on the contributions argument interdependence makes to serial argument literature.

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Serial Argument Goals and Changes in Perceived Conflict Resolution: A Dyadic Analysis

Cited by 13 publications

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Initial goals, goal trajectories, and serial argument resolvability: A growth curve analysis

Initial goals, goal trajectories, and serial argument resolvability: A growth curve analysis

Goal Variability and Perceived Resolvability in Serial Argumentation

Argument interdependence: Connections to serial argument goals and tactics in romantic relationships

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