Measuring routine and strategic relational maintenance: Scale revision, sex versus gender roles, and the prediction of relational characteristics

By Laura Stafford, Marianne Dainton, Stephen M. Haas. 2000

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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Using Mentoring Enactment Theory to Explore the Doctoral Student–Advisor Mentoring Relationship (2012, background): “This is evident in the plethora of relational maintenance typologies developed to examine romantic relationships (Stafford & Canary, 1991; Stafford et al., 2000), friendships (Guerrero & Chavez, 2005; Johnson, 2001; Messman, Canary, & Hause, 2000), superior subordinate relationships (Lee & Jablin,…”
`IM me': Instant messaging as relational maintenance and everyday communication (2009, methodology): “Although the Stafford et al. (2000) typology has been primarily utilized in the context of FtF interaction and romantic relationships (for example, Dainton & Aylor, 2002b), the behaviors identified in the typology are applicable to a variety of communication formats and relationships.”
Relationship Maintenance Strategies in the Coach-Athlete Relationship: The Development of the COMPASS Model (2010, background): “This dimension related to the advice category within Stafford et al.’s (2000) model.”
Routine and strategic maintenance efforts: behavioral patterns, variations associated with relational length, and the prediction of relational characteristics (2002, methodology): “This finding is consistent with previous research (Dainton et al., 1994; Stafford & Canary, 1991; Stafford et al., 2000).”
The Use of Negative Behaviors to Maintain Relationships (2008, background): “Stafford et al. (2000) later refined and expanded this measure, adding two additional behaviors: advice, which means expressing one’s thoughts and feelings about the partner to the partner, and conflict management, which refers to the use of integrative behaviors in the face of conflict.”
Equity and Interdependence as Predictors of Relational Maintenance Strategies (2006, background): “For example, Stafford et al. (2000) found that gender role orientation was a better predictor than biological sex of maintenance behavior.”
A meta-analytic review of relationship maintenance and its correlates (2013, methodology): “Despite its prevalent use in the study of relationship maintenance over the past 20 years, the RMSM has been revised (Stafford et al., 2000), and this revision resulted in a reconceptualization of the original maintenance factors (see Canary, 2011; Stafford, 2011; Stafford et al.”
Establishing and maintaining long-term human-computer relationships (2005, background): “… used to manage a relationship (e.g., talking about the relationship) while routine behaviors are those people engage in for other reasons but which serve to maintain a relationship as a side effect (e.g., simply engaging in everyday tasks together on an on-going basis) [Stafford et al. 2000].”
Social Support as Relationship Maintenance in Gay Male Couples Coping with Hiv or Aids (2002, result): “Evidence of the use of social networks in maintaining heterosexual couple relationships has been found in previous studies (e.g., Canary & Stafford, 1992; Haas & Stafford, 1998; Stafford et al., 2000), but married couples have viewed social networks as having a less influential role in maintaining t”