Factors related to building and sustaining relationships
Having a desirable conversation will depend on...
Your relationship with the person or people
conversations remain focused on the public self, but both parties begin to explore a greater breadth or depth of topics.
Exploratory Affective Exchange Stage
This strategy involves discreetly observing the other person as they interact with others.
Passive Strategy
There are ___ stages of relationship building and termination that we may have experienced in personal and professional relationships.
10
we often share private information or secrets with others that we do not want to share publicly.
Having a desirable conversation will depend on...
The goal of the conversation
individuals engage in polite small talk and disclose only superficial information about themselves to each other.
the Orientation stage
This strategy involves directly interacting with the other person to learn more about them.
Interactive Strategy
Initiating, Experimenting, and Intensifying
we might want to pursue our own individual interests while we also want to spend time with our partner sharing experiences.
Relational dialects
Having a desirable conversation will depend on....
Communication environment and conditions, including time, audience, and place
the deepest relationship stage during which both partners are completely open with one another about their deepest personal thoughts, beliefs, and values
Stable Exchange Stage
This stage involves our earliest interactions with the other person.
Entry Stage
Integrating, Bonding, Differentiating, and Circumscribing
Relational Maintenance
This theory suggest that the primary element that allows us to develop relationship with others is "We get to know the other person through mutual self-disclosures."
Social Penetration Theory
Considering how the person you are speaking with is connected to your life and what you want out of the conversation
When assessing how to approach a conversation
Once communicators reach this stage, they start to share more personal and private information with each other.
Affective Exchange Stage
This strategy involves gathering information about the other person without engaging with them directly.
Active Strategy
Stagnation, Avoidance, Termination
Coming Apart
both parties in the relationship constantly evaluate the rewards and costs of staying in a relationship.
example...Respect for elders or professionals in a higher organizational position
an unwritten rule
When individuals withdraw from the relationship and stop disclosing as much information with one another, or revert to sharing only more superficial details with one another,
Depenetration Stage
We begin to share attitudes and beliefs with one another, increase the amount of information that we are willing to disclose, and begin to feel an emotional connection with the other person.
Personal Stage
True/False- Relationships always go through the relationship stages in order and never go back and forth through some of the stages several times.
False
Communication scholar Steve Duck (1990) argued that our relationships are always in a state of becoming, and that most of our relationship building takes place through mundane, ____ conversations within the context of our shared activities.
everyday