Accommodating Complexity: Adapting Accommodation Theory to Capture Responses to Specific Transgressions

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dc.contributor.advisorBoon, Susan
dc.contributor.authorRasmussen, Kyler Ray
dc.contributor.committeememberEllard, John
dc.contributor.committeememberBierman, Alex
dc.contributor.committeememberBeran, Tanya
dc.contributor.committeememberAgnew, Chris
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-22T19:48:25Z
dc.date.available2016-08-22T19:48:25Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.submitted2016en
dc.description.abstractSooner or later, we are all going to be hurt by the ones we love. Though we cannot wholly prevent such transgressions from occurring, we may be able to control how we respond, and those responses can help determine the outcome of the transgression, for good or ill. One of the most prominent models for understanding how individuals respond to transgression has been Rusbult’s EVLN model, a two-dimensional typology with four categories: Exit, Voice, Loyalty and Neglect. Despite its usefulness, this typology is limited in important ways, which prompted me to re-examine and re-calibrate the EVLN. In this dissertation, I present two studies designed to describe how individuals can respond to specific transgressions from a romantic partner (rather than responses to relationship dissatisfaction, as the EVLN was initially designed to do). In these studies, I asked undergraduate participants to list how they would respond to several hypothetical transgressions (Study 1, Phase 1; N = 107) or community participants how they actually responded to recalled transgression from a romantic partner (Study 2, Phase 1; N = 39). I then had undergraduates generate various ratings of those responses (Study 1, Phases 2 and 3; N = 150 and 195 respectively; Study 2, Phase 2, N = 197) and used multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) techniques to assess how transgression-related responses should be organized and categorized. The result is an eight-fold typology summarized by the acronym CARE-CAMP. This typology differs from the EVLN in that it provides alternate dimensions (“avoidant” and “retaliatory”) and unique categories (e.g., “Cold-Shoulder” and “Moratorium”) that add theoretically important nuance to our understanding of accommodation in close relationships.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRasmussen, K. R. (2016). Accommodating Complexity: Adapting Accommodation Theory to Capture Responses to Specific Transgressions (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/24648en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/24648
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/3200
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectPsychology--Social
dc.subject.classificationaccommodationen_US
dc.subject.classificationavoidanceen_US
dc.subject.classificationconstructiveen_US
dc.subject.classificationbenevolenceen_US
dc.subject.classificationEVLNen_US
dc.subject.classificationLoyaltyen_US
dc.subject.classificationrevengeen_US
dc.subject.classificationTRIMen_US
dc.subject.classificationVoiceen_US
dc.titleAccommodating Complexity: Adapting Accommodation Theory to Capture Responses to Specific Transgressions
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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