Contextualizing Experiences of Hurt Within Close Relationships

摘要

This article uses Bradbury and Fincham’s contextual model of relationships to clarifyrnhow proximal and distal factors affect the relationship damage associated with hurtfulrnmessages, how the consequences of a previous hurt shape people’s experience of arnsubsequent hurtful message, and how the cumulative consequences of hurt influencernrelationship quality over two weeks. Participants responded about either a dating partnerrnor friend. Multi-level modeling and regression analyses revealed that relational qualityrnand perceptions of messages corresponded with relational damage, and the number ofrnhurtful events and relational damage interacted to predict relational quality at the endrnof the study.