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Interdependence and Psychological Orientation

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This chapter present a theoretical analysis of the relations between types of social relations and types of psychological orientations. Social relations are characterized in terms of five dimensions: cooperation-competition, power distribution, task-oriented versus social-emotional, formal versus informal, and importance. Psychological orientations are composed of the following component orientations: cognitive, motivational, moral, and action. It is hypothesized that there is a strong tendency for a fit between the type of social relation and type of psychological orientation. The lack of fit produced a drive to change so that fit occurs.

Deutsch, M. (1982). Interdependence and psychological orientation. In V. Derlega & J. L. Grzelek (Eds.), Cooperation and helping behavior: Theories and research (15–42). Academic Press.

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Notes

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    Although this research studied the perceptions of interpersonal relations, I see no reason to doubt that the identified dimensions are fundamental aspects of interpersonal relations.

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    INDSCAL, the multidimensional scale analysis procedure used in the Wish, Deutsch, and Kaplan (1976) and the Wish and Kaplan (1977) studies does not force the identified dimensions to be orthogonal.

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    I caution the reader not to conclude from this sentence or from anything else in this chapter that relationships that are exclusively task-oriented will be more productive than those that have a mixture of task-orientedness and social-emotional orientedness. Effective group functioning on tasks, for example, requires attention to “group maintenance” as well as to “task functions” (Deutsch, 1949b).

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Deutsch, M. (2011). Interdependence and Psychological Orientation. In: Coleman, P. (eds) Conflict, Interdependence, and Justice. Peace Psychology Book Series, vol 11. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9994-8_11

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