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The correlational analysis of dyad‐level data in the distinguishable case
Author(s) -
GONZALEZ RICHARD,
GRIFFIN DALE
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
personal relationships
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.81
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1475-6811
pISSN - 1350-4126
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6811.1999.tb00203.x
Subject(s) - dyad , psychology , interpersonal communication , correlation , interpretation (philosophy) , interpersonal interaction , social psychology , computer science , mathematics , geometry , programming language
Many theories of interpersonal relationships distinguish between individual‐level processes and dyadic or group‐level processes. This suggests that two‐person relationships should be studied at the level of the dyad as well as at the level of the individual. We discuss correlational methods for dyads when each dyad contains two different types of individuals (e.g., a husband and wife, a mother and child, or an expert and a novice). In such dyadic interaction designs, the dyad members are said to be distinguishable. We present a method for computing the overall correlation for distinguishable dyads, and we discuss a model for separating the dyad‐level and individual‐level components of such a correlation. The computational techniques and their interpretation are described using data from 98 heterosexual couples.