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The current paper examines individuals’ understanding of relationships with significant others in terms of the increase in complexity of tasks that is posited to occur in the Model of Hierarchical Complexity (Commons et al., 1998). We interviewed 8 to 10 year old children, and adults, about losses of attachment objects, including people, pets, objects, places, events and ideals. Statements that children and adults made about these attachment objects were scored used the Model of Hierarchical Complexity. It was found that children’s statements were primarily scored as primary or concrete. Adults’ statements ranged from primary to systematic, but were more often scored as abstract, formal and systematic (not primary or concrete). Illustrative examples of statements at each of the orders of complexity for both children and adults are provided. It will be important to extend these findings by examining whether the verbal behavior of individuals with respect to relationships is related to the kinds of relationships they appear to have.
当前的论文从层级复杂性模型(Commons et al., 1998)中假设的任务复杂性增加的角度,研究了个人对与重要他人关系的理解。我们采访了8到10岁的儿童和成年人,关于失去依恋对象的问题,包括人、宠物、物品、地点、事件和理想。使用层次复杂性模型对儿童和成人对这些依恋对象的陈述进行评分。结果发现,儿童的陈述主要分为初级和具体两类。成年人的陈述从初级到系统不等,但更多的是被评为抽象、正式和系统(而不是初级或具体)。为儿童和成人提供了复杂程度不同的说明示例。通过研究个人在人际关系方面的言语行为是否与他们似乎拥有的人际关系有关,来扩展这些发现将是很重要的。