Content and relationship dimensions of communicative behavior: An exploratory study

Little is known about the interrelationship between content and relationship dimensions of communication and how they affect human interaction. The present study attempts to provide some empirical basis to be used to guide further inquiry into the correlates of content‐relationship interaction. A four‐dimensional content and a unindimensional relationship coding scheme were used to analyze human interaction. Data were subjected to Markov analyses using split‐half comparisons to discover potential patterns of interaction across time. The results generated several plausible hypotheses to serve as springboards for further research.