Holmes John G
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, ONT, Canada.
Pers Soc Psychol Rev. 2004;8(2):146-55. doi: 10.1207/s15327957pspr0802_8.
In this article I argue for the benefits of an abstract functional analysis in theory construction, suggesting that an understanding of the nature of situations of interdependence will provide theoretical insights into basic processes in interpersonal relations. That is, mechanisms and basic processes such as social cognition are best understood by describing their functional relation to the social problems with which they were designed to cope, rather than studying them in their own right in isolation from the purpose they serve. I discuss the tenets of ecological psychology, the scientific philosophy underpinning this way of thought. I then link this approach to the development of my own theoretical ideas on trust in close relationships, providing a description of how a functional analysis rooted in the assumptions of interdependence theory shaped the questions I posed and the answers to which I was drawn.
在本文中，我论证了抽象功能分析在理论构建中的益处，表明对相互依赖情境本质的理解将为洞察人际关系的基本过程提供理论依据。也就是说，诸如社会认知等机制和基本过程，通过描述它们与旨在应对的社会问题之间的功能关系来理解最为恰当，而不是脱离其服务目的孤立地对它们本身进行研究。我讨论了生态心理学的原则，这是支撑这种思维方式的科学哲学。然后，我将这种方法与我自己关于亲密关系中信任的理论观点的发展联系起来，描述了基于相互依赖理论假设的功能分析如何塑造了我提出的问题以及我得出的答案。
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