Development and Validation of the Need for Cognition about Behavior in Relationships (NCBR) Scale

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Development and Validation of the Need for Cognition about Behavior in Relationships (NCBR) Scale
Background and significance
People are social animals (Baumeister & Leary, 1995) and as such, generally engage in much thought about their interpersonal relationships. As social animals, humans tend to seek connections with those that they interact with in their environment (Vrticka, 2013). The society is made up of the social connections and thus the name that indicates social connection (Shultz, Opie, & Atkinson, 2011). The variation that tends to be associated with the connections is of paramount importance to help with the establishment of the reasons underlying. Understanding the primary tendencies relative to the cognitive elements and abilities of the parties involved is crucial to unearthing the basic premise of various relationships despite their variance. Every other relationship is unique to the parties that are involved. However, there are variables that can be established relative to the basic mechanisms that people relate to one another. It is common that relationships will have certain mechanisms when it comes to reacting to certain stimuli in their environment. It is most crucial to establish how different parties’ cognitive abilities in light of their relationship varies (Relationshipspecialists.com, 2016). Understanding the cognitive behavior in relationships is a crucial aspects and helps better understand relations with more finality (Cacioppo, Petty & Kao, 1984).
To what extent do individuals differ in their tendency to habitually examine or enjoy thinking about their relationships, and is such a difference related to interpersonal competency or mental health? It is crucial to draw the line between where elements of thinking about a relationship and the aspects that could be closely related to mental health come out differently. Mental health can be associated with aspects such, obsessive compulsive disorder (Kirkova, 2014). In this case a partner continuously obsess over their relationship with someone in a manner that could easily lead to unhealthy tendencies in the relationship (Hagen, 2016). However, in the case of thinking about a relationship, one may constantly or often reflect on a relationship that they have with a given person and how it affects each of the parties involved. This is a healthy elements and is a common aspect among most people that emotionally mature. However, of importance in the paper are some of the variables that the cognition mechanisms (Cacioppo, Petty & Kao, 1984). The Relational Cognition Complexity Instrument (RCCI; Martin, 1991) conceptualized relational cognition as a distinct domain of social cognition, likely unrelated to an individual’s understanding of people in general and likely a ‘relatively enduring’ individual difference. We feel that relational cognition is an important and interesting individual difference that should be examined for a variety of purposes. The RCCI, however, is open-ended and requires trained coders to analyze the responses. We also suspect relationship cognition can be "induced" as a temporary state given the right circumst...