Relationship valence and attitudes as predictors of interactive intentions

We investigated the influence of relationship valence and attitude on interactive intentions in 4 types of relationships. Subjects' attitudes were systematically related to the evaluative direction/intensity of their interactive intentions in a relationship not associated with a known evaluation (i.e., roommate). In the 3 relationships associated with an intrinsic evaluation (i.e., best friend, acquaintance, and disliked peer), relationship valence was related to the overall evaluative direction/intensity of interactive intentions, but it predicted positive intentions and the consistency among intentions in positive relationships more successfully than negative intentions or the consistency among intentions in negative relationships.