Individuals elicit various outcomes from interpersonal relations between them and their partners. Some of the outcomes are perceived as rewards for them, but others are perceived as costs for them. At the same time, they perceive certain causes of the outcome, and infer certain interpersonal tendencies of their partners. These processes determine their transformational tendencies on the interpersonal relations. And as a result of combining their and their partner's transformational tendencies, the inter-personal relations are changed. In this article, through examining researches of interpersonal emotions and attribution-emotion research, a conceptual model of the transformational process of interpersonal relations was presented, and validity of the model was examined by means of hierarchical multiple regression analyses. The results generally supported validity of the model, but necessity of further examination on some aspects of the model was suggested. The implications of this study for future researches of interpersonal relation are dissussed.
