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Priorities have been discussed fully in previous writings but will be discussed further here to elaborate and expand on them in ways that may have been overlooked in the past. Model12 concerns the construct of priorities and its synonymous motivational constructs, such as goals, motives, intentions, needs, wants, and attitudes. Whatever these similar constructs may be called, they involve a process of prioritization: choosing who and what is more important or urgent than someone or something else. Priorities are whatever attitudes, goals, needs, values, and wants are realistically relevant, important, and urgent for intimate relationships in their own rights and to members of a particular group (family, friends, or relatives). No matter what term one uses, any of those motivational terms listed above are similar to or even synonymous for “priorities”, because any particular attitude, goal, motive, need, value, or want has to be prioritized according to its relevance, importance, and urgency to an individual’s and to intimates’ survival and well-being.
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L’Abate, L., Cusinato, M., Maino, E., Colesso, W., Scilletta, C. (2010). Model12: Priorities. In: Relational Competence Theory. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5665-1_14
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