Schluter and Lee maintain that relational proximity… is a description not of the personalities or geographical position of two individuals but of the interaction between them. It has at least five dimensions:
1. Directness: I will be more relationally proximate to you if I meet you face-to-face than if I meet you over the phone or through an intermediary medium.
2. Continuity: I will be more relationally proximate to you if I meet you regularly and over an extended period than if I meet you intermittently and short term.
3. Multiplexity: I will be more relationally proximate to you if I meet you in two or three contexts, or roles, than if I meet you in only one.
4. Parity: I will be more relationally proximate to you if I meet you in equal footing than if we are separated by an asymmetry of power.
5. Commonality: I will be more relationally proximate to you if we have a common purpose than if our interests do not overlap.
Bibliography: Schluter, Michael and David John Lee. The R Option. Hodder and Stoughton, 1993
