Breakdown in romantic relationships
All the information needed to answer 'outline and evaluate theories for the breakdown in relationships'
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- Breakdown of Romantic Relationships
- Duck- Factors for relationship breakdowns
- Lack of stimulation: need for variation in the relationship or boredom.
- Lack of skills: lack of interpersonal skills often reflects as a disinterest in the relationship causing break down.
- Lack of maintenance: when a relationship is at a long distance partners find it difficult to see it each other and therefore maintain, often causing breakdown, for example going off to university: Shaver
- Boekhout: looked at reasons for extra-marital breakups. Men often claimed lack sexual excitement of variety. whereas women claimed lack or attention and emotional satisfaction.
- Lack of skills: lack of interpersonal skills often reflects as a disinterest in the relationship causing break down.
- Lack of stimulation: need for variation in the relationship or boredom.
- Lee's five stage model for relationship breakdown
- dissatisfaction exposure negotiation resolution termination
- Lee investigated 112 premarital break-ups and found that exposure and negotiation were the most exhausting stages.
- People who claimed to have not experienced these stages tended to be less intimate with their exes during their relationship.
- Lee investigated 112 premarital break-ups and found that exposure and negotiation were the most exhausting stages.
- dissatisfaction exposure negotiation resolution termination
- Rollie and Duck's 'more complex' model for relationship breakdown
- Breakdown: dissatisfaction within the relationship occurs
- Intraspsychic: dissatisfied partner focuses on flaws within the relationship and begins to socially withdraw.
- Dyadic: concerns within the relationship are discussed, this is the point where partners often make promises to change, or the breakdown of the relationship continues.
- Social: Break up is made public. Support from third parties is sought and alliance building and scapegoating often occurs.
- Grave dressing processes: accounts of the breakup are circulated and why the relationship died. Different stories may be offered to different audiences. Individuals begin to rebuild their self-esteem.
- Resurrection: preparations are made for future relationships.
- Grave dressing processes: accounts of the breakup are circulated and why the relationship died. Different stories may be offered to different audiences. Individuals begin to rebuild their self-esteem.
- Social: Break up is made public. Support from third parties is sought and alliance building and scapegoating often occurs.
- Dyadic: concerns within the relationship are discussed, this is the point where partners often make promises to change, or the breakdown of the relationship continues.
- Intraspsychic: dissatisfied partner focuses on flaws within the relationship and begins to socially withdraw.
- Ao2 Tashiro and Frazer: surveyed students who had recently broken up with their partner, typically they reported experiencing emotional distress but also personal growth.
- Ao3: Age and intellect biased: breakdown is different in adults, for example adult relationships often have more commitments such as shared houses.
- Akert criticises he model claiming there are individual differences. For example person initiating the breakup often reports less negative consequences as they have alreay come to terms with the breakup.
- Ao3: Gender differences
- Reductionism
- Deterministic
- Cultural biased
- Sensitive research
- For example abused partner may not want to particpate in research out of fear.
- research largely based upon white, western, heterosexual relationships
- Sensitive research
- Doesn't take into account other factors within the relationship breakdown: merely looks at the stages. Also ignores free will and that people may want to break up
- Cultural biased
- Theories don't account for such gender differences therefore they must be reductionist and oversimplified failing to consider more complex processes
- Deterministic
- Kassin: Men and women point to differnces is breakdown. Women stress unhappiness and incompatability, whilst men blame lack of sex
- Reductionism
- Ao3: Gender differences
- Breakdown: dissatisfaction within the relationship occurs
- Duck- Factors for relationship breakdowns
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