Relationship Breakdown
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- Created on: 05-06-15 13:46
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- Breakdown of relationships
- Duck
- Factors linked to the likelihood of a relationship breakdown:
- Marriages in which partners were very young
- Early parenthood
- Being in a low socioeconomic group
- Poor education
- Partners are of a different race or religion
- One or both partners have parents who divorced
- One of the partners had a greater number of sexual partners before marriage
- Further factors linked to relationship breakdown:
- Lack of social skills
- Lack of stimulation
- Extramarital affairs
- 3 categories of break up:
- Pre-existing doom, mechanical failure and sudden death
- Factors linked to the likelihood of a relationship breakdown:
- Baron and Byrne
- Interpersonal factors leading to a relationship breakdown:
- Partners are unable to express their feelings
- Jealousy
- Attitudes or values change
- The relationship becomes routine or boring
- Lack of sexual satisfaction
- Interpersonal factors leading to a relationship breakdown:
- Rusbult and Zembrodt
- Reactions to problems within a relationship:
- Satisfaction
- Constructive strategy - talk about their concerns (active) or wait for the situation to improve (passive)
- Dissatisfaction
- Destructive strategy - either exit the relationship or show signs of neglect of it
- Satisfaction
- Reactions to problems within a relationship:
- Duck and Rollie
- Model of breakdown:
- Breakdown, the intra-psychic phase, dyadic phase, social phase, grave-dressing and the resurrection process
- Model of breakdown:
- Lee
- 5 stages in a relationship breakdown:
- Dissatisfaction, exposure, negotiation, resolution and termination
- Survey of 112 couples experiencing relationship breakdown
- Exposure and negotiation - most exhausting phases
- Those who moved straight from dissatisfaction to termination had poorer relationships
- 5 stages in a relationship breakdown:
- Social Exchange Theory
- If a person decides the costs outweigh the benefits in their relationship and an alternative has more to offer, the individual will exit the relationship
- Tashiro and Frazier
- Surveyed undergraduates who had recently gone through a breakup
- Although they had experienced emotional distress, they also experienced personal growth and gained new insights of themselves
- Surveyed undergraduates who had recently gone through a breakup
- Evaluation:
- +VE recognises the complexity of break ups
- -VE cultural bias - most studies done in Western countries
- +VE Duck's phases are frequently encountered
- -VE women are more likely to stress unhappiness in a relationship (theories don't take into account gender differences)
- Duck
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