Relationships Fomration, Maintenance, Breakdown - PSYA3
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- Formation, Maintenance and Breakdown
- Formation
- Reward/need satisfaction theory
- Rewarding directly increases attraction
- Rewarding indirectly via reinforcement
- Evaluation
- Giving and receiving reward is important
- Many relationships are not reinforcing
- Gender differences may be due to socialisation
- The matching hypothesis
- Attracted to people of similar social desirability
- Walster et al (1966) dance study
- Matching stronger for committed couples
- Evaluation
- Complex matching
- Gender difference
- Third parties involved
- Reward/need satisfaction theory
- Maintenance
- Social exchange theory
- Maximise rewards/ minimise costs
- Comparison level
- Comparison level for alternatives
- Equity theory
- Evaluation
- Contrived methodologies and limited application
- Lack of consistent empirical support
- Gender differences
- Cultural bias
- Investment theory
- Commitment strengthened by satisfaction
- Quality of alternatives
- Investment in relationship contributes to stability
- Evaluation
- Research support - meta analysis by Le and Agnew (2003)
- Commitment ay explain why women stay in abusive relationships
- Social exchange theory
- Breakdown
- Rollie and Duck (2206)
- 6 stages
- 1. breakdown
- 2. intrapsychic
- 3. dyadic
- 4. social
- 5. grave-dressing
- 6. resurrection
- Evaluation
- Research support - sex differences in resurrection
- Impact of dissolution on initiating/non-initiating partners
- Heterosexual bias
- 6 stages
- Evolutionary psychology
- Costs related to emotional investment
- Increasing commitment
- Infidelity
- Reputational damage
- Evaluation
- Research support fro Perilloux and Buss (2008)
- Ultimate and proximate causes
- Rollie and Duck (2206)
- Formation
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