Maintenance of a relationship
- Created by: Masa milenkovic
- Created on: 15-12-12 12:01
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- Maintenance of a relationship
- Social-exchange theory
- maintaining because of rewards/costs
- Rewards are different with people - money,love,status, attentinon
- Rusbult- on college students , questioner and than checked again after 7 months - results that couples who had an better alternative had broke up
- specific group of people- only on college relationship - can not be compared to marriage or homosexual relationships
- questioner - self/report so people can lie on it
- Longitudinal study- it does not take into account what else may have happen
- behaviorist approach as maximize rewards and minimize costs
- We compare with our previous relationships and with possible alternatives
- Economic maintenance
- Criticism as it is to much reductionist
- maintaining because of rewards/costs
- Equity theorhy
- combination of behaviorist and economy
- Balance of costs and rewards costs and rewards
- Hatfield - couples who unequal relationships are most likely to break up-560 students; checked 3 months later
- Small sample size as 560 can not be applied to the population
- Cultural-bias as it was done on West
- Hatfield - couples who unequal relationships are most likely to break up-560 students; checked 3 months later
- association of a good felling with the partenr
- Social-exchange theory
- maintaining because of rewards/costs
- Rewards are different with people - money,love,status, attentinon
- Rusbult- on college students , questioner and than checked again after 7 months - results that couples who had an better alternative had broke up
- specific group of people- only on college relationship - can not be compared to marriage or homosexual relationships
- questioner - self/report so people can lie on it
- Longitudinal study- it does not take into account what else may have happen
- behaviorist approach as maximize rewards and minimize costs
- We compare with our previous relationships and with possible alternatives
- Economic maintenance
- Criticism as it is to much reductionist
- maintaining because of rewards/costs
- Social-exchange theory
- Criticism as it doesn't take into account nature
- Criticism- variable ratio-reinforcement where partners stay even though their costs are higher than rewards
- Research support- Sttaford who surveyed 200 married couples and found that
- most satisfied couples where the ones who had equality in their marrieg
- specific group- married people
- small sample size as it was 200 participants
- Social-exchange theory
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