Relationships- formation, maintenance and breakdown
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- Relationships
- Formation
- Similarity theory- Bryne, Clore and Smeaton-said women sort in two stages: 1) sort for dissimilarity and 2) sort of similar attitudes and personality
- Rosenbaum (1986)- Dissimilarity repulsion hypothesis- opposites attract
- Speakmanet al (2007)- people choose similar body fat to themselves in their partner
- Reward/need satisfaction theory- looked at classical (associating with a positive event) and operant conditioning (rewarding, attractive, humour)
- Veitch & Griffitt (1976)- Stranger in a waiting room- played the news on the radio- asked to rate a person
- Cunningham (1988)- Happy and sad film then asked to interact with a female
- Similarity theory- Bryne, Clore and Smeaton-said women sort in two stages: 1) sort for dissimilarity and 2) sort of similar attitudes and personality
- Maintenance
- Social exchange theory- rewards- cost= profit/loss. C.L (previous ideal), CL (for alternatives)
- Rusbult (1983)- looked at CL/ satisfaction in the honeymoon phase, committed relationships- high satisfaction and investment and low CL for alternatives
- Equity- looks at the ratio of inputs and outputs, fairness not quality, greater the inequity= greater dissatisfaction
- Hatfield et al (1972)- 500 students interviewed- 3 months later inequitable relationships like to end
- Social exchange theory- rewards- cost= profit/loss. C.L (previous ideal), CL (for alternatives)
- Breakdown
- Reasons for breakdown- Duck (1999) three reasons, lack of skills (social skills), lack of stimulation (boredom), maintanence difficulties (distace relationships)
- Tashiro and Frazier (2003) real life survey of break ups
- Model of relationship breakdown- Rollie and Duck, (2006), Breakdown- intra psychic process- dyadic process- social process- grave dressing process- resurrection process
- Boekhout et al (1999) affairs direct link to lack of stimulation, men= sex woman= emotional
- Reasons for breakdown- Duck (1999) three reasons, lack of skills (social skills), lack of stimulation (boredom), maintanence difficulties (distace relationships)
- Formation
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