How does individualistic cultures affect the choice someone has on relationships?
Individuals in this culture are taught to be independent, so their opinion is important in deciding who they have a relationship with
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How does individualistic cultures affect whether a relationship is voluntary or non-voluntary?
This culture tends to live in a urbanised setting where they are likely to meet lots of people in a voluntary way
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How does collectivist cultures affect the choice someone has on relationships?
Individuals are taught to interdependent and relationships should be for the greater good of the community so their community is more likely to have an opinion in whom they have a relationship with
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How does collectivist cultures affect whether a relationship is voluntary or non-voluntary?
This culture tends to live in less urbanised settings so there's less choice in whom they interact with due to geographical isolation and lack of social mobility making relationships more non-voluntary
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Issue with research into culture regarding romantic relationships
Deterministic to suggest that cultures completely determine romantic relationships for example divorce rate in India has increased even though they are considered a collectivist cultures showing romantic relationships aren't completely deterministic
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What research did Yelsma and Arthappily find?
Those in arranged marriages were more satisfied with there relationship than those in American love marriages
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Which study found that those in arranged marriages were just as satisfied with their relationship as those in love marriages?
Myers et al.
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Which study found that women in love marriages were more positive about their relationship than those in arranged marriages?
Xiaohe and Whyte
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What did Levine find?
Cross cultural study in which individuals were asked whether the would marry a stranger if they had desirable characteristics, 14% of those in US said yes whereas 34% in Thailand said yes
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What did Janovick find?
88% of cultures showed signs of love
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What did Moore and Leung find?
In Chinese university students both males and females were equally romantic and Anglo-Australian males were more causal and less romantic than their female counterparts
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How does individualistic cultures affect whether a relationship is voluntary or non-voluntary?
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This culture tends to live in a urbanised setting where they are likely to meet lots of people in a voluntary way
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