Chapter 11 Flashcards
1
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What are the aspects of friendships in adulthood?
A
- Stages: acquaintanceship, buildup, continuation, deterioration, and ending
– progression depends on basis of attraction, knowledge, communication, importance, new potential friends. - Life transitions: often results in fewer friends
- Life satisfaction: effected by quantity and qualitu of friends
- Diverse friendships led to positive attitude towards like people
- Basis of friendship: are affective (emotional - self disclosure & expressions from trust, loyalty, commitment) shared/communal (mutually interested activities), sociability & compatibility (sources amusement, fun, recreation).
- Both in person & online (not shown to harm friendships).
- Women: shared confidences,
- Men: shared activates (share confidences to less people)
- Cross-sex friendships seem to help men with love relationships but not women.
2
Q
What is Sternberg’s theory?
A
Love has three basic components
1) passion: intense physiological desire for someone
2) intimacy: the feeling that one can share all one’s thoughts and actions with another
3) commitment, willingness to stay with a person through good and bad times. Equivalency between the three tends toward more happiness. Balance shifts with time
3
Q
What is the nature of abuse in some relationships?
A
- Victim risk increases: female, Latina, African American, atypical family structure, more romantic partners, early onset sexual activity, victim child abuse
- Progression from verbal to physical to severe physical to murder.
- Fundamental differences in these types and the underlying causes change with type
- Culture can be another factor
- Some legal systems are not set up to handle it
4
Q
What about singlehood?
A
- Some haven’t found the right person while others prefer singlehood
- Singles face negative stereotypes
- Meanings and implications of singleness are often related to cultural and religious beliefs
- Singles either want to be married, oscillate between wanting to be married and not wanting it to and want to be single
5
Q
What are the aspects of cohabitation?
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- People in committed, intimate, sexual relationships who live together but are not married
- often for convenience–sharing expenses and sexual accessibility
- common life style in other cultures and some benefits
- some intend marriage others do not
6
Q
What is marriage like throughout the life course?
A
- Couples who marry younger are more likely to get divorced
- More maturity when get married make more likely marriage satisfaction along with commonality and feelings of equality
- Satisfaction tends to increase, decrease (often because of stress of children or inability to have children) and then increase
- After wedding bliss couples need to learn how to communicate and manage stress
7
Q
What about common forms of families.
A
- In western society: nuclear family - only parents and children
- Around the World: extended family - grandparents and other relatives live with parents and children