Chapter 11 Flashcards

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What are the aspects of friendships in adulthood?

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  • 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.
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What is Sternberg’s theory?

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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

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What is the nature of abuse in some relationships?

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  • 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
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What about singlehood?

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  • 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
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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
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What is marriage like throughout the life course?

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  • 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
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What about common forms of families.

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  • In western society: nuclear family - only parents and children
  • Around the World: extended family - grandparents and other relatives live with parents and children
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