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Chapter #11: Relationship Flashcards

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Friendship

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a mutual relationship in which those who are involved, influence one anothers behaviors and beliefs, and define friendshop quality as the satisfaction derived from the relationship
* based on feelings and grounded in recpirocity & choice

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ABCDE Model

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descirbes the 5 stages of friendships
1. Advancement
2. Buildup
3. Continutation
4. Deteroriation
5. Ending

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3 Broad Themes of Adult Friendships

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  1. Affective/Emotional Basis
  2. Shared/Communal Nature
  3. Sociability/Compatability Dimension
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Affective/Emotional Basis

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self-disclosure, expression of intimacy, appreciation, affection, and support
* based on trust, loyalty, and committment

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Shared/Communal Nature

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how friends participate in or support activites of mutual interest

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Sociability/Compatability Dimension

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how friends keep us entertained and are sources of amusement, fun, and recreation

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Trust Develops in 4 Sources

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  1. Reputation
  2. Performance, or what users do online
  3. Precommittment, through personal self-disculosure
  4. Situational Factors; premium placed on intimacy and the relationship
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Do online social network friendships develop similar to in person ones?

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True

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Siblings bonds are generally:

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closer and the longest lasting
* Centrality depends on proximity, health, prior relationships, and relatedness
* close in youth, drift as adults, come back together in old age

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Do older adults tend to have fewer relationships?

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Yes

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Socioemotional Selectivity

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argues that social contract is motivtated by a variety of goals, informational seeking, self-concept, and emotional regulation
* each goal is emotionally salient at different points of the adult life span
* Information seeking = young adult goal
* Emotional regulation = older adult goal

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Men’s, Women’s, and Cross-Sex Friendships

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4 characterstics of same-sex friendships do not appear to differ in men/women
1. Georgraphic proximity
2. Similarity of interests/values
3. Inclsion
4. Symmetrical Reciporcity

3 Characeristics that distinguish female/male same-sex relationships
1. Communion & Self-Disclosure
2. Greater effort and expectations from friends
3. Greater risk of corumination

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Sternberg’s 3 Components of Love

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a true love relationship consists of all 3
1. Passion - an intense psychological desire for someone
2. Intimacy - the feeling that you can share all your thoughts/actions with someone
3. Committment - the willingness to stay with a person through good and bad times

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Infatuation

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an intense physiclly based relationships
* high risk of misunderstanding and jealousy

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As the length of a relationship increases

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  • intimacy + passion decrease
  • intimacy + committment increase
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Assortative Mating

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a theory of people find partners based on their similarity to each other
* occurs more in Western Society that allows choice over their mates

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Homogamy

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the degree to which people are similar
* shows a likelihood to they “click” in many dimensions

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1 in 5 couples in the U.S. meet online

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physical attractiveness strongly influence initial selections online

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Hookup Culture & Casual Sex

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3/4 express regret hooking up

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Culture is a powerful force in shaping mate selection occurs

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countries that llow mate choosing tend to develop more secure romantic attachments

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Abusive Relationship

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a relationship that one partner displays aggressive behavior towards the other partner

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Battered Women Syndrome

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a situation in which a woman believes she canno leave an abusive relationship and where she may even go as far as to kill her abuser
* Risk Factors:
* 1. Female, African American
* 2. Living in atypical family structure
* 3. more romantic partners

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What range of aggressive behaviors occurs in abusive relationships?

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  1. Verbal Aggression
  2. Physical Aggresion
  3. Severe Aggression
  4. Murder
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What are the characteristics of Verbal Aggression

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insults, yelling, name calling, need to control, jealousy, misuse of power

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What are the characteristics of Physical Aggression?

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pushing, slapping, shoving
accept violence as means of control, modeling of phyiscal aggression, abused as a child, aggressive personality styles

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What are characteristics of Severe Aggression?

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beating, punching, hitting w/object
Personality disorders, emotional lability, poor self-esteem

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Physical Abuse

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the use of physical force that may result in bodily, injury, physical pain, or impairment

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Sexual Abuse

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nonconsensual sexual contact on any kind

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Emotional/Psychological Abuse

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infliction of anguish, pain, or distress

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Financial/Psychological Abuse

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the illegal or improper use of an older adult’s funds, property, or assets

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Abandonment

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the desertion of an older adult by an individual who had physical custody or assumed responsibility in care

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Neglect

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refusal or failure to fulfill any part of a person’s obligation or duties to an older adult

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Self-Neglect

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the behaviors of an older person that threaten own health or safety

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1 in 10 older adults are at risk for some type of abyse, neglect, or exploitation

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  • lack of clear definitions across states
  • embarassment of low reporting
  • general lack of services
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Many remain single as they focus on establishing their careers

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  • did not find the right person
  • prefer singlehood
  • decision to never marry is a gradual one
  • identifying singlehood with marriage
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Cohabitation

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living with another person as part of a committed, intimate, sexual relationship
* increasingly popular in the United States
* primarily women, has doubled for older adults
* does not seem to make marriages better

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LGBTQ+ Relationships

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relationships of gay/lesbian couples have similarites to those heterosexual couples
* dual earner relationships
* majority are married
* share household chores
* Transgender & Non Gender Conforming older adults experience social isolations more than most

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Marital Success

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an umbrella term referring to any marital outcome

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Marital Quality

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the subjective evaluation of the couple’s relationship on a number of different dimensions

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Marital Adjustment

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the degree spouses accomodate each other over a certain period of time

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Martial Satisfaction

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a global assessment of one’s marriage

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1 key factor to success is age

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the younger the partners are, the lowers the odds the marriage will last

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Homogamy

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the notion similar interest and values are important forming strong, lasting, interpersonal relationships

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Exchange Theory

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a theory of relationships based on the idea each partner contributes something to the relationship the other would be hard-pressed to provide
* perceive fair exchange, equity, in all dimensions

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Key Predictors of Marital Success

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  • respect for emotion
  • attitudes towards marriage
  • expression of love
  • sexual adjustment
  • importance of likings of the spouse
  • temperament
  • value
  • taste & interest
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Do married couples stay happy?

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Overall marital satisfaction is:
* highest at the beginning of marriage
* falls until children leave home
* stabilities and continues to decline in later life

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Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation Model

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martial quality as a dynamic process that results from a couple’s ability to handle stressful events on the context of their particular vulnerabilities and resources

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The Early Years of Marriage

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couples tend to have global adoration for their spouse regarding spouse’s qualities
* stress incrases, satisfaction decline
* children are the main stressor
* Disillusionament - decline in feeling in love, in demonstrations of affectioon, feeling that one’s spouse as responsive

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Married Singles

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married couples who have grown apart but continue to live together
* emotionally divorced and live more as housemates

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Older Couples Marriage

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Marital satisfaction icnreases after retirement, but then decreases with health problems & advancing age

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What are specific characteristics that married older adults?

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  • selective memeory regarding the occurence of the negative events, and perception of their partner
  • reduced potential for martial conflcit
  • greater potential for pleasure
  • strong dyadic coping strategies
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Most partners caregivers adopt the role of caregiver out of necessity and not choice

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attempts to balance their perceived competence allows them to be proactive
stressful and rewarding in terms of martial relationships

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Divorce in the United States has a 50-50 chance of getting married and remaining together

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True

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Gottman & Levenson proposed 2 models that predict divorce

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  • 7 years of marriage
  • First child reaches age 14
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Demand-Withdrawal Model

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one partner places a demand on the other, who then withdrawals either emotionally or physically

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Divorce Hangover

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reflects divorced partners inability to let go, develop new friendships, or reorient themselves as single partners
* forgiving ex-spouse is important for eventual adjustment

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Rates of remarriage differ dramatically be age

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  • women are less likely to remarry than men
  • men are less likely to remarry in general
  • European Americans are the most likely group to remarry
  • African Americans, then Asian Americans
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Widowhood

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the death of a partner is one of the most traumatic events that they experience
* women are more likely to be widowed than men
* only 15% men are widowers are age 65+
* Loneliness is a major problem

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Nuclear Family

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form of family consisting only of parent(s) and children

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Extended Family

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the most common family form globally in which grand parents and other relative live with parents and children

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Familialism

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refers to the idea that the well-being of the family takes precedence over the concerns of individual family members
* high feelings of obligations to family
* raising multi-ethnic creates problesm

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40% of births in United States are to mothers who are unmarried

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varies across ethnic groups
* 72% among African Americans
* frustrations, failure, guilt, need to be other indulgent
* loneliness is expectant
* feel insecure about sexuality

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1/3 of Northern American parents become step, foster, or adoptive parents during their lives

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  • issues in how strongly a child connects with them
  • dynamics of blended families can be complicated
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Kinkeepr

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the person who gathers family members together for celebrations and keeps them in touch with each other

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Sandwich Generation

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middle-aged adults caught between the competing demands of two generations; their parents and their children

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When children leave home, emotional bonds are disrupted

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Mothers report feeling sad, but have more positive feelings about
children are regarded as success based on developmental experiences

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Filial Obligation

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the feelings that, as an adult, one must care for one’s parents

Adults experience stress for 2 main reasons
1. May have trouble coping with declines their parent’s functioning
2. Care situation is perceived as confining or seriously infringes on the adult chold’s other responsibilites

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