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Commitment Flashcards

1
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What is Commitment?

A

The intention to maintain a relationship over time.

or

the choice to give up other choices.

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What are the two basic forces of commitment?

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Dedication and Constraint

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What is Dedication?

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The “want to”
- Personal dedication comprises all of the forces that increase that desire to maintain relationship: Wanting to share a future together, having a couple identity.

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What is Constraint?

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The “have to”
- All of the forces that make it more difficult to end a relationship: family expectations, religious beliefs about divorce, having a pet together.

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True or false:

Dedication is more closely associated with satisfaction; whereas constraint is more to stability in relationships.

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True.

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What are precived Constraints?

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  • Internal or external forces that encourage partners to stay together: social pressure, the sense that you have made substantial investments that would be lost.
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What are material constraints?

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Specific, tangible resources couples share: having a lease, shared debt, kids

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What is felt constraint?

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  • Sense of feeling trapped in a relationship “I would leave my partner if I wasn’t so difficult to do so”
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What does felt constraint predict?

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  • Felt constraint is the only aspect if constraint that predicts relationship dissolution
  • It also predicts in a relationship with physical violence.
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Why is dedication important?

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It gets us to commit

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Why are constraints important?

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They keep us in a relationship.

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12
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True or false:

Constraint is a unavoidable negative byproduct of a relationship.

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False:

It is not a negative thing all the time, only sometimes.

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13
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Is constraint avoidable?

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Nope

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When do you begin to notice constraint?

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When satisfaction gets low within a relationship.

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When Satisfaction is High what is our perceived constraint, material constraint, and felt constraint.

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High Perceived Con + High Material Con + low felt Con

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When Satisfaction is low what is our perceived constraint, material constraint, and felt constraint.

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High Perceived Con + High Material Con + high felt Con

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What does constraint help us explain about low quality relationships?

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It helps us explain why they persist, but also stabilize high quality relationships that have periods of unhappiness.

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True or false:

Being committed to a relationship has a drastic impact on relationship acquaintance behaviors.

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True.

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19
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What is the importance of Sacrifice?

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sacrifice of Intimidate self-interest for long-term, benefit of a partner, highly linked to commitment.

20
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What is the relationship between sacrifice and commitment?

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High commitment leads to High number of sacrifices, then leads to satisfaction with sacrifice, and higher willingness to sacrifice.

21
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True or false:

Greater commitment reduces the belief that sacrifice is harmful (Especially for men)

A

True

22
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What is satisfaction with sacrifice a predictor of?

A

It is the strongest predictor of future relationship satisfaction.

23
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What is the fundamental function of commitment?

A

The formation of and securing of romantic relationships.

24
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What is the key factor that is needed for commitment to breed a happy and healthy relationship?

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it must EXIST in both partners and be communicated between partners.

25
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True or false:

One’s personal dedication to a partner will lead to behaviors that signal commitment.

A

True.

26
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What is a emblem of commitment? are they more or less common today?

A

An engagement ring

They are far less common in today’s society.

27
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What is one of the major implications of fewer emblems of commitment?

A

Greater miscommunication of commitment levels from each partner

along with less communication with the outside world that you are in a committed relationship.

28
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What is Inertia theory?

A

Romantic relationships have their own form of inertia.

“Keep doing what you’re already doing”

29
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Once in a relationship, inertial theory dictates an increasingly intertwined life.
What are the steps:

A
  • Casual dating
  • Exclusive dating
  • Sex
  • Live together
  • Engagement
  • Marriage.
30
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True or false:

As a relationship progresses, constraint will increase.

A

True.

31
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As a relationship progresses, what happens to deication

A

It MIGHT increase.

32
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The combination of inertia and constraints seem to cause some people to continue progressing in a relationship that would end if it was not so hard to do so, what is this called?

A

Sliding

33
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What is good example of sliding?

A

Cohabitation

34
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A lower risk sequence would look like what? what steps should you take?

A

Information
Decision
Transition
Inertia & Constraint

35
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What is involved in the Information step of transition?

A

Risks - is it safe

Compatibility - Is there a fit

Is the commitment mutual?

36
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What leads to a higher risk transition?

A

they skip the information step, instead SLIDING.

37
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What happens during the Decision step of transition?

A

Choose

Give up other options

Intend to follow-through

38
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What happens during the Transition step of transition?

A

Sexual contact

Biological attachment

cohabitation

marriage

pregnancy

39
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What happens during the Inertia&constraint step of transition?

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Structural

relational

moral

biological&health

40
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What is the big deal about sliding?

A

You lose options before making a choice.

generates constraints before dedication is fully developed

41
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In a healthy relationship, how do we generate constraints?

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We choose them, freely

42
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Is cohabitation before marriage a precursor to divorce?

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Yes this is true, although couples that are engaged before they live together see no increase in percentage on divorce.

marriage is the stringiest sense of dedication.

43
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What are the implactions of inertial theory?

A

being intentional and deciding that you want a relationship to progress, rather than sliding into a increasing involvement.

44
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What are the effects of a Prenub on marriage?

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marriages that sign prenub are at a MUCH greater risk of dissolution/divorce than normal marriages (Almost 50%)

45
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what is sliding

A

a transition that high risk due to skipping the “information step”

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