Conflict and IPV / Ch. 11 & 12 - pp.482-492 Flashcards
Meg
What are the 5 most common topics in marriages?
– Children (Differences in parenting styles, discipline, childcare duties)
– Chores (who does what)
– Money (spending, wages, bills, etc.)
– Free Time (spending together, vs activities)
– Communication (Spouse not listening, understanding)
Frequent conflict lowers _______
relationship quality
T/F: most fights arise from nothing
True
What is the most important thing about conflict?
How it is handled
Who developed the four horseman based on observing couples for 30 years?
Gottman
T/F: Gottman’s work is empirically tested?
False
What are gottman’s four horsemen?
- criticism
- comtempt
- defensiveness
- stonewalling
Four Horsemen: Criticism
– Attacking partner’s personality and character
– “Kitchen-sinking”
Four Horsemen: Contempt
– Trying to insult or psychologically abuse partner
– Name-calling, sarcasm
Four Horsemen: Defensiveness
– Seeing self as victim
– Cross-Complaining
– “Yes-butting”
– Mind-reading (e.g., “I know how you think.”)
– Rubber Man/Woman (e.g., “I’m rude - YOU’RE rude!”)
Four Horsemen: Stonewalling
– Stony silence, removing self physically
– Withdrawa
What is kitchen sinking? (associated with four horsemen: criticism)
when couples are fighting about one thing, but someone starts throwing a bunch of other things in the mix to fight about
What is often the first step in the demand/withdraw pattern?
Stonewalling
What is the demand/withdraw pattern?
demanding criticizes, nags, makes demands; withdrawer avoids confrontation, withdraws, becomes defensive
Demand/withdraw patterns are strongly linked to _____
gender
What are two “accounts” associated with gender and demand/withdraw patterns?
sociostructural and physiological
What are two gender-related sociostructural accounts (demand/withdraw)
– Women are more likely than men to ask their partner to change
– Women are often thrust into the demander role and men respond
with withdrawal
What are common demands that women make?
help with household chores, child care, and express more intimacy
What is one physiological account (demand/withdraw)
Men tend to get more aroused by conflict with their partners and
tend to withdraw to regulate this arousal
What are 3 things that demand/withdraw is associated with?
relational outcomes
wellness outcomes
communication outcomes
What is one of gottman’s quotes that is the main takeaway of conflict?
Not whether you fight, its how you fight that matters
Name the ways to resolve conflict from most destructive to most constructive (5)
separation
domination
compromise
integrative agreements
structural improvements
Name the ways to resolve conflict from most constructive to most destructive (5)
structural improvement
integrative agreements
comrpomise
domination
separation
What is the most destructive way of “resolving conflict”?
separation
What is the most constructive way of resolving conflict?
structural imrpovement
What is separation? (resolving conflict)
Withdrawal of one or both partners without conflict
being resolved
What is domination? (resolving conflict)
One partner continues to pursue his or her goals,
while the other gives in
What is compromise? (resolving conflict)
Both partners give up their original ideal in favor of a
mutually acceptable alternative