How do relationships change. Flashcards
What is the most important question in relationship science?
Why do relationships sometimes thrive and sometimes falter?
What is the social exchange theory behind why some relationships thrive and some don’t?
Relationships grow, develop, and deteriorate based off of internal forces.
What is the conciseness behind why relationships grow and die?
Emergent distress: The changes of lifes circumstances
What is the social ecological theory behind why some relationships thrive and some don’t?
Stresses slowly decrease relationship quality over time.
What is the Enduring Dynamics model?
Patterns of interaction are set in the early stages of an intimate relationship.
- Stability papers once the patter of interaction is established.
- The fate of a relationship is determined during courtship.
How does Attachment theory effect how your relationship lasts?
Relationships between infant and caregiver serve as a template or internal working model for what to expect in all relationships throughout life.
What do “Enduring Dynamics model” and “Attachment theory” have in common?
They are stability focused.
What is the general trend of marital happiness within the 70’s
That people are happy until they have kids.
Once the kids move out they become happy once again.
What is a cross sectional study?
A study that tries to get an accurate representation of a whole population in a specific point in time.
What is signification about the U shape curve found in the 70’s?
That it was replicated so many times that the scholars time said that it must be absolute fact.
What is wrong about the U shaped curve found in the 70’s?
You cannot make logical assumptions about overall relationships based off of random people at different points in their relationships.
What is wrong with cross-sectional data?
It only takes a snap shot, it will not tell a whole story.
What is the general finding through longitudinal study about the happiness of relationships?
That relationships get worse over time (On average) when you follow the same couples.
(still not ideal)
Whats wrong with using the average of happiness from a longitudinal study?
It takes the studies from the few couples they followed then used this avarege to establish overall marital quality over time.
some people may be really really bad.
What is the current model of relationship?
That the vast majority of couples (63%) maintain happiness over their lifetimes, if not increase in happiness.
