Personality

Question 1

Commitment
Investment model of commitment

Answer 1

Desire for relationship to continue + inclination to work to maintain it

Components:
- Satisfaction
- Investment
- Alternatives (low)

Question 2

Ppl high in:
- Extroversion
- Conscientiousness
- Openness to exp
Neuroticism

Answer 2

Extroversion:
- Open to new forms of communication (but more disclosure)
- Happier relationships bcuz thrive in social situations

Conscientiousness:
- Popular after high school
- Dependable, trustworthy partner but can have poor communication and have unrealistic goals

Openness to experience:
- Social media, more sexual encounters
- Happier relationship bcuz more expressive and supportive listening

Neuroticism:
- More arousal during conflict and poor resolution skills
- More cost-inflicting mate retention behavs (cost-inflicting vs benefit provisioning)

Question 3

Ppl high in:
- Avoidant attachment
- Anxious attachment

Answer 3

Avoidant attachment:
- Prefer face to face communication; less likely to use dating sites
- Happier relationships when finding someone who can handle their behav
- But can assert autonomy in r intellectually challenge partner

Anxious:
- Addicted to texting + using social media
- Feel freer to express w/out fear of judgment and can consider what to say better

Question 4

Emotional intelligence
Authenticity

Answer 4

Ability to reason in regard to emotions + use emotions to enhance reasoning

Ability to be open and hinwst in meaningful relationships in multiple contexts

Question 5

Shyness

Answer 5

Discomfort in social settings and avoiding interactions

• Fear if negative self-evaluation
• Low self-esteen
• Low social skills

Question 6

Study: Helping shy ppl (Leary)
- Meet and greet stranger in loud or soft condition
- Looked at change in BPM

Answer 6

When noise soft, high shyness more aroused
- Removing threat of personal failure may help overcome shyness

Question 7

Study: Attachment and friendship in adolescence (Freeman and Brown)
- 11th and 12th graders - Who id primary attachment figure?

Answer 7

• Securely attached maintain childhood attachment to parent
• Insecurely attached transfer attachment to peer (esp avoidant)

Question 8

Study: Does attachment remain stable during adulthood? (kirkpatrick and Hazan)
- + What events cause change
- 4-year longitudinal study
- T1 + T2 adult attachment, relationship status
- T2 number of new relationships and breakups

Answer 8

• Most ppl had the same attachment style (but esp securely attached)

Changes:
- Securely attached w/ breakup
- Avoidant attachment w/ new relationship

Strong influence of early attachment, most remain stable
- But breakup and positive relationship exps can change style

Question 9

Study: Attachment and perceived responsiveness (Collins and Feeney)
- Romantic couples; one person spontaneously recorded speech and received unambiguous/high support or ambiguous/low support note
- How supportive was note + partner’s behav before speech?

Answer 9

• Unambiguous supportive notes positively rated
• But insecurely attached - Ambiguous note and behav upsetting

Working models of self and others can bias perception of support exps

Question 10

Study: How individuals in long term marital relationships feel about sexual relationship (Butzer and Campbell)
- Self report, questionnaire (attachment style, sexual satisfaction, marital satisfaction)

Answer 10

• Own attachment style and partner’s avoidant style had negative impact on sexual satisfaction

Correlation between sexual and marital satisfaction:
- Avoidant - Low marital no matter what sexual
- Anxious - High sexual w/ high marital