Phase Model^

Question 1

Duck’s Phases

Answer 1

Intra-Psychic
Dyadic
Social
Grave-Dressing

Question 2

Intra-Psychic Phase

Answer 2

personal brooding
internal
don’t share, but can express dissatisfaction other way

Question 3

Dyadic Phase

Answer 3

discuss with partner
relationship may be safe
or begin to tell others about dissatisfaction

Question 4

Social Phase

Answer 4

issues made public to family/ friends
take sides/ give advice/ help fix dispute

Question 5

Grave-Dressing

Answer 5

saving face
broke up so each try to justify actions
present themselves well
may reinterpret view of partner

Question 6

Real World Applications

Answer 6

give advice on how breakdown can be reversed
Duck
- people in psychic phase should focus their worry on the positive aspect of partner
model give practical advice than can be used in counselling

Question 7

VS Real World Application

Answer 7

research based on individualist cultures
Moghaddem et al
- relations. for people from IC are more voluntary (forced marriage)
- more frequently end through divorce
Romantic relation. differ between cultures
Lack population validity

Question 8

An Incomplete Model

Answer 8

incomplete explanations of breakdown
Duck & Rollie
- added fifth phase - resurecction phase
- ex apply experience from prev to new relations.
Can move forward and backward on the phases
Original model does not account the complexity of breakdowns

Question 9

Less Understood

Answer 9

early phases are less understood
much of research is retrospective
partic. report experience after breakdown
recall not accurate/reliable
early stages were longer ago = recall distorted
Model explains them worse than later ones

Question 10

Description > Explanations

Answer 10

model focuses on what happens over the facts that caused it
Felmlee
- fatal attraction hypothesis focuses on why
- traits that led to initial attraction can later be seen as underdesirable
Description does no help fix the problem