Phase Model^ Flashcards
Duck’s Phases
Intra-Psychic
Dyadic
Social
Grave-Dressing
Intra-Psychic Phase
personal brooding
internal
don’t share, but can express dissatisfaction other way
Dyadic Phase
discuss with partner
relationship may be safe
or begin to tell others about dissatisfaction
Social Phase
issues made public to family/ friends
take sides/ give advice/ help fix dispute
Grave-Dressing
saving face
broke up so each try to justify actions
present themselves well
may reinterpret view of partner
Real World Applications
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
VS Real World Application
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
An Incomplete Model
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
Less Understood
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
Description > Explanations
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