READINGS Flashcards
Benefits of VISIBLE support (Zee & Bolger)
Feel supported & comforted
Costs of VISIBLE support
- Create feelings of inefficiency
- Feel like a burden and indebted
- Amplified perceived challenge/stress
Benefits of INVISIBLE support
- Boosts self-efficacy
- Avoids indebtedness
Costs of INVISIBLE support
- Feel unsupported and uncared for
- Don’t get needed action-orientated help
What is invisible support? (Bolger et al. 2000)
Supportive act may occur outside recipent awareness, OR the recipient may be aware, but may not code it as support.
Costs and Benefits of DIRECT opposition
Beneficial when diagnostic of problem severity and partners feel able to resolve issue
Harmful when disproportionate to problem severity and partners feel unable to resolve issue
Costs and Benefits of INDIRECT opposition
Beneficial when successfully inducing guilt in partner reduces relationship insecurity
Harmful when partners avoid dependence, resent implied obligations, and resist change
Costs and Benefits of INDIRECT cooperation
Beneficial when reduces reactance in defenseiveness partners and problems are addressed
Harmful when serious problems remain unaddressed and partners continue problematic behavior
Honest communication Model
Couples should openly express negative feelings and cognitions, dealing with conflict directly, never leaving problems unresolved.
Good management model
Open expression of negative thoughts and feelings have caustic effects on relationships and exercising good communication skills involves compromise
What is negative reciprocity?
When negative behaviour by one partner is met with an intensified response by the other.
What does altruism & prosocial literature focus on?
- when are people most inclined to help others?
- What attributes of victims elicit the most helping?
What are the three types of helping?
- Emergency intervention
- Organizational helping
- Sharing and donating resources
