Social Support and socioeconomic status

Question 1

What are social networks?

Answer 1

Connections to family, friends, neighbors, clubs, or other institutions

Question 2

What are psychological networks?

Answer 2

People who play important roles in your life.

Question 3

What are interactive networks?

Answer 3

People with whom you regular interact.

Question 4

When do networks help relationships?

Answer 4

When there is a lot of overlap between partner’s network.

When they are separate then it can be bad for the relationship

Question 5

True or false:

When your networks support your partnership it has a hugely positive impact on the relationship.

Answer 5

True.

Question 6

How do social networks provide resources?

Answer 6

Social networks provide social capital, which can help partners cope with stressors.

Question 7

True or false:

Shared social networks that approve of the relationship make it easier to build and foster the relationship

Answer 7

True.

it adds to constraints

Question 8

What happens when their is sustainability within your network?

Answer 8

Makes the relationship harder to sustain, as it makes your partner replaceable and no longer needed.

Question 9

When family or friends disapprove of relationships, they can ________

Answer 9

Directly interfere.

Question 10

True or false:

On average, religious attendance is associated with higher relationship satisfaction.

Answer 10

True, it allows for a great social support for its members

and having a shared belief system allows can be really helpful.

Question 11

If you have one highly religious partner, and one that is not. What happens?

Answer 11

It causes rifts in a relationship.

Question 12

True or false:

Divorce rates have been falling for university educated women, but have been rising for those without.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

True or false:

Diverse rates are higher in low income neighborhoods

Answer 13

True

Question 14

True or false:

Low income couples are 4x more likely to have their first kid before marriage.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

True or fasle:

Low income couples report higher relationship distress?

Answer 15

True.

Question 16

Do poor people care less about marriage?

Answer 16

No,

they care just as much as those with money about the health of their relationships.

Question 17

Do poor people hold a unrealistic standard for marriage?

Answer 17

maybe,

Their expectations for the relationship are no different, then those of higher income people.

Question 18

Do poor people just have worse relationships?

Answer 18

Nope,
low income couples do not report more negative behavior within their relationships compared to more affluent counterparts.

Question 19

Why do poor people get divorced more often?

Answer 19

Being poor make life more difficult. 
you have:
- fewer resources
- health difficulties 
- lower education 
- little free time
- high stress,

Question 20

What is the promint approach to help with high divorce rates among poor people?

Answer 20

Teach them about relationships

Question 21

What does Matthew
D. Johnson say about helping poor people with relationships?

(three things)

Answer 21

The effects between those who receive help and don’t is small at best.

this is due to the fact that relationship education was made for the middle class.

and those who need it most don’t attend

Question 22

What does Hawkins say about helping poor people with relationships?

(two things)

Answer 22

• in terms of large populations Even small effects translate into big savings in terms of reliance on the taxpayer funded support.
• most governments administrated programs have difficulty demonstrating an impact