Week 6 Flashcards
What is cognitive interdependence?
Partners become incorporated into our self-concept.
What is behavioural interdependence?
We do things for each other and together.
What is affective interdependence?
Demonstrate intimacy and commitment.
How do social relationships exert a sustained influence on human health and morality?
- social isolation - negative consequences.
- social integration - positive and negative - depends on type of behaviour.
What physical symptoms can be linked to negative/hostile interactions with close partners?
- disrupted physiological stress responses
- poor immune responses
- chronic pain
- slower wound healing
How can relationships be threatened?
Because interdependence can lead to disagreements and because external factors can trigger relationship breakdown.
3 threats to relationships
- external factors
- stresses from social norms (gender roles)
- suspected infidelity
What type of infedility are women more concerned about?
emotional infeditity - it threatens the substainability of a long-term relationship.
What type of infedility are men more concerned about?
sexual infedility because it can increase the uncertainty of paternity, reduce the chance of having their own biological child and allocating resources to a child that is not their own.
What is the most common reason for divorce?
Infidelity - associated with poorer mental health.
The investment model
Used to predict and explain infidelity in dating relationships.
What is commitment
A motivation to continue a relationship - primarily determinant of relationship longetivity or termination
What are predicting levels of relationship commitment?
- relationship satisfaction
- investments
- percieved quality alternatives
What does the Investment model demonstrate?
How relationship commitment influences how individuals manage their attraction to others.
How can conflicts be handled?
Constructively (actively discussing the problem) or destructively (reciprocity or negative feelings and acts).
What are the 4 types of problematic communication often used in conflict?
- critism that characteristics of a person as a whole
- concept
- defensiveness
- stonewalling (refusal to communicate)
Secure attachments
- accommodate more positively than others.
- experience less jealousy.
Preoccupied or fearful attachments
- more likely to show strong, negative emotions.
When is constructive accommodation more likely?
- when couples are committed
- among couples who idolize eachother
- among couples who believe relationships need to be ‘worked on’.
When is constructive accommodation less likely?
- among couples who believe they and their current partner are destined to be together.
- quicker end to relationship if satisfaction fails.
Content analysis
designed to develop your experience of categorising textual data that shows how many times a response falls into a specific theme/catagory.
Steps of content analysis
1) Data familisation
2) Inital coding generation
3) Searching for themes based on initial coding
4) Review of the themes
5) Theme definition and labelling
6) Tally chart
