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31 Cards in this Set
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Secure attachment style |
Have positive views of relationships, find it easy to get close to others, not overly concerned/stressed about romantic relationships
Tend to enjoy sexuality in context of committed relationship. Less likely to have 1 night stands |
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Avoidant attachment style |
Hesitant about getting involved in romantic relationships. Once they are in one, tend to distance themself from their partner. |
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Anxious attachment style |
Demand closeness, less trusting, more emotional, jealous and possessive |
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Intimacy vs Isolation |
Finding oneself while losing oneself in another person. It requires commitment to another person.
Balance bw intimacy + commitments, independence and freedom.
We can't meet the intimacy crisis without doing the identify crisis. (If u dont know who you are, the relationship can fall apart bc you don't know what you want)
Only stage where this happens. Wont be able to have generativity and regret your life. Identity establishes the rest of the stuff. |
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Romantic Love |
Strong sexual desire and infatuation components. Passionate. Involve passion, fear, anger, sexual desire, joy, jealousy.
Predominates in early period of a love relationship. |
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Affectionate Love |
Companionate love. When someone desires to have the other person near and has deep, caring affection for that person.
Usually comes after, once the fiery emotions have dissolved. It can end in this, or end in distance and boredom, eventual end of relationship. |
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Sternbergs Triarchic Theory of Love |
3 dimensions. Passion, intimacy and commitment. Passion- physical and sexual attraction Intimacy - warmth, closeness, sharing Commitment- intent to maintain relationship in the face of problems Types of love are infatuation, affectionate, fatuous, and consummate |
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Consummate Love |
Strongest, fullest form of love. Involves all 3 dimensions. |
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Infatuation |
Passion is the only ingredient.
Examples include affairs or flings where theres little commitment or intimacy |
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Affectionate Love |
High intimacy and commitment but low/lacking in passion. Found in couples who have been married for many years |
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Fatuous Love |
Where passion and commitment is present, but intimacy is not. Like when one person worships another from a distance. |
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Single Adults |
Dramatic rise in this in the US. This reflects the rising rates of cohabitation and trend towards postponing marriage.
Fastest growth happening in rapidly dev countries like china, Brazil, India
Challenges: loneliness, financial/social prejudice, forming intimate relationships.
Benefits: freedom, exploration, time to develop ones own goals, privacy |
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Cohabiting Adults |
Living together in a sexual relationship without being married. Dramatic increase in US. Semi universal to do this b4 marriage. Some people see it as an ongoing lifestyle. Easier to seperate. Fewer than 1 out of 10 last 5 years. Cohabition attracts less traditional lifestyle who arent great believers of marriage in the first place. Can also change ppls beliefs and attitudes that increase likelihood of divorce |
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Married Adults |
Until 1030, accepted as endpoint of adult dev.
Personal fulfillment inside and out competes with marital stability.
Expectations and male/female equality has lead to more fragile intense relationships than the past
Factors that determine whether it will last are education and ethnicity |
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Divorced adults |
Reached epidemic proportions in 1980s. Happens about a 5th to 10th years of marriage. Reflects effort by partners in troubled marriages to make it work. Negatively impacts social, physical and mental health of individuals. Alcoholism, illness, anxiety, loneliness ect. Women more likely to see it as a 2nd chance but are negatively impacted economically. |
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Remarried Adults |
Usually do so rather quickly, 50% in first 3 years. Men with high income more likely to than lower income counterparts. Also more likely to than women. Occurs sooner for those that initiated divorce. On a decline bc of increase in cohabition. Find it difficult to stay married bc they usually do so for financial reasons, or carry same attitudes that lead to divorce in the first place |
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Gay/Lesbian Adults |
Relationships are similar in satisfaction, loves, joys, conflicts. Lesbian couples 5x more likely to raise children than gay ones. Prefer long term committed relationships |
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Transgender |
Refers to people whose gender identity/behavior are either completely or partially at odds with sex they were born/assigned. |
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Fearful attachment |
Fearful of intimacy. Socially avoidant |
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Empty love |
Only commitment |
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Friendship |
Intimacy and commitment |
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Romantic love |
Passion and intimacy |
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Higher rates of divorce and lower marriage satisfaction. |
How is prior cohabition associated with marital satisfaction |
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Female: 28.7 Male: 26.5 |
Highest ages for first marriages U.S History |
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9 years |
Average duration of marriage |
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Report talk |
Men use this kind of talking during conversation Talk as a means to perserve independence and negotiate/maintain status in a hierarchical social order |
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Rapport |
Women use this during conversation. Developing a connection with someone else |
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Steady job Similar ideas about raising kids moral religious beliefs education Same ethnic background |
Factors women are looking for in order |
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Similar ideas about raising children Steady job Moral religious beliefs Education Ethnicity |
Factors men are looking for in order |
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Key findings in national sex survey |
Married couples more sex than non 1/3 sex 2x a week, 1/3 couple times a month, 1/3 few time a year or none Most dont engage in kinky sex Adultery exception not rule |
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Level of education and ethnicity |
Divorce predictors |
