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| Gottman's Four Horseman +1 |
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criticism, defensiveness, content, stonewalling, +1 Belligerance
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| Postivite critiscism comments |
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conversation aimed at conveying information
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speaking to gain intimacy
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speaking to gain intimacy
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directly expressed anger (nagging, nit picking, sarcasim)
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issues partners are unable, unaware, or unwilling to talk about
Most couples deal with their issus in contet of negative events
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| Gottman found that the only variable that predicted both marital stability and happiness was the amount of... |
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positive affect in the conflict
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| 3 types of saftey through positive communication |
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commitment, emotional saftey, and personal saftey
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verbal/nonverbal agreement
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verbal/nonverbal disagreement
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| 3 obstables to valid hearing |
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silence, expectations, baggage
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| 2 barriers to meaningful communication |
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timing and not letting the situation arise
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| 3 causes of fear "not letting the situation arise" |
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anger, lack of energy, wanting to solve the problem
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| 5 components of fighting fair |
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1. focus on the issue
2. use "i"
3. make it a clear observable behavior
4. show emotion
5. provide a solution
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keeping ones grivences secret while tossing them into an imaginary gunnysack growing heavier over time (martyring)
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having a child is taken for granted whereas not having a child seems to need a justification
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| what is the percentage of child free women |
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| happiest time in a marriage |
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before the first birth and after the last child leaves the nest
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| 2 key factors of at risk family life |
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mother's low IQ and early pregnancy (usually=poverty)
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| True or False: More children decress happiness |
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in quality daycare they thrive and are more social and independent
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authoritarian, laissez faire, authoritative
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low on emotional nurturing and support but high on parental direction and control
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permissive allowing child to se own boundaries with no parental guidance
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warm firm and fair combines emotional nurturing and support with parental discretion
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| Four types of co parenting |
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perfect pals (12%), co operative colleagues (38%), angry associates (25%)firery foes (25%)
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a law which exists in all 50 states it eliminates legal concepts of guilt and is a symbolic representation of how our society views divorce
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employment might contribute to a divorce by giving an unhappily married woman the economic power, the increased independence and self confidence to help her decide on a divorce
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| intergenerational transmission of divorce |
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when partners remain married they serve as models of optomism about solving marital problems
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| exchange theory perspective: |
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Levinger argues that spouses weigh their marital happiness against both alternative to marriage and barriers to divorce. Affection and economic concerns for children are one thing that may serve as a barrier as well as a strong religious belief agains divorce
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emotional, legal, community, psychic
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is not reconsiliation. It is giving up the precieved right to get even. Giving up the "you own me" attitude
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a good divorce does not end a family it produces a binuclear one (2 houeholds one family)
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| 5 reasons for negative effects of divorce on children |
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life stress perspective, parental loss perspective, parental adjusment, economic hardship, parental conflict
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is when remarriage is seen as an incomplete situation
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| white and Booths studies of remarriage |
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they found that marital quality does not vary greatly between first marriages and single or double remarriages. It is satisfaction with family life that is generally affected
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| Paperhow's 7 stages of stpe family development |
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1. fantasy
2. immersion
3. awareness
4. mobilization
5. action
6. conflict
7. resolution
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| 3 main challanges in step families |
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1. financial strains
2. role ambiguity
3. stepchildrens hostility
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