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(22%) welcome or accept uncertainty and change
Pay very little attn to schedules
Most autonomous (negotiated autonomy)
Enjoy conflict and verbal sparring
Support androgynous and flexible sex roles
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(17%) high conflict avoidance; will do anything to avoid conflict
Separate spaces, distinct space needs
Very specific and distinct schedules
Less sharing, less touchy feely
Tend to be distant with ppl, including their spouse
Low sense of togetherness
Oppose androgynous sex roles
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(20%) fairly conventional belief systems
They like routines, therefore they resist change/uncertainty
High interdependence, low autonomy
Will engage in conflict when necessary
Oppose androgynous roles, prefer strong sex-typed roles
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| traditional marital ideology |
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Based on working mothers
Want husbands to identify with their work, and husbands expect wives to manage the home
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| transitional marital ideology |
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Both hubby and wife see hubby as provider
Wife sees home management as a role, but also identifies with her work
Woman can be earner or career woman
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| egalitarian marital ideology |
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Both partners share home and career opportunities
Works best when both partners agree on roles
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Respect each other’s POV and try to compromise. Generally agree on all big stuff (sex, money, religion, children, etc).
When they disagree, they listen to each other and refrain from low blows and yelling.
They listen efficiently and they reflect each other’s feelings.
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Comfortable with disagreement and lack of harmony; open conflict, very confrontational.
They don’t fight fairly, but they fight often.
Conflict energizes them.
High on persuasive attempts, low on listening and validating.
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| avoidant conflict type (conflict avoiders) |
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Don’t like negative messages and will do anything to avoid conflict.
Will placate and please one another, walk away from arguments, silent treatment.
Passive aggressive.
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| fams can talk openly and say what’s on their mind |
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| fam members have similar values and attitudes |
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high conversation, high conformity
comm is characterized by pressure for agreement, although children are encouraged to express ideas and feelings |
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high conversation, low conformity
open comm; emotional supportiveness within families |
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low conversational, high conformity
stress upholding family rules and avoiding conflict |
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low conformity, low conversation
little interaction; children look outside the family for influence and support |
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Closed, open, random family types
All comm. in fam is used to gain access to things we want or need
Access=strategy, target=what we’re trying to get
Dimensions: affect, power, meaning (target); space, time, energy (access)
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| achieving some kind of intimacy or connectedness with members of family and receiving some rewards in the form of nurturing behavior in their verbal and nonverbal comm |
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| implies that a member has the independence to select what he wants, and the ability to get it |
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| each fam member seeks some philosophical rationale that offers reasons for what happens to them in the fam and the outside world |
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| space (spatial dimensions) |
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| the way a fam handles its phys surroundings, and the ways in which members' communication regulates their psychological distance from each other |
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| consideration of clock time and calendar time in order to understand a fam's basic rhythms |
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| storing and expending phys and psych energy |
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like predictability, have fixed boundaries (psych and space), tightly scheduled calendar
interact less w/ outside world, expect fam to fulfill their needs and want fam to spend their time and energy spent IN the family
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much more flexible boundaries; encouraged to seek experiences outside fam and come back and share what they’ve learned;
very little censorship, force, or coercion;
goals will change over time and will be negotiated; energy is flexible.
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members encouraged to do their own thing; very few boundaries;
time together is very irregular; don’t care about social appropriateness;
can withdraw from family with no criticism |
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Conflict avoidance
Assertiveness
Sharing
Ideology of traditionalism
Ideology of uncertainty and change
Temporal regularity
Undifferentiated space
Autonomy
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3 role types for dual career and dual earner couples (traditional, transitional, egalitarian)
Not based on comm.
May say one thing and do another
Can have mixed types (not couple ideology, but individual)
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3 types of conflict, based on style of conflict interaction
validating, volatile, avoidant
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