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| Relationship Maintenance Mechanisms |
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| Strategic actions people take to sustain their partnerships |
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| Three types of relationship maintenance mechanisms |
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| Cognitive, Behavioral, Content |
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| Function of cognitive maintenance mechanisms |
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| Cognitive Maintenance Mechanisms |
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| Cognitive Interdependence, Positive Illusions, Perceived Superiority, Inattention to Alternatives, Derogation of Tempting Alternatives |
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| Cognitive Interdependence |
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| Inattention to Alternatives |
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| Derogation of Tempting Alternatives |
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| Function of behavioral maintenance mechanisms |
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| Behavioral Maintenance Mechanisms |
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| Willingness to Sacrifice, Michelangeo Phenomenon, Play, Forgiveness |
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| Function of content maintenance mechanisms |
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| Content Maintenance Mechanisms |
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| Positivity, Assurances, Sharing Tasks, Openness, Support |
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| Levinger's Barrier Model, Karney and Bradbury's Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation Model, Results from the PAIR Project, the Early Years of Marriage Project, People's Personal Perceptions of the Causes of Divorce, Divorced People's Personal Perceptions of the Cause of Their Divorces, Specific Factors Associated with Divorce |
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| Attraction, Alternatives, Barriers |
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| The desire to remain in a partnership is enhanced by its rewards but diminished by its costs |
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| Tempting alternatives increase the appeal of leaving one's current partner |
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| Various social pressures, religious constraints, and financial costs may make it hard to leave |
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| Karney and Bradbury's Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation Model |
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| Enduring Vulnerabilities, Adaptive Processes, Stressful Events |
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| Enduring Vulnerabilities and Divorce |
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| Personal liabilities or weaknesses with which people begin their marriages |
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| Adaptive Processes and Divorce |
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| The techniques with which partners try to cope with stress |
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| Stressful Events and Divorce |
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| The difficulties people encounter |
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| Results from the Pair Project |
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| Enduring Dynamics, Emergent Distress, Disillusionment |
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| Early Years of Marriage Project |
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| Most of the black couples have divorced, compared to about a third of the white couples |
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| People's Personal Perceptions of the Causes of Divorce |
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| Cultural Context, Personal Context, Relational Context |
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| Cultural Context and Divorce |
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| Laws, social norms, and economic opportunities |
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| Personal Context and Divorce |
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| Social networks and neighborhoods |
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| Relational Context and Divorce |
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| Interactions with our partners |
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| Divorced People's Personal Perceptions of the Cause of Their Divorces |
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| Infidelity, Incompatibility, Drug or Alcohol Use, Growing Apart, Personality Problems, Abuse |
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| Specific Factors Associated with Divorce |
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| Socioeconomic Status, Race, Sex Ratios, No-Fault Legislation, Working Women, Prior Marriage, Parental Divorce, Premarital Cohabitation, Personality, Attachment Style, Genetics, Time Apart, Negative Interactions, Sexual Dissatisfaction, Marital Dissatisfaction |
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| Breaking Up with Premarital Partners, Steps to Divorce |
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| Breaking Up with Premarital Partners |
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| Indirect, Self-Oriented, Gradual, Unmutual, Protracted |
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| Never tell their partners that they seek to leave |
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| Discontent does not grow suddenly |
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| Most of the time, only they and not their partners want the relationship to end |
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| Personal Phase, Dyadic Phase, Social Phase, Grave-Dressing Phase |
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| One partner grows dissatisfied |
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| Discontent is revealed, and confrontation, negotiation, and attempts at reconciliation may occur |
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| Partners publicize their distress and seek support from friends and family |
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| People put the failed relationship behind them with reassessment, rationalization, and accounts. |
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| Aftermath of Separation and Divorce |
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| Basics, Relationships Between Former Partners, Children Whose Parents Divorce |
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| Basics of the Aftermath of Separation and Divorce |
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| It can take years to adjust, negative emotions are common, social networks shrink, women's finances usually deteriorate |
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| Relationships Between Former Partners |
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| Fiery Foes, Angry Associates, Cooperative Colleagues, Perfect Pals |
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| Remain fierce antagonists |
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| Stay bitter, but manage to work together in parenting |
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| Collaborate without rancor |
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| Maintain a respectful friendship |
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| Children Whose Parents Divorce |
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| Parental Loss, Parental Stress, Economic Hardship, Parental Conflict |
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| Ability to influence the behavior of others and to resist their influence on us |
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| Power and Interdependency Theory |
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| Sources of Power, Types of Power, Types of Resources, Process of Power, Outcome of Power |
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| Interdependency Perspective, Principle of Lesser Interest |
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| Interdependency Perspective |
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| Control of valuable resources |
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| Principle of Lesser Interest |
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| Partner who is less dependent on the relationship has more power |
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| Fate Control, Behavior Control |
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| Allows one to control a partner's outcomes no matter what the partner does |
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| Allows one to encourage, but not compel, desired behavior from a partner |
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| Reward, Coercive, Legitimate, Referent, Expert, Informational, Universalistic, Particularistic |
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| Ability to bestow desired rewards |
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| Ability to levy unwanted punishments |
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| One partner has a reasonable right to tell the other what to do |
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| Superior knowledge and experience |
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| One partner has specific information that the other wants |
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| Only with particular partners |
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| Language, Nonverbal Behavior, Nonverbal Sensitivity, Styles of Power |
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| Many of us hold more power in our close relationships than we think we do |
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| Need for power is negatively correlated with affection and relationship satisfaction |
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| Types of Violence in Romantic Couples |
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| Situational Couple Violence, Intimate Terrorism, Mutual Violent Control, Violent Resistance |
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| Situational Couple Violence |
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| Specific angry arguments that get out of hand |
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| One partner uses violence as a too to control and oppress the other |
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| Both partners engage in intimate terrorism |
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| Patrner forcibly fights back |
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| Criticism, Illegitimate Demands, Rebuffs, Cumulative Annoyances |
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| Beginning of Attributional Conflict |
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| Avoidance, Negotiation, Escalation |
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| Not discussing the issue at all |
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| Attributional Negotiation |
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| Man is offensive, woman is defensive |
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| Negotiation and Accommodation |
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| Voice, Loyalty, Exit, Neglect |
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| Actively, constructively working to improve the situation |
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| Passively, constructively waiting and hoping for things to get better |
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| Actively, destructively leaving the partner |
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| Passively, deconstructively allowing things to get worse |
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| Types of Conflicted Couples |
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| Volatile, Validators, Avoiders, Hostiles |
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| Couples have frequent and passionate arguments, but they temper their fights with pleanty of wit and evident fondness for each other |
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| Fight more politely and calmly |
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| Separation, Domination, Compromise, Integrative Agreements, Structural Improvement |
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| One or both partners withdraw without resolving the conflict |
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| One partner gets his or her way |
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| Both parties reduce their aspirations so that a mutually acceptable alternative can be reached |
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| Satisfy both partners' aspirations |
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| Partners get what they want and make desirable changes to their relationship |
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| Hurt Feelings, Ostracism, Jealousy, Deception and Lying, Betrayal, Forgiveness |
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