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| Relational Maintenance Behaviors |
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| Actions and activities that sustain a relationship as the partners want it defined |
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| The idea that relationships tend to remain intact unless people make an effort to dissolve them |
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| The idea that relationships tend to deteriorate unless people make an effort to sustain them |
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| Equity Theory (Four Propositions) |
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How fairness works in various kinds of relationships:
Prop. 1: Individuals try to increase rewards and minimize punishments
Prop. 2a: People can maximize rewards by developing systems of equity and influencing others to adopt those systems of equity
Prop. 2b: Groups rewards persons who treat others equitably and punish those who don't
Prop. 3: People become distressed when they see their relationships as inequitable
Prop. 4: People who perceive inequity try to restore equity. |
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| The principle of fairness that is based on a comparison of what two people put in (inputs) and obtain (outcomes). |
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| Maintenance Strategies (5) |
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Positivity: acting cheerful, courteous, refraining from criticism
Openness: explicitly discuss nature of relationship
Assurances: Show they are faithful, stress commitment, imply that relationship has a future
Social Networks: rely on friends and family
Sharing Tasks: performing one's share of the work in the relationship |
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| Interplay between polar opposites |
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Dialectical Tensions
(Internal Manifestation or External) |
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Integration/Separation (Connection/Autonomy or Inclusion/Seclusion)
Stability/Change (Predictability/Novelty or Conventionality/Uniqueness)
Expression/Privacy (Openness/Closedness or Revelation/Concealment) |
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Eros (Passionate love)
Ludus (Sensation-seeking fun)
Storge (Friendship-oriented)
Pragma (Practicality and rationality)
Mania (Possessive and dependent)
Agape (Altruism and idealism) |
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Companionate Love (Shared experiences and feelings)
Secure Love (Defined by feelings of security)
Intuitive Love (Does not have to say anything because primarily through nonverbal)
Committed Love (togetherness)
Traditional Romantic Love (feelings of warmth and of being beautiful and confident) |
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Fitzpatrick's Marital Typology
(Three Primary Types of Marriage) |
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Traditional Couples (traditional societal roles)
Separate Couples (Autonomous and avoid conflict of all kinds)
Independent Couples (Negotiate many issues, no traditional beliefs) |
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