Interpersonal Relationships

Interpersonal Relationships

1. Theories (Kreuger & Caspi, 1993)

   • Similarity
   • Ideal Partner
   • Optimal Dissimilarity
   • Optimal Outbreeding
   • Repulsion

2. Fatal Attraction (Felmlee, 1995)

   • Nice - Passive
   • Strong - Stubborn
   • Funny - Flaky
   • Outgoing - Over the top
   • Caring - Clinging

3. Love Styles

   • Sternberg (1986, 98)
     • Intimacy (Friendship), Passion (Infatuation), Committment (Empty)
     • Romantic, Fatuous, Companionate - CONSUMMATE
   • Lee (1976)
     • Primary - Eros, Ludus, Storge
     • Secondary - Mania, Agape, Pragma
     • Group differences
       • Love Attitude Scale (Hendrick & Hendrick, 1986)
       • Three Factor Model (Davis, 1996)

4. Attachment

   • Hazen & Shaver (1987) adult attachment
     • Secure = close, trusting
     • Resistant - fear abandonment
     • Avoidant - withdrawn
   • Baeckstrom & Holmes (2001) - Big Five
     • Secure = EA (N)
     • Avoidant = N (EAC)
     • Resistant = N (A)

5. Dissolution

   • Rusbult (1983) Investment Model
     • Commitment = Satisfaction, Qual. of. Al. & Investments
   • Ending relationship (Rusbult, 1983)
     • Exit, Voice, Loyalty, Neglect
       • Constructive/Destructive; Active/Passive
     • Baxter (1986) Direct/Indirect
     • Duck (1982) Intrapsychic, Dyadic, Social, Grave Dressing
   • Responses
     • Attachment (Davis, Shaver & Vernon 2003)
     • Big Five (Chung 2002)