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Breakdown model

Support- surveyed students who had recently broken up with a romantic partner. Reported emotional stress but personal growth also. Break up, clearer idea of future partner and a better insight into themselves. Grave dressing and resurrection allowed them to move forward.

This supports the model of breakdown as this shows how students used it in the own relations from the breakdown to moving on.

X- study focused on students. may not able to be applied to wider population. Creating the study to be biased as students relationships may be different to relationships who have had many previous break up experience or been married 20 years.

However, duck and rollies model- one everyone can relate to.

Reasons for breakdown

Extra marital affairs

Maintenance difficulties

BOEKHOUT- Undergraduates, to rate various sexual and emotional reasons foR M+F to be unfaithful. Men- sexual excitement, boredom, variety. F- Lack of attention, lack of commitment.

support- showed how affairs, reaction to lack of skills and stimulation in current relationship lead to break up

X- Reasons may not be truly representative because trying to justify reasons for it. Reasons aren't actually true.

LDF AND LDR- common. 70% of students sampled had experienced LDF and 90% LDR.

Study- not uncommon for people to have to move, technology. found successful Strategies to cope with long distance for example decrease in relationship dissatisfaction if could meet regularly

x- shows long distance relationships and therefore lack of maintenance doesn't nesaserly lead to breakdown.

IDA

Real world application- development of training programs to enhance a relationship skills in distressed couples.study compared 50 couples- couple enhancement training. compared to couples who did not. Training casued more likleyness of marriage compared to no training

Gender differences- women more likely to express unhappiness and imcompatability whereas men upset by sexual withholding. study found, females- friends after relationships

males- cut there losses

Ethical issues- sensitive isues- cause distress. Maintain private and personal info.

Individual differences- theory cant explain this. study- found person who did the break up had less negative consequences that the other partner. possibly as the break up person had more time to come to terms with the ending of the relationship.

Can not account for differences suggest theory is reductionist. over simplified.

All couples are different, cause and effect. correlation. other variables. One couple might- infidelity or communicating with each other.