CHAPTER 8 Flashcards
Relationship Maintenance
The routine behaviours and strategies partners undertake to ensure their relationship will continue and/or improve
Intimacy Process Model
A framework that describes intimacy in terms of disclosures and responses to those disclosures that serve to deepen or weaken feelings of understanding, validation, and caring in a committed relationship
Interpretive Filter
A key component of the intimacy process model that involves how partners understand each other’s disclosures and responses
Emphatic interpretations increase _______________ whereas critical or dismissive interpretations can ____________________
Feelings of closeness and intimacy; threaten these feelings
Empathy
The capacity to understand and share another person’s thoughts and feelings
Self-Expansion Model
A perspective on relationship maintenance based on the idea that people want to increase their capacity and effectiveness to achieve their goals and strive to acquire resources, enrich their identity, and strengthen their skills
____________________ are a common way people attempt to improve, or expand, themselves
Intimate relationships
Social Integration
Involvement and interconnections with other people
Social Support
The resources and assistance, both practical and emotional, that relationship partners provide each other
Visible Support
Efforts to promote the well-being of a partner that the recipient partner is AWARE of
A drawback of visible support is the possible ___________________________
Compromise of the recipient’s self-esteem
Invisible Support
Efforts to promote the well-being of a partner that the receiving partner is NOT AWARE of receiving, thereby reducing a sense of obligation to reciprocate while protecting the recipient’s self-esteem
Broaden-and-Build Theory
In the context of relationship maintenance, the idea that expressing positive emotions enhances how partners think about, and respond to, daily events, and helps build the resources for maintaining well-being
Capitalization
An interpersonal process in which positive events are disclosed by one partner and elaborated on by the other partner, thereby enhancing the association between those events and the relationship; a strategy for maintaining intimacy
Forgiveness
In the context of relationship maintenance, the transformation of anger or hurt feelings into a desire to be generous and unselfish toward the offending partner
