Social & Personal Relationships

Question 1

Bowlby (1969)

Answer 1

Attachment theory - An individual’s first close relationships create working models for dealing with subsequent relationships

Hazan and Shaver (1987) - applied attachment theory to adult close relationships

Question 2

Holt-Lunstad (2010)

Answer 2

The influence of social relationships on risk for mortality is comparable with well-established risk factors for mortality like smoking, obesity, etc.

Question 3

Thibaut and Kelly (1959)

Answer 3

Social Exchange theory - people evaluate relationships in terms of cost and benefits. When the risks outweigh the rewards, people will terminate or abandon that relationship. All based on attractiveness of relationship, barriers of leaving relationship, and presence of attractive alternatives outside the relationship