In canada what percent of marriages end in divorce?
40%
True or False: Children who experience the divorce of their parents are more likely to divorce themselves when they become adults
True
Are people who have friends that got divorced more likely to get divorced?
People who had a friend or family member who divorced were 75% more likely to divorce as well
Explain soem of the validity of the PAIR project:
-Economically diverse sample
-in-depth information about each partner’s background
-extensive information about the couples courtships
-diary-based information gathered each year
What was the results of the PAIR project?
After 13 years, 35% of the couples had divorced and 20% said they were not happy
What are enduring dynamics and how can they be predictors of divorce?
Spouses may bring to their marriage problems that surfaced during courtship
What is emergent distress and hwo can it be a predictor of divorce?
The problems that destroy a couple begin after they marry, so that when they begin, there aren’t any obvious differences between marriages that will succeed and those that will fail
What is disillusionment?
Couples typically begin their marriages with rosy, romanticied views of their relationships that are unrealistically positive.
-Romance fades and disappointment gradually sets in
What model is the best predictor of which couples would actually divorce?
The disillusionment model
-the drop in martal satisfaction during the first years of marriage was sharper and more pronounced in some couples than in others, and they were the spouses who were more risk for divorce
True or False: Both the level of satisfaction a couple experiences and the change in that satisfaction over time are key predictors of relationship outcomes
True
What is the biggest reason that people say caused their divorces?
1infidelity,
2incompatibility,
3 drinking or substance abuse
Does having a higher socieconmic status make you more or less likely to divorce
Less likely
True or False: People who move from place to place are more prone to divorce
TRUE
How does the age you get married effect your divorce rate ?
Who get married as teenagers are more prone to divorce then those born in their twenties, especially 25
Did a more expensive ring or less expensive ring cause divorce?
more expensive 2k to 4k
Same thing goes for the wedding
What are 5 main predictors of divorce:
-Teenage sex
-Premarital ambivalence
-Premartial parentgood
-prior marriage
children, (spouses with no children are more likely to divorce, but this effect is largest when children are young)
What are personal predictors of divorce?
Personality: higher in one’s negative emotionality, more likely to divorce
-Attachment style: people who are high in avoidance of intimacy are more likely to divorce
Genetics: A person with an identical twin who divorces is more likely to divorce
If someone is more positive are they more or less likely to d
Less
If someone has percieved social support, are they more or less likely to d
, the more social support that dissatisfied spouses judge to be available form friends and family the more likely they are to d
What percentage of breakups are mutual?
1/3
Do peoples disontent grow quickly or slowly in a marriage?
Slowly, people state being unhappy for 5 years before divorceing
True or False: Breakups are usually less awful they people predict they will be
True
Are people better off when they leave a miserable marriage?
Yes even if they are worse off the first few years after the divorce
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Module 2: intro/ influence of culture, need for intimacy13
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Module 3: Attachment Styles9
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Module 4: Research Methods13
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Module 5: Attraction16
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Module 6: Attraction7
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Module 7: Social Cognition26
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Remember!!2
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Module 8: Communications0
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Module 9: Communication0
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Module 10: Communications and interdependency0
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Module 11: Interdependency and friendship0
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Module 12: Love0
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Module 13: Stresses and Strains21
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Module 14: Stresses and Strains11
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Module 15: Conflict30
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Module 16: Dissolution and Loss23
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Module 17: Dissolution and loss and maintenance and repairing21
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Module 18: Maintenance and Repairing10
