Rusbilts Model Of Commitment , Satisfaction , Comparison With Alternative’s And Investment

Question 1

What does investment model emphasise the importance of in a relatiships?

Answer 1

Commitment

Rusbult devised model to address limitation of the SET

According to rusbult commitment depends on 3 factors

Question 2

Satisfaction

Answer 2

Judged by comparing rewards and costs

Each partner satisfied by more rewards than expected based on previous relationships or social norms

Question 3

Comparison with alternatives

Answer 3

Compare rewards and costs with current relatiships compared to potential ones

Question 4

Investment size

Answer 4

Anything we would lose do relatiships were to end

Question 5

Intrinsic investment

Answer 5

Resources out directly into the relatiships

Includes tangible things like money and possession

Includes intangible things like time and self disclosure

Question 6

Extrinsic investment

Answer 6

Investment which did not previously feature in the relationship

E.g children and houses

After investment has occurred commitment increases

Question 7

RTS rulbukts investment model as theory of romantic relatiships by LE and Angew

Answer 7

Meta analysis of 52 studies with 11,000 ppts from 5 countries

Found satisfaction, comparison with alternatives and investment size all predicted relationship commititment .

Relationships where commitment was greatest were more stable and lasted longest

Increasing validity of
Rulbults investment model as theory of romantic relationships

Question 8

RTS Rusbults investment model by Rusbults and Martz

Answer 8

Studies women who experienced domestic violence and found those most likely to return back to partner

Reported having high investment and no attractive alternative

Supports as it suggest satisfaction on its own cannot explain why people stay in relationships commitment and investment must also be a factor as Rulbult suggest

Increasing validity of Rulbults investment model as a theory of romantic relationships

Question 9

However it’s important to consider other alternatives of romantic relatiships

Answer 9

E.g equity theory states most important thing for a relatiship to succeed is equity rather than amount of investment an individual has in a relationship

Rulbults investment model may not be sole explanation of whether a relatiship will succeed