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Androgyny
Either sex can be masculine or femine
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Dual career v. dual earner couples
- Dual earner: Work for financial income
- Dual career: Work for personal reasons
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kinship and kin-work
maintaining contact with family outside of family home. managing boundaries.
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Independent couple types
accept uncertainty and change.
pay little attention to time and traditional values.
most likely to conflict and most likely to have androgynous roles.
low marital satisfaction.
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separate couple type
greater conflict avoidance
more separated space needs
regular schedules
little sense of togetherness
low marital satisifaction
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Traditional
resist change or uncertainty because it threatens routines
sex-type roles
high satisfaction
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validating conflict type
partner's respect one another's point of view of a variety of topics, when they disagree try to work out a compromise never hit below the belt.
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volatile conflict type
comfortable with disagreement and lack of harmony. any question over roles and who does what when leads to open conflict. they don't fight fairly, but often.
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conflict avoider conflict style
hate negative messages and go to any length to avoid them.
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dominance
dyading relational behavior, winning one-ups and the other accepts it
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domineeringness
when one person tries to be in control, but the other doesn't submit--causes conflict to escalade.
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dominance
when one person is in control and other submits
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confirming messages
one tries to get another to identify with him or her or when one tries to give or get power
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disconfirming messages
silent treatment
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rejecting messages
punishment messages and are used as control. "I hate you."
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direct influence strategies
asking, bargaining, reasoning
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indirect influence strategies
hinting
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bargaining
offering to pay for some of the item or doing something to get it
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persuasion
giving opinion, asking repetitively or begging
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emotional
showing anger, pouting, making parents feel guilty
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request
directly asking, expressing need or want, demanding
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consensus decision-making
involves discussion
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accomodation
consent to decision even when they don't totally agree
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de facto
one person makes decision without approval
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one-spouse dominant
one spouse in in power
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syncratic authority type
shared authority and joint decision making
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autonomic
have equal authority in different areas
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normative resources
basing power off of cultural norms
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economic resources
person with highest income has most power.
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affective resources
determines who in the family nurtures others and how each member meets his or her needs for feeling loved or belonging
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personal resources
using personal characteristics to gain power (personality, appearance)
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cognitive resources
using intelligence. eg. kids speaking english from mexico
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Health behavior influence strategies (4 and examples)
engaging in health behavior together: Let's start running!
discussing the health issue: give a newspaper article about veganism
requesting the partner engage in healthy behavior: quit smoking
engaging in facilitative behavior: set aside money for wife's excercise class
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