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Chapter 9:
Interpersonal Relationship stages, Theories and Communication …
Chapter 9:
Interpersonal Relationship stages, Theories and Communication
Relationship Stages
Contact
Involvement
Intimacy
Deterioration
Repair
Dissolution
- bonds between the individuals are broken
- interpersonal separation: lead lives apart from each other
- social/public separation: original relationship isn't repaired, separation proves acceptable
- intrapersonal repair: analyze what went wrong and consider ways of solving your relational difficulties
- interpersonal repair: decide that you want to repair the relationship and discuss with partner
- weakening of the bonds between friends or lovers
- intrapersonal dissatisfaction: view your partner negatively
- if it stills growing, interpersonal deterioration (sec. phase): withdraw and grow further apart
- commit yourself still further to the other person & establish a relationship
- become best friend or lover
- 2 phase -interpersonal commitment (two people commit themselves to each other in a private way)
-social bonding (the commitment is made public)
- a sense of mutuality, of being connected develops
- stage where you want to get to know someone better
Ex: "Where do you work?"
- exchange basic information
- time of "first impressions"
Movement among Stages
1.exit arrows- offers opportunity to exit the relationship
2.vertical arrows- move to another stage; either the more intense (intimacy) or less intense
3.self-reflexive arrows- return to the beginning of the same level or stage
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The Relationship License- movement of a somewhat different type can be appreciated by looking
- permission to break some relationship rules as a result of relationship stage
Relationship Theories
Attraction Theory
- holds that people form relationships with those they consider attractive
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Relationship dialectics theory
- someone who is engaged in relationship experiences internal tensions between pairs of motive or desires that pull him/her in opposite directions
Social Penetration Theory
- what happens when relationships develops
Social Exchange Theory
- rewards are anything that you would incur costs to obtain
- costs are what you normally try to avoid, consider unpleasant
- profit is what results when the costs are subtracted from the rewards
Equity Theory
- uses the ideas of social exchange but goes a step further and claims that you develop and maintain relationship in which the ratio of you rewards to your cost is equal to your partner
Politeness Theory
- two people develop a relationship when each respects, contributes to, and acknowledges the positive and negative face needs of the other; the same relationship deteriorates when they don't
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