Relationships 1

Relationships 1Formation, maintenance and breakdown of relationships

Interpersonal attraction

Match hypothesis

Law of attraction

Field of availables

Field of desirables

Filter model

Similarity of attitudes &

values

Social / demographic

variables

Complementarity of emotional

needs

Exchange relationships

Communal relationships

Self-disclosure

Need for affiliation

Reward / need theories

Economic theories

Stages / fluidity relationship

Growth in similarity

Social exchange theory

Interdependence theory

CL / CL-Alt

Outcome

Monitoring costs after

dissatisfaction

R+C= /R-C=

Equity theory

Investment model

Barriers to dissolution

Hatfield’s GMS

Culture / gender differences in equity value

That bitch – You bitch –

She’s a bitch –What a bitch!

Duck’s 4-stage dissolution

model

Women suffering domestic violence