Sentences with phrase «less relationship dissolution»
Three years later all three treatment groups (both workshops and the movie group) experienced less relationship dissolution (11 %) compared to couples in the no treatment condition (24 %).
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Being broken up with can interfere with our stamina to pursue personal goals, leave us feeling less clear about who we are, and put a serious dent in our life satisfaction Breaking up is hard to do: the impact of unmarried relationship dissolution on mental health and life satisfaction.
When people perceive that both the costs of maintaining a relationship and quality of alternatives are high (which may be the case in college, especially for possible hook - ups), they will be less motivated to maintain their relationship.6 Indeed, feeling that an alternative is more attractive than a current partner may predict not only dissolution but also engaging in infidelity.7, 8 Thus, increased costs of maintaining relationships and presence of [often «tempting»] alternatives at school may lead to challenges in keeping the relationship going during the transition to college.
The authors suggested that relationships characterized by intense fighting dissolve sooner than do those characterized as without positive affect, whereas in the latter type of relationships, people may become emotionally detached but postpone dissolution until the need to remain together (e.g., to raise children) becomes less crucial.
However, low relationship quality in early childhood years may have long - term consequences for relationship dissolution when children get older and parents may feel less restraint to leave their partners.
Parental relationship dissolutions have repeatedly been linked to negative outcomes for children, but predictors of parental dissolutions have been far less studied.
The burgeoning field of close relationships has given less attention to the initiation of relationships than to their development, maintenance, and dissolution.
As a result, people may be less supportive of mixed - weight relationships, at best, or active in their dissolution, at worst.
Although research on relationship endings has established that ex-partners often report that the dissolution phase is non-mutual, with one partner doing more of the work than the other (e.g., Attridge, Berscheid, & Simpson, 1995; Sprecher, 1994), much less is known about how couples perceive the balance of work at the initiation and maintenance stages.