PSYC 362 Lecture 8: Capitalization, sacrifice, forgiveness

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 362
• Professor: Kim Bartholomew

Document Summary

Even with low support in relationship, capitalization helped boost relationship satisfaction a lot. Sacrifice: giving up your interests to promote the well-being of a partner/relationship. Who sacrifices: people higher in commitment, people with less power in relationship, people high in self control. Motivation behind sacrifice matters: approa(cid:272)h (cid:373)oti(cid:448)es: (cid:455)ou sa(cid:272)rifi(cid:272)e (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:455)ou"re pursui(cid:374)g positi(cid:448)e out(cid:272)o(cid:373)es, make partner happy, create intimacy, avoidance motives: avoid negative outcomes, prevent disappointing, avoid conflict. 2005 found when people did more approach sacrifices, their relationship satisfaction was higher, people who did more avoidance sacrifices had lower relationship satisfactinon. Resear(cid:272)h o(cid:374) sa(cid:272)rifi(cid:272)e repressio(cid:374) suggests . : suppressing negative emotions undermine the authenticity (not communicating your true self, but doing it can sometimes be a good thing (repression has a time and place). Increase authenticity and boost relationship satisfaction in interdependent couples. Forgiveness: it is a process, forgiveness involves change in the forgiver.