FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Polyamory, Assortative Mating, Safe Sex

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Shayna Sparling

Document Summary

** usually fails, we are all naturally jealous. Marriage and health: associated with health benefits, decreased mortality increased psychological health increased immune system functioning increased cardiovascular. Selection hypothesis: healthier people tend to marry each other and unhealthy people have a harder time finding/ keeping a mate. Exchange theory and assortive mating: pair with individuals like themselves, therefore, marriage does not cause better health search for best possible match for resources they have to offer. Protection hypothesis provides social/economic support that are linked with improved health improves physical health by improving emotional health reduce risk-taking behaviours helps with earlier detection of illness. Unhappy and unstable low marital quality and stability unhappy and stable low marital, high stability. Happy and unstable: high marital low stability. Attractions: net attractions to marriage- reward aspects minus negative aspects. Barriers: restraining forces- both internal and external- that make a person feel they must stay. Alternative attractions: net attraction to salient alternatives to relationships.