PSY327H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mutso, Emotional Intimacy, Meta-Analysis
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Why did they break up? (in regard to the friends video: growing emotional distance "you never have time. I don"t feel like i have a girlfriend. Incompatibility different lifestyles, values: conflict we aren"t getting along, fighting all the time, lack of enjoyment the relationship got stale, boring, no longer fun. Le, dove, agnew, korn, & mutso (2010: predictors with a large effect size (cohen"s d of 8, positive illusion (-) (the strongest predictor greater positive illusion less likely to break up overtime. Interestingly 9% of men did not know the cause of their divorce. Women are also more likely to initiate the divorce. An interplay between personal, relational and environmental factor. They interact to determine whether a couple stays or leave the relationship. Changing rates of divorce: the graph from oecd website of divorce rate changes. Divorce rate vary considerably vary across country: as compared to the 1970 represented by the white diamond divorced rate in.
