PS287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Conflict Management, Sexual Revolution
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Quiz next wednesday, only on next week"s material: mean age of sex = 17. Similar anxiety between men and women: more pleasure for men, more guilt for women. Relationship maintenance and satisfaction: women more likely to invest in preservation of relationships, caretakers; greater share of family work. Satisfaction with sex; relative satisfaction for women: difference in managing emotions during conflict ex. Women soften delivery if message: expressive partners of either sex more concerned with relationship maintenance, relationship satisfaction predicted by, relationship talk, especially for women, distribution within couple; focused or 50/50. For same sex couples: same variables predict relationship satisfaction as heterosexual couples. Power distribution: equal emotional involvement linked to greater relationship satisfaction, especially for women, equity (input and receipt by both partners) associated with higher relationship satisfaction, especially for women, different meanings of egalitarian. Join participation in all domains: separate but equal: one partner has power in some domains, other partner in other domains.
