Divorce & Infidelity What are societal factors related to divorce? Economic constraints Individualistic orientation Cultural attitudes What are individual risk factors related to divorce? Age Premarital pregnancy Race/ethnicity Children Premarital Cohabitation Parental divorce Socioeconomic status Notions Remarriage -Religion What are marital interaction patterns related to divorce? Marital satisfaction Conflict frequency The behavioral cascade (long term) Explain the behavioral cascade model of divorce “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” Complain/criticize defensiveness contempt stonewalling Distance and Isolation Cascade Toward divorce Flooding perception that martial problems are severe desire to work problems out individually the creation of separate lives What are some different ways infidelity has been conceptualized (types)? Glass and Wright: physical, emotional, combination emotion and physical Pitman: accidental, philandering, romantic affairs, marital agreements Brown: conflict avoidance, intimacy avoidance, sexual addiction, split-self, exit affairs Spitzberg and Tafoya: communicative infidelity Stepfamily Functioning Explain the three societal views on stepfamilies Deviant Groups: step families without high morals, look down upon Incomplete Institutionalization: family is institution, step family is not, more ambiguity Reformed Nuclear: step families operate same as normal, good and bad mixed What are the various hypotheses for explaining instability of remarriage Divorce-Prone Personality: don’t get along with personality Training School: people often feel that they have learned everything from first marriage Willingness to leave: ok getting divorced are ok with getting divorced again Dysfunctional beliefs: expectations are too high for marriage, never fully satisfied Remarriage...