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GENDER AND
SEXUALITY
CHAPTER 12
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GENDER AND

SEXUALITY

CHAPTER 12

MODULE 12. RELATIONSHIPS

Emerging Adulthood: A New Stage of Life? Young adults are increasingly likely to get a later start in life than older generations did

  • Emerging adulthood encompasses period between 18 and the late twenties
  • May be response to shifting cultural forces
  • Involves sense of not knowing place in life and not quite fitting into adult role
  • Brain region involving prefrontal cortex continues to grow and change into mid-twenties
  • Some criticize stage is artifact of more lucrative society; true stages are not optional

Seeking Intimacy: Erikson's View of Young Adulthood Intimacy-versus-isolation stage

  • Intimacy = Close, intimate relationship with others
  • Isolation = Feelings of loneliness and fearful of relationships

The Combinations of Love

Over the course of a relationship, the three aspects of love—intimacy, passion, and decision/commitment—vary in strength. How do these change as a relationship develops? (Source: Sternberg, 1986 .) The Shape of Love

Filtering Models of Mate Selection

Attachment Styles and Romantic Relationships

  • Attachment styles continue into adulthood and affect the nature of romantic relationships
  • Secure, anxious, and avoidant attachment
  • Dimensions of anxiety and avoidance

THE COURSE OF RELATIONSHIPS

Why Do People Choose Cohabitation Rather Than Marriage?

  • Not ready for lifelong commitment
  • “Practice” for marriage
  • Reject institution of marriage
  • The chances of divorce are somewhat higher for those who have previously cohabited

Why Do People Wait?

https://data.tuik.gov.tr/Bulten/Index?p=Evlenme-ve-Bosanma-Istatistikleri- 2021 - 45568

What Makes Marriage Work? Successful married partners:

  • Show affection
  • Communicate relatively little negativity
  • Perceive themselves as interdependent
  • Experience social homogamy, similarity in leisure activity. and role preferences
  • Hold similar interests
  • Agree on distribution of roles

Early Marital Conflict

  • Nearly half of newly married couples experience a significant degree of conflict
  • However;
  • Most married couples view early years of marriage as deeply satisfying
  • Find themselves more deeply in love than before marriage
  • Report newlywed period as one of happiest in entire married life