Need for Affiliation
People with an intense need for a sense of belonging and connection with people and are generally considered "friendlier and more social”
What are Extroverts?
A relationship is more likely to begin if one individual is made aware that the other likes them.
What is Reciprocal Liking?
"love" "commitment" "trust" "loyalty"
What are Terms Typically Associated with Long-Term Relationships?
Concern, anxiety, or distress regarding the current or prospective experience of being without a romantic partner
What is The Fear of Being Single?
Both have in common the idea that partners think of their relationship as a series of exchanges.
What are the Exchange Theories?
Groups that benefit from the Need for Affiliation.
What is Business Settings / Team Sports / Community or Neighborhoods / Support Groups?
This plays a significant role in whether you build bonds with someone or not regardless of personality.
What is Proximity?
Relationships that are happy, trusting, and supportive have this attachment style.
What is Secure Attachment?
FOBS is rooted in three main characteristics.
What are Biological, Psychological, and Social factors?
There is no single moment at which the friendship is suddenly “created” and with it a feeling of commitment. Friendship emerges gradually, as does the commitment.
What are Repeated Interactions?
Is strongly linked to higher risks of depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and suicidal ideation.
What is Social Isolation?
People tend to form closer relationships with those we encounter often and are physically located close to us.
What is the Propinquity Effect?
Humans engage in relationships that maximize benefits and minimize costs.
What is the Social Exchange Theory?
“If I couldn’t be in this relationship, I would lose an important part of myself.”
What is Relationship Dependence?
These act as stressors leading to unhealthy behavior (alcohol and drug use) and harmful physiological conditions (increased blood pressure).
What are Negative Social Interactions / Lack of Social Support?
Affiliation aligns with the social or “belonging” level, emphasizing its role as a basic human need.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
A certain type of intimate relationship, distinguished from familial relations by its voluntary nature.
What is Friendship?
Partners in close relationships are interested in having an equitable, or fair, relationship, one where the benefits to both partners can be maximized.
What is the Equity Theory?
This need is expressed in friendships and other relationships.
What is the need for companionship?
Friendship requires these main concepts.
What are Proximity, Repeated Interaction, Commitment, Similarity, and Reciprocal Liking?
Power, Affiliation and Achievement
What is the theory of three needs?
A series of behaviors resulting from commitment to the other (3 examples).
What are efforts to promote the good of the other / helping them in times of need / displaying loyalty and solidarity / consideration / devotion / demonstrations of affection / keeping promises / self-disclosure / and trust?
Three factors that affect Marital Satisfaction over time.
What are Life course / Intrapersonal Factors / Interpersonal Dynamics?
Often results in a willingness to settle for less in a relationship.
What is thinking "any relationship is better than no relationship"?
He first introduced affiliation as one of 7 human needs.
Who is Henry Murray?