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16 Cards in this Set
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deinstitutionalization of marriage
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the decline in marriage and the emergence of alternate family forms taht occurred during the last third of the twentieth century
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U-shaped curve of matiral satisfaction
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the most common pathway of marital happiness in the West, in which satisfaction is highest at the honeymoon, declines during the child-rearing years, then rises after the children gow up
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triangular theory of love
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Robert Sternberg's categorization of love relationships into three facets: passion, intimacy, and commitment. When arranged at the points of a triangle, their combinations described all the different kind of adult love relationships
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consummate love
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in Robert Sternberg's triangular theory of love, the ideal form of love, in which a couple's relationship involves all three of the major facets of love: passion, intimacy, and commitment
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demand-withdrawal communication
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A pathological type of interaction in which one partner, most often the woman, presses for more intimacy and the other person, most often the man, tends to back off.
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fertility rate
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the average number of children a woman in a given country has during her lifetime
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marital equity
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fairness in the "work" of a couple's life together. If a relationship lacks equity, with one partner doing significantly more than the other, the outcome is typically marital dissatisfaction
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new nurturer father
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late-twentieth-centruy, middle-class idea in Western countries that fathers should do hands-on nurturing and share the child care equally with wives
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traditional stable career
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A career path in which people settle into their permanent life's work in their twenties and often stay with the same organization until they retire
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boundaryless career
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today's most common career path for Western workers, in which people change jobs or professions periodically during their working lives
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occupational segregation
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the separation of men and women into different kinds of jobs and career paths
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lifespan theory of careers
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Donald Super's identification of four career phases: moratorium in adolescence and emerging adulthood; establishment in young adulthood; maintenance in midlife; and decline in late life
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intrinsic career rewards
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Work that provides inner fulfillment and allows people to satisfy their needs for creativity, autonomy, and relatedness
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extrinsic career rewards
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Work that is performed for external reinforcers' such as prestige of a high salary
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role overload
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A job situation that places so many requirments of demands on workers that it becomes impossible to do a good job
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Role conflict
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a situation in which a person is torn between two or more major sets of responsibilities-for instance, parent and worker-and cannot do either job adequately
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