hdfs exam #3 vocab

Verbal Communication: The “what” of the message

Nonverbal Communication: The “how” of the message

Effective Communication: Agreement between verbal and nonverbal communication

Gottman’s 4 Horsemen: Contempt, Defensiveness, Criticism, Stonewall

Power: Influence one partner has over decisions, behaviors, and dynamics within the relationship

Positional Power: Based on role/status

Personal Power: Based on personal attributes

Relational Power: How power shifts based on interaction’

Conflict: Differences in needs, values, expectations, etc

Constructive Conflict: Leads to growth and understanding through listening/compromise

Destructive Conflict: Escalates tension through blame, criticism and defensiveness

Competing: Prioritizing one’s own needs over others at the expense of collaboration

Accommodating: Putting others needs first to maintain harmony

Avoiding: Ignoring conflict to prevent tension but hinder resolution

Compromising: Seeking middle ground for mutual solution

Collaborating: Focus on fully addressing all concerns through open discussion’

Intimacy: Closeness and connection that partners feel

Time Poverty: People feel that they do not have enough time to do everything

Work Spillover: Effect work has on individuals and families

Family-To-Work Spillover: Effect family has on work

Mental Load: Invisible behind the scenes labor that helps manage the household

Joint Finances: Completely shared accounts

Split Finances: Completely separate accounts

Equal Splitting: Money for shared expenses goals to joint accounts, rest is separate

Violence: Act with the intention of causing pain to another person

Abuse: Includes nonviolent acts of pain

Individualistic Explanations: Violence may be related to mental health disorders, drug abuse, etc

Ecological Model: Culture approves of violence and doesn’t support families, leading to violence

Feminist Model: Gender inequality and cultural concepts of masculinity cause violence

Social Stress and Social Learning: Structural stress and cultural norms contribute to family violence

Social-Exchange: Costs of being violent do not outweigh rewards

Emotional Abuse: Threats/coercion, intimidation, controlling a person, etc

Intimate Partner Violence: Physical, sexual, or emotional harm by a current/former partner

Situational Couple Violence: Violence that erupts during a heated situation

Intimate Terrorism: One partner tries to dominate and control the other

Violent Resistance: Self defense violence

Mutual Violent Control: Both partners try to violently control each other

Sexual Violence: Forces sex acts against a persons will

Stalking: Harassing or threatening behavior

Neglect: Absence of care

Child Abuse: Intentional physical/emotional injury to a child

Sibling Abuse: Abuse between siblings

Elder Abuse: Abuse to an elder person

Annulment: Marriage is deemed to have never met the legal definition of marriage

Fault-Based Divorce: One partner is blamed for divorce

No-Fault Divorce: No partner is blamed for divorce

Uncoupling: Process of separation

Emotional Divorce: When one or both partners disengage from marriage

Legal Divorce: Court ordered termination of marriage

Economic Divorce: Dividing property, money and resources

Co-Parental Divorce: Dealing with issues of child custody and support

Community Divorce: Dealing with ex in-laws and friends

Psychic Divorce: When one feels like a separate individual after a marriage

Proximal Causes: Experiences in daily life that raise chance of divorce

Distal Causes: Background characteristics that raise chance of divorce

Binuclear Family: Post divorce family with two nuclear families

Blended Families: Remarried families or step-families