Investment model

• Who proposed the investment model?

  Rusbult
• According to Rusbult, what does commitment depend on?

  Three factors
• What three factors did Rusbult suggest commitment depends on?

  Satisfaction

  Comparison with alternatives

  Investment
• What is satisfaction based on?

  The comparison level
• A satisfying relationship is judged by comparing rewards and costs
• What do alternatives include?

  Other people and possibility of no romantic relationship at all
• What is an investment?

  Anything we'd lose if the relationship ends
• What are the two types of investments?

  Intrinsic investment

  Extrinsic investment
• What is an intrinsic investment?

  Resources we put directly into the relationship - tangible or intangible
• Intrinsic investment


  Resources we put directly into the relationship - tangible or intangible
• Extrinsic investment


  Resources not featured prior in the relationship; now closely associated with it
• What is an extrinsic investment?

  Resources not featured prior in the relationship; now closely associated with it
• What is the main psychological factor causing people to maintain romantic relationships?

  Commitment
• What is a contributory factor causing people to maintain romantic relationships?

  Satisfaction
• What are the five relationship maintenance mechanisms?

  Accommodation

  Willingness to sacrifice

  Forgiveness

  Positive illusions

  Ridiculing alternatives
• What is accommodation?

  Enduring partners promote the relationship
• What is willingness to sacrifice?

  Putting partner's interests first
• What is forgiveness?

  Forgiving them for serious transgressions
• What is positive illusions?

  Unrealistically positive about their partner
• What is ridiculing alternatives?

  Negative about tempting alternatives and other's relationships