PerDev

• Sternberg's Theory of Love


  Robert Sternberg proposed the triangular theory of love in 1985
• Components of Love


  • Intimacy
  • Passion
  • Commitment
• Intimacy


  Feeling of attachment, emotional feeling of warmth or closeness to someone
• Passion


  Intenseness one experiences when attracted to someone, Physical or sexual attraction to another
• Commitment


  Cognitive appraisal in relationship, component wherein a person may decide to engage in marriage
• Forms of Love


  • Non Love
  • Friendship
  • Infatuated Love
  • Empty Love
  • Romantic Love
  • Companionate Love
  • Fatuous Love
  • Consummate Love
• Non Love


  Absence of all components. For example, stranger and acquaintances
• Friendship


  Exists when only intimacy is present, Also known as liking, Sense of feeling present without the intense passion or commitment of romance. May pave the way to other forms of love.
• Infatuated Love


  Only passion is present, Only bounded by carnal desires and nothing more. For example, crushes.
• Empty Love


  Only commitment is present, Intimacy and passion is gone, Unhappy marriage, arranged/forced marriages
• Romantic Love


  Combination of intimacy and passion, Lacks commitment, Stepping stone for marriage, Aka passionate love
• Companionate Love


  Combination of intimacy and commitment. Examples are: close friends, strong friendships, long term marriages, Aka affectionate love
• Fatuous Love


  Combination of intimacy and passion
• Consummate Love


  Ideal type of love, All components are present, Strongest type of love
• Ainsworth's Attachment Theory


  Mary Ainsworth proposed a theory of love
• Attachment Styles


  • Secure Attachment
  • Avoidant Attachment
  • Anxious Ambivalent Attachment
  • Anxious Avoidant Attachment
  • Anxious Disorganized Attachment
• Secure Attachment


  Primary caregiver gave/gives right and equal attention
• Avoidant Attachment


  Primary caregiver was/is avoidant, cold, and detached
• Anxious Ambivalent Attachment


  Primary caregiver was/is not consistent in taking care of you
• Anxious Avoidant Attachment


  Strictly raised to be proper and suppresses feelings
• Anxious Disorganized Attachment


  Raised poorly by stressed, abusive, and unstable people
• Helen Fisher's Stages of Love


  • Lust
  • Attraction
  • Attachment
• Transference


  Transfer the attribute of one person to another, people who remind you of the people from your past
• Propinquity


  Proximity of the person, how often you see the person
• Similarity


  Same goals, hobbies, etc.
• Family


  Basic unit of society; usually consists of two married adults and their offspring
• Family Structure


  • The traditional family structure is considered a family support system that involves two married individuals providing care and stability for their biological offspring
  • The two parent nuclear family has become less prevalent and alternative family forms have become more common
  • This family is created at birth and establishes ties across generations
• Nuclear Family


  Considered the traditional family that consists of a father, mother and their child/children in one home
• Extended Family


  Other relatives such as grandparents, aunts and uncles live together with the family, also called complex family, joint family, or multi-generational family
• Step Families


  Two families brought together due to a divorce, separation and remarriage, both sides have their own children
• Step Families


  • Maloi and Mikha are both annulled from their past lovers and both of them have kids of their own, they decided to marry each other and NOT have kids together
• Blended Family


  Family consists of members from two or more previous families, also called as reconstituted family
• Blended Family


  • Maloi and Mikha had a child together, therefore they are now a blended family
• Single Parent Family


  A father or a mother who is singly responsible for raising a child, the child can be by birth or adoption, they may be a single parent by choice or by life circumstances
• Single Parent Family


  • Maloi decides to raise their baby alone
  • Colet's husband died due to a car accident, leaving her and their son alone, she then decides to raise the kid alone as a single mother
• Adoptive Family


  A family where one or more of the children has been adopted, any structure of a family may also be an adoptive family
• Adoptive Family


  • Aiah and Joshua are incapable of having children due to one of them being impotent, they then decided to adopt a three year old girl
• Bi racial or multi racial family


  A family where the parents are members of different racial identity groups
• Bi racial or multi racial family


  • Stacy is a Filipino and Luke is an American, they decided to get married and had one kid
• Trans Racial Adoptive Family

  A family where the adopted child is of a different racial identity than the parents