Managing Relationship Decay
Network, Gender, and Contextual Effects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5293530 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sam G B Robert (0000-0003-3986-0254, University of Chester), Sam B G Robert, Sam B G Roberts, R I M Dunbar (0000-0002-9982-9702, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 426-450 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Nature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-6767 • E-ISSN: 1936-4776 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12110-015-9242-7 |
| PMID | 26489745 |
| OpenAlex | W2174438886 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 80 |
Relationships are central to human life strategies and have crucial fitness consequences. Yet, at the same time, they incur significant maintenance costs that are rarely considered in either social psychological or evolutionary studies. Although many social psychological studies have explored their dynamics, these studies have typically focused on a small number of emotionally intense ties, whereas social networks in fact consist of a large number of ties that serve a variety of different functions. In this study, we examined how entire active personal networks changed over 18 months across a major life transition. Family relationships and friendships differed strikingly in this respect. The decline in friendship quality was mitigated by increased effort invested in the relationship, but with a striking gender difference: relationship decline was prevented most by increased contact frequency (talking together) for females but by doing more activities together in the case of males
Developmental psychology · Friendship · Interpersonal relationship · Interpersonal ties · Quality (philosophy · Quality of life (healthcare · Social relationship · Variety (cybernetics · Cultural Differences and Values · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology · Behavioral Neuroscience
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| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |