1. Relationship Breakdown
Factors which can create conflict

2. Task How many songs were about relationships?
What was the split between forming, maintaining and breakdown?
Think about TV shows that you have watched in the last week – do they show a similar trend?
Why do you think so many forms of media and entertainment deal with these issues?
Task

3. Environment
Interpersonal
Individual
Conflict created:

4. Environmental Factors
Distance – Festinger, et al, 1950; Rohlfing, 1998 and Holt and Stone, 1988
Work Stress
Social Support – Kamarck et al, 1990
Environmental Factors

5. Interpersonal Factors
Boredom – Baxter, 1994
Maintenance and Repair Strategies – Dindia and Baxter, 1987.
Rule Violation – Argyle and Henderson, 1984.
Interpersonal Factors

6. Interpersonal Factors (2)
Braiker and Kelley, 1979 claims that interpersonal factors can be broken down into 3 categories:
Specific Behaviours
Norms and Roles
Personal Disposition
Interpersonal Factors (2)

7. Factors which create instability – age difference, future goals, demographic and economical background.
Lack of social skills
Individual Factors

8. Evaluation of factors Cultural differences – Moghaddam et al, 1993.
Gender Differences – Brehm and Kassin, Akert, 1998
Evaluation of factors