Deck 11: Relationships and Health

Question 1

What are some reasons that men report less support than women?

Answer 1

Men are more reluctant than women to ask for support.
People perceive men as independent and not wanting support.
Women have closer relationships than men and may be more socially skilled in eliciting support.

Question 2

What is "emotional contagion" and how is it related to gender?

Answer 2

Emotional contagion is the idea that you catch another person's emotion or distress. Because women are more invested in their relationships than men, women are more vulnerable to emotional contagion.

Question 3

How are relationships a "double-edged sword" for women?

Answer 3

They are a source of support and also a source of stress.

Question 4

What are some of the reasons that marriage is more strongly associated with health for men than women?

Question 5

What does the "selection effect" refer to with regard to marriage and health?

Question 6

What are some of the methodological issues to take into consideration when examining sex differences in bereavement?

Question 7

What are some of the reasons that men have more difficulties than women following relationship dissolution?

Question 8

What does it mean that women are the "emotional barometers" of relationships?

Question 9

How has the division of labor changed in American households over the past several decades?

Question 10

What are the predictors of household labor?

Question 11

How is household labor divided in gay and lesbian couples compared to heterosexual couples?

Question 12

What is the evidence on LGBT persons as fit parents?

Question 13

It is difficult to study the effect of parenting on health because there are so many moderator variables. What are some of the most important moderator variables?

Question 14

What are the two major kinds of IPV? Describe.

Question 15

How are sexual scripts relevant to rape?

Question 16

What are the two theories of stalking?

Question 17

What is a factor that protects against divorce during the first 10 years of marriage?

A) parents who are still married
B) higher education
C) having a baby after marriage
D) all of the above

Question 18

Who benefits the most from marriage?

A) men
B) women
C) sexual minorities
D) heterosexuals

Question 19

Women do not report rape because:

A) they do not want people to know about it
B) they are worried about how the criminal justice system would handle it
C) they are not clear as to what happened
D) all of the above

Question 20

The best example of a buffering effect of marriage on health is:

A) exercising
B) financial support
C) getting routine physical exams
D) having a sense of identity

Question 21

Compared to husbands, wives receive more support from which group?

A) spouses
B) parents
C) friends
D) children

Question 22

Whose gender-role attitudes is a better predictor of the division of labor?

A) wife
B) husband
C) both are equal predictors
D) gender role attitudes do not predict the division of labor

Question 23

The health of LGBT persons is affected:

A) The division of labor in the family
B) By community support for LGBT
C) More by family support than friend support
D) All of the above

Question 24

The marriage selection hypothesis suggests that:

A) people select more attractive people for marriage
B) healthier people are "selected" into marriage
C) people have control over who they choose to marry
D) healthier people have an increase in marital satisfaction

Question 25

What effect do widowed men experience?

A) widowed men have lower mortality rates than widowed women
B) widowed men increase physical activity more than widowed women
C) getting remarried lowers widowed men's mortality
D) widowed men experience greater grief after the loss of a spouse than widowed women

Question 26

Women have better health than men after a breakup because:

A) women are more likely to recognize relationship problems than men
B) women are more financially prepared than men
C) women are able to find new partners more quickly than men
D) all of the above

Question 27

After a separation or divorce, men face difficulty in:

A) finances
B) work productivity
C) caring for the house
D) all of the above

Question 28

A theory that may explain why women are more affected by the quality of the marriage than men is:

A) marital selection hypothesis
B) functional measures of support
C) relational-interdependence theory
D) emotional contagion

Question 29

Why do parents experience a decline in marital satisfaction?

A) parenting puts restrictions on freedom
B) parenting brings forth a more traditional division of labor
C) parents spend less time together not involved in child-focused activities
D) all of the above

Question 30

In dual-earning marriages, men are more likely than women to:

A) pay bills
B) take out the garbage
C) cook
D) take care of pets

Question 31

How is household labor divided among same-sex couples?

A) by personal preferences
B) by traditional male-female roles
C) by who works more
D) none of the above

Question 32

What is a factor that influences the effect of parenthood on health?

A) income
B) number of children
C) age of children
D) all of the above

Question 33

A man is comfortable with a woman paying for a meal when they are out on a date. However, when they are in a group setting, he feels he needs to pay for her meal. This is an example of:

A) gender role
B) social support
C) subordinate-reactivity
D) gender tension line

Question 34

After retirement, how does the division of labor change?

A) men take on more day-to-day household chores
B) men take on more traditionally masculine household chores
C) men participate in fewer household chores
D) women take on more day-to-day household chores

Question 35

Why has there been a decrease in the sex difference in the division of labor in recent years?

A) more women are employed
B) omen participate in less household labor
C) men participate in more household labor
D) all of the above

Question 36

Most rape perpetrators:

A) are strangers who use verbal threats
B) are strangers who use physical threats
C) know the victim and use verbal threats
D) know the victim and uses physical threats

Question 37

When thinking about the amount of contributions toward household labor, women compare their own contributions to:

A) their husbands' contributions
B) their neighbors' contributions
C) their siblings' contributions
D) other women's amount of contributions

Question 38

How does parenthood affect marital satisfaction?

A) both men and women experience an increase in marital satisfaction
B) men experience a larger increase in marital satisfaction than women
C) both men and women experience a decline in marital satisfaction
D) women experience a larger decline in marital satisfaction than men

Question 39

Violence that stems from the need to control one's partner is called:

A) situational couple violence
B) intimate partner violence
C) intimate terrorism
D) marital rape

Question 40

The common factor in stalking behaviors is:

A) making victims afraid
B) constant contact
C) aggressiveness
D) expressing love

Question 41

Regarding stalking, coercive control theory suggests that:

A) stalkers have insecure attachments and want to preserve the relationship
B) victims did not clearly state to the stalker that they are not interested in a relationship
C) female stalking is more acceptable than male stalking
D) stalking is a form of dominance and aggression to control the victim