Exam 13: Crises: Managing Stress, Disaster, Violence, and Abuse
Discuss six unpredictable stressors and their impact on the family.
The student should assert that six unpredictable stressors cited in the text include unemployment, infidelity, drug and alcohol abuse, mental disorders, physical illness and disability, and death. The student should discuss each of these stressors.
Couples who take care of their aging parents and their school-age children are members of the ______ _____.
sandwich generation
Identify and describe the types of long- and short-term extramarital relationships.
The student should indicate that researchers Masters and Johnson identified four types of affairs. These types include hedonistic affairs, marriage maintenance affairs, intimacy reduction affairs and reactive affairs. Each of these affairs occurs for a different reason. The hedonistic affair is for fun and excitement. The marriage maintenance is to fulfill a need due to an unhappy marriage. The intimacy reduction affair is to prevent a spouse from becoming too intimate with their partner. The reactive affair occurs in middle age as an assurance of one's attractiveness to the opposite sex.
According to the text, which three areas need to be discussed when a partner becomes severely and chronically ill?
Cite and describe the two kinds of violence in relationships as identified by sociologist Michael Johnson.
Men in dangerous occupations such as the military or police work have a higher risk of domestic violence at home. The stresses of their jobs create domestic violence ________.
________ is a mental disorder characterized by depression or elevation of moods.
Which of the following are reasons women cite for not leaving their abusive partners?
Men are more likely to have an affair because they are angry or to get even with a spouse.
Young ________ makeup 94-95% of those who suffer from anorexia nervosa.
Affairs that are engaged in during midlife crisis, to reassure someone of their youthfulness and desirability, are called ________ affairs.
The phase of marital violence in which minor conflicts occur is called the ________ phase.
________ __________ affairs can occur when a marriage partner wants to prevent too much closeness in his/her marriage.
Research by Gelles and Strauss found that marital violence occurred in ________ marriages.
________ produce(s)mild sedation at low doses and hallucinations at high doses.
In 1991, approximately 35% of all college women reported being a victim of date rape.
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