(6)社会交换理论（Social Exchange Theory）

Social Exchange Theory

 

Hal Kelley

Partners evaluate the rewards and costs associated with being ina relationship, along with barriers to leaving the relationship andtheir available alternatives.

 

Assumptions:

1. People evaluate and make decisions about their relationshipsthe same way that they weigh economic decisions.

2. "OUTCOME"=REWARDS-COSTS

3. What are rewards?

    Materialgains, gains in status, comfort...

4. What are costs?

    Pains,suffering, lost opportunities...

5. Outcome is not the same as satisfaction...

6. Comparison Level (CL)

   Expectations: what you feel you deserve

7. SATISFACTION=OUTCOME-CL

8. Satisfaction and Dissolution Differd

    Unhappypeople stay; happy people leave.

9. Comparison Level for Alternatives

    Yourother options

10. DEPENDENCY=OUTCOME-COMPARISON LEVEL FOR ALTERNATIVES

    Theseare intentions to stay or leave

 

What CAN it explain?

    Why dosome distressed relationships stay together?

What does it leave out?

    How dostable, rewarding relationships become unstably costly ones?