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Should I Stay or Should I Go
Theories of Equity and Investment
How do you know when you are ready for marriage?
How do you know when you are ready to break up?
RewardsCosts
Comparison LevelEquity
Satisfaction
Investments
Alternatives
Commitment
Pro-relational Behaviors
Stability
Relational Model of Investment
Perception of Equity vs.
Actual Equity
1. Emotional How the relationship makes you feel.
2. Social How fun the relationship is.3. Instrumental How useful the
relationship is.4. Opportunity What you are able to do
(or not do) because of the relationship.
Rewards & Costs
Comparison Level
EquityRewards / Costs
=Rewards / Costs
What problems would an “Equity” perspective
create?
RewardsCosts
Comparison LevelEquity
Satisfaction
Investments
Alternatives
Commitment
Pro-relational Behaviors
Stability
Relational Model of Investment
1. Intrinsic Investment the amount of time or emotional effort put toward the relationship.
2. Extrinsic Investment the amount of tangible contributions toward the relationship.
3. Alternatives What other options do I Have?
Other Factors
RewardsCosts
Comparison LevelEquity
Satisfaction
Investments
Alternatives
Commitment
Pro-relational Behaviors
Stability
Relational Model of Investment
Commit to the Relationship
Accommodation
Derogate Alternatives
RewardsCosts
Comparison LevelEquity
Satisfaction
Investments
Alternatives
Commitment
Pro-relational Behaviors
Stability
Relational Model of Investment
How to Reduce Inequity1. Restore Actual Equity make an effort to
balance the relationship2. Restore Psychological Equity reframe
the relationship to make it seem more equitable
3. End the relationship