Book contents
- Interdependence, Interaction, and Close Relationships
- Advances in Personal Relationships
- Interdependence, Interaction, and Close Relationships
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Interdependence, Situations, and Context
- 1 Situations in Close Relationships
- 2 The Structure of Interdependence Shapes Social Cognition in Relationships
- 3 Home Is Where the Heart Is
- 4 Ethnicity, Interdependence, and the Investment Model of Commitment Processes
- Part II Interdependence, Security, and Risk
- Part III Interdependence, Goal Pursuit, and Person Factors
- Part IV Interdependence, Timing, and Expectations
- Index
- References
4 - Ethnicity, Interdependence, and the Investment Model of Commitment Processes
from Part I - Interdependence, Situations, and Context
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 June 2020
- Interdependence, Interaction, and Close Relationships
- Advances in Personal Relationships
- Interdependence, Interaction, and Close Relationships
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Interdependence, Situations, and Context
- 1 Situations in Close Relationships
- 2 The Structure of Interdependence Shapes Social Cognition in Relationships
- 3 Home Is Where the Heart Is
- 4 Ethnicity, Interdependence, and the Investment Model of Commitment Processes
- Part II Interdependence, Security, and Risk
- Part III Interdependence, Goal Pursuit, and Person Factors
- Part IV Interdependence, Timing, and Expectations
- Index
- References
Summary
In the present chapter, we examine ethnicity as a potential moderator of interdependence processes within Rusbult’s investment model.Using Triandis’s theory of subjective culture (which contends that ethnic groups differ in the cultural values that they embrace) as a point of departure, we review empirical evidence concerning the hypotheses that Thibaut and Kelley’s original version of interdependence theory in general is limited to individualistic (rather than collectivistic) ethnic groups.We conclude that the evidence does not support Triandis’s hypotheses.Nevertheless, we argue that a revamped version of Triandis’s theory that incorporates elements of Kelley and Thibaut’s revised interdependent theory and Rusbult’s investment model can serve as the basis for developing new, testable hypotheses concerning ethnicity as a moderator of interdependence processes.Implications for the relevance of subjective culture to relationship science are discussed.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Interdependence, Interaction, and Close Relationships , pp. 74 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
References
- 1
- Cited by