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  • 4 - Ethnicity, Interdependence, and the Investment Model of Commitment Processes

  • from Part I - Interdependence, Situations, and Context
  • Edited by Laura V. Machia, Syracuse University, New York, Christopher R. Agnew, Purdue University, Indiana, Ximena B. Arriaga, Purdue University, Indiana
  • Book:
    Interdependence, Interaction, and Close Relationships
    Published online:
    19 June 2020
    Print publication:
    18 June 2020, pp 74-92

  • 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.