PSYC 362 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nancy A. Collins, Child Care

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 362
• Professor: Rebecca Cobb

Document Summary

Responsiveness to another"s needs and, more specifically, as acts that communicate caring that validate the other"s worth, feelings, or actions. Or that facilitate adaptive coping with problems through the provision of information, assistance, or tangible resources (carolyne cutrona, 1996: practical support (instrumental) Support has potential to sustain positive feelings. Positive factors (eg caring, compassion, understanding) in relationships decline in salience over time. We can strengthen our prediction of relationship outcomes. Skills (empathy, perspective taking, knowledge about support behavior) Resources (store of emotional, cognitive energy, material resources: money, time, services) Motivation (responsibility to meet partner needs and mobilize resources in service of partner) People believe that if you really care about someone, support should come naturally. But, it is not that easy, as people might have different expectations (the support you provide, might not the one that your partner wants) People have good intentions, but not experienced the way people expected.