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Below are the key terms featured in this chapter. The textbook's full glossary is also available for online searching.
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| Affectionate love | The type of love where a person desires to have the other person near and has a deep affection for the other |
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| Becoming parents and a family with children | The third stage in the family life cycle, where adults move up a generation and become caregivers to the younger generation |
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| Consensual validation | We are attracted to people similar to ourselves; our attitudes/behaviour are validated |
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| Family at mid-life | The fifth stage in the family life cycle, where launching children, linking generations, and adapting to mid-life changes occur |
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| Family in later life | The sixth/final stage in family life cycle; involves retirement and often grandparenting |
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| Family with adolescents | The fourth stage in family life cycle; adolescent children push for autonomy |
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| Friendship | A form of close relationship that involves enjoyment, trust, mutual assistance, and confiding |
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| Individuated-connected level | The highest level of relationship maturity in White’s model, where one is acquiring an understanding of oneself as well as consideration for others’ motivations and anticipation of their needs |
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| Launching | The process in which youths move into adulthood and exit their family of origin |
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| Leaving home and becoming a single adult | The first stage in the family life cycle, which involves launching |
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| New couple | The second stage in the family life cycle, where two individuals from separate families unite |
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| Role-focused level | The second level in White's model of relationship maturity; others seen in their own right |
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| Romantic love | "Passionate love"; has strong sexual and infatuation components |
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| Self-focused level | The first level of relationship maturity in White’s model, when one’s perspective of a relationship is concerned only with how it affects oneself |
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| Triangular theory of love | Sternberg’s theory that love has the three components of passion, intimacy, and commitment |