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Communication and Family Closeness. Topics: Thinking about closeness. Emotional Communication. Attachment. Love. . Measuring and Thinking about Closeness. Circumplex model (p. 213). Self-disclosure and social penetration model.
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Communication and Family Closeness Topics: Thinking about closeness. Emotional Communication. Attachment. Love.
Measuring and Thinking about Closeness • Circumplex model (p. 213). • Self-disclosure and social penetration model. • Domains of family closeness– financial, ideological (values), physical, psychological, sexual, spiritual.
Communication & Family Closeness • Emotional communication: • Subjective. • Structured to central nervous system– accessing information about what’s inside and outside. • Direct, immediate subjective experiences of feelings/desires. • Spontaneous expression and strategic expression.
Communication & Family Closeness • Role of early attachment: • Biology of love– endorphins. Linked to analgesia, inhibition of respiration, subjective “high” • Infants bathed in endorphins in womb– euphoric state as possible “prototypic love state”? • Types of parent-child attachment: secure, anxious-ambivalent avoidant.
Communication & Family Closeness • Behaving “love” (Swenson, 1972). • Verbal expression. • Intimate revelation. • Support, interest, respect. • Unexpressed feelings of happy, secure, relaxed in other’s presence. • Material evidence (chores, gifts, etc.). • Physical expression (touches, hugs, kisses, sexual relations, etc.). • Willingness to tolerate “less pleasant side of other.
Communication & Family Closeness • Societal idealism and communicating love • Various conceptions of “Love” • Agape (Pure love) • Nomos (Submissive love) • Phila (Friendship love) • Eros (Passionate love)
