How Would Investment Model Researchers Like Caryl Rusbult and John

question 132

Multiple Choice

How would investment model researchers like Caryl Rusbult and John Martz (1995) explain why battered women often return to their abusive partners?

• A)These women might be poor and have no other economic alternative.
• B)Their abusive partners must reward them in other ways.
• C)These women are probably in exchange relationships.
• D)Their partners have battered these women's self-esteem to the basement.

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Definitions:

Self-Absorption

An excessive focus on oneself and one's own needs, feelings, or experiences, often at the expense of others.

Developmental Tasks

Essential skills or milestones that individuals are expected to achieve at various stages of their lives.

Biological Illness

Diseases or conditions that have a physiological or organic basis, typically involving disruptions or imbalances in bodily processes.

Schizophrenia

A long-term mental disorder involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.