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Chapter 5: Roles and Relationships

Check Your Answers: Section Review Answer Keys

Section 5.1 The Importance of Relationships

1. Relationships function to meet your emotional needs, enrich your life, and help you get things done.
2. Relationships that are rewarding will grow; those with too many costs will not survive.
3. Communication skills, conflict resolutions skills, and skill in reaching out to others can all be used in relationships.

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4. Answers will vary but can include: changed needs of either partner, lack of attention to relationship, and outside influences can cause a relationship to become unbalanced. Student answers about staying in the relationship or walking away will vary, however students should show an understanding that if the relationship is truly unhealthy and unbalanced, it is their responsibility to walk away.
5. Answers will vary but should include qualities of good relationships from the chapter. These might include mutuality, trust, self-disclosure, rapport, shared interests, and empathy. Students should provide two examples of each quality they list.

Section 5.2 Examine Your Roles

1. Roles are the expected patterns of behavior that go with a person's position in society. They help people know what they are to do. They hinder if role expectations are too rigid or if there is role conflict.
2. Role conflict is differing views of role expectations; disagreement about roles.

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3. Answers will vary but should include an understanding of what role models are and why the person chosen is viewed as a role model.
4. Answers will vary but students should correctly identify qualities that will help build strong family bonds.