Question 41 – Relationships - AQA Psychology Questions

Investigation into Relationship Stability

A psychologist investigated factors influencing relationship stability. She recruited two groups of cohabiting couples:

Group X: Couples who had been together for less than 12 months.
Group Y: Couples who had been together for over 3 years.

Each participant completed a questionnaire assessing:

The level of attitude similarity between themselves and their partner.
The level of complementarity of needs (how well their personality traits and needs balanced each other).

Participants also rated their overall relationship satisfaction on a scale of 1 to 50.

The researcher planned to calculate correlation coefficients to analyse the relationship between these factors and relationship satisfaction for both groups.

Relationships Questions

Practise AQA A Level Psychology Relationships with exam-style questions for A Level Psychology. 70 questions covering Factors affecting attraction, Theories of romantic relationships, Online relationships, and Parasocial relationships, matched to the AQA A Level Psychology (7182) specification and written in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 style. Every question includes a full worked solution and mark scheme, so you can see where marks are awarded rather than just whether you got the answer right.

Investigation into Relationship Stability

A psychologist investigated factors influencing relationship stability. She recruited two groups of cohabiting couples:

Group X: Couples who had been together for less than 12 months.
Group Y: Couples who had been together for over 3 years.

Each participant completed a questionnaire assessing:

The level of attitude similarity between themselves and their partner.
The level of complementarity of needs (how well their personality traits and needs balanced each other).

Participants also rated their overall relationship satisfaction on a scale of 1 to 50.

The researcher planned to calculate correlation coefficients to analyse the relationship between these factors and relationship satisfaction for both groups.