Author Question: Briefly define the need for intimacy. How does need for intimacy differ from need for affiliation? ... (Read 109 times)

Medesa · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

Briefly define the need for intimacy. How does need for intimacy differ from need for affiliation?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The idiographic method focuses on groups of individuals.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

bobsmith · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 21, 2018

Answer to Question 1

NEED FOR INTIMACY: The desire to experience warm, close, and communicative exchange with another person; in the extreme, to merge the self with another person. Need for intimacy goes beyond need for affiliation in its emphasis on closeness and open sharing with another person. In addition, need for affiliation is an active, striving, doing orientation toward relationships; need for intimacy is a more passive, uncontrolling, being orientation. Need for affiliation does not focus as much on positive, affirmative aspects of close relationships.

Answer to Question 2

F