Cliff believes that his relationship with kristi provides as many rewards and as few costs as he expects in a relationship. cliff considers himself fortunate, because he does not believe that he can get nearly as good an outcome with anyone else. cliff can be described as having a comparison level and a comparison level for alternatives.

High self-esteem and current relationship

Explanation:

Social Exchange Theory is given by Thibault in 1959 which describes the relationship economy based ob high rewards or loss. in this theory there two comparison level to assess the profitable relationship:

comparison level :

The comparison level is work on how much rewards a person gets through the comparison level it depends on high self-esteem. if a person gets many rewards the person has high self-esteem.  if a person is getting low rewards then the person has low self-esteem lower expectation and if the comparison is equal then people think life is worth pursuing.

comparison level of alternatives:

In this process person seeing whether a potential relationship is much worth rewarding than the current relationship. people stick their current relationship as much as they think less about the alternatives of exchange theory. some psychologists said that if a person finds content in his current relationship then he doesn't try to find out the alternatives.

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