{"id":72837,"date":"2025-11-14T21:28:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/ducks-model\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:35:44","slug":"ducks-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/ducks-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck&#8217;s Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A social psychology theory that studies romantic breakups and how they approach collapse. Developed by social psychologist Steve Duck (1982), this model provides a framework for understanding the stages that people go through during a decadence or permanent breakdown. Duck&#8217;s model is one of the most important theories linking personal and social factors in explaining the end of a relationship, an analytical framework that describes the psychological and social process that a romantic relationship goes through during a breakup, through a set of specific stages illustrating how people perceive problems, decide to break up, and implement the breakup on psychological and social levels. Duck&#8217;s model explains that the breakup of a romantic relationship is a gradual process that goes through certain psychological and social stages, starting with internal discomfort, going through discussion and socialization, and ending with a reassessment of the relationship and personal reconstruction. Understanding these stages helps people deal with the breakup more consciously and maturely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A social psychology theory that studies romantic breakups and how they approach collapse. Developed by social psychologist Steve Duck (1982), this model provides a framework for understanding the stages that people go through during a decadence or permanent breakdown. Duck&#8217;s model is one of the most important theories linking personal and social factors in explaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-12-key-psychological-concepts-in-psychology-of-conflict-resolution-in-negotiation-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72846,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72837\/revisions\/72846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}