Larry suspects that his girlfriend wants to break up with him. Being a rather mean-spirited fellow, Larry tells his girlfriend t
hat if she breaks up with him, she will be alone and will never find another boyfriend. To manipulate his girlfriend, Larry is drawing his girlfriend’s attention to the ________ component of Caryl Rusbult’s investment model of commitment.
This component is based on the idea that a partner is more likely to commit to a relationship is there seems to be no better alternative.
The person may ask him/herself if there is another way to satisfy his/her needs. In this case, the alternative is ending the relationship and staying alone, or find another partner.
This corresponds to something like a guarantee that perhaps the amount of knowledge gathered from the study would not be disseminated to anybody other than studying respondents.
Though because its purpose is somehow to remain to stand and therefore any willing individual research or surveys to find out anyway knowledge is deliberately hidden or stored.
