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05 Social Well-being

 Interpersonal Relationships

 
Types of relationships
family relationship
friends and peer relationship
intimate relationship
workplace relationship
Positive effects on personal development
  • Physical development: satisfies physiological needs (e.g. care provided by parents)
  • Intellectual development: facilitates learning through social interactions (e.g. co-construction of knowledge)
  • Emotional development: provides emotional support to satisfy human needs of security and love
  • Social development: provides social support that helps solve the crisis and increases the capacity to cope with crises
Negative effects on personal development
  • Physical development: leads to injuries / delayed growth and development in abuses
  • Intellectual development: discourages independent thinking and personal judgement
  • Emotional development: leads to stress, negative self-concept or low self-esteem
  • Social development: leads to social withdrawal or isolation / antisocial behaviour
Loneliness
  • Social loneliness - social isolation / lack of friends
  • Emotional loneliness – lack of attachment and intimacy

 

Changes

 
Changes of human relationships across lifespan
  • Interpersonal relationships change in response to the transition of different life stages
    • child-parent relationships, sibling relationships
    • relationships outside the nuclear family (friendship, courtship, working relationship)
  • Development of interpersonal relationships: initial, stable, intimate and ending phases

 

Family relationship

 
Changes that occur in families throughout the life cycle
  • Independence
  • Marriage
  • Parenting
  • Interdependence
The linkages between the nuclear and the extended family
  • Nuclear family - a couple living with their dependent children in the same residence
  • Extended family - couples live with original families
  • Linkages - depend on parents of original families for child care and social support
Factors affecting Sibling relationships
  • Number
  • Gender combination
  • Age gap

 

Friends and peer relationship

 
Peer groups
  • Meeting social and emotional needs
  • Self-understanding/ self-disclosure
Group conformity Reasons
  • Peer pressure
  • Avoid social conflicts
  • Reluctance to be isolated
  • Need recognition or support from their peers
Impacts
  • With peer support, it is easier to adopt healthy lifestyles and appropriate social behavior (positive)
  • Practice dangerous behaviour to avoid being isolated / rejected (negative)
  • Discourage self-assertiveness / independent thinking / personal judgment (negative)

 

Intimate relationship

  • Elements of love : intimacy, passion, commitment

 

Workplace relationship

 
Types
  • Independent
  • Dependent
  • Competing
  • Conflicting
Conflict management / conflict resolution strategies
  • Avoiding
  • Competing
  • Accommodating
  • Compromising
  • Collaborating

Latest Update: October 2019

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Assessing my learning

What are healthy relationships?
How do relationships affect personal health?
How can we develop and maintain healthy relationships?

Note-taking Tools

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My Data Bank

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Collaboration Platform

Google Sites
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Presentation Tools

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