Interpersonal Relationships
Types of relationships |
- family relationship
- friends and peer relationship
- intimate relationship
- workplace relationship
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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
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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
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Loneliness |
- Social loneliness - social isolation / lack of friends
- Emotional loneliness – lack of attachment and intimacy
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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
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Family relationship
Changes that occur in families throughout the life cycle |
- Independence
- Marriage
- Parenting
- Interdependence
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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
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Factors affecting Sibling relationships |
- Number
- Gender combination
- Age gap
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Friends and peer relationship
Peer groups |
- Meeting social and emotional needs
- Self-understanding/ self-disclosure
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Group conformity |
Reasons |
- Peer pressure
- Avoid social conflicts
- Reluctance to be isolated
- Need recognition or support from their peers
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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)
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Intimate relationship
- Elements of love : intimacy, passion, commitment
Workplace relationship
Types |
- Independent
- Dependent
- Competing
- Conflicting
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Conflict management / conflict resolution strategies |
- Avoiding
- Competing
- Accommodating
- Compromising
- Collaborating
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