Chapter 5 (Social Well-being) Flashcards
4 Types of relationships
- Family relationship
- Friends and peer relationship
- Intimate relationship
- Workplace relationship
A network/example of interpersonal relationships
Family:
- Spouse
- Parent-child
- Sibling
- In-law
- Carer
Peer:
- Friendship
- Courtship/Intimate relationship
Work:
- Colleagues
- Sub-ordinates
Importance of social relationships on health
Physical:
- Provides protection/personal safety in dangerous situations
- Enhances physical health
Mental:
- Provides love and belonging
Social:
- Provide social support in expected and unexpected life events
- Helps solve the crisis
- Increases the capacity to cope with crises
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
- 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
2 Types of loneliness
- Social loneliness
- social isolation / lack of friends - Emotional loneliness
- lack of attachment and intimacy
Health affects of Marital relationships
Physical:
- Intimate sexual relationship
Mental:
- Satisfies human needs of security/love
- Helps achieve self-actualization
Social:
- Division of work and functions of a family
- Social expectations on the gender roles
Health affects of Parent-child relationships
Physical:
- Child-rearing
- Ensure the physical growth of the child by satisfying their physical/psychological needs
Mental:
- Parenting
- Provide a role model to the child
- Assist them in acquiring skills that they should learn to develop their self-esteem and positive self-concept
Social:
- Nurturing
- Help children to adapt to society
- Provide opportunities
- Involve them in social activities at different stages of life
Sibling Relationships from Infancy to Elderly
-POSITIVE+NEGATIVE-
POSITIVE
Infancy:
- imitate their siblings
- learn to share and cooperate
Childhood:
- get guidance and support from siblings
Adolescence:
- siblings are like their peers
- may be closer than peers
Adulthood:
- give advice and provide support to each other
- serve as an emotional and financial support
- share the role of carers for their parents
- cooperate to deal with problems
Elderly:
- major support networks for each other
NEGATIVE
For All:
- compete with each other
- poor social skills caused by the poor relationship between siblings
- conflicts caused by jealousy and competition
3 Factors affecting Sibling Relationships
Number:
- Without sibling, children may not have any experience in growing up together with other family members
- The larger the number of siblings, the greater will be the competition for family resources and parents’ attention
Gender combination:
• Siblings of the same sex are more able to share common topics and hobbies,
but find it easier to be jealous and competitive with each other
• Different social expectations on different genders in a family
Age gap:
- Tend to act like peers if the age gap is small
- The wider the age gap between siblings, the more likely they act like parent and child
What is Kinships
Kinships by Marriage - the relationships developed between one and their spouse’s family members through marriage
(E.g. in-law, grandchildres, foreign domestic worker)
6 Changes of family relationship across lifespan
- Entering into early adulthood
(Living with original family) - Getting Married
(New family) - Becoming Parents
(Nuclear family) - Raising an Adolescent
- Adapting to the Independence of Children
- Entering into Late Adulthood
4 types of Workplace Relationships
Independent:
- Everyone has their own task, and they seldom cooperate with others
Dependent:
- Everyone needs to cooperate to finish a plan or project
Competing:
- Everyone has to compare their performance and compete with their colleagues in order to be promoted and achieve a higher salary
Conflicting:
- The colleagues have opposing views which
- Have aggressive attitude and behavior
The linkages between the nuclear and the extended family
Depend on parents of original families for child care and social support
5 Conflict management / conflict resolution strategies
Avoiding:
- An individual does not deal with the conflict and ignores it
Competing:
- An individual pursues his own interests at the expense of others
Accommodating:
- An individual neglects is/her own concerns to satisfy the concerns of others
but eventually causes conflict within an individual
Compromising:
- The objective is to find some expedient, mutually acceptable solution that partially satisfies both parties
Collaborating:
- Respects others’ goals and involves an attempt to work with others to find some solution that fully satisfy their concerns,
- Establishing a sense of belonging
