...“No. We don’t have Wi-Fi, talk to each other.” This is an actual sign in a café which truly reflects the trend going on today. It’s currently extremely common to see a group of friends sitting in the same table but speaking no word to each other, while sticking their eyes at the phone screen. Modern technology is blooming in our world; however, this doesn’t come without cost and teenagers seem to be the ones who are most profoundly affected. The invention of Internet genuinely allows humans to connect with others instantly whenever we want, which is a good thing, or is it? A new addiction (to smart devices and social networks) has been formed during our time, yet the consequences have still been taken for granted. Internet has made people unload themselves much more easily. But not many adolescents are able to realize that this results in careless word choices. Instead of long, thoughtful lines, youngsters just type in whatever they’re thinking without considering the outcomes. And frequently enough this does ruin their relationships as the “readers” couldn’t handle the arrogant statements sent to them. According to recent surveys, smart devices and social networks are pulling people, especially young ones, out of the physical world. Internet-based relationship has its downsides. There is a reason why we call the net “virtual world”, which is basically because it’s not real. Some teenagers admit that being aware of the fact, at times they are still startled by the way others...
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..."Healthy Relationships" In this essay the author tells us about healthy relationships, but I will be addressing the difference between a healthy an unhealthy relationship. A healthy relationship makes you feel good about yourself, feeling loved. In have high self-esteem, along with a positive attitude. A healthy relationship may involve: Siblings, Friends, Intimate friends or spouse. An unhealthy relationship should not involve no one that's going to make the relationship worse than it already is. An Unhealthy relationship may have your head somewhere else or have you thinking down about yourself, which may cause low self esteem. In a unhealthy relationship your partner may be too controlling or very mean and harmful. In terms of a relationship , it does not have to be intimate to be considered a healthy relationship. Best friends could be in an unhealthy relationship also. If one friend is considered a bad person to other people, in the other person is the good person, but the only time they bad is when they with a bad person. Even if the good person does not act bad, if they hang out with bad people they may be considered bad themselves. As far as Siblings are concerned, if one sibling always picks or tease the other sibling , that may be considered a unhealthy relationship. Siblings can either make a relationship healthy or unhealthy . Once it comes down to it , Siblings can act different once they around people they know. It depends on the...
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...JINS 307 Fall Semester December 11, 2012 The Outcomes of Friends with Benefits Friends with benefits usually consist of two individuals who decide to have sexual interactions with each other. The idea of friends with benefits is that two friends want a sexual partner, but do not want to have a romantic relationship. Can two friends have a sexual relationship without romantic feelings occurring? Can friends with benefits maintain their friendship? Questions involving friends with benefits arise from a myriad of readings involving cross-sex friends. It can be deduced from modern culture that the practice of having sex with someone other than one’s significant other is a commonality. I personally feel that many men and women, when young, are more willing to explore their sexuality. Young adults often don’t want to settle down as soon as possible; they may like to enjoy the pleasures out of life. There are many factors, such as feelings of love and the prospect of marriage, which can change the relationship between friends with benefits. The outcome of the relationship will depend on the individuals involved. There are multiple readings that discuss or portray the outcomes of friends in sexual relationships. For instance in Sula, a reading that involves different relationships between friends, the author used literary analysis to portray the effect of a sexual friendship between a man and a woman. Sula is a Native American woman who is sexually promiscuous. Even though...
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...self-esteem and personal relationships both positive and negative. 93% of college students have a Facebook account and spend on average 47 minutes a day on Facebook. My research on this topic is to inform the general user of the risks and rewards of Facebook. I believe this research is important as a Facebook user myself to know what potential risks I am taking and what potential rewards I can expect. The research question was what is Facebook and what are the positive and negative ramifications on self-esteem and social relationships as a result of using Facebook. My research is based on the literature review of scholarly articles. This research paper will show that Facebook use has many positive and negative effects on self-esteem and personal relationships. Review of the Literature Definition of Facebook Facebook as defined by Tokunaga (2011) is a social networking site (SNS) created in 2004. Facebook since its origination has grown have the largest number of users with more than 500 million active users. 30% of Facebook users are within the age 18-25 demographic. Social networking sites are web-based services that allow people to create a public or semi-public profile within a limited system, formulate a list of other user with whom they share a connection and view and navigate their list of contacts and those made by others within the system. Facebook allows its users to search for “friends” by name, location, profession and interests. Friends are also suggested...
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...Interpersonal Communications As social animals, relationships play a huge role in every individual’s life. They shape one’s life at the micro and macro level. This means that relationships can be made up of a bond between two people or a bond that is as large as a connection between entire societies. While it is important to understand the full range of how relationships affect one’s life, it is essential that each relationship type gets the full attention that it deserves. One of the types of relationships that is most common in the United States is known as “friends with benefits.” This “friends with benefits” type of relationship is a complex relationship that is typically grouped with another type that is known as casual hook ups, but this grouping is done erroneously because they are two very different types of relationships. Friends with benefits is a type of relationship that is defined as an understanding between two people that are friends and choose to engage in sexual behaviors while holding no emotional ties or feeling obligated to be committed to one another. This definition allows us to see that a friends with benefits relationship is more complex than a casual hook up. The reason that most people tend to confuse the two is because they both disassociate sexual actions from romance and feelings, but that is where the similarities end. A casual hook up is also known as a one night stand. Most casual hook ups involve sleeping with different people, many...
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...E. Nelson January 1, 2016 Relationship conflicts happen in television, just as they happen in everyday life. As in life, one can see interpersonal conflict in television that could have been resolved in a better way. I noticed interpersonal conflict in a television episode of "The Big Bang Theory" titled "The Empathy Optimization". Kaplan, E., Holland, S., Molaro, S., Lorre, C., & Cohen, R. (Executive producers). (2007-2014). The big bang theory [Television series]. United States: Columbia Broadcasting System. The resolution to the conflict could have been resolved better by using efficient methods of communicating between the actors. Verbal and non-verbal communications were not used to the scripts best advantage. The ability to listen, along with the use of problem solving skills, were not used effectively. We must remember this is a comedy series, involving several characters with different perceptions of what reality is. The conflicts in this particular episode revolves around empathy, and the actions and reactions, involving one of the characters temporary sickness. The sick persons’ empathic friends took into consideration their sick friends perspective, as well as his thoughts and feelings. His friends recalled similar experiences in their own lives that had generated needy feelings of their own. Their sick friend complained about being sick, expecting to be responded to in a substantial way. His friends did not devalue or judge him, they...
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...Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Vol. 23, No. 6, 2004, pp. 747-767 REASONS FOR HIV DISCLOSURE DERLEGA ET AL. REASONS FOR HIV DISCLOSURE/NONDISCLOSURE IN CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS: TESTING A MODEL OF HIV–DISCLOSURE DECISION MAKING VALERIAN J. DERLEGA AND BARBARA A. WINSTEAD Old Dominion University KATHRYN GREENE Rutgers University JULIANNE SEROVICH Ohio State University WILLIAM N. ELWOOD Center for Public Health and Evaluation Research This research examined the relative importance of reasons for HIV disclosure/nondisclosure with a friend, intimate partner, and parents. Participants were 145 men and women with HIV. Overall, catharsis, a will to duty/educate, and having a close/supportive relationship were endorsed as reasons that influence HIV disclosure. Privacy, self–blame, fear of rejection, and protecting the other were endorsed as reasons that influence nondisclosure. Both men and women endorsed testing the other’s reaction as a reason for disclosing more for an intimate partner, whereas they endorsed privacy more as a reason for not disclosing to a friend. Men (mostly self–identified as homosexuals or bisexuals), but not women (mostly self–identified as heterosexuals), endorsed similarity as a reason for disclosing more to a friend or intimate partner than to a parent. The results are consistent with a Model of HIV–Disclosure Decision Making that indicates how cultural attitudes This research is partly supported by a research grant (#R01DA13145–01A1) from the...
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...Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between two or more people. Friendship is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an association. Friendship has been studied in academic fields such as sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and philosophy. Various academic theories of friendship have been proposed, including social exchange theory, equity theory, relational dialectics, and attachment styles. A World Happiness Database study found that people with close friendships are happier. Although there are many forms of friendship, some of which may vary from place to place, certain characteristics are present in many types of friendship. Such characteristics include affection, sympathy, empathy, honesty, altruism, mutual understanding and compassion, enjoyment of each other's company, trust, and the ability to be oneself, express one's feelings, and make mistakes without fear of judgment from the friend. While there is no practical limit on what types of people can form a friendship, friends tend to share common backgrounds, occupations, or interests, and have similar demographics. THE DEVELOPMENT STAGES OF FRIENDSHIP Developmental Psychology In the typical sequence of an individual's emotional development, friendships come after parental bonding and before pair bonding. In the intervening period between the end of early childhood and the onset of full adulthood, friendships are often the most important relationships in the emotional life of the adolescent, and...
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...had no friends and all of the kids at your school bullied you? What if your friend was about to be killed, would you kill the person killing your friend? What if you lost everything in your life? Coming of age is when a character or a person, matures and develops relationships with each other. For example, people begin to Come of Age as they grow up and mature as a person and as they begin to make better choices. In the book The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton a realistic fiction book, the dystopian novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, and finally the characters in Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, all need to figure out what is going on with their lives, and learn to develop relationships to come of age. In order to come of age, characters must be able to develop relationships whether good or bad to mature and become a better person. First off, Ponyboy and his friends risk their lives when it comes to friends. In the book, Ponyboy, was going to be drowned by the Socs, until Johnny, one of his best friends, came to the rescue and ended up killing somebody just so that he could save his friend. “"I killed him, he said slowly. I killed that boy”...
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...e! ! Jealousy!in!Close!Relationships!Among!Emerging!Adults! by! Katrina!Poetzl!Blomquist! Department!of!Psychology!and!Neuroscience! Duke!University! ! Date:_______________________! Approved:! ! ___________________________! Martha!Putallaz,!Supervisor! ! ___________________________! James!Moody! ! ___________________________! Philip!Costanzo! ! ___________________________! John!Curry! ! ! ! Dissertation!submitted!in!partial!fulfillment!of! the!requirements!for!the!degree!of!Doctor! of!Philosophy!in!the!Department!of! Psychology!and!Neuroscience!in!the!Graduate!School! of!Duke!University! ! 2014! ! ! ! ! ABSTRACT! Jealousy!in!Close!Relationships!Among!Emerging!Adults! by! Katrina!Poetzl!Blomquist! Department!of!Psychology!and!Neuroscience! Duke!University! ! Date:_______________________! Approved:! ! ___________________________! Martha!Putallaz,!Supervisor! ! ___________________________! James!Moody! ! ___________________________! Philip!Costanzo! ! ___________________________! John!Curry! ! An!abstract!of!a!dissertation!submitted!in!partial! fulfillment!of!the!requirements!for!the!degree! of!Doctor!of!Philosophy!in!the!Department!of! Psychology!and!Neuroscience!in!the!Graduate!School!of! Duke!University! ! 2014! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Copyright!by! Katrina!Poetzl!Blomquist! 2014! ! ! ! Abstract ...
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...Dual Relationship Mieisha Marshall, Alicia, Sara Cofield, and Candy Ladd Psych/545 November 17, 2014 Sharlie Hazen Introduction Making ethical decisions in the field of psychology can be very difficult especially when you are in the business of counseling. You have to worry about your client’s crossing that boundary while trying to escape a dual relationship. For instance, the scenario that was chosen by our group consist of a close friend of yours is having difficulty with her teenage daughter. She knows you are a psychologist who specialize in adolescents. She ask if you would be willing to help her daughter for a few sessions to straighten her out. You ask yourself, what should be done during this current situation. For one, the therapist and the client’s mother are friends. The client’s mother may be become too dependable on the therapist to fix the problem. In this paper, we will find the best approach for a dual relationship. Ethical issues involving dual relationships will be examined to clarify and analyze the relationship that the therapist and the client’s mom have. Therapist face many challenges in everyday life and in this paper, we will discuss challenges one may face in professional psychology. Concept of Dual Relationship When a therapist engages in more than one relationship with a client it is then classified as a dual or multiple relationship. If a therapist assumes a secondary role with a client like that of an employer, teacher, family member...
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...Theoretical Perspectives of adult friendships * Importance of friendship in adulthood * Cross-sex friendships * Male vs Female Friendships * Loss and friendship in adulthood * 2. Love relationship * Love * Importance of love relationships * Marriage * Conclusion * Reference List * Introduction The Best Man Holiday is an intriguing piece of art which explores the complexities of various forms of relationships within adulthood. It looks at how friendships can be broken and repaired, aspects of marriage, love and trust. It looks at the tight ropes that get walked within cross-sex friendships and many more aspects of the functioning and importance of relationships in adulthood and ageing. The movie is a sequel to The Best Man and is set within the Christmas season. At this stage many relationships are strained between the individuals who have been the closest of friends since their college days, the strain being a result of events that happened a few years prior. The friends get together at the home of their football star friend, Lance Armstrong, mainly due to the common love and respect they have for his wife Mia; as she is the anchor that keeps them all together. As the movie unfolds, many elements of relationships and their importance are explored, in turn, as I touch on the different themes going forward in this...
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...Means to Be a Friend By Cherie Burbach When it comes to finding friends, perhaps the first step is understanding what exactly friendship is. Does it mean you have each other in your Facebook list? Or that you see each other every Tuesday when you play racquetball? Not really. A relationship needs to have some key elements in order to be labeled as friendship. A Personal Relationship That Is Reciprocated It's not enough to see a person at, say, book group each week and enjoy their company. In order for a friend to truly be considered a friend, he or she has to also believe you are their friend also. This can get tricky, because most people have a different idea of what friendship really means. Some people are instantly trusting of new people, and accept them into their heart without question. For these types of folks, they assume someone is their friend until they find out otherwise. The Difference Between Being Friends and Acting Friendly Other people, however, might act "friendly" with someone but not consider them a friend for quite a while. Perhaps these types of people need to get know someone better before they even consider labeling them as a friend. Or perhaps they already have a lot of friends and therefore wouldn't consider someone they occasionally at social events a friend. It's a not perfect world, but in terms of friendship, someone who is genuinely a friend usually: • Has told you that you are a friend or has introduced you as their friend. • Has called...
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...may mean, you and your best friend of five or more years may suddenly stop making contact. This is not something to be afraid of. Change is simply the sign that you are growing up and becoming who you truly are. Many people remain friends throughout the four years here, but be aware and prepared. On your journey of changing, you will also meet new people. This is normal; Do not close yourself off from the rest of the high school population because you’re afraid of losing friends; You may meet a stellar person. For example, when I was a freshman, my best friend of six years decided to make new friends. The two of us were peas in a pod, but she essentially forgot about me that year. We are still friends to this day, but we are not as close. Meeting new people and expanding your friend group is okay, and if your old friends are okay with it, drag them along on your new escapades as a high school student....
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...with killing five people whom they did not accept her friend requested on Facebook. She told that if somebody in the same apartment building with her did not accept her friend request, she would kill them and that was true. She killed five people and left a “calling card” on murder’s bodies with menaces that being friend on Facebook was good but they did not accept so that is why she killed them. Nowadays with the development of Social networking sites, there are a lot of problems come from of that. Another example evidence of defect of social networking is appearance more and more “hero of keyboard”. Hero of keyboard is a phrase to describe people specially is younger people use keyboard to say their opinion with purpose of lowering and dishonor others. Hero of keyboard also describe people use the keyboard to flirt others and they talk a lot on Social networking site but in real life, when face-to-face reaction, they are different extraordinarily from Social networking. Two examples are specific demonstration of unhealthy way because of Social networking. Although social networking sites are places for user to promote their relationship, they have become an unhealthy substitute for developing face-to-face relationships. Some people argue that Social networking on Facebook, Twitter, for example, is a healthy way to maintain relationships. First of all, Social networking helps people keep in touch with family members or friends who live far from away. They have to do that because...
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