Sunday, March 24, 2013

# 10 - What is the influence of relationship to psychology


     Relationships are like chemicals, once they have an interaction they’ll definitely react to each other. It’s now up to us if we’ll have a good or bad interaction with them; we just need to be accountable of the result. It’s a matter of good mixture or in short, a matter of good relationship.

     Mr. Eliot Smith wrote in his article at Psychology Press entitled “chapter 11: close relationships” that, relationships influence our feelings, behaviors, and physical and mental well-being. In this article, he provided examples on how relationship affects, some examples are: intimacy, social support, and health.

     Social support increases physical health and psychological well-being because it offers opportunities for self-disclosure, companionship, and enjoyable interactions. We should give social support to the mentally challenged person so they will not feel that they are alone.

     Influencing can also be affected by our genders; women are more likely to provide emotional support, whereas men offer problem-solving advice. Therefore, women are good emotional supporters that’s why mothers should be more supporting to their kids especially when their kids are in special condition. When people are under stress or ill, emotional support is more helpful.

       In conclusion, relationship affects our psychological being so in order to have a peaceful life with the mentally challenged persons around us; we should always have a good relationship with them. Most chemicals explode because of bad mixture and we don’t want it that way.

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