05 Social Well-being

Highlights:

1. Interpersonal Relationships

Types of relationships

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

2. 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

3. Family relationship

Changes that occur in families throughout the life cycle

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

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4. Friends and peer relationship

Peer groups

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)