PHED 2022- Invitation to Health: Live It Now! Brief 9e

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An Invitation to Health: Building Your Future, Brief Edition, 9e
Dianne Hales
Your Social Health
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After reading this chapter, the student
should be able to:
• Explain the meaning of the term social
health, using examples
• Outline various ways of communicating,
including gender specific ones
• Examine how relationships contribute to
the social health of individuals
Objectives

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• Evaluate the impact of modern technology
on communicating
• Identify current trends in dating among
young people
• Explain the significance of love to an
individual’s well-being
• Summarize the impact of dysfunctional
relationships
Objectives (cont’d.)

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• Describe the trends, factors, and forms of
long-term partnering in America
• Summarize the changes that have taken
place in the American household over time
Objectives (cont’d.)

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• Social health includes the ability to:
– Interact effectively with people and with the
social environment
– Develop satisfying personal relationships
– Fulfill social roles
• Social support affects physical health
– People of all ages function best in socially
supportive environment
The Social Dimension of Health

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• Learn to listen
– Relationships always involve an emotional
investment
– Opening yourself up to others increases your
own self-knowledge and understanding
• Be agreeable but assertive
– Communicate your wishes calmly and clearly
Communicating

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• Communication traits of young boys
– Make less eye contact
– Vocabulary includes fewer “feeling” words
– Faces become less emotional as they grow
• Communication traits of adult men
– Use fewer words than women
– Interrupt more
– Make more eye contact when speaking to
women than to men
Communication Differences Between
Men and Women

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• As much as 90 percent of communication
is nonverbal
• Body language
– Includes tone of voice, body position
• Culture differences affect interpretation of
body language
– Example: eye contact interpreted as hostile or
challenging in one culture
• Conveying friendliness in another culture
Nonverbal Communication

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• Friendship
– Basic source of happiness
– Source of solace in times of trouble
• Emotional closeness declines 15 percent
per year in the absence of face-to-face
contact
• Loneliness
– Adolescents, the elderly, adults who live
alone, and single parents most affected
Forming Relationships

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• 10 to 15 percent of children born with
predisposition to shyness
– Others become shy due to rejection, shame,
or lack of learning proper social responses
• Types of shyness
– Fearfully shy
– Self-consciously shy
• Social anxiety disorder
– Affects about seven percent of the population
Shyness and Social Anxiety Disorder

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• Altruism
– Helping or giving to others
– Enhances self-esteem
• Volunteerism
– Helps those who give as well as those who
receive
– May lower risk factors for cardiovascular
disease
Building a Healthy Community

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• Almost one-third of the world’s population
uses the Internet
– 77 percent of Americans
• Social networking a growing trend
– Individuals who socialize online show same
psychological sense of community as those
who interact in person
• Facebook provides greater social support than
Twitter
Living in a Wired World

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• 94 percent of college students maintain a
social networking profile
• Motivations
– Nurturing or maintaining existing relationships
– Seeking new relationships
– Enhancing reputation
– Avoiding loneliness
– Keeping tabs on others
– Self-esteem
Social Networking on Campus

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• What was once shared with one other
person is now often shared publicly
• Negative aspects of social networking
– Sexting
• Can have unintended consequences
– Excessive cell phone and Internet use
– Cyberbullying
– Cyberstalking
Self-Disclosure and Privacy

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• Many young people socialize in groups
before venturing into a romantic
relationship
• Hooking up
– Casual sexual encounter
– No expectation of emotional intimacy or
relationship
– Those who participate more likely white,
attractive, outgoing, and nonreligious
Dating on Campus

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• Love is a basic need
– Essential to physical and psychological well-
being
• Intimacy
– Open, trusting, sharing of confidential
thoughts and feelings
– Requires time and nurturing
– Does not require sex
Loving and Being Loved

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• Top reasons for attraction
– Warmth and kindness
– Desirable personality
– Something specific about the person
– Reciprocal liking
• Infatuation
– Being head-over-heels in love
– Feelings are temporary
What Attracts Two People to Each
Other?

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• Types of committed relationships
– Heterosexual marriages
– Heterosexuals who never marry
– Homosexuals who partner or marry
• Emerging adulthood
– Occurs in the late teens and early twenties
– Time marked by volatility and identity
formation
– Brain still developing until age 25
Partnering Across the Lifespan

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• Previous generation: 70 percent of
Americans married
– Number is 50 percent today
– Men more likely to be single than women
• Every age bracket
• Married people are healthier and live
longer than non-married people
– A happy marriage boosts mental well-being in
both spouses
Marriage

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• Families are very diverse
– Gender role reversal more common in African
American families
– Chinese American families often have two
working parents
• Wife may not have equal role in decision-making
– Blended families occur in three of 10
households
• Children of previous relationships
Family Ties