Interpersonal Relationship : A Important Role

Friendship is integral to interpersonal relationships. Communities cannot be based on justice alone; friendship is the necessary binding agent that holds communities together. It is like the soul which powers the body. However, friendship is not something that appears immediately. The strength of friendship comes from the long-term cultivation of communal bonds. Thus, friendship is the greatest of the external goods. Aristotle explores the virtues, types, and benefits of friendship to explain why it is so precious.

Some key ways of building a relationship are building great communication. To build great communication, it is important to acknowledge who they are. It is also important to make them feel like they are participating in their life and making decisions. It is important to have a positive engagement in their environment.

There is nothing that keeps a relationship strong and going healthy, better than understanding and once established communication is created many become more familiar with communication and the different ways we can communicate..

Without communication, there is no base for trust to be built on. Sadly this is a lesson I had to learn the hard way. I learned in my last relationship that without communication, it is doomed to fail. My ex and I started our relationship, like every other relationship, in the glorious honeymoon phase, where everything is extraordinary. However, this phase soon ended and approached the fall of our relationship, our text became sparse, and our face to face time was even sparser. Our communication was slim to none, and it was a matter of time before we broke up. An example of extraordinary communication is in my family. We have four members to our family and only two of us can drive, so it is imperative we communicate to each other where we need to be and when in order to avoid fights. Our family has come up with an indirect communication method that fixes this issue, we have white boards on our fridge that everyone writes where they need to be and when. This an amazing example of indirect communication that helps keep our family relationship strong.

Being in a relationship, I noticed that communication is key. However, there are other numerous factors that play a substantial role in the relationship. I believe in three simple things.

Communication is one of the most important aspects in romantic relationships and different communication styles can affect relationships differently. Relationships can be both positively and negatively affected depending on the level of communication between the partners.

The title of chapter Nine is called Understanding Interpersonal Relationships. In chapter nine is talking about ways to understand interpersonal relationships among two people. In chapter nine, a couple of materials stood out to me about understanding interpersonal relationships and those were the four elements of interpersonal relationships and the nature of interpersonal relationships and sources of Initial attraction.

Imagine meeting someone for the first time and only having less than ten minutes to talk to them. How much can that person really learn about their acquaintance and how much can the acquaintance really tell this person? Does it seem reasonable for the listener to diagnose this person with having a severe illness or even cancer after only talking to them for less than ten minutes? According to Caroline Parkinson, health editor of BBC News, physicians are not required to offer appointments lasting at least ten minutes anymore (1). Physicians and surgeons now have the flexibility and capability to make capricious decisions when it comes to deciding on how long the appointment can be and the amount of patients seen every day. By allowing doctors and surgeons to use their clinical judgement on a case to case basis, patients are at risk of not personally connecting with their doctor. Interpersonal is the behavior between people in any encounter (“Interpersonal, adj”). Connection is a personal relation of action; often having to do with people (“Connection, n”). As a result of societal changes with time intervals for appointments and the money rate doctors receive after examining their patients, patients are uncertain if their doctors truly care about both their physical and mental health.

The way communication works between two people is, there is a sender and a receiver. They relay messages back and forth to each other. When the sender sends the message the receiver has encode it and send feed back. But there is usually noise between what the sender sends and the receiver receives. Noise is a distraction the cause the message to be messed up or encoded wrong. To help a relation the two usually need to close the gap between each other so that the noise gets minimized. Most relationships starts with being friends, then moving to romance which turns into marriage, then it goes to conflict and divorce. But in good relationships the communication is good and the can settle a conflict by talking it out with each other.

Communication is the number one key to a good relationship. When there is no communication between both parties involved in the relationship, that is when the relationship fails whether it is a man and a woman, or a child trying to divorce his/her parents or friends cutting their ties forever.

As long as there exists a relationship between two people, which tend to be closer, chances of conflict occurrence are enhanced; hence the inevitability of conflict principle as mentioned by Cahn and Abigail (2014). From the case above, is has been depicted that interpersonal conflicts arise among individuals who are important to each other, and are to continue being together in various contexts, hence a sense of interdependence (Cahn & Abigail, 2014). There is an automatic mother-child interdependence in one way, or another hence conflict is inevitable. This inevitability is also portrayed by Hertz (2015) while elaborating on conflict management with patients. It is the prolonged relationship between the patient and the doctor that increases the chances conflict occurrence. Both of them are important to one another in that the patient needs to be well while the doctor wants to gain from the patient after offering the treatment services, hence the interdependence. Canary (2013) has also highlighted the interdependence concept as a key initiator of conflict among family members. According to him, the interdependence creates the family system. He has also expressed the fact that positive behaviour, between family members, in conflict interaction is a key propeller of conflict management. This applies to the case above, in that the calm response to the mother challenged her and provoked resolution in her, about her prior behaviour.

To begin with social interaction is the way people talk and act with each other and various structures in society. Interaction such as: family or bureaucracies that are formed out of the need to create order within the interaction itself. According to Macionis people interact in a daily basis through: emotions, language and humor.

The aim of the present research is to provide a link between the impact of significant others on self and how they affect interpersonal behavior even when they are below conscious awareness. In the study of Baldwin, Carrell and Lopez (1990), they argued that the way people experience self is highly dependent other people. People engage in many thoughts about others’ perception of themselves. Accordingly, how one evaluates himself or herself depends on how his or her significant other is probably evaluating them. In the study, they investigated subconscious priming of disapproval by significant others, and showed the effects on participants’ evaluations regarding self-related aspects, they found a consistency of facial expression and participants’ judgment when significant other (compared to unfamiliar other) is primed.

Teaching students is a complex profession comprised of its unique ethical elements to consider. One area for consideration is the interpersonal nature of teaching as it relates to favoritism and fairness. Imagine the first day of class of all your students two, in particular, Sam and Tom, you already determined you connect with one while the other you do not like. Sam, you think has so much potential and promise even though you have heard he is a bit slow, does not turn in his work, and is very squarely to his previous teacher, but you connect with him immediately. As the week’s progress, your initial judgment was accurate, as Sam tries hard to do his best. So you grade his work more leniently and call on him quite often to give him every opportunity to answer questions during group learning. In contrast, your top student, Tom, you just do not like, even though he is respectful, smart, and often raises his hand excitedly to answer questions, plus his assignments are done exceptionally well. Thus, you make more of an effort to grade his work harder than you do other students in the class including Sam. Furthermore, you seat him at the desk that is not in your direct line of sight thus being able to avoid calling on him without making it apparent. You are not trying to be mean, but Sam has just won a soft spot in your heart. This example is an issue of favoritism and as such become an ethical issue interpersonally within your classroom.

Communication plays a fundamental role in all facets of our life, personal or professional: it builds and maintains relationships. In contrast, poor communication skills can have a negative impact on all aspects of a person’s life.