Interpersonal Relationship and High Self-monitors

Throughout history; more specifically throughout different generations, we as human beings have been subject to a certain amount of change within our society. As time goes by change is almost inevitable among a nation. Change has occurred throughout history due to specific events that have a ripple effect upon individuals. Whether the change is a result of advancing technology, social climate, or foreign influence there is little chance of preventing the effect it will have on society. It is difficult to argue that we have not seen a paradigm shift in social attitudes from generation to

health, people are likely to pair up with partners of averagely the same level of

I believe that society has changed for the worse. The reason I believe this is because society in the past was much simpler. There was not a lot of technology available to individuals. People are starting to lose the art of communication. Instead people text one another in text lingo versus using proper grammar. Family units in the 1950's, 60's, and 70's were much different than they are today. There were more families with two parents in the home. There was less single parent household or step parent households. the more society evolve and changes the worse our society is becoming. The more technology is incorporated into our lives the further people seem to be getting from one another. In the 1950's a traditional household consisted of one mother, one father, two or three children, and a

As you can tell there has been a lot of diversity when it comes to gender, sex and (GBLT) people. History is something that cannot be changed, but the present and future can have a different outcome if more people would support equality of all forms or fashion. Negativity is something we will see no matter what happens in society, but equality should be something we should all try and agree on. I believe in 40 years we will see less of these types of issues, but they will still be issues.

Participants in this study were online graduate male and female students at Southern New Hampshire University (N= 14; 7 women and 7 men), ranging in age from 21-30 years old.

Participants in this study were online graduate male and female students at Southern New Hampshire University (N= 20; 10 women and 10 men) ranging in ages of 30 or younger.

Kerchoff and Davis used their model to do a study on students who had been together for more than or less than 18 months. They were asked to complete questionnaires over 7 months on attitudes and personality of their partners compared to theirs; it was found that this was important in relationships up

In the 1990s, 2000s, and even the current decade, there has been a big swap in family life and traditional values. What started out in the 1950s as a traditional nuclear family is still changing into so many different ideas. Divorce rates increase and it is no longer something people are necessarily ashamed of when they do get divorced. Many people will even go through divorce more than once. There is an increase in second marriages and having step-siblings and half-siblings.

Time changes everything. As time goes on even the everyday things in our life change. There are the obvious things like technology, transportation, and cooking. However, unmaterialistic things in our life change as well. Such as the way people date and the way people view dating. It really has changed drastically from generation to generation. For example, someone using 2000’s dating techniques would have had serious trouble dating in the 1950’s. There are many factors that have led to this change, such as communication and the view of women by society.

When the adolescents were rating the different characteristics the results were as followed, boys rated attractiveness higher than the girls and social status wasn’t important to either group. In the vignette portion of the research, when the social status and the attractiveness were displayed on pictures, it showed that both groups found attractiveness important. Social status was only important for the boys when the mate was attractive and the girls found social status was important whether attractive or not. Lastly, as stated by Ha (2009) “self-perceived mate value moderated the relationship between attractiveness and dating desire for both boys and girls.” Also stated be Ha (2009) “adolescents who perceived themselves as having high mate value showed more dating desire if the other person was attractive compared to adolescents who perceived themselves as having a lower mate value.”

I do not believe that one certain idea would stay the same over time, when society changes mostly everything changes along with it. An example would be technology. My generation was mostly the only one that associated their daily life with technology, when it first came out no one really knew how to use advance technology like iPhone's. Now its a big part in every generation. At first it was just newer generations that associated it. However, now society has coerced technology into all types of generations as well. By making only certain things available by technology or just simply by making things easier accessible. Technology, certainly did not stay the same over time, it revolutionized.

The majority of the time the person who is left longing for more than just a casual hookup is the female. Women, by nature, are more likely to become more emotionally attached, especially when it comes to sexual activities. However, most of the time, girls will be willing to play along with the game of hooking up. Perhaps, in hopes, that it will someday lead to something more. But, if and when it doesn’t, they can be left emotionally distraught. Girls will become attached to the person they are with and grow to have a sincere care for them. However, when it comes to picking a mate, boys are not as particular about the girl. A study, Age and gender differences in mate selection criteria for various involvement levels found that “men should be equally as selective as women with respect to long-term mates, but less selective than woman with respect to short-term mates criteria (Kenrick).” Boys are less likely to think about all aspects of girl when planning on hooking up with her, unlike girls. They are not as particular because they are just looking for

Throughout this semester in communications I have learned a lot about myself, how to deal with others, relationships, and more. There were some lessons that stood out to me the most, and that I thought about after class. The first was in chapter 3 about interpersonal communication and the self. During this chapter, we took a piece of paper and put four people that we knew down. We chose someone who we were just getting to know, and then others that we knew very well or that were very close to us. In this lesson, we were discussing the social penetration theory. The first step is the breadth which is a volunteered amount of information that we tell someone as subjects are being discussed. The second step is depth which is when we began to go deeper into personal information. The four people that I chose were a girl I had just met at work, my sister, my dad, and my boyfriend. After completing the circles and filling in the amount of information that I have covered with them, the girl I work with had the least, and my sister had the most filled in to the core. After completing this lesson, I looked at my paper and realized that almost everyone was more filled in to the core than my relationship with my father. This lesson struck a major cord with me because I never realized how surface level my relationship with my dad was until talking about this lesson. I knew that my father and I were not that close to begin with, but I never knew why. After this lesson, I understood that my

The three variables being correlated in this study are extroversion, fear of negative evaluation, and mate-seeking behaviors. I hypothesize that people with high levels of extroversion and mate-seeking scores will be positively correlated with satisfaction with life, and people with high levels of fear of negative evaluation will be inversely correlated with satisfaction with life.

     Social relationships seem to remain constant over time. Technology has changed dramatically, but human interaction is still basically the same.