The Social Context Of Interpersonal Communication And Health

Interpersonal Communication is a very important ingredient in making strong, healthy relationships. Communicating is how we get a better understanding of one another’s perception of things, as well as how we help someone to better understand ours. We need to express our feelings in relationships and know that they are reciprocated. Not communicating leads to problems and misunderstandings. People need to learn to understand what the other person is trying to communicate. Interpersonal communication is the process by which people exchange information, feelings, and meaning through verbal and non-verbal messages: it is face-to-face communication. It is about what is said, how it is said, and the use of non-verbal communication through

With this increase in technology, particularly the internet and social media, researchers have begun to question its effects on mental health, particularly anxiety, depression, and loneliness.

Communications is key to the survival of all relationships. The term used to describe the type of communication that helps maintain relationships is interpersonal. An interpersonal relationship is a relationship between two or more people that have a mutual influence on one another. This paper will discuss two of many interpersonal communication concepts. The two concepts are other-oriented and impersonal communication. Also these concepts will be explained and examples will be given from the movie Good Will Hunting.

“Communication competence is an important interpersonal skill, and it requires awareness of our individual communication patterns” (Bevan & Sole, 2014).

Written communication is a vital part in every origination, especially in the health and social care setting. Accurate records and files of patients must be kept and members of staff such as doctors, nurses and carers must always be in constant communication through files, notes, emails and regular meetings. Communication gets better when staff and patients communicate clearly and pay particular attention to detail. Administration also plays an important role in keeping up with all the X rays, appointments, doctors letters and the smooth running of the health and social care organisation. Communication must always be very clear and straight to the point. Effective communication does solve many problems and sometimes it can even save lives.

A real social danger with sexting is that since all the material send out is digital that person has the same permission you do with that photo. The report by psychologist Raychelle C. Lohmann highlights the risk of severe depression for sexters who lose control of their images and videos. In a study conducted by analyzing sexting behaviors among young adults, it was found that “men would show the sexually-explicit photos of their girlfriends to their friends. (Lohmann)” this is a risk associated with new media, prior to cell phones and email, it would be difficult to quickly distribute photos to acquaintances; with sexting, one can forward a photo in a matter of seconds. The most important negative effect of sexting forms mental health issues. Having your private pictures shared with a mass audience can cause vast “guilt and shame” (Lohmann). As a result, kids who participate in sexting often regret having done so. It also impacts self-esteem leaving them feeling vulnerable and exposed. In addition, “adolescents with sexting could not focus on their studies thus they would lose their academic future.” Students who partaken in sexting tend to skip their classes and cut school (Lohmann). Moreover, sexting is linked to depression, anxiety and an impaired ability to express emotions which could lead to suicide. For example, in “Ohio, Jessica Logan, eighteen years old, decided to

Given what I have learned in class so far this semester, and my interview with Dr. Fritz, their are several personal improvements that I would not mine employing into my own interpersonal health communication interactions. The first of these is in regards to my own patient disposition and the idea of being a self advocate, someone who actively seeks health information, is comfortable talking about health concerns, and is assertive about seeking care (p.114). I believe that this is very important because if I am not personally active in my own healthcare, than I or my doctor could miss something during check-ups or emergencies, that might be important. I also think being a self advocate and getting involved in my own healthcare can help in my daily life by motivating me to make healthy choices such as exercising regularly, eating healthy, and even applying sunscreen more often.

The following paragraphs will describe more in depth a comparison between male and female’s attitude and behavior toward sexting and the consequences associated with it. This topic will be examined from a young teenager and emerging adult perspective with supporting evidence from six recent peer reviewed articles.

Sexting among young teenagers is a reality of technology and society needs to be better informed about sexting and the general impact on young people and general development alongside their peers and society. Recognising the positive and negatives consequences of adolescents engaging in this a current phenomenon. As well as identification of reasons for teenagers sexting. Research can better understand why some teenagers are impacted in a negative way, while other peers use sexting as normal sexuality behaviour with healthy romantic relationship. It has been suggested because the majority of young people are more comfortable with diverse technology than an older generation.

We face addiction among the young generation, which gets them involved with sexting and social media. According to Dr. Vicky Wyatt, “We have a lot of compulsive behaviors manifest themselves in different ways, and this is another venue for it” sexting is a huge deal nowadays because it leads to addiction among teenagers and it’s hard to overcome it. (Rhea). Sexting is something everyone is aware of and every single day it turns into a whole new problem with new victims on the side. The harms that can come from sexting are humiliations, nudity, insults and more. Most of the time girls are the ones that are targeted because they love the attention and desire that they get from others. The major problem is that they tend to commit suicide because they get humiliated when others see their pictures all over the Internet. The reason for the suicide is because the individual looked at the comments so many times from others that they couldn’t take it anymore. The reason why sexting is turning into a problem is because teens think its cool but they don’t see the disadvantages of it. Melissa L. Ricketts stated, “Drawing upon these findings, the current research is interested in exploring if a similar relationship exists between Internet-related problems and sexting. Internet-related problem scale in order to determine if youth who score higher on the Internet-related problem scale are more likely to also engage in sexting than those with lower Internet-related problem scales” which shows how sexting can happen very quickly if you are connected with the internet and have problems. Sexting is happening all around the world and no one can put an end to it because most of them are teenagers and their minds are not that build up to understand the consequences after. According to Nancy Ahern, an whole new world has been created due to sexting and young adults are the cause of it: “Sexting has been considered to be

Communication is the process of gathering meaning from the world around us and using verbal and non-verbal messages to share this meaning with others. (Beebe, Beebe, and Redmond, 2005) More specifically, interpersonal communication can be defined as; “a distinctive, transactual form of human communication involving mutual influence, usually for the purpose of managing relation ships.” (Beebe, Beebe, and Redmond, 2005, p. 6) Interpersonal communication is extremely complex and encompasses many different themes and issues that affect many aspects of our daily lives. These

How does electronic communication affect our social behavior as a whole and our psychological development? Communication is an important part of life. We all do it in a daily basis whether it’s face-to-face or through electronics. Communicating through the internet helps us as it decreases a bit in the time that it would usually take for us to keep in touch with our loved ones. However, it also takes away from the face-to-face interaction we would have with them. One of the most popular ways that people communicate electronically is through text messaging. Just like all the other diverse ways that allows us to communicate electronically such as email, instant messaging, social media etc., text messaging affects us both positively and negatively. Actually we are affected both positively and negatively with just the ability to communicate and interact with others electronically. Electronic Communication tends to affects us socially and psychologically; Socially: in a way that it allows us to keep in touch with our loved ones, especially those who live far from us, however it distracts some of us from our priorities; Psychologically: one can be affected in a

Interpersonal comunication includes the verbal and nonverbal interaction between people. Communication incolves the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages. The words a person speaks as well as facial expressions send messages. In some situations, the nonverbal communication will caryy more of a person's meaning than their words. In other situations, the verbal communication will comuunicate more information.

Communication is vital to the survival of humanity. Without communication, people tend towards insanity, desperately craving human interaction. Yet many, including myself, are uninterested in learning the ways of communication: how it works, how to communicate well, and how to listen well. Interpersonal communication is “…a transactional process involving participants who occupy different environments and create meaning and relationships through the exchange of messages,” (Adler 12). Communication skills are vital in any relationship or work environment; however, communication has many underlying and hidden factors affect the quality of interactions. Learning the mechanics of interpersonal communications increases job success, improves

The label, “Social Media”, is due to its ability to encourage people to be more social and communicative through the internet. Yet, it is now known that the name might not live up to its expectation. With less face-to-face interaction, relationships and communication skills are being sacrificed. Although one may have one thousand