relationships Flashcards
(18 cards)
What do most people say makes life good?
Close relationships with family, friends, and romantic partners.
What did a cross-cultural study with university students show about life satisfaction?
Preference for close and enduring relationships (like close friends and a good marriage) was consistent across groups, showing universality.
What did Peterson assert about wellbeing?
“Other people matter.”
What does the wellbeing model recommend about relationships?
Engage with others purposefully and for its own sake; value relationships and learn how to create, nurture, and maintain them.
What does the longest scientific study on happiness show about relationships?
Positive relationships keep us healthier and happier, protect us from life’s challenges, and are better predictors of long, happy lives than social class, IQ, or genes.
What has science realized about relationships and health?
Caring, loving, and respectful relationships are as important for our health and wellbeing as diet, exercise, or environment.
What are two dimensions of positive relationships?
Positive resonance and closeness.
What is positive resonance?
Unique moments of connectedness and shared emotions that create beautiful interpersonal connections.
What are the three elements of positive resonance?
Sharing our positive and/or negative emotions
Mutual care and concern
Biological and behavioral synchrony
What does “shared emotions” mean?
Being on the same emotional wavelength.
What is mutual care and concern?
When we and others show investment in each other’s well-being.
What is bio-behavioral synchrony?
Alignment with another person on behavioral, emotional, and neuronal levels.
What is self-disclosure?
Verbal communication of personally relevant information, thoughts, and feelings to another.
What are factual self-disclosures?
Sharing personal facts and information.
What are emotional self-disclosures?
Sharing private feelings, opinions, and judgments.
What is perceived partner responsiveness?
It’s in the eye of the speaker—when the partner is seen as understanding, validating, and caring.
What makes a person’s behavior responsive? (Steps)
Listen to the initial disclosure
Understand both surface and subtle meanings
Respond to show understanding, ask encouraging questions
Express empathy with verbal and emotional cues
What is the final expression of responsiveness called?
Empathy
