Personal Relationships: Concepts and Definitions

Personal Relationships

• Personal relationships refer to relationships between people, especially those between friends, lovers, and family members.
• Love is a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personalities.
• Commitment is a promise to a loved one to prioritize them, and responsibility is the social force that binds individuals to their actions.

Types of Personal Relationships

Friendship

• Connecting and interacting with friends leads to healthy or helpful thinking and behavioral patterns, resulting in positive outcomes for the individual.
• Self-perception theory states that one's actions are influenced by others, and one's perceptions of themselves are influenced by how others perceive them.
• The looking-glass self phenomenon refers to how people's perceptions of themselves are influenced by how they are perceived by others.

Family

• Family is defined as two or more persons related by birth, marriage, or adoption, living together as one household.
• Family structure and legacies shape an individual's growth and development.

Romantic Partners

• Romantic partners are close relationships formed between two people, built upon affection, trust, intimacy, and romantic love.

Types of Love

• Non-love: absence of the three components, characterized by casual interactions.
• Infatuated/Fatuous Love: characterized by passion but without intimacy and commitment.
• Liking/Friendship: intimacy without passion or commitment.
• Romantic/Passionate Love: passion and intimacy, characterized by intense longing for union with another.
• Companionate/Compassionate Love: intimacy and commitment without passion or desire.
• Empty Love: commitment without passion or intimacy.

Relationship Spectrum

• Healthy Relationship: based on equality and respect.
• Unhealthy Relationship: based on attempts to control the other person.
• Abusive Relationship: based on an imbalance of power and control, with accusations, blame-shifting, isolation, pressure, and manipulation.

Career Development

• Career development is a process where a person's work identity is formed.
• Job: something done from 5-9 hours typically with compensation or salary.
• Career: a system of advancements and promotions over a period of time, resulting in rewards to enhance behavior.
• Profession: any type of work that needs special training or a particular skill.
• Skills: talents or abilities that can be learned through training.
• Interests: areas that provide enjoyment and learning.
• Values: individual beliefs, including priorities, decisions, and behavior.

Parental Autonomy and Career Choice

• Parental autonomy: parental monitoring associated with parental protection, sometimes deciding on a child's course.
• Financial hardship: a major problem for many Filipino families, affecting career choices.

Change in Family Roles and School Location

• Change in family roles: children from broken families may become the breadwinner, affecting their education.
• School location: proximity or distance of the school from home is a key factor, with many universities located in cities.

Academic Performance and Employment Rate

• Academic performance: courses with grade requirements serving as a basis for career preference.
• Employment rate: the demand of the market, with high salary offers and beneficial courses affecting career choices.

Herd Mentality and PDE L9

• Herd mentality: adolescents swayed by their peers, fearing separation from their group of friends.
• PDE L9: Family structure and legacies.

Family Structure and Legacies

• Family: the basic unit of society, shaping an individual's growth and development.
• Types of parenting: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved.

Improving Family Relationships

• Rule 1: Communicate, appreciate, share activities, and be committed.
• Rule 2: Show support, accept each member as they are, and help whenever possible.

Communication in Filipino Families

• Research shows that many Filipino families seldom talk with each other, especially during times of crisis.
• Implicit understanding: many Filipino families assume that what they want to say to each other is understood and need not be shown nor spoken aloud.

Understanding Family Issues and Challenges

• First-born: usually have high feelings of power and superiority.
• Second-born: develop their personalities based on the older child's attitude toward them.
• Youngest: often the most spoiled and pampered.
• Only child: lives in an adult world, competing against their mother or father.

Social Norms and Leadership

• Social norms: ways of behaving within society, determining the do's and don'ts of a smoothly functioning group.
• Leadership: an important role in society, with different types of leadership styles.

Types of Leadership

• Authoritarian (Autocratic): leaders have all the decision-making power, excluding employees from the decision-making process.
• Participative (Democratic): leaders value input from their teams and invite employees to be part of the decision-making process.
• Delegative (Laissez-Faire): leaders avoid micromanagement and delegate initiatives to employees.
• Transactional (Managerial): leaders emphasize organization, supervision, performance, compliance, and meeting goals.
• Transformational (Visionary): leaders focus on getting their teams to buy into the vision and unite over a shared sense of purpose.
• Servant Leadership: leaders prioritize the vision and transform both the leader, people, and organization.

Personal Relationships

• Personal relationships refer to relationships between people, especially those between friends, lovers, and family members.
• Love is a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personalities.
• Commitment is a promise to a loved one to prioritize them, and responsibility is the social force that binds individuals to their actions.

Types of Personal Relationships

Friendship

• Connecting and interacting with friends leads to healthy or helpful thinking and behavioral patterns, resulting in positive outcomes for the individual.
• Self-perception theory states that one's actions are influenced by others, and one's perceptions of themselves are influenced by how others perceive them.
• The looking-glass self phenomenon refers to how people's perceptions of themselves are influenced by how they are perceived by others.

Family

• Family is defined as two or more persons related by birth, marriage, or adoption, living together as one household.
• Family structure and legacies shape an individual's growth and development.

Romantic Partners

• Romantic partners are close relationships formed between two people, built upon affection, trust, intimacy, and romantic love.

Types of Love

• Non-love: absence of the three components, characterized by casual interactions.
• Infatuated/Fatuous Love: characterized by passion but without intimacy and commitment.
• Liking/Friendship: intimacy without passion or commitment.
• Romantic/Passionate Love: passion and intimacy, characterized by intense longing for union with another.
• Companionate/Compassionate Love: intimacy and commitment without passion or desire.
• Empty Love: commitment without passion or intimacy.

Relationship Spectrum

• Healthy Relationship: based on equality and respect.
• Unhealthy Relationship: based on attempts to control the other person.
• Abusive Relationship: based on an imbalance of power and control, with accusations, blame-shifting, isolation, pressure, and manipulation.

Career Development

• Career development is a process where a person's work identity is formed.
• Job: something done from 5-9 hours typically with compensation or salary.
• Career: a system of advancements and promotions over a period of time, resulting in rewards to enhance behavior.
• Profession: any type of work that needs special training or a particular skill.
• Skills: talents or abilities that can be learned through training.
• Interests: areas that provide enjoyment and learning.
• Values: individual beliefs, including priorities, decisions, and behavior.

Parental Autonomy and Career Choice

• Parental autonomy: parental monitoring associated with parental protection, sometimes deciding on a child's course.
• Financial hardship: a major problem for many Filipino families, affecting career choices.

Change in Family Roles and School Location

• Change in family roles: children from broken families may become the breadwinner, affecting their education.
• School location: proximity or distance of the school from home is a key factor, with many universities located in cities.

Academic Performance and Employment Rate

• Academic performance: courses with grade requirements serving as a basis for career preference.
• Employment rate: the demand of the market, with high salary offers and beneficial courses affecting career choices.

Herd Mentality and PDE L9

• Herd mentality: adolescents swayed by their peers, fearing separation from their group of friends.
• PDE L9: Family structure and legacies.

Family Structure and Legacies

• Family: the basic unit of society, shaping an individual's growth and development.
• Types of parenting: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved.

Improving Family Relationships

• Rule 1: Communicate, appreciate, share activities, and be committed.
• Rule 2: Show support, accept each member as they are, and help whenever possible.

Communication in Filipino Families

• Research shows that many Filipino families seldom talk with each other, especially during times of crisis.
• Implicit understanding: many Filipino families assume that what they want to say to each other is understood and need not be shown nor spoken aloud.

Understanding Family Issues and Challenges

• First-born: usually have high feelings of power and superiority.
• Second-born: develop their personalities based on the older child's attitude toward them.
• Youngest: often the most spoiled and pampered.
• Only child: lives in an adult world, competing against their mother or father.

Social Norms and Leadership

• Social norms: ways of behaving within society, determining the do's and don'ts of a smoothly functioning group.
• Leadership: an important role in society, with different types of leadership styles.

Types of Leadership

• Authoritarian (Autocratic): leaders have all the decision-making power, excluding employees from the decision-making process.
• Participative (Democratic): leaders value input from their teams and invite employees to be part of the decision-making process.
• Delegative (Laissez-Faire): leaders avoid micromanagement and delegate initiatives to employees.
• Transactional (Managerial): leaders emphasize organization, supervision, performance, compliance, and meeting goals.
• Transformational (Visionary): leaders focus on getting their teams to buy into the vision and unite over a shared sense of purpose.
• Servant Leadership: leaders prioritize the vision and transform both the leader, people, and organization.

This quiz explores concepts in personal relationships, including love, commitment, and attraction. Learn about the definitions and characteristics of these essential aspects of interpersonal connections.