PDV101

• Personal relationships


  Close connections between people, formed by emotional bonds and interactions. These bonds often grow from and are strengthened by mutual experiences
• Absence of close relationship can produce a big negative effect on individual who is deprived of it, such as feeling of worthless, powerless, and alienated
• Attraction


  In forming a social network, attraction serves as an important function that provides security and satisfies people's needs to belong to a social group. Many factors influence interpersonal attraction characterized by some (may not be all) of the following: liking, love, friendship, lust, and admiration
• Physical attractiveness


  • One of the primary determinants of romantic attraction
• Proximity


  • People tend to get attracted to people who are geographically closer to them. They are more likely to develop feelings of mutual familiarity and increased level of comfort when there is regular contact and no prior negative feelings
• Similarity


  • People tend to pick partners who are similar to themselves. The more attitudes and opinions two people share, especially when they are similar, the more they will want to do the same activities, and would create a strong bond between them
• Reciprocity


  • People tend to like others who reciprocate their liking. People feel indebted when someone does something good for them and tend to reciprocate the action
• Stages of Courtship

  1. Getting to know

  2. Dating

  3. Selective Stage

  4. Going steady

  5. Engagement Period
• Triangular Theory of Love


  Psychologist Robert Sternberg's theory that love has three components: intimacy, passion, and commitment. Interactions among these components determine different kinds of love

  
• Types of Love

  • Nonlove
  • Liking/Friendship
  • Infatuated Love
  • Empty Love
  • Romantic Love
  • Companionate love
  • Fatuous love
  • Consummate love
• Consummate love is the ideal and complete form of love that everyone wants to achieve. However, this type of love is more difficult to maintain than to achieve
• Acceptable Expressions of Attraction

  • Verbal communication saying i love you or i like you
  • Smiling
• Being in a relationship takes responsibility
• Suggested ways to become responsible in a relationship

  • To avoid regrets from heartaches that you may encounter, you should make sure that you are ready before you enter into a relationship
  • Make sure that you are at least emotionally mature to face obstacles that come with being in a relationship
  • Wish the possible risks and consequences before doing
  • Don't be shy. Approach matures individuals, especially your parents, and ask questions regarding relationships
• Leadership


  A process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent
• Myths of Leadership

  • Leaders are born, not made
  • Leadership is a rare skill
  • Leadership exists only at the tops of an organization
  • All leaders are charismatic
  • Leaders control by manipulation
  • Leadership control by motivation
• Most leadership seminars and courses focus on improving one's leadership skills in the context of leading a team, an office, or an organization. But leadership is not only confined to these areas
• Four Levels of Leadership

  • Personal Leadership
  • One-on-One Leadership
  • Team Leadership
  • Organizational Leadership
• Success without succession is meaningless
• Influence


  Leadership is influence, nothing more nothing less
• Family Structures and Legacies


  A family is a support system which involves two or more persons who share resources, share responsibility for decisions, share values and goals, and have a commitment to each other over time
• Different Types of Families

  • Nuclear Family
  • Single Parent Family
  • Extended Family
  • Childless Family
• Nuclear Family


  • Composed of a father, a mother, and their offspring
  • Father plays the role of the breadwinner, mother stays at home
  • Adopted children are also considered part of the nuclear family
  • Values, skills, and behavior are directly learned from the parents
• Single Parent Family


  • The single parent rears the child or children while earning for the offspring
  • They may be supported by relatives or caregivers to take care of the growing children
  • The absence of one parent may create an impact on the growing child who would normally look up to authority as role model
• Extended Family


  • The nuclear family plus the parents of either husband or the wife, or both their parents
• Childless Family


  • The couple without any child or children, and who may be living all by themselves
• Other Family Types

  • Adoptive family
  • Bi-racial or multi-racial family
  • Blended family
  • Foster family
  • Immigrant family
  • Gay or Lesbian family
  • Migrant family
  • Conditionally separated families
• Authoritative parenting


  A key factor in the psychosocial development of an adolescent, believed to foster a healthy and positive impact
• Albert Bandura's Theory of Social Learning


  • Learning takes place through observation
  • Mental states are important to learning
  • Not all learning can lead to changes in behavior
• Family Legacies

  • Emotional Legacy
  • Social Legacy
  • Spiritual Legacy
• Personal Development


  Becoming a complete human being, not just a tool for reaching a bigger goal
• Success


  How it is defined by the person and no one else
• Career


  Doing what you love and employing all your knowledge, inherent skills, and personal traits to fulfill your life goal
• Internal Factors Affecting One's Choice of Career

  • Self-Concept
  • Personal Preferences
  • Motivation
  • Self-Confidence
  • Personal Skills
  • Personality Characteristics
  • Personal Health
  • Emotional Considerations
  • Self-Sabotaging Thoughts
• Adoptive family

  • A family where one or more of the children has been adopted. Any structure of family may also be an adoptive family.
• Bi-racial or multi-racial family - A family where the parents are members of different racial identity groups.
• Blended family - A family that consists of members from two or more previous families.
• Foster family - A family where one or more of the children is legally a temporary member of the household.
• Immigrant family - A family where the parents have immigrated to another country as adults. Their children may or may not be immigrants.
• Gay or Lesbian family - A family where one or both of the parents' sexual orientation is gay or lesbian.