Question

What might motivate younger adults to maintain social relationships that are not emotionally positive?

Please explain it in 250 words. Thank you so much,

Answer 1

Older adults typically report higher levels of satisfaction with their social relationships than younger adults. The current developmental research explains why social relationships are generally more positive with age and actions by older adults that contribute to more positive social experiences. Social role changes that may provide advantages for older adults when navigating their relationships. Various reviews of literature indicate that: (a) older adults engage in strategies that optimize positive social experiences and minimize negative ones by avoiding conflicts, and (b) social partners often reciprocate by treating older adults more positively and with greater forgiveness than they do younger adults.

Age plays an important role in social experience and behavior. In the context of conflicts with social partners, older adults seem to avoid conflict and negative behavior more frequently than younger age groups and they profit more from avoiding conflict than younger adults. Thus, older adults are expected to report fewer negative (own and others’) behaviors than younger adults, as they are particularly motivated to avoid conflicts. Also, older adults report fewer social contacts than younger adults, particularly fewer negative interactions.

Adolescents are particularly susceptible to social influence. The five social influences that are being chosen are the media (news), new technology such as (television, computers, video games, and cell phones), punishments, poverty, and divorces. All of these affect the way children are being influenced, raised, and how they deal with their daily lives and futures to some extent. Some of these affect more than others and they can affect on different levels, some on a positive note and others on a negative.

In society today, we are using social interaction through various forms. It is no longer just a parent and a child. Many of the technological advances take the place of this; which in turn can result a hindrance on cognitive behavior. Even at an early age televisions, games, media, and other exposures are coming into the picture.