Assignment 2: Questions On Social Bonds And Social Health

Superior Essays
Week #2 Questions
1. Compare and contrast psychosocially healthy people with their "unhealthy" counterparts. What differences do you notice in psychosocially healthy people? Compared to people who are psychosocially unhealthy, psychosocially healthy people are able to communicate and relate to others, they are also a part of the community, valid, and have strong social bonds and support. On the other hand, people who are not psychosocially healthy have trouble communicating with others, fitting into society, accepting/giving support, and sometimes being empathetic. Both psychosocially healthy and unhealthy people can benefit from learning from their behaviors, emotions, and the consequences of their actions to better themselves.
2. Define social bonds and social supports as they relate to social health. Social bonds are the connections we have with other people, and the strength of these connections vary depending on the “closeness and attachment”, as the textbook put it, that people have with each other. Social support is the people and services that a person gets their support from. Social bonds and social support are a reflection of a person’s social health, someone with poor or no social support and social bonds is likely to have poor social health because they may lack a sense of community or
…show more content…
Define Seligman's learned optimism as a counterpart to learned helplessness. Learned behaviors are behaviors that are not innate or instinctual, they are learned from experience, gained through observation, or taught. Seligman’s theory of learned helpless reasons that a person who feels helpless, hopeless, or like they are constantly failing, begins to expect failure and blame others as a coping mechanism. On the other hand, learned optimism is the ability to observe, criticize, and correct negative thoughts and behaviors. Of the two learned behaviors, learned optimism is ideal because it can increase self-efficacy and result in a more positive outlook on

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    According to Seligman (1994), optimism has the tendency to influence self-regulation when people encounter…

    • 412 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Positive Attitude Conflict occurs in everyone’s everyday life. How people chose to respond to conflict is what will end up affecting the outcome. In “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat” and “Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl” there are figures that both show a positive attitude when facing hard times. The best way to respond to conflict is to have a positive attitude. Being optimistic can actually affect a person’s mental health.…

    • 856 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Reflective Analysis Case Report Component Paper Worldview is responsible for how we think and how we make decisions on a daily basis. It is a “set of assumptions, presuppositions, unconsciously held but affect how we think and live” (Cosgrove, 2006, p. 20). It is imperative to understand that every person have their own worldview. Worldviews vary from culture to culture, and religious beliefs. For one to not recognize that the worldview of others differ from one’s own beliefs opens oneself up to discrimination against others.…

    • 1128 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Walking along the shore of a sandy beach, whether feet be bare or booted, each step will leave an imprint within the sand. Varying from deep to shallow from indistinct to detailed, each step will change the sand no matter the foot. But as the waves should have it, each footprint will be washed away and erased, leaving the beach still a beach but the grains of sand sorted new. Author, Laura Hillenbrand, wrote the novel, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, to establish that should one choose to look with sanguinity any situation is not impossible to overcome, even if one is changed in the end.…

    • 795 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    There are social networks present in every aspect of our society. Social support is defined as (Kirst-Ashman, 2014), “a formal or informal linkage of people or organizations that may share resources, skills, contacts, and knowledge with one another” (p. 388). Social networks are established off commons needs, interest, and characteristics that individuals share with other people. It is not hard to look around and identify the main ways that individuals are supporting each other. However, there are certain situations where people lose their social networks, such as a teen ending up pregnant while attending both Catholic and public schools.…

    • 436 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Impacts of Social Support Networks “Social support assists coping and behavioural changes and can help individuals solve problems and maintain a mastery and control over their live” (Reutter & Eastlick Kusher, 2014, p.7). Social support networks influence Mr. X’s perception about his health. Unfortunately, as mentioned above, Mr. X’s health is currently not in a good condition because 3 months ago he had a heart attack and pneumonia. So, as a result, he needs to take a time off from work. This could have a negative impact on Mr. X life because his income will not be able to support their everyday living.…

    • 496 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Attachment The Attachment Theory maintains that the bond between an infant and his or her primary caregiver greatly influences personality, cognitive ability, and relationships throughout life. Psychologist Mary Ainsworth studied attachment patterns through an experiment known as the Strange Situation in which a mother left a child in a room for short period of time either alone or with a stranger; the child’s behavior was assessed when the mother left and when she returned. Three different patterns were observed. They are secure attachment, avoidant attachment, and ambivalent attachment.…

    • 748 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Brilliant Essays

    Hps302 Assignment 1

    • 1757 Words
    • 8 Pages

    Chloe Perkins 214137748 HPS302 Assignment 1 – Literature Review Deakin University Social relationships can be defined as having a network of associates, maintaining contact with others, experiencing social support, and enjoying a resource of social capital (Cooper & Bebbington & Livingstone, 2011). Social relationships are a key element of happiness and wellbeing and have major effects on health over the life course (Antonucci & Ajrouch & Birditt, 2014). Happiness and wellbeing can be used in association with life satisfaction. The aim of this review was to explore the influence of social relationships on personal happiness and wellbeing of older adults. A review of the literature explores the impact social relationships have on an…

    • 1757 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Brilliant Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Health Promotion Concepts Define concepts Health Defining the word and meaning of health can be both complex and challenging. The concept that health is a state of being without disease or illness does not encompass all the variables that make up an individual’s “health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) “health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (1948). Well-being: Health can be seen as a person’s overall wellbeing.…

    • 1113 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    5. Define and explain the significance of the social determinants of health. How is this connected to an understanding of social and health inequalities in Canadian society? How does this approach connect with environmental public health and your role as an environmental public health professional?…

    • 862 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Three women were responsible for the feminist theory. Each one helped open the door to the future of female researchers each left their own unique marks. Starting with Anna Freud she developed her theory of mechanism of defense. This theory suggest that when the ego goes through something it cannot handle (traumatic) it goes into defense mode. This is then broken down to nine different defense mechanisms: displacement, denial, projection, intellectualization, sublimation, regression, repression, reaction, and formation.…

    • 1050 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Social support as discussed in class is the perception and the action of aid received from those in our social groups. Received/enacted social support comes in different ways and can benefit our health if obtained. However, some of these different types of social support can be more challenging to offer effectively than others depending on what the supporter lacks. As a college student who has just begun building her future, tangible social support can be the most challenging type of support to offer. Tangible support is the giving of resources or doing things.…

    • 337 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Great Essays

    I feel that habits are shaped by our learned responses. Knowing how hard it is to break habits that have not served me well, such as eating junk food and not exercising as much as I should, I do believe that that these habits are automatic. During times of stress, I find myself reaching for a bag of chips without thinking. I have also driven to places on mental autopilot and then had to ask myself how I arrived there, my mind so focused on other things that my driving habits just automatically lead me to my physical location.…

    • 1525 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Effects of Mindset on Education and Self-Development One 's mindset is a crucial part of one 's life. An individual’s mindset is essentially their unique attitude toward something. Mindset affects each individual differently. Fundamentally, there are two basic mindsets. First, the fixed mindset is the belief that one 's ability is fixed and cannot change.…

    • 734 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Issues around reoffenders, ex-criminals, healthcare and education are of large importance to governments, and efforts are continuously being made to resolve these issues. The introduction of social bonds (SBs) has brought about a new and innovative means to resolving these issues. Social bonds are a performance-based contract between governments and the private sector aimed at resolving social issues. Their ability to deliver better outcomes, while transferring risk from governments to the private sector makes them attractive. But difficulties in measuring success and potential for “cherry picking” have diminished their successfulness.…

    • 1463 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays