Human, as a social animal, naturally looking for closed relationship to increase the possibility to survive. Among all kinds of relationships, romantic relationship serves as one of the most important one which ensure gene pass from generation to generation. During past several weeks, our team members, Anran, Biying and I, were looking for relationship intervention to help maintain high relationship quality, therefore can increase Subject Well Being.
Research indicates that relationship quality is highly correlated with Subject Well Being that happy couples are more likely to report higher SWB scores than those are unhappy. In addition, if the relationships are unhappy, couples have higher depression scores than those are unpartnered (Ross, …show more content…
It is natural that the relationship quality declines after the honeymoon period since intimacy between each other gradually decrease. However, this can be improved, because Human brain can trick people by mixing the feeling of different arousals of heart beating. Sharing exciting activities, like doing sport with romantic partner, can increases heartbeats, thus creates an illusion that people fall back in love again. In one word, shared "exciting" activities, decrease relationship boredom, and furthermore increase relationship satisfaction. Self-expansion theory can also explain why doing exciting activity with romantic partner is effective to improve intimacy. People unconsciously care about personal growth which can create positive feeling, so setting up a fitness goal together with romantic partner can enhance intimacy between two. Other than doing arousing activities together, intimacy can also be increased by asking and answering 36 Interpersonal Closeness questions which can create closeness. This experiment is able to break emotional barrier and can even successfully make strangers fall in love with each other in an hour (Aron, Melinat, Aron, Vallone, Bator, …show more content…
According to self-determined motivation, there are two types of passion: one is harmonious passion, which “towards an activity refers to a motivational tendency to choicefully and freely engage in the activity (Seguin-Levesque, Pelletier, Vallerand, 2003)”; another is obsessive passion, which “originates from interesting activities that have been internalized in a non-self-determined manner(Seguin-Levesque, Pelletier, Vallerand, 2003)” Harmonious passion has positive effect on relationship, since activities are internalized, highly involved, and coherent with one’s goal and value. Obsessive passion has negative effect on relationship, in addition link to lower relationship satisfaction. Romantic involve is the key of passion. To increase passion between couple, our team recommend couple create daily or weekly surprise for each other, for example, dress up or get a nice gift for each other in a common or special
Research indicates that relationship quality is highly correlated with Subject Well Being that happy couples are more likely to report higher SWB scores than those are unhappy. In addition, if the relationships are unhappy, couples have higher depression scores than those are unpartnered (Ross, …show more content…
It is natural that the relationship quality declines after the honeymoon period since intimacy between each other gradually decrease. However, this can be improved, because Human brain can trick people by mixing the feeling of different arousals of heart beating. Sharing exciting activities, like doing sport with romantic partner, can increases heartbeats, thus creates an illusion that people fall back in love again. In one word, shared "exciting" activities, decrease relationship boredom, and furthermore increase relationship satisfaction. Self-expansion theory can also explain why doing exciting activity with romantic partner is effective to improve intimacy. People unconsciously care about personal growth which can create positive feeling, so setting up a fitness goal together with romantic partner can enhance intimacy between two. Other than doing arousing activities together, intimacy can also be increased by asking and answering 36 Interpersonal Closeness questions which can create closeness. This experiment is able to break emotional barrier and can even successfully make strangers fall in love with each other in an hour (Aron, Melinat, Aron, Vallone, Bator, …show more content…
According to self-determined motivation, there are two types of passion: one is harmonious passion, which “towards an activity refers to a motivational tendency to choicefully and freely engage in the activity (Seguin-Levesque, Pelletier, Vallerand, 2003)”; another is obsessive passion, which “originates from interesting activities that have been internalized in a non-self-determined manner(Seguin-Levesque, Pelletier, Vallerand, 2003)” Harmonious passion has positive effect on relationship, since activities are internalized, highly involved, and coherent with one’s goal and value. Obsessive passion has negative effect on relationship, in addition link to lower relationship satisfaction. Romantic involve is the key of passion. To increase passion between couple, our team recommend couple create daily or weekly surprise for each other, for example, dress up or get a nice gift for each other in a common or special