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  2. Social media and the effects on American adolescents

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    Social media may positively affect adolescents by promoting a feeling of inclusion, providing greater access to more friends, and enhancing romantic relationships.Social media allows people to communicate with other people using social media, no matter the distance between them. [4]

  3. Social anxiety and relationship development - Wikipedia

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    The social skills learned through early friendships are often transferred to other peer relationships, including romantic relationships. [9] Studies indicate that there is a developmental trajectory from same-sex friendships to other-sex friendships that aids in the development of heterosexual romantic relationships. Therefore, the quality of ...

  4. Relationships and health - Wikipedia

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    Poor relationships have a negative impact on health outcomes. In 1985, Cohen and Wills presented two models that have been employed to describe this connection: the main effect model and the stress-buffering model. [2] The main effect model postulates that our social networks influence our psychology (our affect) and our physiology (biological ...

  5. Affection Exchange Theory - Wikipedia

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    Hesse, C., & Floyd, K. (2008). Affectionate experience mediates the effects of alexithymia on mental health and interpersonal relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 25(5), 793–810. Horan, S. M. (2012). Affection Exchange Theory and Perceptions of Relational Transgressions. Western Journal of Communication, 76(2), 109–126.

  6. Biology of romantic love - Wikipedia

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    The theory was used to critique a previously asserted evolutionary theory of romantic love proposed by Helen Fisher, [3] that romantic love is a form of courtship attraction. [6] Bode's theory explains not only one process in the emergence and subsequent evolution of romantic love, but also proposed a new model of the mechanisms of romantic ...

  7. Social stress - Wikipedia

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    Social stress is stress that stems from one's relationships with others and from the social environment in general. Based on the appraisal theory of emotion, stress arises when a person evaluates a situation as personally relevant and perceives that they do not have the resources to cope or handle the specific situation.

  8. Depression and culture - Wikipedia

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    A bigger mistake that affects an individual's reputation or results in the loss of honor has more severe consequences because of the stress associated with maintaining that honor. [ 5 ] Symptoms of depression are often expressed differently in collectivistic societies than individualistic ones.

  9. Object relations theory - Wikipedia

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    Object relations theory is a school of thought in psychoanalytic theory and psychoanalysis centered around theories of stages of ego development. Its concerns include the relation of the psyche to others in childhood and the exploration of relationships between external people, as well as internal images and the relations found in them. [1]