PSYC 375 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Affective Forecasting, Attachment Theory, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 375
• Professor: Danu Stinson

Document Summary

1: the building blocks of relationship: we study relationships because they"re important across all age groups, culture, & time. Quality of relationships is strongly connected to physical & mental health. The best predictor of overall life satisfaction is marriage & family life. The single consistent predictor of well-being (in 42 countries studied) is the quality of close relationships. The happiest people (top 10%) all have good relationships in common. Relationships & stress over half of all sources of stress & problems have to do with relationships. Relationships & health people with interpersonal stressors in their lives are 3x more likely to get sick, & people with other stressors are only. 0. 5x more likely than those with no stressors in the lives to get sick interpersonal stressors effects our immune system: why study relationships from a scienti c perspective: Drives us to establish & maintain close relationships with other people in order to ful ll this need.