Interpersonal relationships are an integral part of a person's life, starting from the moment of his birth. Even a small child, left alone, begins to cry and calms down when someone approaches him or speaks to him. He just needed contact with another person.
Types of interpersonal relationships
There are several types of such relationships. First of all, this concerns relations within the family, but it is important to take into account that interpersonal relations in their classical understanding are based on respect for a particular individual, his character, hobbies, aspirations, and so on.
Thus, speaking about interpersonal relationships in the family, one should pay attention to the fact that all its members should be individuals in themselves. The situation when a mother all her life considers her child to be an extension of herself and does not put his interests and aspirations into anything can hardly be called interpersonal relations in their classical understanding. Such circumstances often happen in married couples, when one of the partners completely dominates, and the other simply "dissolves" among his desires and interests. In fact, it turns out that there is only one side to a relationship.
Another example of interpersonal relationships is teamwork. However, such relationships are most often based on competition. And you can hardly call them sincere.
A very striking example of interpersonal relationships is true friendship, when each of the friends respects the opinion of the other, does not try to dominate or adjust.
In general, there are a great many varieties of interpersonal relationships. Like most living organisms, they originate, develop, pass into the stage of maturity, and then gradually weaken.
The role of interpersonal relationships
In the process of building interpersonal relationships, a person learns to evaluate the actions of others, gets acquainted with the basic moral norms, learns in practice what duty, responsibility, responsiveness, kindness, honesty are, and how such qualities are manifested during the interaction of one person with another.
In addition, interpersonal relationships can contribute to the formation of certain cognitive interests in a person. Often, interpersonal relationships give a certain impetus to self-development or, conversely, to personality degradation. This is especially clearly illustrated by relationships among adolescents.
For example, one of the guys signed up for the football section, and the rest simply decided that they were interested in it too, and did the same. Or, in a group of young people, someone started taking drugs, referring to the fact that it was cool, and some of the guys joined him.
Also, in interpersonal relationships, a person can compare himself with others. As a result, he learns to evaluate his actions and forms a certain attitude towards himself, therefore, the wider his circle of contacts, the richer this information will be.
