...Phases of Interpersonal Relationship Development A relationship is the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected. It involves building and maintaining a bond of trust and transparency. The development of interpersonal relationship involves the initiation, development and maintenance of the relationship. The ability to identify and control the deterioration of the relationship will determine whether the relationship will continue or end on a negative note. A relationship goes through six stages that will ultimately end up in one of two endings, repairing stage or dissolution stage. They are: * Contact- When people first meet, the first perceptual reaction is to evaluate the other person and decide whether or not to engage. This takes place in a matter of seconds and is an involuntary response related to our "fight or flight" instincts. * Involvement- At the second stage, individuals disclose information about themselves and engage in deeper conversations. The involvement process may also include testing to see if the other person is ready to commit to the next level or if it is better to leave things as they are and not bother developing the relationship further. * Intimacy- A relationship is at its deepest and most committed level. Individuals self-disclose and the commitment moves into the public forum. Changing minds occur in this stage. This involves such demonstrations as getting married or individuals...
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...of the differences they all go through five different stages of development when coming together and five stages when they drift apart. Mark Knapp who is an expert in communication explains those stages so well. Based on the text “Recognizing the Five Stages in a Relationship “by Rick Fulks it is all dependent on the couples how fast or slow they make moves towards each other. (web) The first stage of development is “initiating” where people first meet, this stage can hold a lot of attraction for the ones who present themselves very well. Secondly the stage of...
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...Based on the 2006 Movie The Break-up: Observations of Relationship Stages The 2006 film The Break-up, directed by Peyton Reed, featuring Jennifer Aniston (Brooke), and Vince Vaughn (Gary). The Break-up portrays the struggles of a couple that is facing the gruesome stage of deterioration in their relationship. Although, the movie is based on its majority on the deterioration stage of their relationship, as the name of the movie implies, an idea of its development can be draw as the movie unfolds. The movie begins at the place where they first meet, they are in the middle of a baseball game, and they were seating a few seats apart when the first made eye contact. They are two complete strangers at this point, they start flirting with each other....
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...Five Stages of Group Development and How Relationships Form When people join a group, he or she may give up his or her independence because of the person was used to working alone and currently has to work within a group to accomplish a goal. To develop a good group there are five stages of development, which are forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. The first step is forming, which occurs when the group first meets, and there can be uncertainty about his or her roles, group goals, and who will lead the group. At this stage the group gets to know one another and start thinking together as a group. The second stage is storming, which occurs when the group members test one another for who has more authority and who will be a follower. This stage can be a long process because conflicts can occur and subgroups form. The third stage is norming, which occurs when the group is in agreement about how the group will run. The group comes together and becomes more of a family, which allows the group to have commitment to the task (McGraw-Hill Education, n.d.). The fourth stage is performing, which occurs when the group is focused on solving task problems and getting the goals accomplished. Also conflict at this stage is minimum and if there is a problem the conflict is solved without disrupting the whole group (McGraw-Hill Education, n.d.). Because the group is like family at this stage the group can achieve the goal, which is more that can be done individually...
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...EVOLUTION OF RELATIONSHIPS Human Communication Professor Noble Jacob Smevog Cal State University, Fullerton Everyone has the idea that when you fall in love with someone you will live happily ever after but they are mistaken. Long-term relationships that you have will go through many steps and stages. Even though I have been dating my girlfriend Karsen for over two and half years, communication is unquestionably the most important aspect to any successful relationship. From the moment you meet someone for the first time, communication is vital to create a good first impression and to further this interaction into something more. Communication in a relationship first lets you to get to know someone, then intensifies to understanding someone on a more personal level, and finally helps repair or terminate the relationships you have formed. The interpersonal relationships you form in life are all started and ended by some means of communication and to be able to maintain relationships for long periods of time you must be able to communicate effectively. The first two stages that all relationships go through are first the initiating stage and next the exploratory stage. The initiating stage is the first step in all relationships and is when you make contact with someone for the very first time (O’Hair, Weimann, Mullin & Tevin, 2015). The initiation stage for my girlfriend Karsen and I took place during our sophomore year in high school when we had chemistry together...
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...Communication Specialist Lynn Anderson ENG 115 Professor Scorpio Strayer University December 10, 2013 Today many of us people still lack on the ability to communicate effectively within interpersonal relationships. It is through teamwork and collaboration that effective communication occurs. By analyzing and studying the communication process we can improve our ability to communicate effectively between one another. To have a successful interpersonal relationship one must first interact with others, which is called interpersonal communication (Hubel’s &ump; Weaver pg.156). Recognizing emotions in other is a very important first step for building a relationship. If you can’t feel what someone else is feeling then you can’t connect with them on a personal level and that can hinder your relationship process. Interpersonal communication is important because of the purpose to achieve. Whenever we want to keep in communication with another person, we try share ideas and feelings. Also we can give information through a wide variety of verbal and non-verbal cues.Verbalcommunication has huge effects on many aspects of life, including interpersonal relationshi.Communicationwith others verbally or non-verbally is a necessity for daily life. Verbal communication is organized by language; non-verbal communication is not. Most of us spend working hours communicating our knowledge, thoughts, and ideas with others. On the other hand, most of us don’t to realize...
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...Weblog they posted that “the family is the bedrock of society and can be proven by the fact that all over the world every society is structured by the same pattern. A man and woman marry and form a family. This process is repeated multiple times making multiple families which form villages, regions, and eventually countries. When several countries come together they form a continent and all of the continents make up the world.” For the society to develop, the family goes through eight stages. These stages are known as the Family Life Cycle. The first stage is known as the Family of origin experiences stage. During this stages the children learns how to maintain relationships with not only their parents but also with their siblings and peers. They do this by learning to accept the differences brought about by each other. They must learn to accept others as they are because everyone is created differently. They must also learn to be obedient to parents so as to have a smooth flowing relationship and avoid disputes. Children also obtain an education to help them in life during this...
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...Applied to Me Psychological development is crucial in the early stages of life. Children are shaped by the things they witness throughout their early years. Experiences life and developing relationships is “Erikson’s initial psychosocial stage of development” (Ginsburg). This stage occurs from when an infant is born until about one and a half years of age. Erikson developed eight stages of psychosocial development. Starting from the stage of trust vs. mistrust the next stage that occurs in an infant’s life is autonomy vs. shame; this creates a sense of will and is experienced from the early age of one and a half to age three. After experiencing this stage at age three the infant begins to develop in the stage of initiative vs. guilt developing a sense of purpos euntil the age of five. From the ages of five to twelve, young children experience the stage of industry vs. inferiority, developing competency in their skills. Upon developing into an adolescent at age twelve and up until age eighteen, young adults experience ego identity vs. role confusion, attempting to find where they belong. Leading into the next stage of intimacy vs. isolation, during which young adults experience love from the ages eighteen to forty. Once this sense of love is developed, the sense of care is experienced during the stage of generativity vs. stagnation from the ages of forty to sixty-five. To conclude Erikson’s theory, the final stage one experiences in life is ego integrity vs. despair; this is the...
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...Ceddrick Harris Oct. 3, 2014 SPCH 1300/10a.m. (MWF) University of Central Arkansas Adriian Gardner ‘’How Every Good Man Fails’’ How Every Good Man Fails? It all started this summer I was on a quest to find the other half of me, my soul mate some may say. On my quest I did find a person who I thought would be my soul mate but wasn’t. By using Mark Knapp’s stages of getting in and out of a relationship, I’m going to tell you about this summer time heartbreak. But first I must explain that there are ten stages of Mark Knapp’s relationship stages in getting in and out of a relationship. Mark Knapp’s getting into a relationship stages are initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, and bonding (Author Mark, K., pg. 208, Figure7-1). And Mark Knapp’s stages of getting out a relationship are differencing, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, and termination (pg. 208, Figure 7-1). First off the girl I fell for was not a girl I would typically fall for because she wasn’t my type. And when we went into the Initiating stage of our relationship as described by Mark Knapp as the stage of starting a relationship (pg. 208, Figure 7-1), I just saw our first encounter as a friendly conversation. I only spoke to her because of the setting of the situation she was in, which was a funny setting dealing with a crazy guy harassing her. The setting took place while I was walking from the park. A friend who was with me and happened to be related to her, he invited her to the park also...
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...1: If you are in a relationship, describe its present stage and the behaviors that characterize your communication in this stage. Give specific examples to support your assessment. I am in a monogamous relationship and have been married for seven years in May. Our relationship is the differentiating phase. Aaron and I are in differentiating stage because I am more to the point of me in place of us. I want to have a career, I want have a job, I want to come home to a cooked meal, and I want help around the house. What “roles” use to be set is not appropriate for this stage in our lives. This causes conflict and causes an unsettling balance in our scale of a relationship. The stress of Aaron’s fibromyalgia, my cancer, and continuous financial strain, raising children, etc. caused extreme difficulty. We are at a point where we have realized while we are still in love and happy together, we must be individuals that come together to form a relationship, not just two people who try to be one. 2: Discuss the trend of the communication in terms of the stages described in this chapter. Are you likely to remain in the present stage, or do you anticipate movement to another stage? Which one explain your answer I believe we are edging toward the circumscribing stage where our communication has become stagnate. There is less effort as a two way communication and it is more one sided I suppose. I want to discuss a budget, bills, kids, etc. and speaking to my husband about money is like...
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...Introduction “Men and women can't be friends, because sex always gets in the way”, is the main theme of the movie “When Harry met Sally”. The script is a good example of the interpersonal communication ten stage model by Mark Knapp. This developmental model entails the stages of a relationship from it’s infancy to an ending. In the movie we can clearly identify all ten stages of this model. Stage # 1 - Initiating According to the Knapp model, the beginning of every relationship—especially an intimate, romantic or close friendship—begins with the initiation stage. This stage involves the initial contact with another person. In the movie the stage of initiation begins when Harry and Sally meet for the first time and prepare to share a day travelling together in Sally’s car from Chicago to New York City. During this stage Harry and Sally are introduced by Harry’s girlfriend and begin their trip. Stage # 2 - Experimenting The second stage of the Knapp model, experimentation, is usually focused on time spent between people getting acquainted. During this stage people usually making “small talk” and it helps prepare the stage for future communication and interaction. In the movie, the second stage begins shortly after they begin their long trip when Harry asks Sally “why don’t you tell me the story of your life?” There is lot’s of small talk and dialog; talking about happiness and who is more prepared to face death, to analyzing and interrelating to the characters of the movie...
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...Administration Course: Comparative Management Culture Names: Group 1- Islam Ariful, Melinda Folmerz, Kamrul Hasan, Thomaidou Alexia Examiner: Dr. Maria Fregidou-Malama Paper type: Assignment 3: Article Analysis Semester: Autumn 2014 (HT14) Group 1 INTRODUCTION The article that we choose to analyze has to do with the trust developed in business to business relationship. The title is “Trust formation in cross-cultural business-tobusiness relationships” and it is written by Heffernan Troy. It is published by the Emerald Group Publishing Limited and it comes from Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal, Volume 7 · Number 2 · 2004 · pp. 114-125. The aim of the article is to show the factors that contribute in the process of building trust in the relationship lifecycle. BACKGROUND Relationships between two parts worldwide are very common. Heffernan describes the doing international alliances or partnerships, trust is very important. Relationship marketing, which has a lot of definitions, as it is a new phenomenon in the marketing theory, can be said that is the relationship between two parts in which they are interacted doing business. As trust is very important when doing business, it...
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...Communication is the bridge that connects people to each other. But do all people know how to communicate? All of us believe that it is not a complicated process and we never think of what it takes to deliver a clear message or idea. But communication is like any other skill, it needs practice and learning to master it and have the ability to pass our thoughts to other people in a clear and transparent way. The text defines interpersonal communication as “interaction with others.(Hybels, Weaver, 2007 p156). To put it in simple words any relationship can’t be built if we don’t put the first brick of interpersonal communication. It is very hard to call somebody a friend if we don’t share characteristic in common. It is not a must to be mirrors of each other but there is a minimum requirement for people to get along with each other. Interpersonal contact is an important aspect in our lives. Think about it, we can’t survive if we don’t interact with each other. Nobody can live alone and not speak to other people. To strike a dialogue with another person means that we have something in common to discuss and talk about. We can share ideas and express feelings through our communication, and this leads to the continuity of interaction. Communication could be performed in many ways. Some of these ways are the verbal and non-verbal. Through verbal communication, people use words and sentences to express their ideas, thoughts, and beliefs. From the minute we wake up to the minute...
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...Friends with Benefits (2011), helps one in understanding Mark Knapp’s model of communication through the relationship of Jamie Rellis and Dylan Harper. From Knapp’s communication model, it is clear that everyone is involved in interpersonal communication whether they are in a group or just two people communicating. As this bonds grow stronger, an individual might opt to stick with that group or a particular person for personal benefits. From Knapp’s point of view, and as it is evident from the film, the couple first gets together to test the relationship and later on they might decide to increase their commitment towards each other, then they make a pact as love mates, and finally the couple formalizes their obligations. Friends with Benefits also shows the other side of the communication model where the couple comes close to separating and decide to reaffirm their individuality....
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...that defining where I fit in Erickson’s stage of development would be easy. The truth I have found is far from that. Although the stages are defined by a general age each development stage has, I personally feel that I fit into two stages. The initial stage I feel I blend well with is the sixth stage called young adult stage. The age for this is labeled as 18 to 35 The question posed during this sixth stage is intimacy versus isolation (Erikson, 1980). Although I am 37, I am in the decision of completing a committed relationship. I am newly in a relationship by one year. With this the situation and the other person being slightly younger than I am, the discussion has been brought across the table for our future and family planning. Although I have children, he does not and would want to have. This is the beginning of our family and with more planning in time I will get to know just how big our family will grow to be. At this point I feel that I am in the right relationship and that my outlook on a relationship has definitely changed, more on a morale aspect. I know it could be easily said that being in the relationship influences the way one thinks about the relationship. This relationship is far different from that theory. I was teetering on the seventh stage of Erickson’s stage of development theory. I was not looking for a relationship however just like theory six describes, this is when the person learns from all their relationship experiences and intends on getting it...
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