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Social connections in youth are key to later well-being. According to a survey that followed nearly 300 men over the course of more than 70 years, intimate relationships—a loving childhood, empathy, and warm relationships as a young adult—are the best predictors of economic success, physical health, and flourishing in life.
1. Respectful engagement. A required condition for high-quality human connection is to see another person as worthy or valuable. Respect is like a gift of social worth, a gift that is given by how we treat each other. We communicate respect, or fail to communicate it, in many kinds of small moments.
When researchers refer to the concept of social connection, they mean the feeling that you belong to a group and generally feel close to other people. Scientific evidence strongly suggests that this is a core psychological need, essential to feeling satisfied with your life. Indeed, humans are a profoundly social species; our drive to connect with others is embedded in our biology and ...
Researchers have long known about the health benefits of “social capital”—the ties that build trust, connection, and participation. But this link may be particularly important for seniors, precisely because both our health and our social capital tend to decline as we age. We retire from jobs, lose friends and spouses to death and illness ...
What Happens When Old and Young Connect. When older and younger people form meaningful relationships, it improves both groups’ well-being. This year, for the first time ever, there are more people over 60 in the U.S. than under 18. That milestone has brought with it little celebration. Indeed, there are abundant concerns that America will ...
They can help expand your network of connections and build stronger friendships at work. Micromoments of connection don’t need to take much time and don’t require deep personal knowledge—a quick moment of eye contact, a couple-minute conversation about a fun weekend activity or important relationship, a shared challenge or celebration, or ...
How resilient we are may have as much or more to do with our social milieu and circle of support—our communities, our institutions, our cultural expectations—as it does with our personal strengths. As resiliency researcher Elliot Friedman says, “The availability of social support in all its forms—instrumental support, emotional support ...
4. “Flex if the quality is high.”. When the quality of your relationships is high, you may not need to do much but general maintenance—continuing to do whatever is working in nurturing your relationships. “For social health, flex your social muscles to enjoy the benefits of mutual, meaningful connection in your life,” writes Killam ...
According to MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle, author of the new book Reclaiming Conversation, we lose our ability to have deeper, more spontaneous conversations with others, changing the nature of our social interactions in alarming ways. Sherry Turkle. Turkle has spent the last 20 years studying the impacts of technology on how we behave alone ...
Help students practice social skills. In describing their return to school, students recognized in-person relationships as the best thing about coming back. At the same time, they described the challenges of engaging with their classmates and explicitly asked for help to “break that ice.”. As one 11th grader put it, “Everyone feels really ...