Influence Of Environment On Environment

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People can influence their environment in positive and negative ways. However, our environment can also influence people in both directions. It has been demonstrated that personality is almost completely learned by our environment. For example, some hereditary factors that contribute to personality development can do it as a result of interactions with the specific social environment in which people live. Therefore, we should try to surround ourselves with items and people that produce positive associations with us. The environment can also influence people’s behavior and motivation to performance in a positive or a negative direction, and it also can influence our mood. Children and adolescents spend a large part of their day in school …show more content…

Children are more prompt to be reasonable and cooperative if they develop in environments that support their needs. Schools also encompassing children’s physical and mental health, safety, and social development. It has been demonstrated that social preference and social reputation among peers can have a big influenced in children’s and adolescent’s development. Moreover, families and their economics situations can also have a great impact in children’s and adolescents’ emotions and behaviors. For example, when parents experienced high levels of stress, this can influence children’s and adolescents’ behaviors in a negative way. For adolescents, parent’s stress can mean increases in risky behaviors and less development. These adolescents will not develop good social skills and will lose the opportunity to learn good social norms that could help them to have a good reputation among peers and family. Parents’ stress can also lead to bad family functioning which is translated in more adolescents’ emotional and behavior problems. Big levels of family conflicts and poor communication skills can break family relations and have a big impact in children’s emotional security. At the same time family conflicts can reinforce the use of aggression and interpersonal hostility by …show more content…

I counted 25 people who had contact with me and smiled at the same time. I was really impressed with people’s reaction to the popularity t-shirt. Because I am a non-traditional student, 42 years old, I do not have many friends at the university and sometimes I feel isolated. However, the day I used my popularity t-shirt, I felt very happy and integrated to the university’s environment. It is amazing how our social reputation can influence reciprocal interactions among people. People are highly susceptible to environmental triggers and these triggers can strongly seed responses on us. For one day, I could confirm the idea of the transactional model which states that reciprocal interactions between individuals and their environment can have lasting effects on

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