The Dynamic of being Elderly and Critical of Other Family Members
Negativity is a problematic behavior especially if someone uses negativity to be critical towards another family member or someone they are close to. Why would someone be critical of a family member and is age a factor? The characteristic of the person who was observed is a female who is elderly, about 90 years old. The situation in which this person displayed negativity was typically in a social setting either during the day or in the early evening. Several occurrences of being critical, expressing negatives comments, as well as placing judgments onto others were detected throughout social settings. Many comments were directed at family members but also when watching television. …show more content…
Within the journal, Cynical beliefs About Human Nature and Income: Longitudinal and Cross-Cultural Analyses by Olga Stavrova et al, highlights how having cynical beliefs can affect a person economically. Even though the focus on this research is based on income, it is only a single independent factor and can be evaluated on several other levels of contributing factors pertaining to negative social experiences such as, sociocultural factors, prosocial behaviors, and societal cynicism (Stavrova, 2016, p.116). Social cynicism is considered to be defined as generalized beliefs about the world and people as well as having a negative view on life and negative beliefs about human nature (p.117). This research is based on five individual studies. Study one used a survey called the Americans’ Changing Lives survey which is a longitudinal study sampling people from five different waves ranging in ages from 25 years old and up (p.119). Study two was based on the General Social Survey also a longitudinal study of the American population consisting of two waves ranging from ages 19-88 years old. Study three was based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), which samples 22,000 individuals. Study four also included the GSOEP using a sample of 1,000 …show more content…
Mistakably a negative comment could be construed as discrimination thereby affecting ones self-esteem. In the journal, The dark side of ambiguous discrimination: How state self-esteem moderates emotional and behavioral responses to ambiguous and unambiguous discrimination by Sezgin Cihangir et al, uses self esteem as a future consequence of discrimination and how it effects a person’s psychological well being (Cihangir, 2010, p.155). The problematic response to a negative comment could prove to effect a person on a level to where it effects them emotionally and behaviorally especially if the comment is perceived in another way then the person giving the comment intended it to be. Study one had 108 female students at Leiden University in the Netherlands at the age of about 20 years old participated. Study two consisted of 118 female students from the same University and the same mean age. This research focused two studies on how emotional reactions versus negative self-directed emotions were altered by ambiguous and unambiguous discrimination determining the differences found in self-esteem (160-164). With this research they found that it had, “… complement prior research by demonstrating that experimentally induced differences in state self-esteem moderate self-directed emotions and stereotype confirming behavior following exposure to ambiguous – but not to unambiguous – discrimination”
Negativity is a problematic behavior especially if someone uses negativity to be critical towards another family member or someone they are close to. Why would someone be critical of a family member and is age a factor? The characteristic of the person who was observed is a female who is elderly, about 90 years old. The situation in which this person displayed negativity was typically in a social setting either during the day or in the early evening. Several occurrences of being critical, expressing negatives comments, as well as placing judgments onto others were detected throughout social settings. Many comments were directed at family members but also when watching television. …show more content…
Within the journal, Cynical beliefs About Human Nature and Income: Longitudinal and Cross-Cultural Analyses by Olga Stavrova et al, highlights how having cynical beliefs can affect a person economically. Even though the focus on this research is based on income, it is only a single independent factor and can be evaluated on several other levels of contributing factors pertaining to negative social experiences such as, sociocultural factors, prosocial behaviors, and societal cynicism (Stavrova, 2016, p.116). Social cynicism is considered to be defined as generalized beliefs about the world and people as well as having a negative view on life and negative beliefs about human nature (p.117). This research is based on five individual studies. Study one used a survey called the Americans’ Changing Lives survey which is a longitudinal study sampling people from five different waves ranging in ages from 25 years old and up (p.119). Study two was based on the General Social Survey also a longitudinal study of the American population consisting of two waves ranging from ages 19-88 years old. Study three was based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), which samples 22,000 individuals. Study four also included the GSOEP using a sample of 1,000 …show more content…
Mistakably a negative comment could be construed as discrimination thereby affecting ones self-esteem. In the journal, The dark side of ambiguous discrimination: How state self-esteem moderates emotional and behavioral responses to ambiguous and unambiguous discrimination by Sezgin Cihangir et al, uses self esteem as a future consequence of discrimination and how it effects a person’s psychological well being (Cihangir, 2010, p.155). The problematic response to a negative comment could prove to effect a person on a level to where it effects them emotionally and behaviorally especially if the comment is perceived in another way then the person giving the comment intended it to be. Study one had 108 female students at Leiden University in the Netherlands at the age of about 20 years old participated. Study two consisted of 118 female students from the same University and the same mean age. This research focused two studies on how emotional reactions versus negative self-directed emotions were altered by ambiguous and unambiguous discrimination determining the differences found in self-esteem (160-164). With this research they found that it had, “… complement prior research by demonstrating that experimentally induced differences in state self-esteem moderate self-directed emotions and stereotype confirming behavior following exposure to ambiguous – but not to unambiguous – discrimination”