Personal Characteristics Within The Home

Communication within the home is the start of personal characteristics within oneself. The start of one’s communication varies on their families. As a child, you see yourself through the eyes of your family and friends. The home is the start of all communication and how one may be affected in the long run. Strong communication skills must start from parents in order for the children to grasp that skill. Relationships within families vary depending on whom you’re talking to and what exactly you might be talking about. Communication climate within families relies on culture, social economic status, and environment; these three factors play a big part in how families communicate with each other.

Identity is built on multiple different things, but the base of it comes from culture. Culture is molded into children at a very young age from their parents; it is what shapes and forms individual’s beliefs, which leads to build their character. Culture is experience, values, and religion that are believed by different families. One family’s culture will differ from another, which alters how they communicate within one another. Different cultures have multiple beliefs of what is expected in their families. Westernized cultures have a more open relationship with their children rather than African cultures. According to Department of Human Development and Psychology (2016), “findings in cultural psychology further suggest that although children across cultures may demonstrate similar general abilities to sustain their attention, the type of information they attend to may differ across cultures” (p. 3). For example, my parents were very closed minded when it came to school, boys, and religion. Since they come from a third world country their ...

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...38). This causes for an uncomfortable environment that is made; another big factor is gender and age. Meeusen (2014) found, “ With regard to age, the pre-vailing hypothesis is that young people are more concerned about the environment than older people because efforts to preserve the environment are only effective in the long run” (p. 80). Adults care less about home environments because they are the ones creating it and the young people are they ones perceiving it.

Overall, a family is a system that operates in a certain way depending on their culture, social economic status and environment. Families share meanings through actives done with one another. They help build growth the improvement of their communication and show empathy toward one another. A family that grows together helps improve communication not only within the family, but with others as well.