What is considered to be a major barrier to effective communication in a personal relationship?
Non-Verbal Communication
Verbal Communication
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Emotional stress - e.g. you are finding it hard to concentrate what other people are saying, if you are having a hard day going through something personal. Crying and being upset, if a loved one passing away. Also being ignored by your friends can be upsetting - SB
Body Language - e.g. getting angry, by stubbing your toe, punching the wall or slapping someone else in the face, if somebody has hurt your feelings - SB
Tone of Voice-
If something important is said in the wrong tone it can completley change the meaning of what is said and foster miscommunication -L
Different Cultural Society - e.g. In Middle Eastern and African Culture, it's rude to pass items, with the left hand, as they believe that the left hand is used to clean yourself after using the bathroom. Also in Vietnamese culture, it is very impolite to touch members of the opposite sex and pass items with both hands. It's also disrespectful, in Vietnam to leave your chopsticks poking out your rice bowl, as this represents incense sticks at funerals - SB
Preconceptions
our (often misled) idea of what we think the other person is going to say or do, even how they feel can become a barrier in effective communication as it can be wrong, leading to miscommunication - L
Social and Digital Media
why am i here
another preconception is what we think of the other person in that moment, if person A has been angered in some way, they may tend to think ill of person B, they may not care much for what person B says, and the communication is broken - L
Lasswell's Model -The Desired Effect when communicating
when analysing communication through Lasswell's Communication model we often see that we are communicating to achieve a desired effect. Oftentimes when the desired effect is disingenuous between people in a personal relationship, the message can become distorted and effective communication is lost - L
Theodore Newcomb's Model - Shared Experience
When in a relationship the context is important. For example - person A is working a demanding job and person B has not worked before, person A may want to communicate something about how hard the job is but may not be able to communicate verbally. According to Theodore Newcomb's Model of Communication, they cannot effectivley communicate because they do not share these experiences - L
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Articulation- A poor choice of words can be interpreted incorrectly, leading to the wrong message being recieved and effective communication is broken - L
social and digital media can be seen as both a barrier and a connection within a relationship. it could be a possible barrier if one partner in the relationship spends too much time on their phone and blocks out the other person. but it could also be a way of keeping both people close when they are a long distance apart as they can keep in constant contact. AK
Naivety and contempt - sometimes relationships can be formed from a nonverbal manner where a man might be interested solely in a woman's looks and vice versa. this can give birth to disregards later on in the relationship with miscommunications on behalf of the character of one or the other partner (hence the naivety of the other persons feelings and contempt towards their verbal opinions). AK
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