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How can your amount of friends and their attitudes affect your attitude…
How can your amount of friends and their attitudes affect your attitude and the way you act?
How do your friends' attitudes change your attitude?
Overall affect your attitude
Teens are the most responsive to peer influence because their brains undergo changes that make them highly attunedto social situations. At the same time, the reward system in the teen brain becomes extra sensitive.
Many behaviors spread socially and some examples are how much you exercise, what foods you eat, and what things you like to do.
Older people tend to influence younger people rather than vise versa.
Positively affect your attitude
Positive and negative peer influences can affect more than just your behavior. They can also change the way you feel. Studies show that, in general, the more time you spend with them, the happier you are.
If you are around friends with a positive impact on you you cdan have the power of having social relationships to gain healthy habitsand motivate your friends to do the same.
Kids who are a positive influence to others tend to have good grades, a good relationship with their parents, take care of themselves, and have a good attitude and respect to the world in general.
Negatively affect your attitude
For youth, low quality friendships are linked to poor academic performance and behavioral problems.
Kids who are a negative influence don't have respect for their parents and peers, motivate others to make bad decisions, especially when it is an older person influencing someone younger than them.
How does having many friendships affect your mindset?
Why is it better
It makes you happier to have more friends
It is still imprtant that your friends are high quality, and that is more important than the quantity
Friends can help you to expand your horizons in many different ways, and the more friends you have, the more you get to expand your horizons.
What you can do with more friends
The more people you have to feel free to talk to and share your feelings with
More opinions you have and the more people you can lean on for support and help
They help you be enriched in more activities, and the more friends you have, the more people you get to have fun with.
Is it better to have more or less friendships
Studies show that the more friends you have the better.
Why do people prefer friends who are similar or different to their personalities?
why it is good to be friends with all people; similar or different
Similarity is central to frienship and forms a strong one, but differences have a big impact too.
Some people like being with others who are similar to them, but some of the best teams have many people with different personalities, and they work great together
It is enriching to see another person's perspective that could change the way you see the world.
Why people like being friends with people who are different thsn them
Some people like being friends with people who are different than them because they like to expand their horizons and the way they see the world
Why people like being friends with people who are similar to them
Studies show that people who are similar to you are more likely to be your friends
Some people have similar personalities to others and find that they are very easy to get along with.
People like to stay comfortable by becoming friends with people who are similar to them