Social Relationships

Social Relationships

Regulating Relationships in the Aging Process

How people live and age depends largely on the quality of their social relationships and their social integration. The quality and quantity of social contacts are influenced by the individual as well as by the prevailing social occasions.

The personality (traits, abilities, preferences) and the appropriate environmental conditions affect, however, depending on the age differently to the quality, stability, and the adaptive functions of the multiple social relations of each human being.

In the research projects of this topic, we examine the role and the contribution of the shaping of relationships and networks in terms of personality development, psychological adjustment processes and life productivity in young, middle and late adulthood.