Academic Performances and Romntic Relationship
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study
Today people can observe that many students are entering this so called romantic relationship. On the other hand, the student is spending time with their potential lifelong partner, but on the other side, they are busy trying to fulfill other responsibilities, like maintaining grades, studying, and coping with everyday stress.
Social factors refer to the facts and experience that influence or control individuals’ personality, attitudes and lifestyles. It can help an individual live well in harmony with others in the society. Some example of social factors are religion, ethnicity, family, physical attributes, economic status, education and romantic relationship. Among these given examples, romantic relationship is one of the most influential social factors to teenagers especially on college students. Love is a very powerful emotion which makes it capable of bringing out the best and the worst in people. Emotion makes the person aberrantly happy or on the other hand lonely. It affects people’s surroundings like a person’s academic performances and also the relationship of their own family and friends. For some psychologists, love is described as cognitive and social phenomenon, one is that closely linked with conscious affection. Falling in love can be the one of the most unexplainable feelings that a person can feel. (Gadia, 2011) According to Matsumoto (2011), when a person have a romantic relationship with someone, they share attitudes, visions, dreams, strengths and vulnerabilities with that person. Also, there is some kind of mutual support between each other; both of them help each other grow. A person is willing to learn from the other person and vice versa. When someone thinks of a romantic relationship, Matsumoto bet that a person tend to think of the kind of relationship that involves a sexual relationship. But what Matsumoto is suggesting as a romantic relationship doesn’t necessarily involve a sexual
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study
Today people can observe that many students are entering this so called romantic relationship. On the other hand, the student is spending time with their potential lifelong partner, but on the other side, they are busy trying to fulfill other responsibilities, like maintaining grades, studying, and coping with everyday stress.
Social factors refer to the facts and experience that influence or control individuals’ personality, attitudes and lifestyles. It can help an individual live well in harmony with others in the society. Some example of social factors are religion, ethnicity, family, physical attributes, economic status, education and romantic relationship. Among these given examples, romantic relationship is one of the most influential social factors to teenagers especially on college students. Love is a very powerful emotion which makes it capable of bringing out the best and the worst in people. Emotion makes the person aberrantly happy or on the other hand lonely. It affects people’s surroundings like a person’s academic performances and also the relationship of their own family and friends. For some psychologists, love is described as cognitive and social phenomenon, one is that closely linked with conscious affection. Falling in love can be the one of the most unexplainable feelings that a person can feel. (Gadia, 2011) According to Matsumoto (2011), when a person have a romantic relationship with someone, they share attitudes, visions, dreams, strengths and vulnerabilities with that person. Also, there is some kind of mutual support between each other; both of them help each other grow. A person is willing to learn from the other person and vice versa. When someone thinks of a romantic relationship, Matsumoto bet that a person tend to think of the kind of relationship that involves a sexual relationship. But what Matsumoto is suggesting as a romantic relationship doesn’t necessarily involve a sexual