Its usage in both psychology (心理學}and sociology (社會學)is very different from its colloquial (口語的)use.
In psychology, a significant other is any person who has great importance to an individual's life or well-being. In sociology, it describes any person or persons with a strong influence on an individual's self-evaluation, which are important to this individual, as well as reception of particular social norms.
This usage is synonymous with the term "relevant other" and can also be found in plural form—"significant others".
In social psychology a significant other is the parent, uncle, grandparent, or teacher - the person that guides and takes care of a child during primary socialization.
The significant other protects, rewards and punishes the child as a way of aiding the child's development.
This usually takes about six or seven years, and after that the significant other is no longer needed, the child moves on to a general other which is not a real person, but an abstract notion of what society deems good or bad.
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| | huberthsu | significant
a. 有意義的;意義(或意味)深長的 表示...的[+of] 微笑表示愉快。 重要的,重大的;值得注意的 這是對該課題最重要的研究之一。 顯著的;有效的;非偶然的 n.【古】[C] 有意義的事物 標誌,象徵 | | 回應於 2009-08-03 06:15:57 | |
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| | mikehsuson | | The first known occurrence of the term was in 1953 by U.S. psychiatrist, Harry Stack Sullivan, a former editor of the journal Psychiatry, in his posthumously published work, The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry. | | 回應於 2009-07-25 | | |
