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Communication and Personal Well-Being

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Communication and quality of life

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Communication and personal well-being refers to how human beings create, transmit, and interpret messages between two or more people and the well-being, or quality of life, of those individuals who are parties to that communication.

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As inherently social creatures, most human beings find their greatest source of happiness and satisfaction in relationships with other people. Communication is the process by which people create, transmit, and interpret messages. The exchange of messages between two people is characterized as interpersonal communication. Much of what is known about communication and personal well-being concerns the role of interpersonal communication in quality of life. However, other communication contexts such as small group communication, organizational communication, and even mass communication can also be associated with personal well-being.

People use interpersonal communication to establish, build,...

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Segrin, C. (2021). Communication and Personal Well-Being. In: Maggino, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69909-7_446-2

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