Abstract
Soulmate is a brother/sister relationship, practiced and known by many people but just a few especially adolescents understand the exact meaning hence the need to provide adequate information regarding the selection. Adolescents have the tendency to deviate from social norms in search of identity and most often unsure of themselves as most of their experiences rest in the hands of their peer groups. Soulmate comes in form of stranger, healing, wrecking ball, twin and true love soulmates. These are highlighted in the elements of soulmate as one who makes you feel entirely whole, healed, and intact like no piece is missing. Adolescents make selection on the basis of physical attractiveness, economic and social status, age, religion. Finding a true soulmate result in having a feeling of security and protection, falling in love, sharing the same life goals, respect for each other’s differences and opinions. However, wrong mate choices could result in social and health consequences such as prostitution, medical problems and suicide. Kinetics and Health strongly emphasize on aesthetics, general wellness including spiritual wellbeing as strong indices of wellness which could be cached on during mate selection. Conclusively, mate selection is a matter of destiny ordered by God but as two loving people who have settled for each other’s strength or weakness, the decision is yours. The recommendation among others is that adolescents should be counseled to focus selection of mate on attitude as against physical attributes and made a priority among undergraduate students due to growing cases of rape in Nigeria. Key Words: Soulmate, Adolescent, Kinetics and Health DOI: 10.7176/JHMN/79-06 Publication date: August 31 st 2020
Highlights
Mate selection is one of the primary functional responsibilities of all mammals and an important decision to make in the course of growth and development in life
Other reported consequences of wrong mate selection include expecting problems to work themselves out ending great relationship, pushing your friends and family away, missing out on great opportunities, putting one’s life on hold, forgetting to establish boundaries, missing red flags and feeling let down (Hamid, 2011)
Human kinetic and Health Education perceptions and interpretations of factors to soul mate selection could provide a useful guide to adolescents in search of mates
Summary
Mate selection is one of the primary functional responsibilities of all mammals (human beings inclusive) and an important decision to make in the course of growth and development in life. The process of mate selection among the Yoruba’s of South-west Nigeria is clearly influenced by their values for marriage This rightly explains why they see nothing wrong in parents of a prospective husband introducing their son to a lady they have observed over a period of time to be well behaved and / or industrious as potentials wife. Theses process have changed over the years especially with the advents of technology and attending diffusion of cultures across the globe This portends some dangers for the prospective adolescents searching for soul-mate. Adolescents have the tenacity to deviate from social norms as a result of search of identity This means that the factors for mate selection if not well noted and addressed by parents and guardians as well as other relevant agencies of social change, the future of the young people will be put in jeopardy. Irrespective of the aspect of soul mate that one engages in, attitude is crucial
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