Asked by Logan Storie on May 15, 2024
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Discuss family roles and the conflicts associated with them.
Family Roles
The specific functions, duties, and expectations assigned to each member within a family structure, influencing their behavior and interactions.
Conflicts Associated
This refers to the disputes, disagreements, or tensions that are connected with or arise in relation to a specific issue, situation, or context.
Roles
The functions, behaviors, and responsibilities expected of individuals within specific social positions or contexts.
- Investigate the diverse roles within families, transitions in these roles, and how they influence family interactions.
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In sorting out roles in the family system, individual role behavior may be enacted, prescribed, or perceived (Longres, 1995). In an enacted role, a mother, for example, engages in the actual behavior-such as caretaking- relative to her status or position. A prescribed role is influenced by the expectations that others hold with regard to a social position. For example, despite the changes in families, in a family's interaction with a bank officer, a male is almost always presumed to be the head of a household or the primary decision maker in the family. A perceived role involves the expectations of self relative to one's social position. For example, an employed female may conclude that she can manage multiple responsibilities. The role relationship between a parent and a child is a complementary relationship (or an independent-dependent role relationship) in which the needs of both are satisfied. In contrast, in a symmetrical relationship, both parties function as equals-for example, the division of household or child-rearing responsibilities or decision making are shared instead of based on gender roles.
Life transitions and conflict often demand changes, flexibility, and modifications in role behavior. A family may experience role transition difficulties in making the necessary adjustments when, for example, an older relative comes to live in their home.
Conflict in a family may occur when individuals become dissatisfied with their roles, when there is disagreement about roles, or when individuals holding certain or multiple roles become overburdened. Inter-role conflict can occur when an individual is faced with excessive, competing, and multiple role obligations, especially when two or more roles are incompatible-for example, wife or partner, mother, daughter, employee.
Learning Objectives
- Investigate the diverse roles within families, transitions in these roles, and how they influence family interactions.
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