ROLE CONGFLICT AND ROLE TAKING

ROLE CONFLICT

Every position a person has comes with its own set of responsibilities and expectations. Role conflict occurs when a single person's several roles need opposing tasks at the same time.

In everyday life, several jobs might produce contrasting examples. When trying to address the needs of numerous children at once, a parent may encounter role conflict. When a person is requested to work overtime, he or she may feel conflicted about missing a key event at home. When a spouse wants to spend time with his or her partner while a child is asking attention, he or she may feel role conflict.

Role conflict can emerge when distinct responsibilities compete for a person's limited time or owing to various strains connected with many roles. Some individuals can only play one part and do it well, whilst others can play numerous roles and do them effectively. The mainstream societal paradigm, for example, sees the father as the provider and defender, and the woman as the homemaker, cooking and cleaning. If men who adopt this viewpoint enter a kitchen and continue to cook, they may feel unfit for that job, and women who enter a garage and proceed to fix the automobile may feel the same way. This mentality is at the basis of the difficulty that many women experience when they become full-time employees and moms. Women's rights have grown significantly over the last four decades, and women now have the majority of the same rights as men. While women have stepped up to fill various tasks, some believe that males have not stepped up to assist balance the work burden. Employers anticipate mothers and fathers to have the same professional potential as their non-parent colleagues in the 2020s. Furthermore, societal pressure persists for modern-day moms to conform to the 1950s mother/wife ideal. Women, in reality, struggle to strike a balance between the two. Many women believe that they are forced to choose between a profession and a family, and that society then makes them feel bad about their decision.

 Types of role conflict

• Inter role conflict

Interpersonal role conflict arises when the source of the problem is the occupancy of more than one focus position. As a husband and father in a social system, a superintendent may assume that his wife and children want him to spend the majority of his evenings with them. He may feel, however, that his school board and P.T.A. organizations want him (as their superintendent) to spend the majority of his after-hours time on educational and civic activities. In most cases, the superintendent is unable to satisfy both of these competing goals.

• Intra role conflict

Intra-personal role conflict occurs when a person in one role believes that others have different expectations of him or her in that role." For example, the school superintendent may assume that teachers look on him to be their voice and leader on topics such as pay raises and institutional policy. However, as the executive officer and policy administrator for the school board, the superintendent may assume that the school board members expect him to represent them, to "sell" his views to the staff ".... Also included is an example of a mother experiencing intra-role conflict.

ROLE TAKING

One of the most essential components in strengthening social cognition in children, according to the socio-psychological notion of role-taking theory, is the rising ability to grasp others' feelings and points of view as a result of general cognitive development. As part of this process, young people must recognize that other people's perspectives may differ from their own. Understanding the cognitive and affective features of another person's point of view (i.e. moods, feelings, and attitudes) is what role-taking ability comprises, as opposed to perceptual perspective taking, which is the capacity to recognize another person's visual point of view of the world. Furthermore, despite some inconsistent evidence, it appears that role playing and perceptual perspective taking are functionally and developmentally distinct from one another.