PSYC 3510H Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Midlife Crisis, Job Satisfaction, Parenting Styles
22 Dec 2018
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Relationships with parents, siblings, and extended family. To understand family functioning, one must understand how each relationship within the family influences the family as a whole. The family system is composed of a variety of subsystems. For examples: mother and father, adolescent and mother, adolescent and father, more people = more subsystems. Each subsystem influences every other subsystem in the family: 2. A change in any family member or family subsystem results in a period of disequilibrium (e. g. , imbalance) until the family system adjusts to the change. For most parents, their children"s development during adolescence and ememrging adulthood overlaps with their own development during midlife. Why is this the case: median age of marriage and first childbirth in industrialized societies is quite high. For many people midlife is the prime of life. Job status and power peaks: earning power increases, marital problems decline, gender roles become less restrictive, people"s personalities tend to become more flexible and adaptive.
