FRHD 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Parenting Styles, Job Satisfaction, Blue-Collar Worker

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2280
• Professor: Andrea LaMarre

Document Summary

Families form complex systems: reciprocal relationships. A system is a whole, made of interactive parts. Subsystems influence one another: every relationship impacts the family as a whole, 2. Change results in a period of disequilibrium: normative or non-normative changes. Overlap between midlife development and adolescent development. Midlife crisis: re-examination and change, fact or fiction, (cid:862)pri(cid:373)e of life(cid:863, peak in: job satisfaction, status and power, marital satisfaction, gender role freedom. Men in blue collar professions job satisfaction declines. Only of divorces: more difficult for those (cid:449)ho go through a (cid:858)(cid:373)idlife (cid:272)risis(cid:859, negatively impacts relationships. 5 common patterns: caregiver relationship, buddy relationship, critical relationship, rival relationship, causal relationship. One or more siblings serves a parental function. Buddy sibling relationship treat each other as friends common in adolescence in traditional cultures, primarily between same-gender youth critical sibling relationship. High levels of conflict and teasing lower conflict in adolescence than childhood rival sibling relationship.