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Stress:
Response to events that require changes or adaptations on the part of the family.
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Types of stress:
- 1. Normative- expected transitions
- 2. Non-Normative- unexpected transitions
- 3. Horizontal- stress over time
- 4. Vertical- patterns of functioning that are transmitted from generation to generation through exposure while growing up
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Examples of vertical stress:
Attitudes, taboos, secrets, expectations.
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Emotional Family Legacies:
- Pile-up of stressful events- everything happens at once
- Mundane environmental stress- consistent/ never ends
- Family Strategies- napping, stress eating, talking
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Olson's Circumplex Model:
- 1. Adaptability/Flexibility; chaotic, rigid
- 2. Cohesion; disengaged, emeshed
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Chaotic
- Lack of leadership
- Loud, opinionated
- Dramatic role shift
- Too much change (moving, etc.)
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Rigid
- Authoritarian
- Roles seldom change
- Strict discipline
- Too little change
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Disengaged
- Little closeness
- Lack of loyalty
- High indpendence
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Enmeshed
- High loyalty
- High dependency
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Functions on ______ areas are more susceptible to dissolving.
border
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Differentiation:
The balance of separation and togetherness.
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Challenges usually ______ rather than ___ ______.
change; get better
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Longevity has created the following difficulties:
- a. Divorce
- b. Transition to adulthood
- c. Care for the aging population
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What concepts are associated with life course theory?
- 1. Relevant institutions changing over time
- 2. Multiple time clocks affecting families
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Trajectory:
Long term patterns of behavior.
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Trajectories are less concerned about ____ and more concerned about ______.
past; future
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Turning points:
Life events embedded in trajectories.
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Transitions:
Alterations of trajectories caused by turning events.
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What institutions change over time?
- 1. Child
- 2. Adolescent
- 3. Adult
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Ontogenetic time:
How individuals grow, change, and age.
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Generational time:
Status in families (child, grandparent, parent); includes roles and expectations.
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Historical time:
events, periods, or eras.
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