Life Trajectory
What would be a contemporary life trajectory?
A) Indicate (name) age groups that have certain roles in common:
ages: 0-5 6-12 13-18 19-26 27-35 36-55 56-65 65-
B) What are the roles in this age groups?
Role Strain: problems we experience in meeting the requirements of our roles. => Stress
A) Problems with one single Role
o timing
o role ambiguity
o intra-role-conflict
B) Problems having multiple Roles
o inter-role-conflict
o role-overload
How can we reduce role strain?
o establish priorities
o compartmentalization: subdividing our lives:
o example: in the mornings we work, in the afternoons we take care of the kids.
o Rites of Passage
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