Role Conflict and Taking Role

 Everyone has a role to perform in life. A role is a set of expectations that apply to a certain situation.

A manager's responsibilities, for example, include supervising a team of employees, organising employee time sheets, and addressing any issues that emerge throughout the workday.

Everyone plays at least one role, and many people play many roles simultaneously. Students, sons/daughters, friends, and/or siblings are just a few of the roles that youngsters attempt to fulfill every day.

Role Conflict

When a person's role or duties cause conflict for them or others, this is known as role conflict.

Every person's job has responsibilities and expectations.

Role conflict occurs when a single person's several responsibilities need competing tasks at the same time.

When a person's employment or position places demands on them that are incompatible, role conflict ensues.

Role conflict occurs when people are pulled in many directions while attempting to respond to their varied statuses.

Role conflict can occur for a short period of time or for a long period of time, and it can be sparked by situational events.

Role conflict may be categorised into two types: The first is Role incompatibility, Intra-role conflict is number two.

Inter-role conflict occurs when a single individual occupies two or more roles with conflicting responsibilities, leading the person to struggle. Work-family inter-role conflict is the most prevalent type of inter-role conflict. This form of conflict arises when a person's employment duties clash with his or her family's desires and/or responsibilities.

A man's advancement at work, for example, entails his working longer hours.

As a result, he misses most of his family's nightly dinners. When he isn't around, his family begins to miss him. As the man tries to balance the demands of his new job with his roles as husband and father at home, inter-role conflict is likely to occur.

Intra-role conflict occurs when a person's internal language, behaviour, ideals, and attitudes are incompatible with the part they are playing. Intra-role conflict involves only one role, and the problem is incompatibility between the individual and that position, not a conflict between roles. Intra-role conflict is commonly referred to as person-role conflict as a result of this.

When parents use a kind of 'cry it out' sleep training in which they let youngsters moan instead of entering a bedroom to calm the kid after he has been placed to bed, they experience intra-role conflict. Parents may oppose this sleep training method since it is their responsibility as parents to soothe and strengthen their children so that they may become self-sufficient. When it comes to 'cry it out' sleep training, these two obligations are irreconcilable.

Taking on a role

The idea of 'role-taking' has gained momentum in role analysis. Role-taking occurs when a person responds by mentally or imaginatively placing himself in the shoes of another person in order to better regulate his own behaviour. He does this merely to meet the expectations of others, not necessarily to comply with them. When researching social interaction, sociologists used the term 'role-taking,' which refers to when one actor begins a behaviour and other actors react to it. Role-taking theory is a socio-psychological idea that asserts that one of the most essential aspects of children's developing social cognition is their growing ability to grasp others' feelings and opinions, which occurs as a result of their general intellectual growth. Children must learn to understand that others' viewpoints may differ from their own as part of this process. Perceptual perspective-taking, or the capacity to experience the world through the eyes of another person, is not the same as role-taking ability.

It requires being able to grasp the cognitive and emotional components of another's point of view. Furthermore, despite some inconsistent findings, role-taking and perceptual perspective-taking appear to be functionally and developmentally separate.