Blog - 7 ; Your Experience In Role Conflict And Role Taking

 

YOUR EXPERIENCE IN ROLE CONFLICT AND ROLE TAKING

“Conflict cannot survive without your participation.”  -- by Wayne Dyer

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

Gary Gygax

 

ROLE CONFLICT

Meaning of role - Everyone has a role to play in life. In a specific setting, a role is a set of expectations. Everyone plays at least one role, and many people play many roles at once.

Role conflict - Every role of a person that he holds comes with its own set of expectations and duties. When a single person's several expected behavior or role for competing tasks at the same time, role conflict emerges. Several jobs in ordinary life may generate contrasting examples. Role conflict occurs when a person's role or obligations produce conflict for the person or others.

Role conflict occurs when there are contradictions in the roles that a person takes on or plays in their daily lives. Conflict happens when people differ over what tasks should be assigned to a given role, whether in the personal or professional world. Conflict develops when individuals disagree on what responsibilities should be given to a position, whether in the personal or professional domains. It also arises when people disagree about what responsibilities for a particular role should be, whether in the personal or professional arena. The desire to achieve, as well as the pressure placed on an individual by two opposed duties and responsibilities, overwhelming, and incompatible demands, causes conflict between the roles. Individual personality characteristic conflicts may arise when "aspects of an individual's personality are in conflict with other aspects of that same individual's personality."

While considering the definition of role conflict, the focus is on situations in which the role bearer is presented with competing commitments between roles.

There are two major classifications:

Inter-role conflict - Conflict between two or more roles.

Intra-role conflict - Conflict that arises from contradictions within a single role and a person's beliefs/attitudes.

 

ROLE TAKING

When a person responds by his own mental ability or imaginatively by putting himself in the shoes of another person in order to manage his own behavior, this is known as role-taking. The process of socialization, or the acquiring of social roles, requires role-playing. The social psychologist's idea of the "social self" revolves around the concept of role-taking. A child grows into a social group and becomes an entity by playing and taking on the roles of others. The term 'self' is commonly used in role literature.


Experiences where I faced role conflict in my life are as follows: -

1)   As I became a student from a tender age and as a student I am supposed to work in an efficient manner and similarly it is expected by my family as well that I would work in the same manner as I am working in my educational place. So this acts as a role conflicting situation for me.

2)   Another situation that I experienced in my life that as a class representative or as a monitor I an expected to be in my utmost sincere attitude without any mischief but if friends want to have fun during the class, so this acts as an hindrance in performing both the roles at a same point of time.

3)   Also as daughter it is assumed by my mother to be a responsible kid with the younger siblings but we can’t ignore the fact that elder child is also a kid so he acts as kid only which his supposed to but as elder the responsibilities and burden increases. So again it becomes difficult to understand as in which role is to be performed at a point of time.

 

Situations of role taking in my life: -

1)   From the time of birth, we conceive the role of son or daughter and enter into the shoes of being one as we will the vacant place by role taking.

2)   Another after a point of life we become father or mother to our next generation which is like fulfilling the duties to other which someone else was providing to us.

3)   As I entered in school first and became a student so that’s how  I took the role of a student.


At the end we can say that role conflict and role taking is a never ending process and keeps on moving from one person to another. :) :)

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