Title: Role Theory: What's Our Role in Society? - Exploring your mind
Headings: Role Theory: What's Our Role in Society?
Role Theory: What's Our Role in Society?
Stress factors associated with roles
Problems that stem from our roles can come from different sources:
Building a role
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Content: These are problems that arise from having to adapt to a role that people have already defined for us. In these situations, there’s little room to build and expand on the role to make it unique to us. A good example of this type of stress could be gender roles. If you’re a girl, you may feel as if you have to act a certain way just because you’re female, even if those actions aren’t true to who you are. Role overload. When people expect too much from us, we can become overwhelmed. The role may be taking too much energy and this makes us exceed our ability to adapt. This, in turn, generates stress. Poor roles. This problem is the opposite of role overload.