Role conflict

Role conflict is not a conflict situation that occurs between two or more people. It happens inside every person. We can say that we all have several personalities within ourselves. Do not make hasty conclusions about your own mental state. So, each of us performs certain social roles (mother, boss, daughter, etc.). That's the conflict between each of them and will go further speech.

Types of role conflicts

1. Status conflict . None of this is insured. So, the person occupies a new position. She has some hopes and expectations, and suddenly, for certain reasons, she can not justify them. As a result, it generates the opinion of others about it as incompetent, unable to fulfill its promises to man. Moreover, if the work is of a team nature, there are difficulties in interacting with each of the employees.
2. The inner self . The cause of this role conflict is the contradiction that arose between their own expectations and personal abilities. For example, a person believes that he is able to cope with certain life difficulties, but in practice his expectations are not justified, he is covered by panic and he is not able to do anything. It will not be superfluous to give an example where it is difficult for a person to cope with the performance of a new role for the reason that he has not yet "grown" from the old one. In India, girls were given early marriage. One of these brides drowned a child. What was the reason? His young mother did not notice the danger. went to play with dolls with contemporaries.
3. Ambiguity . Intrapersonal role conflict occurs when the individual has two different requirements, the ambiguity of the conditions which can plunge him into a stressful state. For example, the most effective performance of their work duties is possible if the prescribed safety rules are observed. All would be nothing, but at this plant, entrepreneurship, such rules were not provided.
4. Insufficient resources . In this case, the cause of the role conflict is a lack of time, the influence of circumstances, lack of motivation , etc., which makes it impossible to perform the tasks assigned to the person.

What is the essence of the role conflict?

Role conflict is a kind of negative experience, which emerged as a struggle between parts of the inner world of man. This is a kind of indicator of the existence of problems in interaction with the environment. He delays decision-making. Thanks to such a conflict, a person develops, strives for self-identification, improves, and thus knows his own "I". Of course, no one says that this process can be pleasant, but, as you know, nothing great, meaningful does not go just for that. At first, at the moment role formation, it is considered quite normal occurrence of some inconveniences. In many ways, it depends on the actions of the individual whether it will cope with the role conflict or not.

A vivid example of such role conflicts in life are the following: a person with a humanitarian mindset enters a technical university, where, of course, he encounters difficulties. Equally widespread is the conflict, when it is necessary to "get used" to the role of mother, married woman, pensioner or student.

In order to overcome the conflict of any kind occurred without any special negative consequences, mental preparation, willpower and a desire to improve one's mental health are necessary.