Role conflict and Role taking:

 Role conflict and Role taking:

Role conflict is the conflict that an individual encounters when role playing. When people are tugged in numerous directions and try to respond to the different statuses they hold, they suffer role conflict. There are two levels of conflict.

• Intra roll conflict
• Inter roll conflict

1) Intra role conflict-

When the demands are in a single domain of life. Explaining with an example of what I am experiencing nowadays will help, as a student many times we face issues like having limited time and an upcoming test or submission of an assignment is overdue. Many times there are days when a few lined up tests and some subject's assignment submissions date clashes. At the very same time, some event of the club or committee has to be planned, at such times we try to manage everything in the best possible manner, here we as a student in a single domain of our life but pulled in various directions, by various work.

2) Inter-role conflict: 

When one individual performs many parts, there is a conflict between them.

As a daughter, granddaughter, friend, student, sister, human , and so on, I perform a variety of roles.  Giving an example,  when I was in 10th grade and had my boards at the same time, one of my family member was hospitalized, having no option I had to wait until my boards were over to go and meet them or help my family members out in any way I could.   Now, in such a period of strife, it must be chosen which is more vital for life, and it was agreed to prioritize my boards, as a student and then go out and help them like a daughter. 

 

Role taking is the act of mentally or creatively placing oneself in the shoes of another in order to acquire cognition. Role taking is vital for a child's learning and development since it helps them learn roles and understand other people's feelings and viewpoints. 

As role-playing is a normal part of life, we've all played many roles such as mother, father, doctors, judges, and other persons we see on a daily basis. As a child, I was fascinated by IAS officers, looking at them solve all those crimes, catching the criminals, and giving them the punishment they deserved was something that meant a lot to me. I used to run around the house carrying a toy gun.  All of this behavior was based on observation, hearing elders discuss the subject, and some pure imagination. I used to pretend to be a doctor at times too, even if they were two completely different fields the motto was of saving people and helping them, I used to have my doctor set and have my family members be my patients. 

It was all in good fun as a youngster, and we laugh about it now, but role playing helps people comprehend different types of behavior and improves their overall cognitive development.