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  2. Role - Wikipedia

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    A role (also rôle or social role) is a set of connected behaviors, rights, obligations, beliefs, and norms as conceptualized by people in a social situation. It is an expected or free or continuously changing behavior and may have a given individual social status or social position.

  3. Role model - Wikipedia

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    Role models can also be national. for example, Chilean politicians and intellectuals had France as the prime role model during much of the 19th century until they shifted to Germany in the last decades of the century. [8] In short, a role model is a person looked to by others as an example to be imitated.

  4. Role theory - Wikipedia

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    Role strain or "role pressure" may arise when there is a conflict in the demands of roles, when an individual does not agree with the assessment of others concerning his or her performance in his or her role, or from accepting roles that are beyond an individual's capacity. Role making is defined by Graen as leader–member exchange.

  5. Parentification - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] For example, some parents ask their children for advice about the parents' own romantic relationships, or expect their children to support and manage the parents' emotions, or push children into the role of mediators and peacemakers in the family. [2] Emotional parentification is more harmful than instrumental parentification. [2]

  6. Role-playing - Wikipedia

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    Role-playing or roleplaying is the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role. While the Oxford English Dictionary offers a definition of role-playing as "the changing of one's behaviour to fulfill a social role", [1] in the field of psychology, the term is used more loosely in four senses:

  7. Gender roles in childhood - Wikipedia

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    It is important to offer children the option to explore diverse gender roles, by providing tools like books that showcase characters in atypical gender roles. [46] Others have noted that story books that showcase characters doing tasks or in jobs usually assigned to the opposite sex, can impact children's play helping to change a child's view ...

  8. Role-playing game - Wikipedia

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    A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, [1] [2] or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making regarding character ...

  9. Child development - Wikipedia

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    The role of a guardians during developing stages is to convey that conversation is meant to have a purpose, as well as teaching children to recognize the other speaker's emotions. [ 139 ] Communicative language is both verbal and nonverbal , and to achieve communication competence, four components must be mastered.