Conceptual Frameworks for Studying Dpamics In Parent-Child Relationships and interactions

摘要

Social relational theory is an open-ended interdisciplinary conceptual framework designed to visualize family processes and outcomes in a more dynamic way than is possible under unidirectional models of socialization. The theory has a dialectical systems orientation. Parents and children interact as human agents within a system of culturally embedded social relationships. Bidirectional influence comes about as parents and children acting as agents, interpret or construct meanings from each other's behaviors and anticipate, resist, negotiate and accommodate each other's perspectives during interactions. It also proposes that processes of contradiction such as conflict, ambiguity and ambivalence are inherent in parent-child relationships and give rise to qualitative change as parents and children mutually and continuously adapt to each other over time.