The Onus of “Developmental Tasks” and other Reactions to Duvall's Family Development in its Fourth Edition

1973 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lillian E. Troll
Keyword(s):  
Extended Family ◽  
Developmental Tasks ◽  
Developmental Task ◽  
Family Development ◽  
Fourth Edition ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Developmental Sequences ◽  
The Family ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
Insight Into

The new edition of Duvall's Family Development is reviewed from the viewpoint of a gerontologist looking for insight into family development in the second half of life. Problems arising from a too literal application of the “developmental task” schema and some of the problems inherent in attempts to conceptualize development of the family as a whole apart from that of an individual family member are discussed. Other issues alluded to are nuclear vs. extended family theories and “rightness” or “wrongness” of particular developmental sequences or behaviors.

scholarly journals Following the Traces of Books in the Brisigell Family

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Hedvika Kuchařová
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
National Library ◽  
Reading Interests ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
Land Acquisitions ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
The Family ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
Small Set ◽  
Insight Into

The Brisigells were one of the families that settled in Bohemia in connection with land acquisitions during the Thirty Years’ War. The family achieved its greatest wealth in the second generation at the turn of the 18th century. The third generation suffered a gradual decline, caused i.a. by financial difficulties and debt. After the middle of the 18th century, the family disappeared from Bohemia. The electronic cataloguing of early printed books with systematically recorded provenances has made it possible to identify in the collections of the Strahov Library and the National Library a small set of books previously owned by individual family members. Not only has the analysis enabled insight into the reading interests of the Brisigell family, but it has also provided information on the wandering of the books within the family as well as within friendly and business relations with other noblemen in the regions of West and Southwest Bohemia.

BUSINESS FAMILY AND FAMILY BUSINESS: COMPLEMENTARY AND CONFLICTING VALUES

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. 379-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAN DEGADT
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Family ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
Business Family ◽  
Very High ◽  
High Place ◽  
Considerable Support

A family business can be defined as a business where a family exercises a significant influence over ownership and/or management. The objectives and the values of the family business and the business family can be complementary but they can also be conflicting. The entrepreneur has to take account of the wishes and objectives of his extended family and of his small family or household. An empirical research – made possible by the support of Cera Foundation - has been conducted with 1032 Belgian entrepreneurs, 501 in agriculture and 531 outside agriculture. Areas of conflict can be related to the allocation of profits and the position of individual family members in the family business. The survey shows that most entrepreneurs work very hard and spend a lot of time in the business. Only a minority of the respondents consider family values 'important', but when they do, the family gets a very high place in the hierarchy of values. Satisfaction on the job and autonomy (being one's own boss) are the most important values. Most entrepreneurs get considerable support from their husband or wife. They want to have a day of rest each week and want to leave business when their age is between 60 and 70. If a succession is possible, most prefer to have one of their children to succeed them. The succession is a process that has to be planned carefully. The interaction between the business family and the family business can have positive and negative effects, but in a market economy the competitiveness of the business must be preserved in all circumstances.

Celebration of Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-96
Author(s):  
Grace Ann Giorgio
Keyword(s):  
Extended Family ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Family ◽  
Insight Into

As an autoethnography, “A Celebration of Life” takes an observer’s view of a family’s intergenerational dysfunction and breakdown in communication. As the extended family prepares to celebrate the life of the recently deceased matriarch, tensions arise between family members, resulting in one member being hospitalized for a week much again her will. Delusional thoughts convince her that her husband has placed her there so that he can take the children to the family celebration without her. As a bystander, the author witnesses the results of this short-term institutionalization from afar. The narrator’s distanced and abstracted voice is meant to show how witnessing the trauma surrounding intergenerational familial and mental struggles can be alienating. Each scene, however, provides insight into each family member’s struggles, leading the narrator to find an alternative to the family’s “Celebration of Life.”

Mindful Parenting Based on Family Life Cycle [Mengasuh Berkesadaran Berdasarkan Tahap Perkembangan Keluarga]

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arri Handayani ◽  
Padmi Dhyah Yulianti ◽  
Ngurah Ayu Nyoman M. ◽  
Agus Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Extended Family ◽  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
Mindful Parenting ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Family Development ◽  
Developmental Approach ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family

Mindful parenting is marked by listening with full attention, speaking with full empathy, not being judgmental of the child, having emotional intelligence, being prudent and not behaving in an excessive fashion, and having welas asih (Javanese term for “compassion”). A style of mindful parenting assists in the formation of the early foundations of the life of a child, and gives rise to an optimal generation. The desired goal in this research was to determine a profile of mindful parenting, based upon the stages of family development. The data collection method used was exploratory interview, using a research and developmental approach. The participants in the research numbered 19 persons, consisting of 16 mothers and three fathers. The research results indicated that families in the stages from early child-raising (the eldest child being a newborn to 30 months of age), to that of the family with adolescent children (the eldest child being aged between 13 and 20 years) have applied mindful parenting. Application of mindful parenting to families at a number of stages has made a contribution to the psychological conditions of both parents and children. The positive contribution appears to be the attention and empathy of the parents to the children, so that the parents better comprehend the condition of the children. This emotional awareness, on the part of the parents, and also the children, also causes the emergence of attachment which becomes the foundation of social and emotional competence, when the child grows to maturity. This research also discovered that the extended family has an important role in supporting mindful parenting.   Pola asuh berkesadaran ditandai dengan mendengarkan dengan penuh perhatian, berbicara dengan penuh empati, tidak menghakimi anak, memiliki kecerdasan emosional, bijaksana dan tidak berlebihan, serta memiliki welas asih (istilah Bahasa Jawa untuk “kasih sayang” atau “rasa iba”). Pola asuh berkesadaran membantu terbentuknya fondasi awal kehidupan anak dan memunculkan generasi yang optimal. Tujuan yang ingin dicapai dalam penelitian ini untuk mengetahui profil pola asuh berkesadaran berdasarkan tahap perkembangan keluarga. Metode pengumpulan data menggunakan wawancara eksploratori dengan pendekatan riset dan pengembangan. Partisipan penelitian berjumlah 19 orang yang terdiri dari 16 orang ibu serta tiga orang ayah. Hasil wawancara menunjukkan keluarga yang sedang berada pada tahap mengasuh anak (anak tertua adalah bayi sampai umur 30 bulan) hingga keluarga dengan anak remaja (anak tertua berumur 13 hingga 20 tahun) telah menerapkan pola asuh berkesadaran. Penerapan pola asuh berkesadaran pada keluarga di berbagai tahapan perkembangan memberikan kontribusi positif bagi kondisi psikologis orang tua dan anak. Kontribusi positif tersebut tampak dari adanya perhatian dan empati dari orangtua terhadap anak sehingga orangtua lebih memahami kondisi anaknya. Kesadaran emosional ini dari pihak orangtua dan anak juga mendorong munculnya kelekatan yang menjadi fondasi kompetensi sosial dan emosional saat anak bertumbuh dewasa. Penelitian ini juga menemukan bahwa extended family memiliki peran penting dalam mendukung pengasuhan berkesadaran.   Received 21 April 2017; Accepted 7 September 2018; Published 25 October 2019.

Cross-Generation Sexual Abuse Within the Extended Family

1970 ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
Khawla Abu Baker
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Sexual Education ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
The Way

There are many signs indicating the presence of sexual abuse within a family. Yet, many factors stand in the way of the diagnosis and the prevention of that abuse. Among these factors are: parents’ psychological health, their sexual education, patriarchal authority, and authority of adults over children. Through the following example, namely Salam’s case (a victim of sexual abuse that started when she was three years old and lasted until 14 years of age), we would like to highlight the family’s role in the perpetuation of sexual abuse. In addition, we want to stress the extent to which sexual abuse affects the psychological health of the victim, as well as the necessity of a systematic therapeutic plan which includes individual, family and group therapeutic interventions to secure the rehabilitation of the victim and his/her family, ensures this phenomenon would not recur in the family and would not be transferred to the next generation.

Gender-role orientation and social expectations regarding female adolescents' coping with developmental tasks 1The preparation of this article was facilitated by a grant from the Swiss National Foundation for young researchers, financed by the local research committee of the University of Fribourg to the first author during her stay at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. We are grateful to Susan B. Cleary for editing the English version of this article.

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regula P. Berger ◽  
Alexander Grob ◽  
August Flammer
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Developmental Tasks ◽  
Developmental Task ◽  
Gender Role Orientation ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
National Foundation ◽  
Normative Expectations ◽  
The University

This study focuses on the importance of social developmental expectations, assessed as emotional and cognitive evaluations regarding the timing and the gender-role conformity of normative developmental tasks. Two central questions were raised. First, to what degree do the timing and the gender-role conformity affect the adults' expectations? Second, how much does the adults' own gender-role orientation (GRO), classified as traditional vs. liberal, affect their expectations? A 4 (timing modus) × 2 (developmental task) × 2 (gender-role conformity)-factorial design was administered to a sample of 140 adults of both sexes, 20 to 81 years old. Coping in time and with gender-role typical career received the most approval. Typical developmental tasks were more approved by persons with a traditional than with a liberal GRO. However, the evaluation of non-typical developmental tasks was not affected by the GRO. The possibility of a shift in normative expectations toward more liberal, diverse, and self-defined female gender-roles is discussed.

A Review of Phytochemical and Pharmacological Studies of Inula Species

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 557-567
Author(s):  
Aparoop Das ◽  
Anshul Shakya ◽  
Surajit Kumar Ghosh ◽  
Udaya P. Singh ◽  
Hans R. Bhat
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Infections ◽  
Chemical Constituents ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Important Ingredient ◽  
Pharmacological Activities ◽  
Medicinal Uses ◽  
The Family ◽  
Pharmacological Studies ◽  
Perennial Herbs ◽  
Insight Into

Background: Plants of the genus Inula are perennial herbs of the family Asteraceae. This genus includes more than 100 species, widely distributed throughout Europe, Africa and Asia including India. Many of them are indicated in traditional medicine, e.g., in Ayurveda. This review explores chemical constituents, medicinal uses and pharmacological actions of Inula species. Methods: Major databases and research and review articles retrieved through Scopus, Web of Science, and Medline were consulted to obtain information on the pharmacological activities of the genus Inula published from 1994 to 2017. Results: Inula species are used either alone or as an important ingredient of various formulations to cure dysfunctions of the cardiovascular system, respiratory system, urinary system, central nervous system and digestive system, and for the treatment of asthma, diabetes, cancers, skin disorders, hepatic disease, fungal and bacterial infections. A range of phytochemicals including alkaloids, essential and volatile oils, flavonoids, terpenes, and lactones has been isolated from herbs of the genus Inula, which might possibly explain traditional uses of these plants. Conclusion: The present review is focused on chemical constituents, medicinal uses and pharmacological actions of Inula species and provides valuable insight into its medicinal potential.

scholarly journals X-Ray Structure of 12-Oxophytodienoate Reductase 1 Provides Structural Insight into Substrate Binding and Specificity within the Family of OYE

Structure ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 419-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constanze Breithaupt ◽  
Jochen Strassner ◽  
Ulrike Breitinger ◽  
Robert Huber ◽  
Peter Macheroux ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substrate Binding ◽  
X Ray ◽  
The Family ◽  
Structural Insight ◽  
Insight Into

scholarly journals Genetic and phenotypic analysis of the pathogenic potential of two novel Chlamydia gallinacea strains compared to Chlamydia psittaci

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marloes Heijne ◽  
Martina Jelocnik ◽  
Alexander Umanets ◽  
Michael S. M. Brouwer ◽  
Annemieke Dinkla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virulence Factors ◽  
Opportunistic Pathogen ◽  
Chlamydia Psittaci ◽  
Phenotypic Analysis ◽  
Pathogenic Potential ◽  
The Family ◽  
Chicken Eggs ◽  
Sequence Types ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Embryonated Chicken

AbstractChlamydia gallinacea is an obligate intracellular bacterium that has recently been added to the family of Chlamydiaceae. C. gallinacea is genetically diverse, widespread in poultry and a suspected cause of pneumonia in slaughterhouse workers. In poultry, C. gallinacea infections appear asymptomatic, but studies about the pathogenic potential are limited. In this study two novel sequence types of C. gallinacea were isolated from apparently healthy chickens. Both isolates (NL_G47 and NL_F725) were closely related to each other and have at least 99.5% DNA sequence identity to C. gallinacea Type strain 08-1274/3. To gain further insight into the pathogenic potential, infection experiments in embryonated chicken eggs and comparative genomics with Chlamydia psittaci were performed. C. psittaci is a ubiquitous zoonotic pathogen of birds and mammals, and infection in poultry can result in severe systemic illness. In experiments with embryonated chicken eggs, C. gallinacea induced mortality was observed, potentially strain dependent, but lower compared to C. psittaci induced mortality. Comparative analyses confirmed all currently available C. gallinacea genomes possess the hallmark genes coding for known and potential virulence factors as found in C. psittaci albeit to a reduced number of orthologues or paralogs. The presence of potential virulence factors and the observed mortality in embryonated eggs indicates C. gallinacea should rather be considered as an opportunistic pathogen than an innocuous commensal.

Family influence on career decisions: perceptions of Latin American CEOs

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Rita Blanco ◽  
Mariela N. Golik
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Career Decisions ◽  
Family Factors ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Career Literature

PurposeThe career is a space where family and work lives amalgamate. The role of work for the individual, and the meaning of work within the culture, will determine the relevance of family. This study investigates CEOs' perception about conjugal family influence on career decisions, and it examines family factors.Design/methodology/approachThrough a qualitative study, 22 Latin American CEOs who work for multinational firms were interviewed in a semi-structured way.FindingsNot all career decisions were influenced by conjugal family. CEOs varied in the extent to which they considered their families when reflecting on their career decisions. Expatriation, joining or quitting an organization and change of area of work were found as those decisions perceived to be influenced by conjugal family. Family support, family structure and family demands and responsibilities were identified as the family factors involved. In spite of the role salience, family factors influenced some of CEOs' career decisions, in part, due to the cultural characteristics of the Latin American environment. The instrumental support of the extended family, as part of collectivist societies, was also evidenced.Practical implicationsA better understanding of the family influenced decisions and family factors involved may enhance individual career decision-making as well as organizational career management processes and public initiatives.Originality/valueThis study contributes to family and career literature, being the first one to explore the conjugal family influence upon CEOs' career decisions.

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