Published : 2024-01-22

The Conflict of the Parental Role With the Sick Role Experienced by Women Facing Cancer

Abstract

Fulfilling a social role is related to respecting a certain system of behavior according to a specific pattern of conduct in accordance with social expectations. Although it is possible to have some freedom in fulfilling the social role, crossing the established boundaries may result in experiencing negative social and even legal sanctions. The parental role is one of many social roles that a person can play in their lives. Its entanglement with other social roles is characteristic. The consequence of overlapping several roles may be their conflict. This is what happens when one of the parents experiences a chronic somatic disease. A woman affected by a cancer begins to play the sick role, which prevents, hinders or modifies the ways of performing social roles (including parental) and forces them to take on new ones. The conflict of the parental role with the sick role concerns many areas, and at the same time obliges the mother and other family members to develop a coping strategy. According to the Charter of Family Rights, family members have the right to expect that society and appropriate institutions will provide them with assistance in extraordinary cases (here: in case of illness). The aim of the article is to present selected areas of the conflict between the parental role and the sick role when the mother is experiencing cancer, and to characterize selected implications of the undertaken problem for pedagogical practice.

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chronic illness, role conflict, family, parental role, sick role



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Roczniki Pedagogiczne · ISSN 2080-850X | eISSN 2544-5243 · DOI: 10.18290/rped
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