Exploring the triadic parent–child–sibling relationship: How do mothers’ view of their children impact sibling relationships?

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Human systems management Pub Date : 2022-12-21 DOI:10.1177/26344041221145619

Hannah Drzymala, B. Grey, N. Fowler

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Abstract

The functioning of the sibling subsystem is often overlooked in research on attachment relationships, despite its both threatening and protective potential. Taking a multi-case approach, this study sought to build theory regarding how the mother–child relationship and the mother’s view of each of her children impact the sibling relationship. Three families were assessed using the Meaning of the Child Interview, a method of analysing parental discourse in a semi-structured interview to understand the parent–child relationship, and a sibling free-play procedure. The study illustrated how in more struggling relationships, the child represented a particular threat or challenge to the mother, and how the child’s accommodation to this influenced the dynamics of the sibling relationship. The sibling may be recruited to care for their sibling to ease demands on their mother, serve as an ally with their mother against their sibling, or siblings may support each other to compensate for what is lacking in the child–parent relationship. This was further influenced by wider systemic challenges to both children and mother, such as parental conflict or settling in a new country.

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探讨父母-孩子-兄弟姐妹三重关系:母亲对孩子的看法如何影响兄弟姐妹关系?

兄弟姐妹子系统的功能在依恋关系研究中经常被忽视，尽管它具有威胁和保护的潜力。采用多案例方法，本研究试图建立关于母子关系和母亲对每个孩子的看法如何影响兄弟姐妹关系的理论。使用“儿童访谈的意义”对三个家庭进行了评估，这是一种在半结构化访谈中分析父母话语以了解亲子关系的方法，以及兄弟姐妹自由玩耍程序。该研究说明了在更艰难的关系中，孩子对母亲来说是一种特殊的威胁或挑战，以及孩子对这种情况的适应如何影响兄弟姐妹关系的动态。兄弟姐妹可能会被招募来照顾他们的兄弟姐妹，以减轻对母亲的要求，作为母亲对抗兄弟姐妹的盟友，或者兄弟姐妹可能会相互支持，以弥补亲子关系中的不足。这进一步受到儿童和母亲面临的更广泛的系统性挑战的影响，例如父母冲突或在一个新的国家定居。

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Human systems management MANAGEMENT-

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期刊介绍： Human Systems Management (HSM) is an interdisciplinary, international, refereed journal, offering applicable, scientific insight into reinventing business, civil-society and government organizations, through the sustainable development of high-technology processes and structures. Adhering to the highest civic, ethical and moral ideals, the journal promotes the emerging anthropocentric-sociocentric paradigm of societal human systems, rather than the pervasively mechanistic and organismic or medieval corporatism views of humankind’s recent past. Intentionality and scope Their management autonomy, capability, culture, mastery, processes, purposefulness, skills, structure and technology often determine which human organizations truly are societal systems, while others are not. HSM seeks to help transform human organizations into true societal systems, free of bureaucratic ills, along two essential, inseparable, yet complementary aspects of modern management: a) the management of societal human systems: the mastery, science and technology of management, including self management, striving for strategic, business and functional effectiveness, efficiency and productivity, through high quality and high technology, i.e., the capabilities and competences that only truly societal human systems create and use, and b) the societal human systems management: the enabling of human beings to form creative teams, communities and societies through autonomy, mastery and purposefulness, on both a personal and a collegial level, while catalyzing people’s creative, inventive and innovative potential, as people participate in corporate-, business- and functional-level decisions. Appreciably large is the gulf between the innovative ideas that world-class societal human systems create and use, and what some conventional business journals offer. The latter often pertain to already refuted practices, while outmoded business-school curricula reinforce this problematic situation.