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role conflicts

role conflicts is the plural of role conflict.

Meaning of role conflict

Noun

role conflict (countable and uncountable, plural role conflicts)

  1. A conflict among the roles corresponding to two or more statuses.
    • “Most farm wives,” he [Alan D. Berkowitz] said, “report some degree of role conflict” – the sort of difficulty that arises, for example, when the wife is responsible for providing child care as well as carrying out her job. “And wives with extreme amounts of role conflict are more likely to...1982 January 10, Lawrence Van Gelder, “Long Islanders: Farm Life Idyllic? He Says It Isn’t So”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

Questions about role conflicts

What is role conflicts the plural of?
Role conflicts is the plural of role conflict.

Words near role conflicts in the dictionary

  1. Roldans
  2. role
  3. role activity diagram
  4. role activity diagrams
  5. role conflict
  6. role conflicts
  7. role model
  8. role models
  9. role play
  10. role played
  11. role player

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