Family, Friends and Personal Communities; Changing Models-in-the Mind

Publication type

Journal Article

Authors

Publication date

September 1, 2010

Abstract:

Models-in-the-minds about the proper and right way to be a true friend or to do
family behaviour may not necessarily fit lived experience, especially in cases where
relationships become fused and distinctions between family and friend become blurred..
We suggest the idea of a personal community the micro-social world of significant others
for any given individual as a practical schema for capturing the set of relationships in which
people are actually embedded.

Published in

Journal of Family Theory and Review

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 2 , p.197 -210

ISSN

17562589

Link

- http://secure.ncfr.com/journals/family_theory/index.asp

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