Family Adaptation
Family Adaptation – the process through which spouses adjust to one another and to the conditions in which the family lives. Family adaptation also involves an effective response by family members to positive and negative changes occurring within marital and family relations. When such adaptation is unsuccessful, the family may experience serious difficulties in functioning or may eventually break down.
The following types of family adaptation are distinguished:
Material and Domestic Adaptation – the distribution of rights and responsibilities between spouses in relation to household tasks, as well as the development of a model for planning and allocating the family budget.
Moral and Psychological Adaptation – based on the compatibility of the spouses’ worldviews, ideals, interests, value orientations, attitudes, and personality characteristics.
Intimate and Personal Adaptation – based on the achievement of sexual compatibility between spouses and involving not only physical but also emotional and psychological satisfaction with intimate relations (Rean, 2010, pp. 140–141).
See also: Family, Marriage, Gender Division of Labour.
Reference:
Rean, A. A. (Ed.). (2010). Semia: Psikhologiia, pedagogika, sotsialnaia rabota [The family: Psychology, pedagogy, and social work]. Moscow: AST. [in Russian]
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