Maggie Has Many Social Statuses, Including Mother, Wife, Daughter, High

question 21

Multiple Choice

Maggie has many social statuses, including mother, wife, daughter, high school principal, and softball player. She often feels she cannot meet all of the responsibilities in her life. For example, last week she had to miss a softball game because she needed to work late and also missed her son's school play. Maggie is experiencing which of the following?

• A) role conflict
• B) role strain
• C) intersubjectivity
• D) homophily

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Definitions:

Anxious Distress

A specifier used in diagnostic criteria to indicate the presence of anxiety symptoms alongside another condition.

Persistent Depressive Disorder

A chronic form of depression where a person experiences a depressed mood for most of the day, for more days than not, for at least two years.

Major Depressive Disorder

Disorder involving a sad mood or anhedonia plus four or more of the following symptoms: weight loss or a decrease in appetite, insomnia or hypersomnia, psychomotor agitation or retardation, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness or severe guilt, trouble concentrating, and suicidal ideation; these symptoms must be present for at least 2 weeks and must produce marked impairments in normal functioning.

Hallucination

A perception in the absence of external stimulus that has qualities of real perception, often seen in psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia.