Rethinking Boundary Ambiguity from an Ecological Perspective: Stress in Protestant Clergy Families |
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Authors: | CAMERON LEE Ph.D. |
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Affiliation: | Associate Professor of Marriage and Family Studies, Graduate School of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary, 180 North Oakland Avenue, Pasadena CA 91101. |
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Abstract: | Family researchers have virtually ignored the families of clergy as a population of interest. Their unique social ecology, however, can offer a profitable case study in family stress. The genesis of Boss's (1977, 1987) boundary ambiguity construct will be reviewed and critiqued. Bronfenbrenner's (1979) approach will then be applied to the boundary problems of clergy families. It is argued that an ecological analysis of boundary ambiguity in clergy families will lead to a higher-order understanding of the construct itself. |
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