In the aftermath of a civil riot, some families in a neighborhood band together to help each other out. Other families sneak out after the mandated curfew and engage in looting from unsecured stores
The latter families' behavior demonstrates Bowen's concept of: a. relativistic thinking
b. enmeshment
c. societal regression
d. triangulation
C
Families who would sneak out after the mandated curfew and engage in looting from unsecured stores were demonstrating Bowen's concept of social regression. Social regression is used to describe the process of how intense anxiety leads to emotionally based decisions. In response to increasing or chronic anxiety, families' decisions become emotional rather than intellectual. Situations such as the civil riot produce such emotionally laden responses in virtually all families.
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