Table 1.
Family adaptation system. By researcher (2021).
| Family Adaptation System | Life Cycle | Aim | Process | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Parenting pattern | Children to adults | Parenting shapes the adaptability of children, so that when children can adapt, it will be easy to accept adaptation in the adult phase. | Make rules, form bonds, and build relationships between parents and children |
| 2. | Environmental change | Long-term and short-term in individual | Drive change to occur within the individual strongly based on experience and environmental changes. | Anticipate and train someone to have adaptation strategies, discover potential, and develop their resources. |
| 3. | Coping | When one of the family members is sick, separated from the nuclear family and social environment, and experiencing changes in routine | Adjusting to differences, confusion, and difficulties, reducing negative prejudices, the ability to face obstacles, and giving affirmation that individuals as family members who are going through a difficult phase of life still have strength and help from other family members | Opening positive communication, creating interactions that can reduce anger and despair, as well as family transactions with the social environment |
| 4. | Family welfare | Availability of resources, conditions in which family members feel satisfied, fulfilled, happy, and have gratitude | Adapting to life situations | Understanding risks and dangers, instilling mutual respect among family members, receiving and responding to love and affection, respecting human nature, and exchanging needs for mutual fulfillment |
| 5. | Emotional Response and regulation | Children to teenagers | Responses were given by family members, understanding of others, developing the capacity to understand and accommodate the needs and feelings of others | Accurate description of expressions and response cues, communication patterns as an adaptation style, and individuals as family members can be accepted by their environment and accept their environment |
| 6. | Acculturation, assimilation, cultural processes, and family life history | Human life | Live life wisely, and understand that the essence of life is to change | Marrying different ethnic groups, having life events beyond human control, changing places of residence, getting new cultures and habits, meeting new people, and being part of a society with certain customs. |