The parent ego state plays a particularly important part in the formulation of the frame of reference. This is because our frame of reference consists of definitions of the world, self and others.

1. Role of Parent in Frame of reference
Transactional Analysis

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3. Role of Parent in Frame of reference
• The parent ego state plays
a particularly important
part in the formulation of
the frame of reference.
This is because our frame
of reference consists of
definitions of the world,
self and others.

4. Role of Parent in Frame of reference
• It is our parent and parent
figures that we originally
learn these definitions.
Depending on the age at
which we receive them, they
may be filed away as a part of
the content of our own
parent ego state (P2) or of the
parent of the child (P1).

5. Role of Parent in Frame of reference
• Each of us has a personal
set of parental
definitions of what is
good, bad, wrong, right,
scary, easy, difficult,
dirty, clean, fair, unfair,
and so on.

6. Role of Parent in Frame of reference
• It is on this set of
definitions that we base
our views of self, others
and the world. We
choose our responses to
situations accordingly.

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