"These interconnected systems can be visualized as concentric rings with the individual at the center and additional rings expanding outward toward the progressively broader world. The rings include our immediate contexts, such as interpersonal relationships, family, neighborhood, community, and workplace, and also the wider structures of society, such as cultures, religions/ spiritual traditions, social norms, politics, customs, traditions, laws, and ideologies, institutions, and countries."
"As we walk through the events of our lives, we are shaped by our own internal individual factors (what goes on inside us) and also by the external and contextual factors that surround us. Thus, our inner experiences and our actions are often influenced by our inter-actions with the multiple levels of the interconnected human environmental systems in which we live (Bronfenbrenner, 2019; 1994)."
Life is complex and shaped by both personal factors and external environments. Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by interactions with multiple levels of surrounding systems. Individuals encounter immediate contexts such as relationships, family, neighborhood, community, and workplace, as well as broader societal structures including cultures, spiritual traditions, social norms, politics, laws, and institutions. Internal ideas, values, and development are typically affected by these external layers. While control over external situations is often limited, individuals retain control over their responses. Awareness of societal shifts and life's impermanence can aid understanding of how external events affect emotions and reactions.
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