In daily life, people should do and say what is consistent with their role according to the specific situation, which is reasonable and appropriate. If an individual, regardless of the actual situation, intends to position himself according to a role (especially a role he once had) and communicate with others, it will usually cause discomfort or even embarrass others. This maladjustment of acting with a fixed role is called role fixation effect.

A professor with high academic level usually studies at home when he has no teaching task. Later, he became the vice president of the secondary college, but he was reluctant to sit in the office. He suspected that others asked him for business, bothered himself to do research, and simply hid at home. Others complain behind their backs: "you are a leader. How can you be like before? We're not looking for you in charge of your affairs. Who are you looking for? "

A retired professor often goes to an office to find the staff there to print materials for him at noon or near work in the evening. At first, the staff were willing to help, but they couldn't help looking embarrassed when they saw that he came more often. He said unhappily, "you are my student. You should do something for the teacher!" Staff are afraid that such things will be seen by leaders or other colleagues and have a bad impact. At the same time, he was also deeply embarrassed: I only heard one of your courses in college. I have graduated and worked for many years. Why do you press me as a teacher?

A middle-aged Professor, who has been the vice president of the secondary college for three years, will not be renewed at the expiration of his term. When the college meets, although he can't sit in the past position, he should also sit close to that position. Whenever the current vice president speaks, he interrupts from time to time to express his opinions on the corresponding topics. People often laugh, and some quick talking colleagues will say, "you're not a leader for a long time!"

Obviously, in the above example, the three professors have the problem of fixed roles, which not only brings confusion to themselves, but also causes trouble to others. With the passage of time and the change of situation, the identity, status and interpersonal relationship of individuals will change. Accordingly, the role of individuals will also change. If you stick to the old role, it is easy to produce various problems. Some people sigh: "it's really cool to take tea!" It is actually a reflection of role fixation.

Role fixation often means that individuals enjoy and nostalgic for their former state or status, are unwilling to face the reality and cannot change roles. In fact, it is a manifestation of maladjustment.

In addition, at different stages of life development, individuals should timely change from the original role to the new role, that is, from the old cognitive, emotional and behavioral model to the new cognitive, emotional and behavioral model. For example, from primary school to middle school and from middle school to university, if students have physical and mental adaptation problems, they usually have fixed role factors.

It is not difficult to find that role fixation is related to specific scenes, deeply influenced by individual experience and ideas, and reflected in specific interpersonal relationships. Therefore, to solve the problem of role fixation, we can at least make efforts in the following three aspects: first, individuals need to constantly improve their ideological understanding, understand the richness and situational nature of roles, and always consider the reasonable relationship between themselves and others; Second, individuals need to constantly strengthen self-discipline, understand the appropriateness and effectiveness of behavior, and consider the appropriate relationship between themselves and others; Third, individuals need to constantly promote their own growth, understand their own stage and development, and consider the healthy relationship between themselves and others everywhere.

It should be noted that the effect of role fixation has something in common with the concept of fixation in psychoanalysis. However, role fixation is usually at the level of consciousness, while fixation is at the level of unconsciousness. There is also the concept of functional fixation in psychology, which refers to people's directional connection to the common functions of objects. The role fixation effect in this paper is obviously different from it. At the same time, the role degenerative effect is a maladjustment phenomenon that individuals return from more favorable roles to old roles; Role fixation effect is a maladjustment phenomenon that individuals stick to the old role and refuse to recognize and practice the current role.