The Importance Of My Mesosystems

My microsystems are consistency of relationships that have brought meaningful influences over a long or short amount of time. To describe each system more accurately, I two different types of lines. I drew broken lines for weakened relationships over the time. In contrast, I drew thicker lines over critical relationships even to the present day. My parents have been fully present throughout my life. They are my key caregivers and support me financially, emotionally, socially, and spiritually. My younger brother is my only sibling who I consider to be my oldest friend and whom I have given care as well when we were younger. Our relationship has weakened due to physical distance, but we still emotionally depend on each other. My family friends are mostly in the same neighborhood, Iowa City, attending the same church and they supported my family to settle into a new home physically, socially and emotionally. My relationships with college friends are the most influential relationships outside of

Parents and brother are part of my first mesosystem, family. They are closely interrelated and developed inseparable relationship with each other. Family also shares the same national and cultural identity as Koreans. The second mesosystem is Iowa City community which includes family friends, college friends, parents, and brother. Most of them has spent the majority of their lives in Iowa City or cherishes the local identity. Due to a small town culture, they also developed interrelationships. Under the third mesosystem, church community, which is the most central mesosystem I have, I included college friends, parents, brother, and family friends as they have spiritually influenced in my life and involved in church. The fourth mesosystem is college which includes mentors and college friends. I met them in college where they were heavily involved in