Coping Script Transmission and Structural Divergence extends a mechanism not covered by the existing EAEEM theoretical system. It concerns the intergenerational transmission of coping scripts and their divergence under shifting structural conditions. While TEFS, IEFD, and GEFR account for how emotional burden is distributed, accumulated, and gendered, they do not explain why inherited coping strategies fail in later generations. This paper argues that what is transmitted across generations includes Emotional Deficit, alongside the behavioural scripts developed to manage it. These scripts were functionally adequate under prior structural conditions but produce systematic misalignment in contemporary environments. Drawing on all three frameworks simultaneously, the paper traces how an identical initial script diverges into three orientations within the triangular field: Suppression Adoption, Emotional Mimicry, and Hybrid Oscillation. It further demonstrates how gendered structural constraints reduce the availability of certain orientations for female-line descendants, channelling them disproportionately towards suppression-based trajectories. (Key concepts from IEFD and GEFR are integrated into the analytical framework where necessary to support the modelling of cross-generational divergence and structural misalignment.)
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