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The key takeaways are that Transactional Analysis theory proposes that human behavior is influenced by factors within an individual such as their life script which is determined by drivers and injunctions received in childhood.

Transactional Analysis theory is a model of psychology proposed by Eric Berne to understand human behavior and personality. It suggests that human behavior is influenced by internal factors like life script rather than just external stimuli.

According to the theory, drivers are messages one receives about what they should do or be in life, while injunctions are messages about what one should not do. Together they influence one's life script and personality.

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LIFE SCRIPT: DETERMINANTS AND OUTCOMES

Dr. Harminder Kaur Gujral1


Professor
Amity Business School

Dr. Jaideep Kaur2


Associate Professor
Amity Business School

Abstract
The present study is an attempt to understand and analyze the concept and components of
Transactional Analysis. The rationale behind the qualitative research is to analyze the behavioural
patterns of individuals in their personal and professional life. The problems which occur in our personal
and professional lives are not due to external factors but internal factors such as life script, operating
from wrong ego state, continuously remaining in wrong life positions, manipulations ( games people
play), giving and receiving wrong strokes etc. At the same time, problems in the organization are not
because of lack of infrastructure, resources or policies but due to different behavioural pattern of the
employees. Ironically, organizations try to mend them through improving infrastructure, providing
resources and changing their policies but this does not work. The employees in the organization, who
are at their best in their technical skills, should also be best in their life skills for smooth running of the
organization. The behavioural pattern of the individual is governed by the important components
discussed in the theory of TA. The paper focuses on how drivers and injunctions received by an individual
in his childhood determine his life script as the life script brings about the inference of personality in
terms of drivers and injunctions. These drivers and injunctions predict the outcomes as ego states, life
position and the psychological games people play in their life. The present review is an attempt to
understand the different components of TA as determinants and outcomes of human behavior governed
by the life script and the role they play in personal and professional life. The extensive review is
supported by the views of academicians, behavioural scientists, parents and siblings obtained through
informal interview/discussion to make it more objective and authentic.

Keywords: Drivers, injunctions, life script, personality, behavior, ego states, life positions, psychological
games .

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Introduction
It has created a lot of curiosity amongst behavioural scientists that why human behavior is different
in spite of its encounter with a standard stimulus. Human beings are not robots who will respond in
a similar manner whenever they encounter similar stimuli. They have been blessed with a healthy
physique with sound mind which never stops thinking and reasoning. Apart from these processes,
there are other important factors also which determine our behavioural patterns. To understand
human behavior, a model which will be followed in the present research is Transactional Analysis
theory proposed by Eric Berne (1961). He created the theory of transactional analysis as a way of
explaining human behaviour. Transactional Analysis (TA) offers a model of personality and
communication. It analyses the dynamics of self and its relationship to others. TA refers to a process
of analyzing and understanding interpersonal behavior. When people interact with each other, there
is social transaction in which one individual responds to another. The study of these transactions
amongst people is called Transactional Analysis. TA involves self- awareness, structural analysis (ego
states), transactions, life script, life positions, injunctions, drivers and games that affect individual life
(Eric Berne 1961).

Transactions
Eric Berne (1961) developed this theory, and he defined a transaction as the fundamental unit of
social interaction. This created a basic unit that could be studied, measured, and classified. According
to Berne, we can observe what people do and say to themselves and to other people and the resulting
effects of each individual act. Transactional Analysis is the method for studying interactions between
individuals. There are different types of transactions which have been discussed in TA theory.

Complimentary Transactions

A complimentary transaction occurs when a message, sent from a particular ego state, gets the
expected response from a specific ego state prevailing in the other person. Berne (1961) describes a
complimentary transaction as one which is "appropriate and expected and follows the natural order
of healthy human relationships. A complimentary transaction can occur between any two ego states.
For example, two people may transact from Parent-Parent, Adult-Adult, Child-Child or Parent-Child.
A person can transact from his or her Parent with any of the ego states of another person and can
also do this with the Adult and Child ego states. If the response is the expected one, the transaction is
complementary. Simplest transactions are between Adult ego states.The lines of communication are
open, and the people can continue to transacting with one another. This does not always happen.

Crossed Transactions

A crossed transaction occurs when an unexpected response is made to the stimulus/people. An


inappropriate ego state is activated, and the lines of transacting between the people are crossed. At
this point, people tend to withdrawal, turn away from each other, or switch the conversation in
another direction. Crossed transactions are a frequent source of pain between people -- parents and
children, husband and wife, boss and employee, teacher and student, and so forth. The person, who

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initiates a transaction, expecting a certain response, does not get it. When a stimulus receives an
unexpected or inappropriate response, the lines of communication become crossed.

Ulterior Transactions

Ulterior transactions are the most complex. They differ from complimentary and crossed
transactions in that they always involve more than two ego states. When an ulterior message is sent,
it is disguised under a socially acceptable transaction.

Games

Games are the reflection of manipulative behavior for getting advantage from people or surrounding.
Berne (1964) defines games as an “ongoing series of complementary ulterior transactions
progressing to a well-defined, predictable outcome. Descriptively, it is a recurring set of
transactions… with a concealed motivation… or gimmick.” Games are ongoing series of ulterior
transactions that lead to a predictable outcome. Ulterior transactions are complex interactions that
involve more than two ego states and send a disguised message. In other words, you are playing a
game if you are trying to accomplish something other than what you are outwardly expressing.

Life script

Berne (1972) defines life script as an unconscious life plan made in childhood, reinforced by
parents, justified by subsequent events, and culminating in a chosen alternative. A life script is a
personal life plan which an individual decides early on in life and is based upon his or her
interpretation of the external and internal events which affect the individual. Our script is
developed from our early decisions based upon our life experiences. This happens at an
unconscious, or at best pre-conscious, level and we may not even realize that we have set ourselves
a plan. Script is decisional and responsive; i.e decided upon in childhood in response to perceptions
of the world and as a means of living with and making sense of the world. It is not just thrust upon a
person by external forces. Script is reinforced by parents (or other influential figures and
experiences).Script is for the most part, outside awareness. Script is how we navigate and what we
look for; the rest of reality is redefined (distorted) to match our filters. It is the whole journey of an
individual uncovering the early decisions, made unconsciously, as to how life shall be lived. It is one
of the five clusters in Transactional Analysis, involving a progression from structural analysis,
through transactional and game analysis, to script analysis. The purpose of script analysis is to help
a person to achieve autonomy by recognizing the script's influence on his thoughts and actions and
thereby allowing them to decide against the script. Berne (1961) describes someone who is
autonomous as being 'script free' and as a "real person".

Stewart and Jones (1987) analysed that a key part of script theory is the ‘decisional’ nature of the
life plan; this means that an individual’s script arises from decisions made in childhood, rather than
solely from environmental or parental factors. Different children brought up in the same
environment may well make different decisions resulting in quite different life plans. The script
decisions made in childhood need to be differentiated from adult decision making, as young children

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do not have the same mental faculties as adults, and their decision making is mainly based on feelings,
emotions and bodily sensations rather than grown-up logic and reality testing. Parental influence,
while not directly writing a child’s script, is nonetheless central to its development, through the
messages (both verbal and non-verbal) delivered to the child. These messages form part of the child’s
frame of reference and consist of many definitions – of self, of others and of the world – which are
integral in the conclusions that the child forms about itself. It is important to recognise that the early
script decisions we make are outside our grown-up awareness, although we may live them every day
in our behaviour.

Steiner (1974) also stated that the script decisions we make in childhood have a significant impact
on the course of our lives. He considered that these key early personality decisions are made
prematurely, before we have sufficient information and decision-making faculties to properly take
them. He hypothesised that if a child was left to develop naturally, important decisions about life
would be deferred until adolescence. Unfortunately this natural development is routinely
interrupted, and a child is subjected to various constraints and pressures – parental and
environmental – that require adaptation to survive and have essential needs met. The quality of the
decisions made at such an early age depends entirely on the abilities of the child’s own Adult ego
state (the Little Professor) at the time of the decision. A young child thinks and feels in ways that are
quite different to grown-ups, and the logic of an infant can be puzzling. The world of an infant is a
world of extremes – ecstasy, terror, rage – and very early decisions will reflect these extremes. The
position of a child at birth is one of ‘basic trust’ – an expectation that the mother will respond
unconditionally to the child’s needs. When this unconditional protection is withdrawn (at least in
terms of the infant’s own perception of the world), the child is forced to consider an important
question, namely ‘what must I do to get what I need around here?’ The answers to that question will,
inevitably, be largely contained within the ‘script messages’ that come from the child’s parents (and
other parent-figures). We can always make intervention in life script through unlearning and
relearning as Goulding (1979) stated that re-decision therapy is based on the premise that, through
goal-setting and the re-enactment of important childhood scenes, we may change our future and gain
control of our lives.

Drivers
Drivers are the motivating or encouraging strokes given by parents / parent like figure to the
children/child like figure to help them grow. Some-times drivers are taken as parental pressure to
perform well. The driver decision is made out of awareness. These drivers may be responses to an
Injunction so they are also called counter injunctions. The major drivers are please others, be perfect,
be strong, try hard, hurry up.
Kahler (1975) stated that drivers are the words that motivate us, and which can be at the root of
dysfunctional behaviors. These are commonly framed as the Transactional Analysis drivers, although
they can be used stand-alone like Be Perfect, Be Strong, Hurry Up, Please Others, and Try Hard. Any
of these can be rooted in early admonishment from teachers and parents who are seeking to help the
child become socially functional, but perhaps do not offer sufficient guidance and praise for adequate
behavior, thus leaving the child over-doing things. In reasonable quantities, these drivers are

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effective in creating functioning and successful adults. When people do not know when to stop, then
dysfunctional behavior can set in, causing stress and consequent further coping.

Injunctions
Injunctions are “prohibition or negative commands from a parent” Berne (1972). Injunctions are
non-verbal messages received from our parents or parent like figures. They are implanted in the
unconscious mind of children and govern their life script. 'Don't be close’ for example, may be learned
by the child from not being cuddled and held by his mother. The major injunctions are Don’t exist,
Don’t be you, Don’t be important, Don’t belong, Don’t be close, Don’t be well/ sane, Don’t be a child,
Don’t grow up, Don’t feel, Don’t think, Don’t succeed, Don’t enjoy.

Role of Drivers and Injunctions in Life Script


Drivers and injunctions play a major role in determining our life script. Holtby (1974) gave an
example of how he had charted the sequence of parental injunctions, precipitating events, through to
outcome and hence reaffirming parental attributions and predictions. Cole (1993) linked injunctions
to chronic back pain, describing how Don’t Be, Don’t Make It, Don’t Grow Up and Don’t Be Well can
produce behaviours that may be perceived as malingering, and how Don’t Feel (what you feel) and
Don’t Be a Child may greatly increase the stress. McClendon & Kadis (1994) propose that the power
of injunctions is created through shame affect (Tomkins 1962, 1963, 1991) where ‘shame’ refers to
disruption of a positive state and not as commonly associated to being shamed. They describe the
four defensive patterns (Nathanson 1992) of withdrawal, attack self, attack other, and avoidance (as
in suppress awareness). Hence, they recommend addressing the defensive pattern so the client can
re-decide. Ramond (1994) suggests an additional injunction – Don’t Change – as the basis for a script
that prevents the children of immigrant families from integrating into the culture when they are the
first generation born in a host country. This might be considered as a form of gossamer injunction,
with an apparently positive maintenance of culture of the parents’ origin leading to an ‘inability’ to
integrate. The impact of these injunctions can be seen in the behavior of individuals in their day to
day life. McNeel (2010) suggested injunctions be renamed as injunctive messages, which he defined
as “messages emanating from parental figures, often outside their awareness, that are negative in
content, often delivered in a context of prohibition, and defeating to the natural life urges of existence,
attachment, identity, competence and security.” Whatever injunctions a person have received, and
whatever the decisions were taken as a result of those injunctions, transactional analysis holds that
people can make substantive life changes by changing their decisions at that moment. A basic
assumption of TA is that anything that has been learned can be relearned. Drivers and Injunctions
determine the life script of an individual to a greater extent. Though it depends on the individual too
how to recreate a new life script if he actually wants to make some interventions in his life to be a
better individual.

Ego States

An ego state is a consistent pattern of feeling and experience directly related to a corresponding
consistent pattern of behavior. Berne (1961) defined three ego states that can be confirmed by

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observable behavior: the parent, child and adult. The parent is the ego state that contains the external
events that were imposed on a person in the first five years of their life. These are constructs that are
imposed on the child. Examples would be 'Don't talk to strangers,' 'Always hold a grown-up's hand
when you cross the street,' or 'Don't touch a hot stove.' The child is the ego state that contains the
feelings and emotions related to the external events that were imposed on a person in the first five
years of life. These feelings or emotions are replayed in the person's mind when the corresponding
external event is recalled. Examples would be 'Being approached by a strange person makes me feel
nervous,' 'I feel safe when I hold someone's hand,' or 'I am scared of being burned.' The last ego state
is the adult. The adult is the ego state that evaluates what is really going on and makes independent
decisions about the world. This ego state begins forming as soon as we gain the ability to control
aspects of our environment. It allows a person to compare what they are told about the world with
what they feel and experience. Let's use the hot stove as an example. The adult is told by the parent
not to touch a hot stove and recognizes the child's fear of being burned is reasonable. Therefore the
adult determines to use caution when it is necessary to use a hot stove. Thomas Harris (1967) uses
an extremely simplified way to explain these ego states. The parent is a taught concept, the child is a
felt concept, and the adult is a learned concept.

Life Positions
Early on, two articles (Berne, 1962/1976; Haiberg, Sefness, & Berne, 1963/1976) described life
position as a total life direction or a person's overall life destiny. This is similar to what Eric Berne
called someone's life script theme. Berne (1962/1976) stated, "Every game, script, and destiny then,
is based on one of these four basic positions"
Life Position refers to the general feeling about life particularly in context to oneself and others. The
individual’s behavior towards others is largely based on specific assumptions that are made early in
life. This tends to remain with the person for life time unless major experiences occur to change it.
Such positions are called psychological positions. Decisions about oneself, one’s own world, and one’s
own relationships to others are formed during the first 5 years of life. Such decisions act as a basis
for the formulation of a life position, which develops into the roles of the life script. Usually, once a
person has decided on a life position, there is a tendency for it to remain fixed unless there is some
intervention, such as therapy, to change the underlying decisions? Games are frequently used to
support and maintain life positions and to play out life scripts. Transactional analysis identifies four
basic life positions, most of which are based on decisions made as a result of childhood experiences,
and most of which determine how people feel about themselves and how they relate to others:
1. I’m OK—You’re OK.
2. I’m OK—You’re not OK.
3. I’m not OK—You’re OK.
4. I’m not OK—You’re not OK.
The I’m OK—You’re OK position is generally a win - win situation for both and is game-free. It is the
belief that people have basic goodness, honesty, value, worth, and self-respect as human beings.
Persons are OK is a statement of their essence, not essentially their behavior. This position is
categorized by an attitude of trust and openness, willingness to give and take, and an acceptance of

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others in the way they are. There are no losers, only winners. It reflects healthy, optimistic and
confident attitude towards self and others.
I’m OK—You’re not OK reflects win and lose situation. It is the position of people who project their
problems onto others and blame them, let them down, and criticize them. The games that reinforce
this position involve a self-styled superior (the “I’m OK”) who projects anger, disgust, and scorn onto
a designated inferior, or scapegoat (the “You’re not OK”). This position is that of a person who does
not want to take responsibilities for his/her mistakes and also wants to make others responsible for
the failure. It reflects attitude of superiority and distrust.
I’m not OK—You’re OK is known as the depressive position and is characterized by feeling of “poor
me” or powerless in comparison to others. It reflects the notion of “mercy on me”. Typically such
people serve others’ needs instead of their own and generally feel victimized. Games supporting this
position include “Kick me” and “Martyr”—games that support the power of others and deny one’s
own. It reflects the feeling of powerlessness, depression and inferiority.
The I’m not OK—You’re not OK quadrant is known as the position of hopelessness, frustration and
ineffectiveness. This is the worst possible position. Operating from this position, people have lost
interest in life and may see life as totally without possibilities. It reflects extreme apathy and non-
productivity. This self-destructive attitude is characteristic of people who are unable to cope up with
the real world. It may lead to extreme withdrawal, a return to childhood behavior, or violent behavior
resulting in injury or death of themselves or others. Most of the criminals and people with anti social
behavior may fall in this category.In reality each of us has a preferred position we operate from while
we are under stress. The challenge is to become aware of how we are struggling to make life real
through our basic life existential position and create alternative solutions. Woollams and Brown's
(1978) concept of life position was that life positions are fairly permanent and do not change easily.
Our behavior is the reflection of life script during the childhood time and one can predict life position
from it.White (1994) examines the transactional analysis concept of life positions (Berne,
1962/1976) and what various authors have written about these positions since Berne. A two-level
model is proposed to clarify some of the confusion that currently exists in the transactional analysis
literature.

Discussion and Conclusion


The purpose of the study was to gain an insight into the concepts of Transactional Analysis theory
and role of drivers and injunctions in determining the life script of an individual. It is stated that our
life script is written (unconsciously/subconsciously) when we are very young based on the drivers
and injunctions given by our parents or parent like figure. Our life script governs what type of life we
are going to lead when we grow up. The outcome of the life script reflects in our ego states and games
that we play with others. The elder child remains mostly in parent ego state, caring about his parents
and younger siblings. Sometime, when these children grow up, they start interfering in their parents’
life and dominate them. In the organization they prove to be leaders who are mostly operating from
parent ego state but controlling their subordinates. This reflection is based on the informal
interview/discussion conducted with academicians, behavioural scientists, parents( specifically
mothers) and siblings.

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Life script is determined at a very early age based on the drivers and injunctions received from the
parents. The eldest child is mostly given drivers like go head, you can do it, and the younger one is
given injunctions as be small, do not to take up the responsibility as they are always guarded by their
parents. The parents do not allow them to take initiative and not to be very confident as there is
somebody elder to them in family to whom they should look forward to take decisions. In Indian
culture most of the children are given drivers and injunctions based on their birth order which
determines their life script. The interpretation has been supported by White ( 2017) as he states
that birth order can have a lasting influence on personality and behavior According to him the eldest
child is socially dominant and intellectual, but tends to seek approval from others because he is no
longer the center of attention following the birth of a sibling; that the middle child, being sandwiched
between older and younger siblings, is competitive and diplomatic; and that the youngest child tends
to be selfish and demanding, since he is used to being provided for.

Life script decides our life position. The child who was raised up with great love and affection but
with discipline takes up the challenges of life and is mostly in the thought process of “Live and let
live” which translates into “I am ok you are ok” life position . Second life position of “I am ok, you are
not ok” reflects in the behavior of a person where he thinks he is the best and others around him are
not good at all. Third life position of “I am not ok, you are ok” reflects in developing “poor me” kind
of attitude towards himself and always seeking sympathy and help from others. The child who was
raised up with lots of comparisons with siblings, restrictions for not being himself and limitations of
resources develops the thought process of “because I am not happy, I will not allow others also to be
happy” is mostly in life position of “I am not ok you are not ok” reflecting in destructive or a social
behavior. Thus life positions play a great role in our wellbeing and happiness.

In this study drivers and injunctions have been taken as determinants of life script and other concepts
of Transactional Analysis Theory i.e. Ego- states, life positions, transactions and games have been
taken as outcomes of Life scripts. Berne (1972) stated that an injunction is a “prohibition or negative
command from a parent”. Holtby (1974) gave an example of how he had charted the sequence of
parental injunctions, precipitating events, through the outcome and hence reaffirming parental
attributions and predictions. The life script of an individual can be predicted by the instructions in
the form of injunctions given by parents in the childhood. The role of injunctions and drivers also
helps us to know the life position of the individual in which he/ she is. The four life positions give
indication about the life script. “I am ok and you are ok” refers to the drivers given by the parents,
where as the life position “I am not ok and you are not ok” emphasizes on the experience and
injunctions given by the parents which reflect insecurities, frustration, unhappiness, un-fulfillment
of desires, sacrifice for others, compromising on decisions that make the individual bitter and
unhappy. The life script as determinant also indicates on ego states. The individual operates from
effective state because the positive instructions may have been given by the parents and from
ineffective state because of negative injunctions.

The psychological games played by people in their life also indicate the life script. The individual play
psychological games because of the insecurities, frustration, unhappiness, un-fulfillment of desires,

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sacrifice for others, compromising on decisions. These concerns may arise from the injunctions given
by the parents. The role of injunctions and drivers reflect to the operating from ego states, life
position, games people play and finally make us understand life script. The conclusion has been
drawn from the observations/informal interviews/discussion of people involved in informal
interview process for validating review of literature.

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