Developmental Psych Chapter 17

Optimism

________ is linked to better adjustment, improved health, and increased longevity.

Conscientiousness

________ showed a continuous increase from early adulthood to late adulthood.

Grandmothers

________ have closer relationships with their children and grandchildren and give more personal advice than grandfathers do.

Happiness

________ and positive affect have an upward trajectory from early adulthood to late adulthood.

tasks of early adulthood

Commitment to the ________ helped women learn to control their impulses, develop interpersonal skills, become independent, and work hard to achieve goals.

aspect of culture

Cultural: adults create, renovate, or conserve some ________ that ultimately survives.

Disequilibrium

________ in family life that requires considerable adaptation by parents and their adult children.

longevity

The increase in ________ is influencing the nature of grandparenting.

adolescence

Forties are a decade of reassessing and recording the truth about ones ________ and adulthood.

Physical attraction

________, romance, and passion are more important in new relationships.

Empty nest

________ syndrome: decline in marital satisfaction after children leave the home.

Stagnation

________: individuals sense that theyve done nothing for the next generation.

Generativity

________ in middle age was more strongly related than intimacy to whether individuals would have an enduring and happy marriage at 75- 80.

Vaillant

________: only a minority of adults experience a midlife crisis.

Romantic love

________ is strong in early adulthood.

Gender differences

________ characterize intergenerational relationships.

younger adults

People show more stability in their personality when they reach midlife than when they were ________.

Positive martial quality

________ was linked to better health for both spouses.

Older adults

________ are more likely than younger adults to use proactive strategies to deal with minor daily hassles before they become more stressful.

stressful life events

Women are more likely to biome depressed when they encounter ________.

Relationships

________ between aging parents and their children are usually characterized by ambivalence.

Marital partners

________ have time to pursue career interests and to spend time with each other (increased quality of time)

Grandparents

________ play important roles in grandchildrens lives especially when family crises occur.

Adult siblings

________ provide practical and emotional support to each other.

Cohorts

________: groups of individuals born in the same year /time period.

older adults

Middle- aged and ________ showed a smaller increase in psychological distress to interpersonal stressors than did younger adults.

Generativity

________: adults desire to leave legacies of themselves to the next generation.

Grandparents

________ who are full- time caregivers for grandchildren are at elevated risk for health problems, depression, and stress.

Generativity

adults desire to leave legacies of themselves to the next generation

biological

adults have offspring

parental

adults nurture and guide children

work

adults develop skills that are passed down to others

cultural

adults create, renovate, or conserve some aspect of culture that ultimately survives

Stagnation

individuals sense that theyve done nothing for the next generation

twenties

novice phase of adult development

28-33

transition period where a man must face the more serious question of determining his goals

30s

family and career development

40-45

transition to middle adulthood

Vaillant

only a minority of adults experience a midlife crisis

contemporary life-events approach

how life events influence the individuals development depends on the life event and on mediating factors

cohorts

groups of individuals born in the same year / time period

social clock

timetable on which individuals are expected to accomplish lifes tasks

cumulative personality model of personality development

with time and age people become more adept at interacting with their environment in ways that promote increased stability of personality

could be because of changing view of women

divorce has less stigma now, women are less dependent on husbands

empty nest syndrome

decline in marital satisfaction after children leave the home

common complaint

loss of privacy

grandparents are sometimes thrust back into a parenting role

divorce, adolescent pregnancies, and drug use by parents