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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
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