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Social and Personality Development in Middle Adulthood

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In Western Society, turning ___ years old represents an important milestone   40  
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Normative-Crisis Models   The approach to personality development that is based on fairly universal stages tied to a sequence of age-related crises (move through fixed stages and crises)  
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Life Events Model   The approach to personality development that is based on the timing of particular events in an adult's life rather than on age per se. For example- 21 year old having a child, like a 40 year old who just had a child  
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Generativity-Versus-Stagnation Stage   According to ERIKSON, the stage during middle adulthood in which people consider their contributions to family and society.  
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Midlife Crisis   A stage of uncertainty and indecision brought about by the realization that life is infinite.  
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How prevalent is the midlife crisis?   It does occur, but not to everyone.  
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Big Five Personality Traits and trends over time:   (OCEAN) Neuroticism (w-decreases; m-same), Extroversion (w-decreases; m-increases SLIGHTLY), Openness (decreases), Agreeableness (increases), Conscientiousness (increases)  
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How does happiness change over life?   Happiness stays stable over most lives, even when something like "winning the lottery" happens.  
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The overall divorce rate has ______ (increased or decreased) in the last two decades?   Decreased  
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Prevalence of divorce among couples during midlife is _________ (increasing or decreasing).   Increasing  
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Empty Nest Syndrome   The experience that relates to parents' feelings of unhappiness, worry, loneliness, and depression resulting from their children's departure from home.  
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Boomerang Children   Young adults who return, after leaving home for some period, to live in the homes of their middle-aged parents.  
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Sandwich Generation   Couples who in middle adulthood must fulfill the needs of both their children and their aging parents.  
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Cycle of Violence Hypothesis   The theory that abuse and neglect of children leads them to be predisposed to abusiveness as adults. NOT ALWAYS TRUE- 2/3 do not abuse their children.  
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Burnout   A situation that occurs when workers experience dissatisfaction, disillusionment, frustration, and weariness from the job  
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Generativity   Guiding and encouraging future generations  
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Stagnation   People focus on the triviality of their life and feel that they have only made a limited contribution to the world  
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Alternate Approach to Stagnation   Keep the meaning vs. rigidity- ages 45-55- Strive to give meaning to life, and accept other's strengths and weaknesses  
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Gould's Transformations in Adult Development: 7 Stages   Associated with age periods outlining desires and goals of general age group.  
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Levinson's Seasons of Life   Early 40's: Time of questioning-midlife transition First signs of aging occur Doubt value of accomplishments Understand that they are unable to accomplish all their aims before they die  
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1 in __ women will get divorced after the age of 40   8  
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___ to ___% of divorced people eventually remarry within 2-5 years   75-80%  
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What percentage of college graduates have student loans with at least an average of $10,000.   50%  
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3 Styles of Grandparenting   Involved, Companionate, Remote  
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Every time the unemployment rate goes up __% there is a ___% rise in suicide and also a rise in admissions to psychiatric hospitals   1%, 4%  
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