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Chapter 18 Test

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Who is most likely to be institutionalized?
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What is the affect of personal relationships on well-being in old age?
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leisure activity requiring skill, intention and commitment
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model of coping where people consciously choose coping strategies on the basis of the way they perceive and analyze a situation, includes anything an individual thinks or does to try to adapt to stress
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What amount of people lives in institutions?
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How do older adults handle work and retirement decisions?
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Why is divorce in late life rare?
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What are the various kinds of living arrangements for older adults? What is their relative prevalence?
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What happens to personality traits in late adulthood?
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What is Erikson's 8th stage of psychosocial development?
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Contrast the social convoy theory and the socioemotional selectivity theory.
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Describe relationships for older people.
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What is the relationship between age and choice of coping strategies?
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Describe the winnowing and remarrying in late adulthood.
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According to the cognitive appraisal model, what are the 2 types of coping strategies?
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What roles do older parents play for children?
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What are issues concerning social security and pension plans?
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of living with adult children?
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How does social contact change in late life?
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What did George Valliant signed predict psychosocial adjustment in late life?
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With more people retiring and proportionally fewer workers to contribute to Social Security, benefits will decline but timing and severity are unknown
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serious leisure
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Older women, older adults who live alone, do not take part in social activity, have poor health, have disabilities, those whose informal caregivers are overburdened
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Ego integrity versus despair, acceptance of one's life and impending death
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Women tend to outlive husbands, less likely to marry again; growing proportion of men are widowed
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Important for mental/physical health, maintain life satisfaction
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Social convoy theory-reduction and social contact do not impair well-being, stable inner circle of social support is maintained; socioemotional selectivity theory-older people choose to spend time with people who enhance their emotional well-being
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Important, frequency of social contact declines in old age
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Can burden family, more support close, proximity to caregivers
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Aging in place-people that are married, living alone-women more likely, living with adult children-can be hard on family, living in institutions-becoming more common
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Caregivers for adult children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren
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Remain fairly stable depending on how they are measured
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cognitive-appraisal model
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As they age they spend less time with others, have fewer friends but are extremely close in the relationships
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Developed countries-dairies, developing countries-rare, United States-4.5% are institutionalized, proportion increases with age
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Older adults-more emotion focused coping, it younger adults-more problem focused coping
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Problem-focused coping, a motion-focused coping
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Most to can retire due, some will work because they like it
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Learn to better resolve conflicts, higher marital satisfaction
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Use of mature adaptive defenses
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of living alone?
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theory of aging, described by Atchley, which holds that in order to age successfully people must maintain a balance of continuity and change in both the internal and external structures of their lives
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pattern of retirement activity that revolves around family, home and companions
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What is the most important source of emotion-focused coping for older adults?
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According to Erikson, what is the virtue that solves ego integrity versus despair?
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According to Erikson, what is the virtue that solves ego integrity versus despair?
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What is happening to cohabitation rates of older adults?
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theory of aging, proposed by Cumming and Henry, which holds that successful aging is characterized by mutual withdrawal of the older person in society
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theory of aging, proposed by Neugarten and others, which holds that in order to age successfully a person must remain as active as possible
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in the cognitive-appraisal model, coping strategy directed toward eliminating, managing or improving a stressful situation (used when a person sees a realistic chance of changing the situation)

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