Ch. 18 Emotional and Social Development in Late Adulthood Flashcards
Ego Integrity vs. Despair
Involves coming to terms with one’s life. Adults who arrive at a sense of integrity feel whole, complete, and satisfied with their achievements.
Gerotranscendence
Cosmic and transcendent perspective directed beyond the self to affinity with past and future generations and oneness with the universe.
Positivity Effect
Compared with younger people, they selectively attend to and better recall emotionally positive over negative information.
Reminiscence
Telling stories about people and events from their past and reporting associated thoughts and feelings.
Third Age
Added years of longevity and health plus financial stability have granted this active, opportunistic time of life to so many contemporary older adults that some experts believe a new phase of late adulthood has evolved.
Dependency Support Script
Dependent behaviors are attended to immediately.
Independence-Ignore Script
Independent behaviors are mostly ignored. Notice how these sequences reinforce dependent behavior at the expense of independent behavior, regardless of older person’s competencies.
Person-Environment Fit
A good match between their abilities and the demands of their living environments, which promotes adaptive behavior and psychological well-being.
Continuity Theory
Most aging adults strive to maintain a personal system- an identity and a set of personality dispositions, interests, roles, and skills – that promotes life satisfaction by ensuring consistency between their past and anticipated future.
Socioemotional selectivity Theory
Social interaction in late-life extends lifelong selection processes.
Aging in Place
Remaining in a familiar setting where one can have control in their everyday life.
Independent Living Communities
An increasingly popular option – provide a variety of hotel-like support services, including meals in a common dining room, housekeeping, laundry services, transportation assistance, and recreational activities.
Life-Care Communities
Offer a continuum of housing alternatives: independent living, residences providing personal and health-related services to accommodate older adults with physical and mental disabilities, and full nursing home care.
Social Convoy
An influential model of changes in our social networks as we move through life.
Secondary Friends
People who are not intimates but with whom they spend time occasionally, such as a group that meets for lunch, bridge, or museum tours.
