Chapter 12: Middle Adulthood (34 to 60 Years)

Question 1

Career

Answer 1

period of time spent in a particular occupation often involving transitions and a trajectory from one phase to another

Question 2

leadership

Answer 2

process of helping a group shape a vision and of getting people to commit and recommit themselves to accomplishing that vision

Question 3

Adaptive leadership

Answer 3

a leadership style used when an organization faces new conditions or complex problems that cannot be solved with the current use of technologies or techniques.

Question 4

interpersonal skills

Answer 4

Skills that promote relationships and include three components:

1. self-presentation,
2. social scanning, and
3. social flexibility.

Question 5

social comparison

Answer 5

Comparing oneself to others in a particular social environment.

Question 6

Substantive complexity

Answer 6

degree to which one’s work requires

1. thought,
2. judgment, and
3. frequent decision making.

Question 7

intellectual flexibility

Answer 7

ability to

1. handle conflicting information
2. take several perspectives, and to
3. reflect on personal values in solving ethical problems.

Question 8

managerial resourcefulness

Answer 8

Flexible, creative problem-solving in the workplace,

Question 9

joblessness

Answer 9

The state of not having work.

Question 10

Role overload

Answer 10

State of tension that occurs when there are too many role demands/expectations to handle in the time allowed.

Question 11

Role conflict

Answer 11

State of tension that occurs when the demands and expectations of various roles conflict with each other.

Question 12

Role spillover

Answer 12

State of tension that occurs when the demands or preoccupations about one role interfere with the ability to carry out another role.

Question 13

Empowerment

Answer 13

Sharing information/authority so that people can take initiative and make decisions to solve problems; a concept applied in any context where power is typically unequal, such as parent–child, doctor–patient, or supervisor–subordinate.

Question 14

work–family facilitation

Answer 14

Individual coping strategies and family-friendly attitudes and resources of the workplace that make it easier for employees to address pressing family demands within the scope of their daily work.

Question 15

vital marriage

Answer 15

The partners enjoy spending time together, resolve conflicts quickly, willing to make sacrifices for each other, satisfying, pleasurable sex life.

Question 16

interpersonal interactions

Answer 16

Frequency and quality of communication and time shared in a relationship.

Question 17

climacteric

Answer 17

Menopause for women and reduced reproductive competence for men.

Question 18

Menopause

Answer 18

The natural cessation of menstruation, usually occurring in the fifth decade of life; one aspect of the close of a woman’s fertility.

Question 19

resources

Answer 19

Skills, talents, wealth, or other goods that can be used as needed.

Question 20

parenting alliance

Answer 20

The capacity of a spouse to acknowledge, respect, and value the parenting roles and tasks of the partner.

Question 21

coparenting

Answer 21

A respectful relationship in which parents who are NOT living together encourage active involvement with their children.

Question 22

Filial obligation

Answer 22

The responsibilities of adult children for their aging parents.

Question 23

Household

Answer 23

All persons who occupy a housing unit, including both related family members and all unrelated persons.

Question 24

Management of the household

Answer 24

All the planning, problem solving, and activities adults undertake in order to take care of themselves and others in their care.

Question 25

blended families

Answer 25

A family that includes children from the previous marriage of one or both of the marital partners.

Question 26

remarriage

Answer 26

Marrying two or more times.

Question 27

Generativity

Answer 27

The capacity to contribute to the quality of life for future generations attained toward the end of middle adulthood.

Question 28

Narcissistic people

Answer 28

Adults who devote their energy to the sole end of self-aggrandizement and personal satisfaction.

Question 29

Chronically depressed people

Answer 29

Experiencing depression over a long period of time.

Question 30

career stagnation

Answer 30

A lack of advancement or growth in one’s occupational path; a sense of disillusion about the meaning or value of one’s work.

Question 31

person–environment interaction

Answer 31

Ongoing experiences between the individual and the physical/social environment that includes the family, work setting, neighborhood, and larger political community.

Question 32

creativity

Answer 32

The ability to abandon old forms or patterns of doing things and to think in new ways.

Question 33

care

Answer 33

The commitment to be concerned.

Question 34

Rejectivity

Answer 34

The unwillingness to include certain others or groups of others in one’s generative concerns.