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Chapter 8: Well-Being Across the Lifespan Flashcards

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Who created the stage model for well-being across the lifespan?

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Erik Erikson

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What does each crisis of Erikson’s model build?

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A specific virtue.

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Each level of Erikson’s model is built of _ opposite virtues.

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If successful in Erikson’s model, you create a…

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Healthy personality.

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Erikson viewed human development as a _ of _ challenges that emerge at different _ in the life course.

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sequence
social
stages

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What are Erikson’s 8 stages of Psychosocial Development?TAIC IIGI

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Trust/Mistrust
Autonomy/Shame and doubt
Initiative/Guilt
Competence/Inferiority
Identity/Role confusion
Intimacy/Isolation
Generativity/Stagnation
Integrity/Despair

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What are the ages of the 8 Erikson stages?

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0-1
1-3
3-6
6-12
12-20s
20s-40s
40s-60s
60s-death

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What is resilience?

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Skills to adapt to adversity.

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What are protective factors?

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Protects us against mental health conditions and buffers negative effects of stress.

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What is the narrative of hardship way to build resilience (3 steps)?

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Consider past coping
Skills/strategies acquired
Skills/Strats I would like to gain

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What are the 4 requirements for post-trauma growth?

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Change POV
Set goals
Renew meaning and purpose
Find social support

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What percentage of adults have faced a major crisis or trauma?

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~60%

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What are two ways to positively adapt to life issues?

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Find benefits
Change the story for post-trauma growth

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What is the official Resilience definition?

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A broad array of abilities for constructively and positively adapting to risk, adversity, or some monumental negative event.

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What are the 5 gifts of conquering adversity?

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New possibilities
Increased strength
More relationships
Greater appreciation
Spiritual development

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Are children resilient?

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Yes, childhood may not effect adulthood

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What are the core characteristics of a resilient child? (5)

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Nurturing surrogate parent
Good communication skills
One close friend
Creative outlets, activities or hobbies
Optimism

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Most of all, children who are resilient are not _, they find…

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Passive
Resources to meet their needs

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Resilient children are supported by good _ and _. _ takes a secondary role.

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Families
Communities
Personality

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What are the 5 personality factors that affect children’s resilience?BEESI

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Behavioural inhibition
Emotional regulation
Emotional intelligence
Self-efficacy and persistence
Insight

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Lerner says youth go through a process that foster the 5 Cs, what are they? What was the 6th?OOO HAO

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Competence
Confidence
Connection
Character
Caring

Contribution

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What are developmental assets?

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Supportive contexts for positive youth development, like Big Brothers, Big Sisters

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What does the Penn Resiliency Program Teach?

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Learned Optimism

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What is emerging adulthood?

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A new stage, 18-25, transitional time between adolescence and young adulthood
More responsibilities and demands, but not all figured out

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What are the 5 features of emerging adulthood?

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Identity exploration
Instability
Self-focused
Feeling in-between
Age of possibilities

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What are two mindsets you can have during emerging adulthood (and describe)?

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Fixed mindset (Makes difficult to handle changes in the future)
Growth mindset (help in overcoming challenges, change is okay)

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Emerging adults often experience…

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Identity confusion and lower psychological well-being

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What are Marcia’s four identity statuses?

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Identity achievement
Identity foreclosure
Identity moratorium
Identity diffusion

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What are the two things people are measured on in Marcia’s four identity statuses?

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Crisis and commitment

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What is crisis present commitment present?

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Identity Achievement

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What is crisis present commitment absent?

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Identity Moratorium

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What is crisis absent commitment present?

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Identity Foreclosure

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What is crisis absent commitment absent?

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Identity Diffusion

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What do the four types of Marcia’s four identity statuses mean?

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Identity achievement: I know who I am, still reflect on what I believe personally
Identity Moratorium: I dont know who I am, but I’ll ask questions about it
Identity Foreclosure: I am committed to who people want me to be and know who I am because they told me
Identity diffusion: I have no identity and IDC

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What is early adulthood?

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Mid 20s-40s
Begins after emerging adulthood
Differs culturally
Marriage and parenthood
Intimacy vs isolation

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In early and middle adulthood, there is a focus on _ and _. What do younger and older groups show?

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Strengths and virtues
Younger: exploring worlds, strength of hope predicts life satisfaction
Older: Satisfied with achievements and accomplishments, less satisfied with future outlook

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What level of adversity is resilience associated with in adulthood?

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Moderate adversity

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_ emotionality helps increase resilience in adults.

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Positive

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What are the 4 factors that help cultivate resilience in adulthood?PGHM

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Problem focused coping
Goal commitment
Humour, patience, optimism, faith, altruism
Mindfulness and self-compassion

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Resilience in adulthood tries to find a balance in what?

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Too much and too little emotional control

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What is Master Resilience Training?

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Teaches skills to inoculate against PTSD

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What are the seeds for future post-traumatic growth? (3)TSR

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Mental toughness
Character strength
Strong relationships

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Where has Master Resilience Training been used?

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US Army

44
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Older persons are more _ with life.

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Satisfied

45
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There is higher - among older persons.

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Subjective wellbeing

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What are 6 characteristics of why subjective well-being is greater in older people?EOA RRM

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Self-efficacy
Optimism
Autonomy
Realistic view of future
Successful resolution of stages
Sense of meaning

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What are the main two influences of life satisfaction in old age and decline?

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Good health
PA

48
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How do western and eastern countries influence well-being?

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Western-Higher life satisfaction
Eastern europe, SU, Latin America-Decline in life satisfaction

49
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What needs to be included in our personal stories?

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Sense of self
Sense of meaning

49
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What are narrative approaches to the lifespan?

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Telling stories to make sense of our lives. Creative constructions of what actually happened and their meaning.

50
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If you reflect more, you likely have higher _.

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Wellbeing

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What are the three types of narrative processing?CPR EN TN

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Coherent positive resolution
Exploratory Narrative
Transformation

52
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Exploring meaning+Constructing a coherent and positive resolution=

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Positive adaptation to difficult life events

52
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Name an example of the three paths and one non-path to maturity in adult development.ACSD

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Achiever: Me
Conserver: Sheldon’s mom
Seeker: Mr. Patrick
Depleted: Ethan

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What are the three paths to maturity and the non-path for women??

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Achievers: Career oriented, up generativity, sense of self-identity, max positive min negative
Conservers: Conventional, reserved, less open to change, accepted path, dampen emotions
Seekers: Open to new experiencs, question and challenge self, high wisdom and ego development, not conventional, amplified emotions
Depleted: can’t resolve emotional difficulties

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What is affect optimization?

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Max positive, min negative

55
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What is affect complexity?

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Coordinate positive and negative emotions into schemas that are flexible and integrated, most mature!

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What are the 8 virtues obtained in Erikson’s stages?HWPC
FLCW

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Hope
Will
Purpose
Competence
Fidelity
Love
Care
Wisdom

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What is generativity?

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Helping and guiding others, better well-being, better personal growth

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What is personal growth initiative?

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Active, intentional engagement in the process of personal growth.

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People high on personal growth do what? (3)IDG

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Seek improvement
Have life direction
Have enduring goals

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People with a high level of personal growth initiative know (3)?DGO

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Their direction
How to capitalize on opportunities for growth
How to see opportunities for creativity and adaptive solutions

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What is a sense of coherence?

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Set of personality traits that allows to interpret life stressors in a positive way.

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What is a sense of coherence made out of? (3)MCM

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Meaningfulness
Comprehensibility
Manageability

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A sense of coherence is a stable trait over the _ years of adulthood.

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Middle

64
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What are the domains of resilience?

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Physical
Emotional
Spiritual
Mental

65
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What is energy balance?

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Need energy expend with rest and recovery to be equal

66
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What are depleting emotions?

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Bad emotions- reduced muscle
Brain cell death
impaired memory
All bad stuff

67
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What are renewing emotions?

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Good emotions for good neurochemicals

68
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What are the two axes on the depletion to renewal grid?

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Hormones and which nervous system

69
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What are the hormones in the depletion renewal grid? what about the Nervous systems?

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Cortisol (Bad) DHEA (good)
Parasympathetic (Low hr) Sympathetic (High HR)

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