Exam 3 Flashcards
Ever-changing network of social relationships that surrounds each of us throughout our lives
Social Convoy Model
What are the three components of the social convoy model?
inner, middle, outer circles
size of our social networks decline as we age
socioemotional selectivity theory (SST)
longer future time perspective
younger adults
shorter future time perspective
older adults
motivated to pursue information, knowledge, relationships
younger adults
motivated to pursue emotional satisfaction, deepen existing relationships, and weed out those that aren’t satisfying
older adults
quantity of social relationships ____ but quality remains ____
declines; the same or gets better
an intense physiological desire for someone
passion
the feeling that you can share all your thoughts and actions with another
intimacy
the willingness to stay with a person through good and bad time
commitment
infatuation?
passion
consummate love?
passion + intimacy + commitment
friendships?
intimacy + commitment
what are the three different neural/emotional systems for love?
sexual desire, romantic love, attachment
chemicals for sexual desire?
testosterone and amphetamines
chemicals for romantic love?
oxytocin and opioids
chemicals for attachment?
oxytocin and serotonin
living together in an intimate partnership without being married
cohabiting relationships
cohabitation has gone _____ since 1995?
up
three marriage outcomes
marital success, marital adjustment, and marital satisfaction
umbrella term referring to any marital outcome (ex. does a marriage end or continue?)
marital success
degree spouses accommodate each other over time
marital adjustment
a global assessment of one’s marriage
marital satisfaction
what are the factors for marital success?
homogamy and feelings of equality
similarity of values and interests a couple shares
homogamy
each partner contributing someone to the relationship that the other would be hard pressed to provide
exchange theory
Vunerability Stress Adaption Model
enduring vulnerabilities, initial satisfaction, external stressors, adaptive process, change in marital satisfaction, marital dissolution
average age for a woman to have her first child is going ____
up over time for college-educated women
number of children people have has ___ in recent years
decreased
more than __% of pregnancies in the Us are ____?
50; unplanned
Does the US have mandated paid paternity leave?
No
enacted in 1993; requires large employers (over 50 employees) to give ____ leave for 12 weeks
UNPAID; Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Family and Medical Leave Act covers what?
12 UNPAID weeks of leave for new child, ill family member, recovering from medical condition, certain obligations for child or spouse
Well-being of family takes precedence over the concerns of individual members
Familism
What types of families emphasize familism more than White or Black families?
Hispanic/Latino and Asian American families
person who gathers the family members together; mainly middle-age daughters
Kinkeeper
Middle-age parents caught between their children and their parents as caregivers
Sandwich generation
What is a boomerang kid?
returning home to live with parents at least once after they move out
How many Americans provide care for older adults, in-laws, and grandparents?
50 million
To care for one’s parents when necessary
Filial obligation
2 main sources of stress?
coping with parents’ decline and when the caregiving role infringes on the adult child’s other responsibilities
Patterns and sequences of jobs or related roles held by people across their working lives and into retirement
Career
People build careers through their own actions that result from the interface of their own person characteristics and social context
Career Construction Theory
Types of Career people
Sprinters, Wanderers, and Stragglers
Starting a career depends on what?
interest/ability, education and training, job market, economy, and how welcoming a profession is of diversity
Is a career path linear?
No, it develops over many years and is not linear
People will be more successful if they work in a field for which they are talented rather than taking a job for other reasons
Person-Environment Fit
People develop careers in stages and that career decisions are not isolated from other aspects of their lives
Life Span/Life Space Theory
Career success involves being proactive, believing in yourself, being self-regulated/self-motivated, and focusing on your goals
Social-Cognitive Theory
What is self-efficacy?
belief in one’s ability to succeed
6 areas of vocational interest and job choice
social, investigative, realistic, enterprising, artistic, and conventional
when a situation in which what you learn in the classroom does not always transfer directly into the real work and does not represent all you need to know
reality shock
what are mentors?
help people adjust and advance in their careers
Positive feeling that results from appraisal of one’s work
Job satisfaction
having a positive outlook about your job improves processes and outcomes
Psychological Capital Theory
____-collar professionals show an increase in job satisfaction with age where ___-collar workers do not
White; Blue
Do younger workers enter the workforce with high or low expectation?
High
feelings that arise when workers believe what they are doing is meaningless and their efforts are devalues, or when they do not connect what they do to the final product
negative feelings and alienation about work
state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress
burnout
when individuals do not feel compelled to engage in enjoyable activity but rather choose freely to do so and is in harmony with other aspects of their life
Harmonious Passion
Internal urge in the passionate activity that makes it difficult for a person to fully disengage from thoughts about said activity, leading to conflict with other activities in a person’s life
Obsessive passion
when there is a lack of challenge in one’s job or promotional opportunity in the organization, also when a person decided not to seek advancement
Career Plateauing
Improving existing skills
Reskilling
Learning new job skills
Upskilling
Changing to a completely new career
Job Retraining
when paid employment is being taken away from someone
job loss
when an anticipation of job loss happens with currently employed workers
job insecurity
when an older adult leaved full-time workforce to pursue other interests, part-time work, volunteer work, or leisure interests
retirement
retirement plan ran by the government; employee and employer both contribute a set amount monthly and employee receives set amount monthly when they retire
Social security
defined benefit plan; retirement plan run by employer; employee/employer both contribute set amount monthly and employee receives set amount monthly when they retire
Pension
defined contribution plan; retirement plan run by employer; employee contributing a set amount monthly and employe contributes matching amount; employee’s income at retirement depends on the performance of the investments they choose
401k/403b
retirement savings owed by the individual; employee’s income at retirement depends on the performance of the investments they choose
Individual Retirement Account (IRA)
Interest you earn on interest
Compound interest
continuing in the workforce after 65
shunning retirement
self-employment or part time/less demanding full time job
Bridge employment
given a reduced work load or less strenuous job with the same company
Phased retirement
