Exam 4 Flashcards
Work-Family Conflict
A conflict that occurs when work interferes with family obligations.
Role Enhancement Theory
People experience an increase in energy and well-being when they are engaged in multiple roles as a result of being so involved and engaged.
Work-Family Enrichment
Two way process in which happens at work benefits family life and what happens in the family benefits work.
Sandwich Generation
The group of individuals, primarily women, who are simultaneously caring for their children and aging parents.
Family Medical Leave Act
Provides 12 weeks of unpaid leave for the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child, can also be used for personal illness or to care for a sick family member. Because of limitations, FMLA doesn’t apply to about 44% of the workforce.
Subjective Age
your own subjective feeling of age.
Subjective Age Bias
Most middle-aged and older people feel younger than they are.
Ageism
Prejudice related to a person’s actual or perceived age.
Stereotype Embodiement Theory
The idea that people learn age-related stereotypes at a young age, internalize them as self stereotypes, and are subsequently influenced by them in thoughts and actions.
Elder Speak
A form of speech often used by younger individuals when communicating with older adults. It is characterized by a patronizing or condescending tone.
Beauty Work
Efforts and practices women do to enhance or maintain their physical appearance according to societal beauty standards.
Age Concealment
Beauty work undertaken to hide the signs of aging and to be able to “pass” as younger than ones chronological age.
Perimenopause
Few years before and 12 months after one’s last menstrual cycle.
Menopause
There permanent end of menstrual periods, resulting from decreased hormone production in the ovaries.
Postmenopause
The period beginning 12 months after the last menstrual period and continuing until the end of one’s life
Hormone Replacement Therapy
Treats and prevents symptoms associated with menopause.
Family Caregiving
Unpaid assistance provided to an older adult with chronic or disabling conditions.
Widowhood Effect
The death of a spouse significantly increases the surviving partners risk of death by 48%. Greatest among Latin women and men.
Disenfranchised Grief
Grief that cannot be expressed openly because the loss is not recognized or acknowledged by those around the bereaved individual.
Role Strain Relief Hypothesis
The idea that parents, particularly mothers, will have an increase in well-being after children leave home because of a decrease in daily demands, time constraints, and work-family conflicts.
Empty Nest Syndrome
The experience of depression, loneliness, identity crisis, or emotional distress after children leave the home.
Role Loss Hypothesis
The idea that parents, particularly mothers, will experience a decrease in well-being when their role as a caregiver is no longer needed.
Launching Phase
The period during which children are in the process of leaving the parental home.
Custodial Role
Becoming full-time and often permanent guardians of a grandchild.
Bridge work
Work, often part-time, obtained after retirement from one job that provides a transition between employment and full retirement.
Leisure Innovation
Engaging in new leisure activities as part of retirement.
Gender-Based Violence
Violence that is motivated by anger, hatred, or bias because of a person’s gender.