Middle Adulthood Flashcards
1
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middle adulthood age
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approx. 35 to 60 years old
2
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empty-nest syndrome
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adult children leaving home, feeling lonely
3
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sandwiched generation
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adults looking after both own children and elderly parents
4
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female climacteric
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culminates in menopause
5
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male climacteric
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slow and steady, can continue to produce sperm
6
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osteoporosis
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bone mass begins to decline after 30s, brittle and thin bones
7
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cancer
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- increases 10x from young to middle adulthood
- second biggest killer of adults
- genes and environment can play a role
8
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cardiovascular disease
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- rare prior to 40yrs, men at higher risk
- stress a major contributor
- risk factors: high-fat diet, smoking, little physical activity
9
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4 levels of stress
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- distress
- when stress is harmful
- eustress
- when stress is beneficial
- hyperstress
- excessive stress
- hypostress
- insufficient stress
10
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consequences of stress (3)
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- direct physiological effects
- harmful behaviours
- indirect health-related behaviours
11
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2 types of coping with stress
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- problem-focused coping
- direct attempt to fix it
- emotion-focused coping
- efforts to regulate emotional reactions
12
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2 styles of coping with stress
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- approach coping
- analysing crisis, seek social support and taking action to solve problem
- avoidant coping
- minimise problem, seek alternative rewards and venting emotions
13
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8 stress coping strategies
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- confrontative coping
- distancing
- self-controlling
- seeking social support
- accepting responsibility
- escape-avoidance
- planful problem-solving
- positive reappraisal
14
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defensive coping
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unconscious strategies that distort or deny the reality of the situation
15
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defensive coping strategies (5)
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- repression or emotional insulation
- projection
- regression
- denial
- trivialisation
