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Middle Adulthood Flashcards

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Generativity vs. Stagnation

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Reaching out to others in a way that gives to and guides the next generation

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Stagnation

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Self-centered, self-indulgent, self-absorbed

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Levinson’s Four Tasks of Middle Adulthood

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  1. young-old
  2. destruction-Creation
  3. Masculinity-Femininity
  4. Engagement- Separateness
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Young-old

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Seek new ways of being both young and old

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Destruction-Creation

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Acknowledge past hurtful acts, try to leave legacy for future generations

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Masculinity-Femininity

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Balance masculine and feminine parts of self

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Engagement-Separateness

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Balance engagement with and separateness from external world

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Vaillant’s View of Midlife

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  • “keepers of meaning”: older people as guardians of their culture
  • “Passing the torch” to next generation
  • Focus on longer-term, less-personal goals
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Physical Development in Middle Adulthood

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  • Vision
  • Hearing
  • Skin
  • Skeletal
  • Women-menopause
  • Men-reproductive changes
  • Sexuality
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Leading causes of death in midlife, united states

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  • Cancer
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Unintentional Injury
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Longitudinal Trends in Mental Abilities

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  • Which one stays the most stable? - Verbal Ability

- Which one shows the most decline? - Perceptual speed

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Strengths in Practical Problem solving

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  • evaluate real-world situations
  • analyze how best to achieve goals that have high uncertainty
  • aided by expertise
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Strengths in Expertise

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  • extensive, highly organized knowledge base
  • provides efficient, effective approaches to solving problems
  • result of years of experience
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Job choice

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is affected by cognitive and personality characteristics
- affects cognition: complex work enhances cognitive flexibility (linked to SES, designing jobs to promote intellectual challenge)

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Type A behavior Pattern (hostility and health)

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  • Angry, impatient, competitive
  • prone to heart disease
  • increased risk of high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, stroke
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Coping styles

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Emotion-Centered Coping

Problem-Centered Coping

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Emotion-Centered Coping

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  • internal, private

- control distress when the situation can’t be changed

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Problem-Centered Coping

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  • Identify and appraise problems

- Choose and implement potential solutions

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Hardiness

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Control - regard most experiences as controllable
Commitment - find interest and meaning in daily activities
Challenge - View as normal part of life, chance for growth

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Gender identity in Middle Adulthood

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  • Women increase in “masculine” traits

- Men increase in “feminine” traits

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Changes in Big Five Personality Traits With Age

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  • Basic, enduring individual dispositions persist
  • Changes occur in overall organization and integration of personality:
    a. agreeableness and conscientiousness increase
    b. neuroticism declines
    c. extroversion and openness to experience remain the same or decrease slightly
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Relationships at Midlife

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Often, more close relationships than in any other period:

  • ties to both older and younger generations
  • well-established friendships
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meanings of grandparenthood

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  • Valued Elder
  • Immortality through descendants
  • Reinvolvement with personal past
  • opportunity for indulgence
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Caring For aging Parent

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Highly stressful:

  • time devoted to care averages 10 to 20 hours per week, more time for women
  • emotional strain of witnessing parent’s decline
  • greatest stress for those sharing a household with ill parent
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Midlife unemployment

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  • Disrupts generativity and life reappraisal
  • decline in physical and mental health
  • remain jobless longer
  • seldom attain former status pay
  • Goal of counseling: problem-centered coping strategies

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