Religion and the meaning of life

Question 1

Religion and adult lives

Answer 1

majority of middle-aged adults profess religious beliefs

• For some, religion is a major influence
• females participate and show stronger interest

Question 2

Health

Answer 2

research found lower blood pressure, longer life, more committed marriages, religion promotes health

Question 3

Viktor Frankl

Answer 3

Three most distinct human qualities: spirituality, freedom, responsibility

Question 4

Erikson

Answer 4

generatively vs stagnation

Question 5

Generatively

Answer 5

desire to leave legacies of themselves to next generation

Question 6

Stagnation

Answer 6

sense they have done nothing for the next generation

Question 7

types of generatively

Answer 7

biological, parental, work, cultural

Question 8

Levinson’s Seasons of a mans life

Answer 8

• 20s- novice phase: experimentation and testing
• 28-33- transition
• 30s- BOOM Becoming ones own man
• 40-45- transition to middle adulthood, four issues: being young vs being old, being destructive vs constructive, masculine vs feminine, attached vs separated

Question 9

Levinson’s mid life crisis

Answer 9

being suspended between past and future, cope with threats of continuity

Question 10

Vailliant’s “Grant study”

Answer 10

time of reassessing and readjusting, only minority experience mid life crisis

Question 11

Life events approach

Answer 11

coping with life events, might be cause of mid life crisis rather than just aging

Question 12

Stress

Answer 12

young and middle-aged adults had more stressful days than older adults, middle-aged adults experience more “overload” stress days

Question 13

Gender difference for stress

Answer 13

men: fight or flight- aggression, withdrawal
women: tend-and-befriend- seek out others

Question 14

Relationship

Answer 14

affectionate, compassionate love increases, security, loyalty, and mutual emotional interest become more important

Question 15

Divorce

Answer 15

feeling alienated and avoidant, marriages may become ‘empty’
‘positives’- more resources, children less “damages” and can cope better
negatives- personal failure and betrayal

Question 16

Empty nest syndrome

Answer 16

decline in marital satisfaction after children leave the home, time to pursue other interests, career and time for each other

Question 17

Refilling the nest

Answer 17

young adult children move back home

Question 18

sibling relationship

Answer 18

persist over entire lifetime, majority of adults have at least one sibling, most are close but if you weren’t close tend not to become close in adulthood

Question 19

Lemme sibling relationship

Answer 19

Shared genes, long-term family relationship, shared history, equality

Question 20

Hourglass effects

Answer 20

sibling interaction is highly involved early in life, less involvement during adulthood, then increase again later in life
-reason for interaction later in life: health, support, resolve old conflicts

Question 21

friendships

Answer 21

continue to be important, some can remain friends for life, shifting process in friend making

Question 22

Grand-parenting

Answer 22

satisfaction, easier parenting, 3 roles: source of biological reward and continuity, source of emotional fulfillment, remote role
-differing functions in families and in cultures or in situations

Question 23

Changing role of grandparents

Answer 23

assume parental roles more often because of divorce, adolescent pregnancy, and drug use
-Grandparent visitation issues in divorced and stepfamilies

Question 24

Sandwich or squeeze generation

Answer 24

responsibilities for adolescent and young adult children as well as aging parents

Question 25

OCEAN

Answer 25

Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism (emotional stability)