Well-being across the lifespan Flashcards

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What are the models to understand change in personality across the lifespan?

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  1. growth or stage models.
  2. lifespan models.
  3. life course models.
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Explain Erikson’s stages of development in relation to well-being.

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  1. ego-integrity: predictors and correlates.

2. generativity: life narratives, commitment script and the good life.

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Explain the developmental task theory.

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Individuals move from one stage to another by completing developmental tasks. These developmental tasks are age-graded.

  • which factors are important for well-being in which life stage.
  • which factors predict well-being and life satisfaction.
  • how to calculate SWB per life stage.
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Explain positive youth development.

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Positive process which fosters competence, confidence, connection, character, compassion and (contribution).

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What are the general trends in well-being across the lifespan?

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  1. well-being is not stable but does increase with age.

2. decline is SWB during the last years of life.

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Explain Ryff’s dimensions of maturity.

Helson & Srivastava 2001

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Maturity is divided into four groups based on the dimensions of environmental mastery and personal growth.
This leads to the following groups: conservers, achievers, seekers and depleted.

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Explain adult emotional development

Labouvie-Vief & Medler 2002

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There are two independent strategies for emotion development.

  1. affect optimization
  2. affect complexity

This leads to 4 groups of emotion regulation styles: self-protective, integrated, dysregulated and complex (over-differentiated).

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Explain resilience.

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Two strategies to resilience are benefit finding and post-traumatic growth.

  • resilience is found in children.
  • emotionally detached, autonomy, creative outlets, social skills and communication skills, optimistic, internal locus of control and meaning if life.
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How can you promote resilience / post-traumatic growth?

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  1. hardiness.
  2. sense of coherence model: a unique set of personality traits allows for positive growth; comprehension, manageable, meaningful.
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