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| the patterns and sequences of occupations or related roles held by people across their working lives and into retirement |
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| life-span/life-space theory |
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| (Super) individuals develop careers in stages, and career decision are not isolated from other aspects (roles) of their lives |
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| growth (4-14), exploration (15-24), establishment (25-44), maintenance (45-65), and disengagement (65+) |
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| life roles, including those of school, work, home, family, community, and leisure |
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| the degree of one's participation, commitment, and value expectation in the roles in each of these 5 areas |
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| 3 major differences in career paths of women and men |
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1. more men work full time than women (more older women, often women stay home with kids)
2. women move in and out of full-time jobs more frequently than men do (men usually work full time until retirement, women may leave workplace and go back after children)
3. women are more apt to work in part-time jobs than men
*women ear less money than men even when they work full time. |
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| average numbers of different jobs adults in the U.S. have |
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| vocational interests (definition) |
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(John Holland) personal attitudes, competencies, and values
- the top three define your vocational interest type |
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| 6 basic vocational interests |
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| realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional |
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| James E. Marcia's career selection theory |
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part of identity achievement that takes place in adolescence and emerging adulthood
4 stages: diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, and commitment |
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| not decided on a future career and aren't interested in thinking about it |
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| career is chosen without much thought- usually parents' expectations |
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| large amount of exploration of possible careers with no commitment to a particular one (exploration, no achievement) |
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| young person has explored many possibilities for careers and has made a commitment to one (exploration and commitment) |
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| occupational gender segregation |
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stereotype of "his and hers" jobs
- unspoken pressure from many directions to conform to what is seen around you
-prime factor in lower earnings for women and lack of retirement savings |
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| most occupations filled predominately by women are "pink-collar jobs," meaning... |
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secretarial and clerical jobs, retail sales ,and service jobs
-also teaching and nursing |
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| male dominated occupations |
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physical sciences technology, ,and mathematics
(STEM) |
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| Why are men and women choosing different jobs? |
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1. they may have different career interests (women=people, men=things)
2. men and women anticipate different career patterns (ex. kids)
3. men and women who have interest in nontraditional jobs are discouraged from entering them |
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| men who choose nontraditional occupations (3) |
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seekers - actively chose traditionally female occupation
finders- didn't seek but found while making career decisions
settlers - started in traditional job, then became dissatisfied and sought nontraditional job |
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| influences of career choice |
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| job performance and aging |
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| ability/expertise trade-off |
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| general ability may decline with age, but job expertise increases, perhaps enough to compensate |
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have crystallized abilities and highly practiced abilities
still have performance and on-the-job creativity
more citizenship behaviors
more on-the-job safety behaviors
fewer counterproductive work behaviors |
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| people may go back through some of Super's stages from time to time during their careers |
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| one who is over the age of 25 and engaged in career recycling (about one third of college students) |
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older workers are more satisfied with their jobs
may have a more realistic attitude about work |
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combination of exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced effectiveness on the job
- low hardiness, external locus of control, avoidant coping style |
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| being uninvolved in daily activities and resistant to change |
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| external locus of control |
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| attributing events to change or powerful others instead of to one's own abilities and effects |
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| dealing with stress in a passive and defensive way |
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| the state of being without a paid job when you are willing to work |
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married men and women make more than unmarried men and women
married ppl care more about income potential
one partner working the nightshift increases chances of divorce
most married couples with children are dual career family
children do not decrease men's working hours, but they do for women
spend an average of one hour more a day with children than parents did 25 yrs ago |
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| effects of maternal employment |
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children are more egalitarian and more opt to share household work
father's involvement in lives of children increases |
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household labor
division is related to... |
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housework, unpaid family work, domestic engineering, family chores
gender, household structure, family interaction, and formal and informal market economies
men - more hours in workplace
women- more hours household labor |
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| gender division model of household labor |
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| household labor is women's work, women know they should do it and so do men |
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| relative resource model of household labor |
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| the one with the most resources (usually earning potential) wins negotiations about who has to do the household labor |
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| specialization model of household labor |
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| couples divide and conquer - he does the paid work, she makes it possible for him to concentrate fully on the job by taking care of household |
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the career stage of leaving the workforce to pursue other interests, such as part time work, volunteer work, or leisure interests
- most ppl spend 20 yrs or more in retirement
- most do some planning (women less likely) |
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| officially working at paid jobs |
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| age of receiving social security benefits |
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the worker's salary, pension, and social security benefits
- may receive higher benefits for retiring at a higher age |
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| personal wealth- how much is in savings, investments, home equity, and other assets |
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-social security makes up about 37% of retirees' income
- earnings - from jobs they hold
-pensions - from private companies or personal retirement accounts
- asset income - interests from savings, stock, and rental property
income typically drops |
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| moving residences from one county to another or to a different state within the United States (many retirees do this) |
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| moving toward warmer weather and outdoor activities |
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| moving "back home," closer to their children and familiar surroundings |
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| can be a part-time job or a less stressful full-time job |
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| phased moves from full0time work to permanent retirement which are usually designed by the employer and offered as an option for senior employees |
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| relatively enduring set of characteristics that define our individuality and affect our interactions with the environment and other people |
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| patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors exhibited by our human species |
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| more short-term characteristics of a person |
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| groups of traits that occur together in individuals |
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| more shot-term characteristics of a person (outgoing person is withdrawn after argument) |
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| groups of traits that occur together in individuals (modesty and compliance) |
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| five factor model of personality |
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aka the "Big Five Model"
Revised NFO Personality Inventory
Neuroticism (N)
Extraversion (E)
Openness (O)
Agreeableness (A)
Conscientiousness (C) |
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| the stability of individuals' rank order within a group over time |
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| the stability of personality traits _____ with age |
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changes in a group's average scores over time
(maturation, cultural processes) |
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| Social Dominance _____ with age |
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| intra-individual variability |
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| whether the personality traits of an individual remain stable over the years or change |
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| those at the top remain at the top, those at the bottom remain there |
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| average score for the first exam significantly lower or higher for later exam |
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| intra-individual variability |
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| despite patterns, there are exceptions |
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| Three developmental areas shaped by personality |
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cultivating relationship
striving and achieving
maintaining and promoting health |
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| Most important personality factor for work-related achievement |
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| People who have high levels of _______ and low levels of _____ live longer |
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conscientiousness
neurotocism |
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| about ___ to ____% of the variance in personality types is heritable |
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| changes in personality traits tend to take place in ____ _____, a time of dense role transitions |
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| person-environment transactions |
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| individuals' genetic endowment and environmental factors combine to maintain personality traits over the years of adulthood |
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| when we react to, or interpret, an experience in a way that is consistent with our own personality and self-concept |
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| when we select roles and environments that best fit our personalities and self-concepts |
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| manipulative transactions |
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| those strategies in which we attempt to change our current environments by causing change in the people around us |
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| psychosocial development (personality theory) |
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Erik Erickson, psychosocial development continues over the entire lifespan and results from the interaction of our inner instincts and drives with outer cultural and social demands
- to develop complete personality, must resolve 8 crises or dilemmas over lifetime |
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| a specific ideology, a set of personal values and goals |
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| Erickson's Stages of Psychosocial Development (8) |
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1. trust vs. mistrust
2. autonomy vs. shame and doubt
3. initiative versus guilt
4. industry vs. infertility
5. identity versus role confusion
6intimacy versus isolation
7. generativity versus self-absorption and stagnation
8. ego integrity versus despair |
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| achieved when people look back over their lives and decide whether they find meaning and integration in their life review or meaninglessness and unproductivity |
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| Ego development (personality theory) |
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Jane Loevinger
suggested a number of stage like levels of ego development, believed that each level was built on the level that preceded it
- unlike psychosocial theory, a person must complete the tasks in one stage before moving to the next |
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this occurs in small children when they become aware of themselves as separate entities from those around them
ED Theory |
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the child becomes aware of his or her impulses and gains some control over them
ED Theory |
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able to identify themselves with their reference group, whether it is family, peer group, or work group
ED Theory |
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awareness that there are allowable exceptions to the simple rules that conformists live by
ED Theory |
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people have formed their own ideals and standards instead of just seeking the approval of their group
ED Theory |
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the time people take a broad view of life as a whole
ED Theory |
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begin to see the multifaceted nature of the world, not just the good and the bad
ability to see one's own life in the context of wider social concerns |
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| ego development is positively related to ___ ___ |
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| Mature Adaptation (personality theory) |
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| Valliant, potential progressive change in the ways adults adapt psychologically to the trials and tribulations they face |
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| the stage when young adults are intent on establishing their own competence, mastering a craft, or acquiring higher status or a positive reputation |
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Freud's term for a set of normal, unconscious strategies for dealing with anxiety
the more mature, the less distortion of reality |
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| high levels of neuroticism predicted that the individual would... |
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repeat the same negative experiences from relationship to relationship
also more likely to smoke and engage in other high-risk health behaviors |
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| levels of Extraversion and Neuroticism have been shown to be _____ over the lifespan |
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| Personality change is more influenced by genetics in ____ than in _____ |
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childhood, adulthood
young adulthood - more mean-level changes |
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| more recent cohorts show higher scores of... |
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| social dominance, conscientiousness, and emotional stability |
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| concerned with establishing and guiding the next generation |
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| having new perspectives on the self and others |
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| 6 Levels of defense mechanisms |
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- at times of stress, we regress to lower levels
1. altruism
2. Repression
3. Omnipotence
4. Denial
5. Autistic Fantasy
6. Help-rejecting complaining |
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| Gender Crossover (Personality Theory) |
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Jung, acknowledging the parts of oneself that had been hidden during the first half of life
men- softer, more nurturant
women- independent and planful |
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| Positive Well-Being (Personality Theory) |
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| Abraham Maslow, development of motives or needs, which he divided into two main groups: deficiency motive and being motives |
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instincts or drives to correct imbalance or to maintain physical or emotional homeostasis
(getting enough to eat, getting enough love and respect) |
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| distinctly human, maslow argued that humans have unique desires to discover and understand, to give love to others, and to push for optimum fulfillment of inner potentials |
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| a being motive, only emerges when all four types of deficiency needs are largely satisfied |
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| feelings of perfection and momentary separation from the self when one feels in unity with the universe |
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| turns away from disease model: about increasing well-being, contentment, and satisfaction, hope, optimism, flow, and happiness |
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| self-determination theory |
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holds that personality is based on individuals' evolved inner resources for growth and integration (Ryan and Deci)
(growth is an essential part of human nature) |
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| a sense of integrity and well-being similar to Maslow's concept of self-actualization |
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| happiness that involves presence of positive feelings and absence of negative feelings |
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| the feeling of effectiveness as one interacts with one's environment (not to be the best but "be all that you can be") |
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| need to feel that are actions are being done by our own volition |
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| the feeling of being connected to, cared about, and belonging with significant others in one's life |
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the self's search for ultimate knowledge of life through an individualized understanding of the sacred
basic human characteristic |
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| coming to know oneself as part of a larger whole that exists beyond the physical body or personal history |
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| the idea that meaning systems increase in quality as we age, beginning with myths and fairy tales about wise elders |
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| appear in midlife when adults are able to go beyond the linear and logical ways of thinking described in Piaget's formal operations stage |
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| the outward signs of spirituality, such as participation in religious services |
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overall attendance to religious services is higher for 65 and older than younger adults
decline in very late life - health and functional ability
increase in religiosity over life course
more private religious activity too
women more than men higher in us than most Euro countries
men develop spirituality later |
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| age related increase in certain aspects of spirituality (7) |
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integrity
humanistic concern
positive relationships with others
concern for younger generations
relationship with higher power
self-trancendence
acceptance of death |
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| people who attend religious services... |
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live longer than people who do not (women more)
lower levels of cortisol responses to lab-induced stress |
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| committed to finding meaning in their lives |
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| reasoning about what is right and wrong and how to judge the rightness or wrongness of an act |
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| Jean Piaget't theory of cognitive development - morality |
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| children and adults move through a sequence of stages in their moral reasoning, each superseding the one that came before |
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| Kohlberg made an important distinction between the ___ and ___ of thinking |
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form, content
- not whether a person thinks it's wrong, but why they think it's wrong |
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| the measurement procedure |
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| Kohlberg assessed level or stage of moral reasoning (3 basic levels) |
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| Levels of moral reasoning (3) |
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| preconventional, conventional, and postconventional |
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| under age 9, one sees rules as something outside of oneself |
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| punishment and obedience orientation |
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| preconventional, what is right is what is rewarded or what is not punished |
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| naive hedonism orientatino |
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| preconventional, what is right is defined in terms of what brings pleasure or serves one's own needs |
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| adolescent-adult, one internalizes the rules and expectations of one's family or peer group(stage 3) or society (stage 4) |
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| good boy or good girl orientation |
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| rules and expectations of family or peer group |
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| social order maintaining orientation |
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| rules and expectations of society |
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minority of adults, search for the underlying reasons behind society's rules
stage 5
aka social contract orientation |
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| social contract orientation |
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| laws and regulations are seen as important ways of ensuring fairness but not immutable, nor fundamental moral principles |
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| individual principles of conscience orientation |
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| the person searching for and then living in a way that is consistent with the deepest set of moral principles possible |
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| Piaget, cognitive development more generally as a movement outward from the self |
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| stage 7, only might emerge toward the end of life, after an adult has spent some years living within a principled moral system - sense of unity with being, life, or with God |
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James Fowler, the search for the emergence of our individual worldview or model or our relationship to others and the universe
- each of us has faith whether or not we belong to a church or religious organization - moral reasoning is only a very small part of faith
- not interested in the specific content, but in its structure or form |
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synthetic-conventional faith
individuative-reflective faith
conjunctive faith
universalizing faith |
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| synthetic-conventional faith |
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adolescence- adulthood
conventional faith is rooted in the implicit assumption that authority is found outside oneself |
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| individuative-reflective faith |
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| person not only reexamines old assumptions but also takes responsibility in a new way |
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requires an opening outward form the self-preoccupation of the individualtive reflective level
- moving away from a fixed truth toward a search for balance, not only of self and other, but also of mind and emotion, or rationality and ritual
- accepts that there are many truths, that others' beliefs, others' ideas, may be true for them |
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relatively rare achievement
the person lives the principles, the imperatives, of absolute love and justice
ex. Mother Theresa |
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| meaning is found primarily through financial security or meeting basic needs |
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| meaning is found in personal growth or achievement, or through creative and leisure activity |
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| meaning from traditions and culture and from societal causes |
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| meaning is found through enduring values and ideals, religious activities, and altruism |
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| Integrated Stages of Personality, Morality, and Faith Development |
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| Conformist; culture-bound self, individuality, integration, self-transcendence |
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| Kegan, we equally desire independence and differentiation from others, but since there is no accommodation between these two, we arrive at a truth and lean further toward one than the other |
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| self-transcendent experience, in which a person knows that they are part of a larger whole and that they have an existence beyond their own physical body and personal history |
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underhill
awakening
purification
illumination
dark night of the soul |
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| a brief self-transcendent experience such as the peak experiences that Maslow describes |
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| clearly a move back toward separateness |
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| much deeper, more prolonged awareness of light, or greater reality, or God |
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| still further turn inward, back toward separateness |
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| set of physical, cognitive, and emotional reposes that humans display in reaction to demands from the environment |
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| demands from the environment |
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| general adaptation syndrome |
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three stages to the stress response:
alarm reaction - prepare for "fight or flight"
resistance - attempts to regain normal state
exhaustion - if the stressor continues long enough -when some of the alarm-stage responses reappear - physical illness, even death |
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| Selye - two separate types of immune responses |
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natural immunity - quick defense against pathogens in general
specific immunity - slower and requires more energy because the body needs to identify specific pathogens and from matching lymphocytes to combat them |
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| response-oriented viewpoint |
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| Selye, focused on the physiological reactions within gut individual that resulted from exposure to stressors |
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| rating scale of a person's stressor events depending on how much stress it caused |
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shot-term life events
chronic life strains
work stress
work strain
major life events
daily stressors |
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| stressors that may cause immediate problems but have a definite beginning and end |
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| continuous and ongoing life events |
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| what a worker experiences on a job with high demands but a good amount of control and sense of personal accomplishment |
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| results from situations in which a worker is faced with high demands, but low control, no sense of personal accomplishment, and low reward |
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| such as divorce or death of a loved one |
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| the routine challenges of day-to-day living, such as working deadlines, malfunctioning computers, etc |
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| stressors seem to contribute to the progression of ____ and ____ and to be associated with the onset of some ______ |
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| heart disease, HIV.AIDS, cancers |
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| posttraumatic stress disorder |
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| the psychological response to a traumatic experience, such as military combat, rape, automobile accidents, etc. |
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| In general, stress _____ with age |
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Problem-focused coping
emotion-focused coping
meaning-focused coping
social coping |
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| directly addresses the problem causing distress |
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| people try to ameliorate the negative emotions associated with the stressful situation |
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| people find ways to manage the meaning of a stressful situation |
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| seeking help from others, both instrumental and emotional support |
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| the ability to use a variety of coping skills, depending on the situation |
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| ability to match the appropriate coping skill with the situation at hand |
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| the ways people cope in advance to prevent or mute the impact of a stressful event that will happen in the future |
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| a person relies on religious or spiritual beliefs to reduce stress |
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| affect, affirmation, and aid received from others |
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| the maintenance of healthy functioning following exposure to potential trauma |
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| Individual Differences in Resilience (3) |
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Hardiness
self-identity
positive emotion (and laughter) |
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death as an organizer of time
death as punishment
death as transition
death as loss |
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middle-aged adults show greatest fear of death,
older adults the least,
young adults in between |
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| Death anxiety and religiosity |
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(the degree of one's religious or spiritual belief)
high in religiosity - not anxious about death
low in religiosity - not anxious about death
moderately religious - anxious about death |
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| extrinsic vs. intrinsic religiosity |
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ex - practiced by people who use religion for social purposes and as an arena for doing good deeds
in- practiced by people who live their lives according to their religious beliefs and seek meaning in life through their religion |
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| women have higher levels of death anxiety than men |
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| Death Anxiety and Personality |
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high levels of self-esteem - less death anxiety
higher sense of purpose - less death anxiety
higher regret - more death anxiety |
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| reviewing memories (possibly in preparation for death) |
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coming to grips with one's eventual death
a process that occurs over time and at many levels |
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| a document that takes effect if you are no longer able to express your wishes about end-of-life decisions (which treatments to accept, etc) |
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| agreeing that at the time of death, their usable organs and other tissue can be transplanted to people who have been approved to receive them |
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| Stages of Reactions to Death (5) |
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Definition
Denial
Anger
bargaining
depression
acceptance |
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| Psychological Response to Cancer Diagnosis (5) |
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Definition
positive avoidance
fighting spirit
stoical acceptance
anxious preoccupation
hopelessness |
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| care focused on pain relief, emotional support, and spiritual comfort for the dying person and his or her family |
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Definition
| a death with dignity, with maximum consciousness and minimum pain, and with the patient and the patient's family having full information and control over the process |
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| a set of symbolic rites and ceremonies associated with death |
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| Bowlby's theory of grieving |
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Definition
4 stages
numbness
yearning
disorganization
despair
followed by a time of reorganization |
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Definition
| portrayed as a time when the responsible middle-aged person makes a 180-degree turn on the road of life and suddenly becomes irresponsible |
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18-24yrs old
identity exploration
positive instability
focusing on the self
feeling in-between
imagining possibilities |
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Definition
25-39
moving into major roles
jobs that are physically demanding, least challenging, lower paying
romantic partnerships and marriage
becoming parents
tribalization - we define ourselves by our tribe and our place in the tribe |
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Definition
biological and social clocks
detribalizations - individualistic personalities
greater satisfaction with marriage and work |
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65-74
loss of the work role
decline in centrality of other roles |
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Definition
75+
fastest growing segment of u.s. pop.
decline in mental abilities
disengagement
- social life space shrinks
roles and relationships are more individualized |
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| progressive return to consciousness of past experience, and particularly, the resurgence of unresolved conflicts |
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Term
| optimally healthy person (psychological health) |
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Definition
capacity for work and satisfying relationships, a sense of moral purpose, and a realistic perception of self and society
- warmth, compassion, dependability, responsibility, insight, productivity, candor, and calmness |
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Term
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Definition
| There are shared, basic sequential physical and psychological developments occurring during adulthood, roughly age-linked |
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Term
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Definition
| each adult's development occurs within a specific pathway or trajectory, strongly influenced by the starting conditions of education, family background, ethnicity, intelligence, and personality |
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Definition
| each pathway is made up of a series of alternating episodes of stable life structure and disequilibrium |
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Term
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Definition
| the outcome of periods of disequilibrium may be either positive, neutral, or negative |
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Term
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Definition
| a set of symbolic rites and ceremonies associated with death |
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Term
| Bowlby's theory of grieving |
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Definition
4 stages
numbness
yearning
disorganization
despair
followed by a time of reorganization |
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Term
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Definition
| portrayed as a time when the responsible middle-aged person makes a 180-degree turn on the road of life and suddenly becomes irresponsible |
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Term
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Definition
18-24yrs old
identity exploration
positive instability
focusing on the self
feeling in-between
imagining possibilities |
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Term
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Definition
25-39
moving into major roles
jobs that are physically demanding, least challenging, lower paying
romantic partnerships and marriage
becoming parents
tribalization - we define ourselves by our tribe and our place in the tribe |
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Term
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Definition
biological and social clocks
detribalizations - individualistic personalities
greater satisfaction with marriage and work |
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Term
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Definition
65-74
loss of the work role
decline in centrality of other roles |
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Term
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Definition
75+
fastest growing segment of u.s. pop.
decline in mental abilities
disengagement
- social life space shrinks
roles and relationships are more individualized |
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Term
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Definition
| progressive return to consciousness of past experience, and particularly, the resurgence of unresolved conflicts |
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Term
| optimally healthy person (psychological health) |
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Definition
capacity for work and satisfying relationships, a sense of moral purpose, and a realistic perception of self and society
- warmth, compassion, dependability, responsibility, insight, productivity, candor, and calmness |
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Term
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Definition
| There are shared, basic sequential physical and psychological developments occurring during adulthood, roughly age-linked |
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Term
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Definition
| each adult's development occurs within a specific pathway or trajectory, strongly influenced by the starting conditions of education, family background, ethnicity, intelligence, and personality |
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Term
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Definition
| each pathway is made up of a series of alternating episodes of stable life structure and disequilibrium |
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Term
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Definition
| the outcome of periods of disequilibrium may be either positive, neutral, or negative |
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