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Ego Integrity Vs. Despair
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| The final psychological conflict of Erikson's theory, invovles coming to terms with one's life. Adults who arrive at a sense of integrity feel whole, complete, and satisfied with their achievements |
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| Peck's tasks for Ego Integrity (3) |
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- Ego Differentiation
- Body Transcendence
- Ego Transcendence
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Ego Differentiation
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| For those who invested heavily in their careers, finding other ways to affirm self-worth; through family, friendship, and community life |
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Body Transcendence
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| Surmounting physical limitations by emphasizing the compensating rewards of cognitive, emotional, and social powers |
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| As contemporaries die, facing the reality of death constructively through efforts to make life more secure, meaningful, and gratifying |
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Gerotranscendence
(Joan Erikson) |
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| An additional psychosocial stage after ego integrity. A cosmic and transcendent perspective directed forward and outward beyond the self |
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| The ability to maximize positive emotion and dampen negative emotion |
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| Telling stories about people and events from their past and reporting associated thoughts and feelings |
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| Added years of longevity and health plus financial stability have granted this active, opportunistic time of life to so many contemporary seniors that some experts believe a new phase of late adulthood has evolved |
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| Dependency-Support Script |
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| A typical pattern of interation in which caregivers attend to older adults' dependent bx immediately, thereby reinforcing those bx. |
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| Independence-Ignore Script |
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| A typical pattern of interaction in which older adults' independent bx are mostly ignored and, as a result, occur less often |
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| A good match between abilities and the demands of their living enviroments, which promotes adaptive bx and psychological well-being. When people cannot maximize use of their capacities, they react with boredom and passivity. When they experience demands that are too great, they experience overwhelming stress |
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| Mutual withdrawl between older adults and society takes place in anticipation of death |
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| Social barriers to engagement, not the desides of aging adults, cause declining rates of interaction. When older people lose certain roles, they try to find others in an effort to stay about as active and busy as they were in middle age |
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| Does not view older adults' |
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