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| Jung's term for emergence of the true self through balancing or integration of conflicting parts of the personality. |
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| generativity vs. stagnation |
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| Erikson's seventh stage of psychosocial development, in which the middle-aged adult develops a concern with establishing, guiding, and influencing the next generation or else experiences stagnation (a sense of inactivity or lifelessness) |
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| Erikson's term for concern of mature adults for establishing, guiding, and influencing the next generation |
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| Neugarten's term for a concern with inner life (introversion or introspection), which usually appears in middle age. |
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| in some normative-crisis models, stressful life period precipitated by the review and reevaluation of one's past, typically occurring in the early to middle forties. |
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| introspective examination that often occurs in middle age, leading to reappraisal and revision of values and priorities. |
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| Whitbourne's theory of identity development based on processes of assimilation and accommodation. |
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Whitbourne's term for effort to fit new experience into an existing self-concept
ex) Botox |
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| Whitbourne's term for adjusting the self-concept to fit new experience. |
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| Whitbourne's term for a tendency to balance assimilation and accommodation |
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| Gutmann's term for reversal of gender roles after the end of active parenting. |
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| theory, proposed by Kahn and Antonucci, that people move through life surrounded by concentric circles of intimate relationships on which they rely for assistance, well-being, and social support. |
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| socioemotional selectivity theory |
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| theory, proposed by Carstensen, that people select social contacts on the basis of the changing relative importance of social interaction as a source of information, as an aid in developing and maintaining a self-concept, and as a source of emotional well-being. |
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| financial and emotional benefits built up during a long-standing marriage, which tend to hold a couple together. |
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| transitional phase of parenting following the last child's leaving the parent's home. |
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| stage of life, proposed by Marcoen and others, in which middle-aged children, as the outcome of a filial crisis, learn to accept and meet their parents' need to depend on them. |
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| in Marcoen's terminology, normative development of middle age, in which adults learn to balance love and duty to their parents with autonomy within a two-way relationship. |
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| middle-aged adults squeezed by competing needs to raise or launch children and to care for elderly parents. |
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| condition of physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion affecting adults who provide continuous care for sick or aged persons. |
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| care of children living without parents in the home of grandparents or other relatives, with or without a change of legal custody. |
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