Psychosocial Development
This is the basic conflict in midlife according to Erikson.
Generativity vs. Stagnation
These are future oriented representations of what individuals hope and fear becoming.
Possible selves
This is the percentage of middle-aged people who live in families.
90%
This term refers to the experience of mental exhaustion, a sense of loss of personal control, and feelings of reduced accomplishment.
Burnout
These are the average ages for becoming a grandparent in the U.S.
Women 49
Men 52
These are the opposing tendencies that focus on ways a person has acted destructively and how they can become more generative.
What are destruction and creation? (Levinson's Seasons of Life)
Three qualities increase from early to middle adulthood as individuals develop more complex, integrated descriptions of themselves.
Self-acceptance
Autonomy
Environmental mastery
This term describes the phenomenon where middle-aged adults must care for both their aging parents and their own children at the same time.
"Sandwich Generation"
This type of job satisfaction, which shows a strong age-related gain in midlife, refers to happiness with the work itself.
Intrinsic satisfaction
These are the three other opposing tendency pairings in Levinson's Seasons of Life.
Young-old
Masculinity-femininity
Engagement-separateness
When asked directly, this percentage of people in the MIDUS study reported experiencing a midlife crisis.
25% or 1/4th
These are the ways gender identity shifts in middle-adulthood. (Identify the shifts and provide an example.)
Something along the lines of women tend to embody more "masculine" traits and men tend to exhibit more "feminine" traits.
Examples:
Women & masculine traits - confidence, self-sufficient, forceful
Men & feminine traits - sensitive, caring, considerate, dependent
This variable is a powerful predictor of psychological well-being in midlife.
Marital satisfaction
Middle-aged adults are _____ financially than previous midlife generations party because of _____ and _____.
Fill in the blanks
Better off
Increased education and financial security.
This demographic group, known for their long-lived, active lifestyles, may spend up to one-fourth of their lives in retirement.
Baby boomers
The term “keepers of meaning” refers to this phenomenon as described by Vaillant.
Who are older adults who extend their generativity to traditions, laws, and cultural values and focus on longer-term, less personal goals.
Viewing personality as an adaptive, open system may account for ______.
Individual differences, high stability AND significant changes.
This factor, often recalled from childhood, is associated with negativity in adult sibling relationships and can worsen sibling conflict when aging parents need care.
Parental favoritism
The promotion gap refers to this trend.
The trend where women and ethnic minorities face greater inequalities in promotion over time, even after controlling for education, work skills, and productivity.
This demographic group, showing the sharpest rise in suicide rates among U.S. middle-aged adults, also displays elevated death rates from drug and alcohol abuse.
Who are white men between 45-64
The dual impact of life regrets refers to this phenomenon.
What is the phenomenon where experiencing regrets is consistently associated with less-favorable psychological well-being, but can also lead to personal growth if individuals reflect on past mistakes and take corrective action.
These types of coping strategies, which increase in middle adulthood, involve postponing action to permit evaluation of alternatives and using humor to express ideas and feelings without offending others.
What are emotion- and problem-centered coping.
This familiar saying reflects the finding that having even one “problematic” child dampens parents’ well-being, while having a successful child does not have a compensating positive effect.
“Parents are only as happy as their least happy child”
Surprise! This is about relationships not vocation.
This gender is more likely to initiate divorce and often fares better in psychological well-being post-divorce (especially if they were in a highly distressed marriage).
Who are women
This term describes the phenomenon where young-adult children who deviate from parental expectations about the path to adult responsibilities can prompt parental strain.
"Off-time" development