Personality
According to the five factor model of personality, this is one of the personality factors that increases with age.
What is conscientiousness?
What is agreeableness?
The idea that people who are widowed are more likely to die is called this.
What is the widowhood effect?
The Social Security Act was passed into law in this year.
What is 1935?
This gender suffers mental health problems at a higher rate.
What are women (female)?
Most children in the United States live in this type of household.
What is a two-parent household?
While Freud's model of personality is considered to be psychosexual, Erikson's model of personality is considered to be this.
What is psychosocial?
The term for the failure of older generations to maintain positive relationships with their adult children.
What is developmental schism?
Some retired adults must take a new job after retirement. These jobs go by this name.
What is a bridge job?
Periods of expansive, elevated, or highly energetic moods are most closely associated with this mental illness.
What is bipolar disorder (I or II)?
This is the first developmental theory of personality.
What is Freud's Psychodynamic Theory?
According to Marcia's Identity Status Theory, a person who has explored their personality but not made a commitment would be considered to be in this status.
What is moratorium?
This relationship is likely to be the longest a person has.
What is the sibling relationship?
These are two of the fundamental types found in Holland's Vocational Development Model.
What are: realistic, social, conventional, investigative, artistic, and enterprising?
The people are the most likely perpetrators of elder abuse.
Who are spouse and/or children?
This personality disorder is most closely associated with criminality and psychopathy.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
According to the five pathways model, a person who avoids life challenges has chosen this path.
What is the straight and narrow?
This is one of the terms for children who move back home.
What is boomerang child?
What is kidult?This is the word for a person's choice of occupation.
What is vocation?
An extreme fear of spiders that interferes with daily functioning would be classified as this anxiety disorder.
What is a simple phobia?
This is a term for when grandparents are raising their grandchildren.
What is a skip generation or grandfamily?
This cognitive model of personality states that an individual's view of self guides the choice and pursuit of future endeavors.
What is possible selves theory?
The suffocation model of marriage is based upon this theory. (The name of the theorist is ok here as well).
What is Maslow' hierarchy of needs?
The Occupational Information Network maintained by the government, that lists job titles, earnings, and outlook is called this.
What is O*NET?
This is the name for the study of psychological treatment in older adults.
What is professional geropsychology?
A person who fears open spaces, public transportation, and/or crowds, most likely suffers from this.
What is agoraphobia?