A time of significant--and continuing--psychological growth.
What is middle adulthood?
100
This theorist talks about 7 stages including feeling a sense of urgency to complete life's goals in the late 30's and early 40's.
Who is Roger Gould?
100
The experience that relates to parents' feelings of unhappiness, worry, loneliness, and depression resulting from children's departure from home.
What is Empty Nest Syndrome?
100
The time of greatest success, productivity, and earning power OR a time when occupational success seems less alluring than it once was.
What is middle age?
200
The age middle adulthood begins.
What is 40?
200
Erickson's theory that people move through a series of fixed stages.
What is the Normative Crisis Model?
200
This theorist discusses keeping the meaning vs. rigidity by accepting the strengths and weaknesses of others.
Who is George Vaillant?
200
Couples who in middle adulthood must fulfill the needs of both their children and their aging parents?
What is the Sandwich Generation?
200
A situation that occurs when workers experience dissatisfaction, disillusionment, frustration, and weariness from a job.
What is burnout?
300
The positive aspects of middle adulthood.
What are happiness/satisfaction/a sense of well-being?
300
Erickson's theory that middle adulthood is a stage where a person makes a contribution to family, community, work, society as a whole; or is stagnant.
What is Erickson's Generative vs. Stagnation Theory?
300
This theorist discusses the "seasons of life" theory, including the Midlife Crisis.
Who is Daniel Levinson?
300
These are young adults who return, after leaving home for some period, to live in the homes of their middle aged parents.
What are Boomerang Children?
300
In this instance some aspects that might seem positive, such as having more free time, can produce negative consequences.
What is unemployment?
400
Ravenna Helson's model suggesting it's particular events in an adult's life, rather than age, that determine personality development.
What is the Life Events Model?
400
Of "very happy," "not so happy," or "pretty happy," most people say they are...
What is "pretty happy?"
400
What is the theory that abuse and neglect of children leads them to predispose abusiveness as adults?
What is the Cycle of Violence theory?
400
People do this in middle adulthood for several reasons, such as their careers offer little challenge, or their jobs have changed in ways they don't like.