Psychosocial Development
This is Erikson’s final stage of psychosocial development.
What is Ego Integrity vs. Despair?
The degree of older adults’ involvement with others depends largely on these.
What are social networks and available support?
This government program, established in 1935, made retirement more possible for older adults.
What is Social Security?
This theory explains successful aging through three main processes: selection, optimization, and compensation.
What is Selective Optimization with Compensation (SOC) theory?
This is typically defined as an internal process involving meaning, peace, and transcendence.
What is spirituality?
This process involves evaluating and reflecting on life experiences, not just recalling them.
What is life review?
This group is more likely to remarry in later adulthood
Who are divorced individuals?
Some retirees reduce work hours gradually before stopping work completely; this is called this.
What is phased retirement?
This Big Five trait tends to increase in older adulthood and includes reliability and impulse control.
What is conscientiousness?
In many Black communities, these institutions serve as centers for social and community life.
What are churches?
Ego differentiation often involves shifting focus to these areas.
What are family, friendships, and community roles?
This relationship type provides emotional, instrumental, and psychological support during crises.
What are sibling relationships?
According to the text, retirement can create a loss of this for some older adults, especially if work was central to their self-concept.
What is identity or self-worth?
This type of coping is associated with resilience and focuses on effective action rather than avoidance.
What is adaptive or solution-focused coping?
This quality is highly characteristic of individuals in the universalizing stage
What is altruism?
This period involves significant decline in independence.
What is the fourth (transitional) period?
This life event often leads to a decline in sexual activity due to loss of a partner.
What is widowhood?
This form of volunteerism can reduce sedentary behavior and support health while also benefiting communities.
What is environmental volunteerism?
Name one factor associated with resilience in older adulthood.
What is optimism / social support / humor / spirituality / acceptance of change / sense of personal control?
Name one figure used as an example of universalizing faith.
Who is Mother Teresa or Gandhi?
These two strategies exist on a spectrum and are used dynamically.
What are affect optimization and affect complexity?
Older adults who provide support to their adult children tend to experience this outcome.
What is higher life satisfaction (or fewer depressive symptoms)?
According to Schlossberg’s transition theory, people often do these three things during transition: grieve the old life, try new paths, and then do this.
What is integrate new ways of living into their sense of self?
Women, in general, tend to score higher than men on these two Big Five traits.
What are neuroticism and agreeableness?
Gerotranscendence is associated with less self-centeredness and more of this outcome.
What is increased life satisfaction?