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Social Clock
Developmental timetable based on social norms which sets the stages of life and behaviors considered appropriate to them. EX: Appropriate Age for voting drinking smoking
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Midlife Crisis
Begin to make changes in self. thinks about time left in career, life and what they want to do with the rest of their lives.
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Big Five "Trait Theory" O.C.E.A.N.
- Openness: Imaginative,curious,artistic, creative, open to new experiances.
- Conscientious:Organized,deliberate,conforming,self disciplined.
- Extroversion: Outgoing,assertive,active.
- Agreeable: Kind, helpful,easy going, generous
- Neuroticism: Anxious,moody,self punishing,critical
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Gender Convergance:
Tendancy for men and women to become more similar as they move through middle age. Blurring of sex roles, express similar attitudes.
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Marital Success
Adults seek committed sexual partnership to help meet their needs for intimacy. Less than 15% of U.S. marry before 25 and at 40, 85% have married.
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Divorce
1 out of 2 marriages ends in divorce. Reduces income/severs friendship weakens family ties.
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Generativity (Mentor) Stagnation
Stage after intamacy VS Isolation, When adults seek to be productive in a caring way. EX: Creativity or Caregiving
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Kinkeeper
Caregiver who takes responsibility for maintaining communication among family memebers. Usually oldest daughter.
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Sandwich Generation
- Generation of middle aged people who are supposedly "squezzed" by the needs of the younger and older members of their family.
- Feels pressured not burdened
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Extrinisic Rewards of Work
- Tangeable benefits in the form of compensation that one recieves in job.
- Salary, health-insurance, pension
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Intrinsic Rewards "job Satisfaction"
- Intangeable Gratification, that come from oneself as a result of doing a job.
- self esteem, pride
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Stressor
Situation, event, experiance or stimulus that causes you to feel stressed.
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