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The five basic clusters of personality traits that remain quite stable throughout adulthood: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiouness, neuroticism, and openness.
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Big Five
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The particular lifestyle and social context adults settle into that are compatible with their individual personality needs and interests.
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ecological niche
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A tendency for men and women to become more similar as they move through middle age.
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gender convergence
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The idea that each sex takes on the other sex's roles and traits in later life. This idea is disputed, but there is no doubt that maleness and femaleness become less salient in middle age.
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gender crossover
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A period of unusual anxiety, radical reexamination, and sudden transformation that is widely associated with middle age but which actually has more to do with developmental history than with chronological age.
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midlife crisis
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A group of people who form relationships with an individual through which they guide and socialize that person as he or she moves through life.
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social convoy
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A group of people who live together in one dwelling and share its common spaces, such as kitchen and living room.
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household
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The person who takes primary responsibility for celebrating family achievements, gathering the family together, and keeping in touch with family members who do not live nearby.
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kinkeeper
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The idea that family members should support one another because family unity is more important than individual freedom and success.
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familism
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Grandparents who are distant but who are honored, respected, and obeyed by the younger generations in their families.
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remote grandparents
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Grandparents who actively participate in the lives of their grandchildren, seeing them daily.
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involved grandparents
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Grandparents whose relationships with their children and grandchildren are characterized by independence adn friendship, with visits occuring by the grandparents' choice.
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companionate grandparents
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Grandparents who take over the raising of their grandchildren as a result of their adult children's extreme social problems.
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surrogate parents
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A term for the generation of middle-aged people who are supposedly "squeezed" by the needs of the younger and older generations. Some adults do feel pressured by these obligations, but most are not burdened by them, either because they enjoy fulfilling them or because they choose to take on only some of them, or none.
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sandwich generation
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A strategy used by middle-aged adults to balance the demands of work and family life. Instead of devoting full time to one or the other, many people reduce their commitment to their work in order to have time for their marriage and children.
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scaling back
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