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21 Cards in this Set
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What is individuation (according to Jung)?
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Jung's term for emergence of the true self through balancing or integration of conflicting parts of the personality.
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What is generativity versus stagnation?
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Erikson's seventh stage of psychosocial development, in which the middle-aged adult develops a concern with establishing, guiding, and influencing the next generation or else experiences stagnation (a sense of inactivity or lifelessness).
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What is generativity (according to Erikson)?
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Concern of mature adults for establishing, guiding, and influencing the next generation.
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What is interiority?
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Neugarten's term for a concern with inner life (introversion or introspection), which usually appears in middle age.
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What is midlife crisis?
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In some normative-crisis models, stressful life period precipitated by the review and reevaluation of one's past, typically occuring in the early to middle forties.
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What is midlife review?
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Introspective examination that often occurs in middle age, leading to reappraisal and revision of values and priorities.
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What is identity process theory (IPT)?
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Whitbourne's theory of identity development based on processess of assimilation and accommodation.
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What is identity assimilation?
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Whitbourne's term for effort to fit new experience into an existing self-concept.
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What is identity accomodation?
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Whitbourne's term for adjusting the self-concept to fit new experience.
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What is identity balance?
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Whitbourne's term for a tendency to balance assimilation and accomodation.
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What is gender crossover?
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Gutmann's term for reversal of gender roles after the end of active parenting.
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What is social convoy theory?
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Theory, proposed by kahn and Antonucci, that people move through life surrounded by concentric circles of intimate relationships on which they rely for assistance, well-being, and social support.
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What is socioemotional selectivity theory?
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Theory, proposed by Carstensen, that people select social contacts on the basis of the changing relative importance of social interaction as a source of information, as an aid in developing and maintaining a self-concept, and as a source of emotional well-being.
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What is marital capital?
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Financial and emotional benefits built up during a long-standing marriage, which tend to hold a couple together.
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What is empty nest?
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Transitional phase of parenting following the last child's leaving the parents home.
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What is revolving door syndrome?
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Tendency for young adults who have left home to return to their parents' household in times of financial, marital, or other trouble.
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What is filial maturity?
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Stage of life, proposed by Marcoen and others, in which middle-aged children, as the outcome of a filial crisis, learn to accept and meet their parents' need to depend on them.
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What is filial crisis?
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In Marcoen's terminilogy, normative development of middle age, in which adults learn to balance love and duty to their parents with autonomy within a two-way relationship.
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What is the sandwich generation?
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Middle-aged adults squeezed by competing needs to raise or launch children and to care for elderly parents.
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What is caregiver burnout?
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Condition of physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion affecting adults who provide continuous care for sick or aged parents.
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What is kinship care?
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Care of children living without parents in the home of grandparents or other relatives, with or without a change of legal custody.
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