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69 Cards in this Set
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Cohabitation |
Living in a stable relationship instead of getting married |
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Cohabitation effect |
Greater likelihood of divorce among people who cohabit before marriage |
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Living apart together |
Couples in long term committed relationships but choose to have separate residences |
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Divorce proneness |
People who are more likely to contemplate divorce when the marriage is in trouble |
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Widowhood effect |
Greater probability of death in those who have become widowed than in those who are married |
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Social exchange theory |
Attempts to predict why some relationships succeed and others fail in terms of costs and gains |
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Need Complementary Hypothesis |
Peoe seek and are more satisfied with marital partners who are the opposite of themselves |
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Behavioural approach to marital interactions |
Emphasises the actual behaviours that partners engage in with each other during martial interactions as an influence on marital stability |
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Enduring dynamics pathway |
How a couple interacts early in their relationship characterises the course of the relationship over time |
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Emergent distress pathway |
Couples who find they are unable to cope with the inevitable arguments of people living together |
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Disillusionment pathway |
Couples who begin in love and gradually fall out of it |
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Transition to parenthood |
Birth of couple's first child |
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Doing gender |
The tendency for women and men to act in stereotypically gendered ways |
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Blended families |
Where at least one adult is living with a child who is not their biological own |
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Empty nest |
The period in a couple's life when children permanently leave the home |
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Filial maturity |
When children see their parents as equals |
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Filial anxiety |
Fear of having to take care of aging parent |
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Filial obligation |
Cultural value that children are expected to care for their parents |
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Intergenerational solidarity model |
Six independent dimensions of solidarity characterise adult family relationships: associational, affectual, consensual, functional, normative, and structural |
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Structural ambivalence |
Society's structures do not make clear how family members should behave |
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Intergenerational stake hypothesis |
Parents are higher in affectual solidarity towards their children than vice versa |
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Developmental schism |
There is a gap between the two generations in how much they value the relationship and want to be independent |
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Role reversal |
Where adult children care for their parents |
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Contingency theory |
Parents providing support for their children because they think the children need it |
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Sandwich generation |
Midlife caregivers are sandwiched between their aging parents and their own kids |
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Skip generation family |
Children living with their grandparents |
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Formal grandparent |
Not overly involved but provide support |
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Fun seeker grandparent |
Primarily provides entertainment for grandkids |
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Surrogate parent grandparent |
Caretaker |
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Reservoir of family wisdom grandparent |
Head of the family |
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Distant figure grandparent |
Infrequent contact with grandkids |
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Dyadic withdrawal |
The process of reducimg the individual friendships of the couple and increasing joint friendships |
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Peripheral ties |
Friendships with little closeness |
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Friendship styles |
Independent, discerning (selective),acquisitive (easy to befriend) |
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Healthy lifespan |
Live as long as possible in as healthy a state as possible |
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Death |
Irreversible cessation of bodily functions |
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Dying |
Period during which an organism loses its vitality |
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Dying trajectory |
Rate of decline prior to death |
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Crude mortality rate |
Number of deaths divided by the population alive during a time period |
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Age specific mortality rate |
Number of deaths per 100 000 for a specific age group |
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Age standardized mortality rate |
Takes into account more deaths occur in older age groups |
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Death ethos |
Prevailing philosophy of death |
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Tamed death |
Death being viewed as simple and familiar |
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Invisible death |
Desire for death to retreat from the family and be confined to hospitals |
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Social death |
Process by which dying are ignored and placed in nursing homes |
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Stages of dying |
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression. acceptance |
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Death with dignity |
Proposed that the period of death should not subject the patient to extreme loss of physical dependency |
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Good death |
Where patients have autonomy over the decisions related to their end of life care |
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Legitimization of biography |
Taking steps to leave a legacy once you die |
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Awareness of finitude |
When people pass the age when other people close to them died |
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Advance directives |
Where individuals document their wishes in the event they become ill or incapacitated |
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Palliative care |
Providing patients with relief from painful symptoms |
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Overtreatment |
When patients request palliative care but instead receive life support |
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Physician assisted suicide |
Doctor helps patient end their life |
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Euthanasia |
Physicians intentionally killing their patient |
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Hospice |
Program that provided medical and supportive services for dying patients |
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Bereavement |
Process by which people cope with the death of another person |
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Dual process model of coping with bereavement |
Proposes that practical adaptations to loss are as important to the person's adjustment as are emotional adaptations |
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Rowe and Kahn definition of successful aging |
Absence of disease and disability, high cognitive and physical functioning, and engagement with life |
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WHO definition of active aging |
Process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation, and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age |
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Successful cognitive aging |
Cognitive performance that is above the average for an individual's age group as objectively measured |
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Social indicator model |
Belief that sociostructural variables account for individual differences in wellbeing |
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Positive psychology |
Seeks to provide a greater understanding of the strengths and virtues that enable people to thrive |
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Life satisfaction |
The overall assessment of an individual's feelings and attitudes about their life |
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Subjective wellbeing |
Individual's overall sense of happiness |
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Paradox of wellbeing |
older adults maintain high subjective well being despite facing objective challenges |
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Set point perspective |
Proposes that people's personalities influence their level of wellbeing throughout life |
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Social comparison |
Process that occurs when people rate themselves relative to their primary reference group |
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Life story |
Narrative view of the past where they express their identity over time |
