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Socio-emotional Development
Generativity: _Happily making changes in routines, and in employment for their family_.
2. Maslows Hierarchy
A. Older adults are more likely to _reach self-actualization than younger adults_.
The Big 5 The Big 5 personality traits are apparent in every culture and era.
Personality traits
Conscientiousness self-deisciplined.
4. Marriage Facts
Average age for marriage in the United States: 27 years old for women & 29 years old for
2. men
5. Divorce
Divorced parents. Either partner Divergent plans and practices Hig divorce rate in cohort. Laws
under age 21. Family opposed. regarding childbearing and child that make divorce easier.
Cohabitation before marriage. rearing. Financial stress, Men - Divorced men experiece
values together.
7. Intimacy in Marriage
The time in the lives of parents when their children have left the
Empty Nest
family home to pursue their own lives.
8. Family Bonds
Familism: The belief that family members should support one another, sacrificing individual
Sibling relationships in adulthood Family situations that affect People who are not blood related
have the potential to improve once everyone at different ages. are figuratively adopted as part of
siblings are married and have separate IE-Father lost a job and couldn’t a family
for college.
Social Convoy:A group of friends, co-workers, and other people who become like family.
9. Generativity
Kinkeeper:A caregiver who takes responsibility for maintaining communication of information
younger generation parents for a while, while saving people who a supposedly squeezed
Example:Change routines and money to move out on their own. by the needs of the younger and
10. Employment
Work/Life Balance The idea that employment demands should be limited to protect the
rest of life.
Intrinsic Reward accomplishment that come from within oneself as a result of doing
a job.
The tangible benefits, usually in the form of compensation such as
Extrinsic Reward
salary, health insurance, pension that one receives for doing a job.