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FAD3220 Exam 4 Vocab Questions and Answers
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FAD3220 Exam 4 Vocab Questions andAnswers
caregiver burnout - Answer -Condition of physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion
affecting adults who provide continuous care for sick or aged persons.
ego-resiliency - Answer -(1) Dynamic capacity to modify one's level of ego-control in
response to environmental and contextual influences. (2) The ability to adapt flexibly
and resourcefully to potential sources of stress.
empty nest - Answer -Transitional phase of parenting following the last child's leaving
the parents' home.
filial crisis - Answer -In Marcoen's terminology, normative development of middle age, in
which adults learn to balance love and duty to their parents with autonomy within a two-
way relationship.
filial maturity - Answer -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.
gender crossover - Answer -Gutmann's term for reversal of gender roles after the end of
active parenting.
Generativity - Answer -Erikson's term for concern of mature adults for establishing,
guiding, and influencing the next generation.
generativity versus stagnation - Answer -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).
identity accommodation - Answer -Whitbourne's term for adjusting the self-concept to fit
new experience.
identity assimilation - Answer -Whitbourne's term for effort to fit new experience into an
existing self-concept.
, identity balance - Answer -Whitbourne's term for a tendency to balance assimilation and
accommodation.
identity process theory (IPT) - Answer -Whitbourne's theory of identity development
based on processes of assimilation and accommodation.
identity schemas - Answer -Accumulated perceptions of the self-shaped by incoming
information from intimate relationships, work-related situations, and community and
other experiences.
individuation - Answer -Adolescents' struggle for autonomy and personal identity. (2)
Jung's term for emergence of the true self through balancing or integration of conflicting
parts of the personality.
Interiority - Answer -Neugarten's term for a concern with inner life (introversion or
introspection), which usually appears in middle age.
kinship care - Answer -Care of children living without parents in the home of
grandparents or other relatives, with or without a change of legal custody.
marital capital - Answer -Financial and emotional benefits built up during a long-
standing marriage, which tend to hold a couple together.
midlife crisis - Answer -In some normative-crisis models, stressful life period precipitated
by the review and reevaluation of one's past, typically occurring in the early to middle
forties.
midlife review - Answer -Introspective examination that often occurs in middle age,
leading to reappraisal and revision of values and priorities.
revolving door syndrome - Answer -Tendency for young adults who have left home to
return to their parents' household in times of financial, marital, or other trouble.
sandwich generation - Answer -Middle-aged adults squeezed by competing needs to
raise or launch children and to care for elderly parents.
social convoy theory - Answer -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.
socio-emotional selectivity theory - Answer -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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