Emotional and social development in Early Adulthood – Flashcards
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Role overload
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conflict between work and responsibilities
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dual earner marriage
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parents, high-level of stress especially women because they might have a hard time balancing life
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Compassionate love
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care giving, affection, warm, trust
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Egalitarian marriage
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tends to happen with higher education, balance money, family, work. share powers between the couples
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Intimacy vs. isolation
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reflected in the young person's thoughts and feelings about making a permanent commitment to an intimate partner.
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Life structure
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(Levinson's seasons of life)- how relationship is working. underlying design of a person's life
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dream and mentors
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(Levinson's seasons of life)- men-individualistic focus dream career women-career, marriage, family. has mentors for guidance.
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age-30 transition
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(Levinson's seasons of life)- reevaluate their life in what their doing
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Valliant's adaptation to life
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looked at men first then realized that women and men are the same.they found (50-60s)- look more on culture, pass down generation, state of society and usually men changes in life relationship looked at intimacy first
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social clock
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age-graded expectations for major life events, such as beginning a first job, getting married, birth of the first child, buying a home, and retiring.
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What women tend to emphasize
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evolutionary: ambition, financial moral character, come who can support a family, slightly older. women connects psychologically first then physical connection.
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what men tend to emphasize
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evolutionary: younger partners, domestic skills, physical attraction, care for children. Men tend to focus more on physical intimacy than psychologically.
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intimacy, passion, commitment
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sternberg's triangular theory of love
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intimacy
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emotional component
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passion
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sexual and romance, physical and psychological-arousal component
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commitment
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cognitive component, leading partners to decide that they are in love and to maintain that love.
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passionate love
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intense sexual attraction
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same sex friendship
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women personal things emotional connection and med doesn't have that emotional connection
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loneliness
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young adults are risk of loneliness.- unhappiness resulting from a gap between the social relationships we currently have and those we desire
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family cycle
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refers to the sequence of phases characterizing the development of most families around the world
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early adulthood
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live on their own, marry, bear and rear children
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middle adulthood
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parenting skills diminish, leave home
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late adulthood
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retiring, dealing death of spouse, growing old
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Factors related to marital satisfaction
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increase having similar background, not rushing into anything and financial is a huge factor
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individual choice and culture changing
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What helps people decide to have children?
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gender and ethnic difference for singlehood
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women are far more likely than men to remain single for many years or their entire life. ethic the percentage of never-married African americans is nearly twice as great as that of caucasian amercians in early adulthood.
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advantages for singlehood
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freedom and mobility
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disadvantages for singlehood
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loneliness, the dating grind, limited sexual and social life, reduce sense of security, and feelings of exclusion from the world of married couples.
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cohabitation
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the lifestyle of unmarried couples who have sexually intimate relationship and who share a residence
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patterns of cohabitation
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-committed as marriages -live w/ someone before getting marriage - gay people: live together
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Factors related to divorce
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disruption of marriage, infidelity, financial problems, drinking, substance abuse. men not making a lot of money and women are making a lot more than husband
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Consequences of divorce
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man and women disruption in social network, increase anxiety, depression, impulsive actions
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stepparents, never-married single parents, gay and lesbian parents
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Different styles of parenthood
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stepparents
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higher rate of divorce and stepmother always have conflicts
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never married single parents
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10% american lives with single parent-mother over the age of 30 with a nice job usually adopt, or use technology
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gay and lesbian parents
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use to have children from before heterosexual relationship. they are allowed to adopt, main problem is society not accepting them.
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traditional marriage
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man has to be the provider while the woman has to take care of kids, stay home wife
