PSY BEH 101D Lecture 9: Lifespan Development (PSYBEH 101D) - LEC. 9
14 May 2018
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Dec. 5, 2017
• 5 chapters and 4 lectures
• Singlehood
• Characteristics that emerge over time lead to success in old age
o Autonomous, self-sufficient
o Close family/friend friendships
• Report less loneliness, more life satisfaction, and more happiness than formerly married
people
• Most of us marry
• Married people are similar to one another on all of these characteristics except:
o Education level b. politics c. happiness levels d. intelligence d. attractiveness
• People tend to select mates who have similar
o SES
o Religion
o Politics
o Intelligence
o Physical Traits
• People DO NOT select mates based on:
o Happiness levels
• Assortative Mating: people tend to date and marry individuals similar to themselves
• Due to exposure
• CAREFUL 12:50
• Marital Happiness
• Why does martial satisfaction and life satisfaction go down in midlife?
• Why does it goes up again later?
• Marriage dissolution n
• Divorce
• My midlife, approximately 25% of the population has been divorced
• Of middle-aged adults, only 55% have been continuously married
• Reasons for unhappiness
o Sex
o Commitment
o Communication
• Reasons for divorce:
o Early marriage: fighting/conflict
o Midlife: growing apart/day to day communication
o In 1975m approximately 72% of the divorces in the US were filed by women, whereas
by 1988, only 65% were filed by women (still more women than men)
• Among college-educated couples, the percentage of divorces initiated by
women - 90%
• Does a bad marriage affect:
o Physical health:
• Women
o Tendency towards alcoholism:
• Affects drinking more if you are woman
o Well-being:
• More for women
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