Health Sciences 2711A/B Chapter Notes -Family Caregivers, Assisted Living, Gender Role
15 Apr 2014
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Chap 16; emotional and social development in middle adulthood (423 441) Possible selves: future oriented representations of what one hopes to become and what one is afraid of becoming. But as soon as they leave home, they adopt other gender traits. Week 11 readings notes: women need self-reliance and assertiveness in work circumstances w/ discrimination . If they cant integrate other gender traits, they tend to have mental probs, cant adapt flexibly to challenges of aging. Grandparenthood: on average american adults become grandparents in there mid to late forties, Canadians in their late forties to early fifties. In low income families, grandparents are more likely to perform essential activities. Vocational life (midlife transitions: attempt to increase personal meaning and self direction, older workers will rise dramatically over next decades. Increases in midlife at all occupational levels (trend weak for females & of color) Extrinsic satisfaction- contentment with supervision, pay and promotions (changes very little)
