FRHD 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Active Child, Androgyny, Premarital Sex
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Examples are parenthood and death: individuals at midlife are at the height of coping. They have high levels of practical knowledge and are more skilled in reduction stress. The coping patterns families have already established usually continue. Midlife re-evaluation leads more often to sense of personal discovery than to a crisis. At this age women are particularly likely to have a sense of power in their jobs and organizations. Assessing one"s career: both men and women need goals to give them direction, according to levinson (1978) a young man forms a dream of what he wishes to accomplish in his life. By midlife, it should be apparent whether that dream is attainable. If he has not achieved it, he must alter his plans to t reality. If he has achieved it, he needs to nd another goal to give his life direction: women in the workforce face similar decisions, nearly as many women as men have paid jobs.