PSYC 333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Fourth Age, Activity Theory, Social Isolation
12 Dec 2016
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Despair: ego integrity, individuals who arrive at a sense of integrity: Associate with more favorable psychological well-being: despair, individuals who feel despair: Feel many decisions were wrong, yet time is now too short. Other theories of psychosocial development in late adulthood. Peck"s tasks of ego integrity and joan erikson"s gerotranscendence: peck, attaining ego integrity involves: For those who invested heavily in their careers: finding other ways to affirm self-worth (e. g. , through family, friendship, and community life). Surmounting physical limitation by: emphasizing the compensating rewards of cognitive, emotional, and social powers. As contemporaries die, facing the reality of death constructively through: efforts to make life more secure, meaningful, and gratifying for younger generations, joan erikson, development beyond ego integrity: A cosmic and transcendent perspective directed forward and outward beyond the self. Attained with: heightened inner calm and contentment, quiet reflection. Labouvie-vief"s emotional expertise: decline in cognitive-affective complexity, gain in affect optimization, the ability to maximize positive emotion and dampen negative emotion.
