PSYC 335 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Positive Youth Development, Soundness, Goal Setting
13 Nov 2017
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Ch 5: living well at every stage of life. Important to understand the difficulties faced by youth today and to not only focus on decreasing problems, but also bolstering positive growth. Important to explore situations in many different cultures: different developmental assets may exist for different populations. thriving has not been studies as much as it should: defined as a process between self and enviro that develops over time. Primary tasks of adulthood: george vaillant, studied a subset of terman"s data, 90 women from this sample to generalize his own findings from an all male sample, found 6 tasks of adult development (in order of development): Intimacy: career consolidation, generativity: mentoring younger generation in the first three tasks, keeper of meaning: sharing wisdom, protects traditions, links the past to the future. Integrity: being honest and having strong moral principals: mastery of all these tasks leads to successful aging.
