Exam 16: Socioemotional Development in Middle Adulthood

A) High in openness.
B) High in extroversion.
C) Low in neuroticism.
D) High in agreeableness.

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A) The parents have more conflict with their children when they have experienced a failure in adulthood because they want to give advice and their children don't want to hear it.
B) The parents are likely to feel a sense of failure on their own part because they were not able to help them.
C) Parents are going to have a decline in well-being regardless of their children's failure because of the empty nest phenomenon.
D) The parents are more likely to have conflict with each other when their children experience failure because they do not always agree on how to help.

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A) Generativity is influenced by psychosocial issues, like trust development, that occur earlier in life for men, but not for women.
B) Generativity is a stronger influence on well-being in men than it is on women.
C) Generativity is influenced by career success for men, but not for women.
D) Men who have children tend to score higher in measures of generativity than do childless men, although having children is not related to generativity in women.

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A) Rick, a plumber who works for his brother.
B) Kenra, a senior partner in a law firm.
C) Mary, a secretary in a computer sales office.
D) David, an assembly line lead in a factory.

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The midlife crisis doesn't have to be as...

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A) Hispanic
B) European American non-Hispanic
C) African American
D) Asian American

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A) Friendships are not as intimate in midlife as they were in young adulthood.
B) Individuals have more friends in midlife than in young adulthood, but very few are described as close and more as colleagues.
C) Individuals have fewer friends, but they are almost always described as close.
D) Friendships are less likely to be a source of social support because those in midlife turn most to family in times of need.

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A) They will make a greater effort to depend on others to meet their needs instead of taking initiative and doing things for themselves.
B) They will regress back to the intimacy versus isolation stage.
C) They will experience a self-absorption that interferes with personal growth and prevents them from contributing to the welfare of others.
D) They will experience a self-focused sense of identity and rate higher on ratings of self-acceptance.

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