Exam 8: Personality and Patterns of Coping

What are the two main forms of coping?

A 56-year old man has struggled with psychological disorder throughout his entire life, but he has finally managed to overcome his symptoms enough to establish himself in his community as a member of the town council. He has also found happiness in a committed relationship with a woman and they are talking about getting married. This man would fit which life pathway as described from research on the RALS?

In later life, people who are low in self-esteem tend to be those who use the identity process of:

What are three major criticisms of midlife crisis theory?

In the Type A behavior pattern, high scores on hostility seem strongly related to which health outcome?

Because most adults in our society have internalized society's norms about what's right and wrong but do not necessarily have a true conscience, personality theorist Loevinger believed that they fall into the _______________ stage of ego development.

Summarize the major findings from the Rochester Study.

Briefly describe the six stages of ego development in Loevinger's theory.

Socioemotional selectivity theory predicts that we feel closer to ____________ as we get closer to the end of our lives.

Define and contrast identity assimilation and identity accommodation. Which process is more adaptive in terms of self-esteem in later life?

Research on identity in emerging adults suggests that those who are most likely to engage in delinquent and drug-related behaviors are in which identity status?

The personality trait within the Five Factor Model found to predict smoking and drug use in adulthood is:

Contrast the mature with the immature defense mechanisms in Vaillant's theory.

A 34-year-old woman is struggling to overcome her extreme anxiety that her friends will desert her, so she tends to stay away from making new friendships. According to the attachment style perspective, she would be considered to be _________ in her attachment style.

Researchers and clinicians use the Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R) to study the _____________ model of personality in adulthood.

People who use problem-focused coping are most likely to try to change ____________ when faced with a stressor.

A large-scale survey of adults from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) showed that ______% indicated they had experienced a "midlife" crisis, though the ages associated with that crisis showed a wide range.

Compare predictions about adult personality development from the Five Factor Model with the results of studies based on theories of ego development. Which results do you find more convincing? Why?

Using sequential methods made it possible for the RALS to investigate the role of ____________ in psychosocial development.

Summarize the patterns of gender differences in development that are apparent from studies on personality in adulthood. What further work in this area needs to be done? Why?