Exam 8: Personality and Patterns of Coping

Define the concept of "psychological mindsets" and indicate its importance in relation to the quality of life and longevity of older adults. How may it be adaptive as well as maladaptive?

What personal observations in your life have you made about the validity of the midlife crisis concept? How do these observations fit with the theories and research on this topic in the adult development literature?

Lower levels of IL-6 were associated in research on the MIDUS with which FFM personality trait?

The inner narrative that people create of their experiences up to the present point is called the:

The patterning of an individual's personal development, occupation, family roles, religion, friendships, and religion at a particular point in time is referred to by Levinson as the:

A major emphasis of psychodynamic theory is understanding the use of ________________ in adulthood.

In Erikson's theory, emerging adults who arrive at commitments but do not evaluate alternative commitments would be in which identity status?

Because it studied patterns of individual changes over time, the Rochester Adult Longitudinal Study (RALS) on psychosocial development used the multivariate correlational method known as:

A behavioral health specialist working on a cardiologist's hospital team is called in to conduct a session with a new patient. After determining that the patient fits the Type A Behavior Pattern, what would be the best way for her to try to help this patient decrease his future heart disease risk?

As pointed out in "Aging Today," people who view their situations in life honestly, if not with a slight sense of worry, can be considered high in:

What effect does a shortening of time perspective have on an individual's relationships with others?

According to your text, the idea that personality is subject to major upheavals in the middle years of adulthood reflects: