Deck 9: The Relationship of Young Adults, Their Parents and Their Children

Question 1

The successful balance of individuation and connectedness with one's parents can be seen in young adults:

A) Being able to live long distances from their parents.
B) Benefiting from relationships with their parents in which both their separateness and individuality are supported
C) Fluctuations in the emotional bond as being debilitating and at times exhilarating.
D) Boomeranging back and forth with living with their parents and living on their own.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

For young people in the United States and Canada, moving out of their parents' homes typically occurs around the ages of:

A) 16 to 17
B) 18 to 19
C) 20 to 21
D) 22 to 23.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following describes the typical living and financial support situations of young adults in traditional cultures?

A) They continue to live with their parents and are financially dependent on them.
B) They move out of their parents' home around the ages of 18 to 19 but continue to be financially dependent on their parents.
C) They support themselves financially but do not contribute to the financial welfare of their parents.
D) They continue to live with their parents but are expected to begin contributing to the financial welfare of their parents.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following describes the role of parents in promoting young adults' achievement of a sense of intimacy?

A) Parents play a pivotal role in sanctioning who the young adult will choose as an intimate partner.
B) The ability for one to have a positive relationship with one's father during adolescence is related to more positive relationships in young adulthood.
C) Many patterns that young adults bring into their intimate relationships are developed in the relationships they have with their parents.
D) High intimacy with both parents is necessary if the young adult hopes to have an intimate relationship with anyone else.

Question 5

In much of the world, such as in China, India, and Mexico, working to help support the family:

A) Was expected of young adults until about 30 years ago.
B) Was expected of young adults until very recently.
C) Has never been expected of young adults.
D) Continues to be expected of young adults.

Question 6

In the United States college students who live at home with their parents are different from those who live apart from their families in that:

A) Those who live with their families are more dependent on their mothers to do their laundry
B) Those who live apart from their families do their grocery shopping in their parents' kitchen
C) Those who live apart from their families have more difficulties but typically develop problem-focused coping strategies.
D) Those who live with their families are more content with their situations.

Question 7

Which of the following is describes the parallel development of the social roles of young adults and their parents?

A) The roles of both young adults and their parents continue to be redefined in relation to each other.
B) Parents and their young adult children have little influence on each other's role development.
C) Mature sons or daughters take on a parental role in relation to their parents.
D) A filial role involves the ability to be depended on by one's children.

Question 8

Young people in the United States and Canada typically move out of their parents' home _____________ most other Western countries.

A) About a year earlier than in
B) Several years earlier than in
C) About a year later than in
D) Several years later than in

Question 9

For those young adults who become parents, participation in simultaneous relationships with their parents and with their children is related to their development of a sense of:

A) Generativity.
B) Industry.
C) Identity.
D) Intimacy.

Question 10

Relationship dilemmas that young adults must work out with their parents and their children often have:

A) Clear and absolute rules
B) No single solutions.
C) Many predetermined right answers.
D) A few absolute rules.

Question 11

The roles and responsibilities that define adulthood, such as marriage, parenthood and employment:

A) Are similar throughout the world.
B) Are similar throughout the United States.
C) Are similar between Eastern and Western societies.
D) Vary considerably throughout the world.

Question 12

Which of the following has been found to contribute most to developing authoritative child socialization patterns?

A) Completing High School
B) Having your first child in your late adolescence
C) Obtaining a college education
D) Being a single parent

Question 13

The cognitive process of "problem finding" by young adults means which of the following?

A) The young adult is able to generate a problem where no problem previously existed.
B) The young adult looks to their own deficiencies and proceeds to project them onto their own children.
C) Before taking action, the young parent first determines that a problem exists as well as what the problem is likely to be.
D) Problems are intergenerational, meaning that the same relationship problems occur from one generation to the next.

Question 14

In their relationships with their parents, young adults tend to:

A) separate from their parents and gradually sever contact.
B) seek peer-like relationships with their parents.
C) have problems developing intimate relationships if they are close to their mothers.
D) prefer the company of their mothers over that of their fathers.

Question 15

The achievement of a sense of generativity is linked to which of the following?

A) The quality of adults' relationships with their friends.
B) The quality of adults' relationships with their parents and their children.
C) The quality of adults' relationships with their spouses/partners.
D) The quality of adults' relationships with their co-workers.

Question 16

Observations of high levels in participation in housework by their fathers during their growing-up years is associated with young adults' tendency to do which of the following?

A) Be supportive of men's participation in housework
B) Be unsupportive of men's participation in housework
C) Expect that women will do all of the housework
D) Hire outside help in maintaining the house.

Question 17

The clearest change in parent-child relationships that affects young adults' living arrangements in the United States is:

A) Housing costs.
B) Job opportunities.
C) Whether or not adult children have remained single.
D) The increase in parental divorce and remarriage.

Question 18

One of the forms that generativity needs might take for a parent in an individualist culture is:

A) Seeking to be the best parents possible while simultaneously being highly competitive in their occupational roles.
B) Being willing to sacrifice individual success in their occupational roles in order to be the best parents possible.
C) Being involved in cooperative efforts that maximize the likelihood of group success in the family as well as in the workplace.
D) Maintaining a positive marital relationship.

Question 19

Higher level reasoning, which is reflected in __________________, allows young adults to deal more effectively with the complex social worlds of which they are a part.

A) problem finding and dialectical thinking
B) concrete operational thinking
C) formal operational thinking
D) collaborative reasoning

Question 20

Young adults in industrialized societies who go to college typically:

A) Receive considerable monetary help from their parents.
B) Receive little monetary help from their parents.
C) Support themselves without depending on financial aid from their parents.
D) Reject financial assistance from their parents and apply for other sources of financial aid.

Question 21

Which of the following describes the process of parental distancing by young adults?

A) It is necessary that the son or daughter move as far from the parents as possible.
B) It is characterized by a complete emotional void between parent and adult child.
C) It is a challenge that requires an emotional emancipation from while remaining engaged with parents.
D) The course of emotional weaning is likely to be slow and painful for parents but not for their adult children

Question 22

The lifelong interdependence of parents and children can be observed in the planning of and participation in a number of important family events. Identify three.

Question 23

Filial maturity is demonstrated in the adult child's ability to do which of the following?

A) Respond to the needs of one's friends.
B) Be depended on by one's children.
C) Reverse roles with a parent.
D) Respond to the needs of the parent.

Question 24

Describe four ways in which young adults benefit from the scaffolding efforts of their parents.

Question 25

Parents support many young adult children by allowing them to continue to live at home. What are four factors that are related to parent and adult child coresidence?

Question 26

Besides leaving home to go to college, what are three other factors that influence when young adults in the United States move out of the parental home.

Question 27

According to Family Systems Theory, what are three changes in the family system when children become young adults that require adjustment of roles, and behaviors of family members?

Question 28

Which of the following describes the reconnection phase of parallel development of young adults and their parents?

A) Parents and their adult children come to know each other as individuals and develop greater appreciation of each other.
B) Young adults are often disappointed by their parents' invasion of their privacy.
C) Parents are often amazed at how immature their adult children are.
D) Parents are often surprised at how much their children have matured.

Question 29

Young parents who have egalitarian relationships experience less disappointment and stress with the arrival of their first child because

A) They have more income that allows them to hire outside help for assisting with household chores and child care
B) They are able to work out a collaborative approach for caring for their infant and taking care of household responsibilities
C) Their parents are willing to come over and help with the housework
D) They have spent so much time planning and preparing for the birth of the child that they are not overwhelmed with household tasks.

Question 30

For their young adult children who become parents, parents typically provide which three types of assistance?

Question 31

Demonstrating maturity in other adult roles promotes which of the following development for young adults

A) Sociocentrism.
B) Filial maturity.
C) Independence.
D) Parental dependency.