Human Growth and Development
Lecture 17 Socioemotional Development: Middle Adulthood
4/4/06
- Adult Stages
- Erikson - Generativity vs. Stagnation
- What kinds of things demonstrate generativity?
- Stagnation?
- Models of generativity?
- What do we learn from them?
- Terror Management Theory (Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon)
- Humans are the only species who are aware of their eventual deaths.
- So what keeps us from succumbing to the futility of our transient lives?
- Immortalizing ourselves
- Sounds like generativity
- Mortality salience = stagnation?
- Midlife Crisis?
- Not usually
- Evaluation
- Reactance against growing older --> regression to younger behaviors
- Then where to we get this idea?
- Contexts
- Men vs. women for...
- Employment
- Marriage
- Children
- Caring for elderly parents
- Social Clock
- Culture
- Close Relationships
- Empty nest?
- Sibling relationships
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