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Chapter Twenty-Two
Middle Adulthood: Psychosocial Development
PowerPoints prepared by Cathie Robertson, Grossmont CollegeRevised by Jenni Fauchier, Metropolitan Community College
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Personality Throughout Adulthood
• Personality is a major source of continuity– provides coherence and identity
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Stable Traits :The Big Five
• Extroversion = outgoing, assertive, and active
• Agreeableness = kind and helpful• Conscientiousness = organized,
deliberate, and conforming• Neuroticism = anxious, moody, and self-
punishing• Openness = imaginative, curious, artistic,
and willing to have new experiences
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Stable Traits :The Big Five, cont.
• Traits determined by– genes– culture– early childhood– experiences and choices made during adolescence
and early adulthood
• Ecological niche—the specific lifestyle and social context adults settle into that are compatible with their personality needs and interests
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• Environment generally reinforces basic temperament– significant changes can make people
act differently•death of a spouse, divorce, illness,
career change, etc.
Developmental Changes in Personality
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Gender Convergence
• Gender convergence—a tendency for men and women to become more similar as they move through middle age
• Gender crossover—the idea that each sex takes on the other sex’s roles and traits in later life.
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Gender Convergence, cont.
• These ideas are partly biosocial, “shadow side,” and cultural– Barnett and Hyde (2001) believe that this
change is historically-based•the past century witnessed changes every
decade and gender roles changed•today’ middle-aged generation is probably
less likely to converge since male-female differences in personality less apparent
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The “Midlife Crisis”
• Midlife crisis—a period of unusual anxiety, radical reexamination, and sudden transformation widely associated with middle age, but probably more related to developmental history than to chronological age
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The “Midlife Crisis,” cont.
• The idea was promoted by Sheehy (1976) and Levinson (1978), but no large study has found such a crisis
• Why then do people talk about it as if it really existed?– myth may allow adults to cope with
disappointment, frustration, sadness caused by aged-related changes
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• Family is most important support system• If one’s own family is not doing that job,
“fictive kin” may be found– treated as family by this group
• Social convoy—group of people who form relationships with an individual through which they guide and socialize that person as he or she moves through life
Family Relationships in Midlife
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Partners
• Having an intimate relationship is a source of happiness, comfort, and self-respect; for 70 percent of middle-aged Americans, this achieved with a spouse
• For some divorced, widowed, or never-married middle-aged adults, intimacy may be achieved by cohabitation
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Marital Happiness
• Not all people are in good/happy relationships– relationship may be destructive– but worldwide, spouse abuse far more
common among younger married couples than among middle-aged spouses
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Marital Happiness, cont.
• Often regain some of closeness of early marriage– less stress from kids– higher incomes– more time together
• Studies in various cultures show that marital happiness in midlife is true
• In general, marriage relationships likely to get better over time
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Divorce and Remarriage• Not all couples become closer
– after years of marriage, divorce has more impact• reduces income, weakens family ties when long-
terms social bonds especially needed
• Most divorced remarry within 5 years• Remarriage offers benefits to both men
and women• Second marriages end in divorce more
often than first marriages do
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• Marriage is likely to benefit middle-aged adults
• Middle-aged women are at a disadvantage for marrying, remarrying – beginning at aged 45, there are more women
than men– men tend to marry younger women
The Marriage Market for Middle-Aged Adults
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• Kinkeeper—the person who takes primary responsibility for celebrating family achievements, gathering the family together, and keeping in touch with family members who live far away – most likely to be middle-aged– most are women, but men also can take the
role
Other Relatives
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Aging Parents
• Relationship with Parents – improves with time
• Familism—the idea that family members support one another because family unity is more important than individual freedom and success– stronger with ethnic minorities
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Siblings
• Siblings often become closer to each other in the second half of life than in early adulthood
• They help one another with problems with teenage children, stressful marriages, and family contacts
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Siblings, cont.
•Childhood Echoes—the relationship in middle and late adulthood is influenced by family values instilled in childhood– closeness can also be affected by
childhood rivalries, but these may be put aside at this point
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Siblings, cont.
• New Challenges—keeping up the relationship even though there are challenges such as primary caregiving of a parent by one sibling– death of a parent can increase problems
—like inheritance
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Adult Children
• Relationship with Children – improves with maturity of children
• Seven-nation survey: 75 percent of middle- aged parents communicated with adult children several times a week
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Adult Children, cont.
• Forms of Parental Support– monetary– various services like babysitting
• Some children return home, referred to as “swollen nest”
• Young adult children less likely to leave home, especially if parents in good health and they themselves are financially needy
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Grandchildren• Personality, ethnicity, national
background, and past parent-child relationship affect nature of grandparent-grandchild relationship as does child’s age and personality
• Bond closer if– grandchild young– parent is first to have children– grandparent neither too young nor too old to
spend time/energy interacting
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• Remote grandparents—respected and loved– emotionally distant grandparents
• Involved grandparents—active in day to day life, live near, see often
• Companionate grandparents—independent, with own lifestyle and household, choose how generational interaction occurs
• Most grandparents want to be companions
Types of Grandparents
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Immigrant Grandparents
• Happily become involved, especially when all speak a common language
• Often live in the same household• Children seem to develop better
when they are cherished and guided by a large family
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Immigrant Grandparents, cont.
• Many immigrant and minority families do not trust the majority culture to transmit their values, beliefs, language, and customs (culture)– grandparents best source of cultural
continuity
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Surrogate Parents
• Surrogate parents—grandparents who take over the raising of their grandchildren as a result of their adult children’s extreme social problems– if parents too poor, too young, drug or alcohol
addicted, single, newly divorced, then—– possibility of surrogate parenting increases
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Surrogate Parents, cont.
• Grandparents furnish stability, guidance, and patience
• Responsibility takes a toll if it lasts too long– can impair health and well-being
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• More than one in three grandparents witness divorce of an adult child
• Grandparents typically provide extra help when their newly divorced child receives custody of children
• If their adult child does not have custody, they may be shut out– grandparents in such situations may sue for
visitation rights
After Adult Children Divorce
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• Sandwich generation—generation of middle-aged people who are supposedly “squeezed” by the needs of the younger and older generations– Some do feel pressured, but most are not
burdened by such obligations• they enjoy filling needs or—• may choose to take on some (or no)
responsibilities
The Myth of the Sandwich Generation
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• Most choose not to provide financial or caregiving help to older generation– one study shows less than 20 percent provided help of any
kind– assistance 3 times more likely by African-American couples
• Personality may be as influential as need in determining whether to provide substantial help to either generation
The Myth of the Sandwich Generation, cont.
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• 90 percent of men and 75 percent of women in the United States are employed
• Worldwide, work is a welcome part of life
• Most jobs provide more joy than stress
Work in Middle Adulthood
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Overall Trends
• Meaningful work becomes more important as an individual ages– salary and benefits tend to rise with
seniority– lower rates of
•absenteeism•being fired or quitting•seeking a new job
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Overall Trends, cont.
• Many middle aged workers have worked for the same employer for more than five years
• There may be unexpected job loss as a result of downsizing and restructuring or relocation of company
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• Unlike young men, middle-aged men are no longer more concerned with work than with their family life– parental/family role usually considered
more important than work role
Balancing Work and Family
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Dealing with Job Stress
• Some people addicted to long hours and hard work, or “workaholism”
• Both men and women are physically and psychologically healthier if they have multiple roles
• Stress in one area of life can be relieved by support from other areas
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Scaling Back• Begin to deliberately balance work life with
other concerns– Place limits on work hours or responsibilities
• One partner may work part-time or at a less critical and lower paying job
• Or partners may take turns; one focuses on employment, the other on child care
• Rethinking and shifting toward retirement
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• Planning and actual event usually occur in middle age
• Retirement generally anticipated with more joy than dread
• The decision to retire is usually mutual, since both husband and wife are working
• Main planning consideration is financial
Retirement