Check Your Understanding Questions

Check Your Understanding Questions

19 .
Identify two similarities and two differences between Erikson’s psychosocial perspective and Levinson’s seasons of life perspective of development in middle adulthood.
20 .
Supporting your answer with an example, explain how a person’s roles or environment might promote personality change in middle adulthood.
21 .
Identify two positive outcomes associated with a secure attachment style in adulthood.
22 .
Identify two positive outcomes or benefits of marriage.
23 .
Identify two factors that might help to explain the increase in gray divorces in the United States.
24 .
Define the term family of choice and identify some circumstances in which this social network may be particularly useful to adults.
25 .
Identify two commonly cited reasons for why individuals may form multigenerational households.
26 .
What factors are increasing the number of midlife adults having the sandwich generation experience?
27 .
What are some of the potential negative impacts of the caregiver burden?
28 .
Identify two factors that predict adult happiness.
29 .
Identify two cross-cultural differences in how adults evaluate their life satisfaction.
30 .
Explain why task analysis can be helpful for setting and achieving goals.