PSYCH 3AG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Childlessness, Back Pain, Married People
26 Mar 2019
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Final exam: ~ 50 mc questions, ~ 4 short answer, more based on application than the first one. Social roles in young adulthood: ages ~18-25, often called emerging adulthood, many left the dependency of childhood, but not yet assumed responsibilities of adulthood. Increasing age at first marriage: decreasing marriage rate. Increasing cohabitation rate: cohabiting highest in western countries, 55% cohabiting by age 45 in canada. Inter-individual change in marital quality significantly associated with inter-individual change in physical illness. I. e. , improvement in marital quality associated with decline in physical illness: change in marital quality also associated with change in physiological well-being. Social roles in late adulthood: simplified forms of former roles, living arrangements, work, parenthood, addition of unpleasant roles, widowhood, care giver or receiver. Atypical social roles: lifelong singles, childlessness, divorce, role additions, remarriage, even more roles, the rate of people who go childless has increased steeply. Summary: social roles change throughout the lifespan, these changes do not always represent loss.
