PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Midlife Crisis, Impression Management, Mattress
25 Mar 2015
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Two kinds of stability: rank order, correlation t1-t2 (t=time, most people remain consistent, mean level, from age 30 to 80 you regress to the mean level of traits. Post-traumatic growth: after major life events do people change, almost all of us will experience a trauma or major adversity in our lifetime , after trauma/adversity, most people report positive changes. Life satisfaction after adversity: long term changes in life satisfaction after major events, year zero is at adversity in life. Social desirability? (impression management- i want you to see that im good, self-deceptive enhancement-im pretty damn good) Change among offenders with substance use problems. Locus of control(all of us have assumptions of understanding events that happen in our lives, control over destiny), self- efficacy (belief that you can enact behavior, to overcome problems), control cravings. Personality change in midlife: anecdotal change vs. cohort changes. 26% of adults in one large study indicated a midlife crisis .
