Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter, the student should be able to complete the following goals:

1

Present Selye's general adaptation syndrome in its three stages in terms of function, physical manifestations, and psychological manifestations.

2

Examine Selye's reactions to stress in terms of feelings, bodily response, and actions.

3

Examine risk factors for stressors as well as factors that protect people from stress.

4

Describe marriage at middle age.

5

Portray the changing relationship between middle-aged adults and their parents, siblings, and friends.

6

Discuss the effect of divorce on middle-aged adults and their children.

7

State the nature of sexual activities during middle age, their relationship to physiological changes in men and women, and changes in satisfaction levels over time and circumstances, including transitions in attitudes toward love in general.

8

Compare and contrast trait theories and stage theories.

9

Compare the two tasks of Levinson's settling down period with the three major developmental tasks of the mid-life transition.

10

Compare Levinson's research with men and his current research with women, and describe the central themes in women's lives that he identified.

11

Describe Erikson's stage of generativity and stagnation in middle adulthood.

12

Describe the NEO model of personality.

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