| big five factors of personality | Emotional stability (neuroticism), extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness
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| contemporary life-events approach | Emphasizes that how a life event influences the individual's development depends not only on the life event but also on mediating factors
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| cumulative personality model | Emphasizes that with time and age, people become more adept at interacting with their environment in ways that promote the stability of personality
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| empty nest syndrome | Decrease in marital satisfaction after children leave home
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| generativity | Adults' desire to leave legacies of themselves to the next generation
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| sandwich generation | Adults with responsibilities for their adolescent and young adult children as well as their aging parents
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| social clock | Timetable according to which individuals are expected to accomplish life's tasks, such as getting married, having children, and establishing themselves in a career
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| stagnation | Individuals' sense that they have done little or nothing for the next generation
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