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Chapter 5

Living Well at Every Stage


of Life
Living Well at Every Stage of Life

• Resilience researchers
• Positive youth developmentalists

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Resilience in Childhood
What Is Resilience?
• Resilience: “Bouncing back”
• Positive adaptation to significant adversity
• Two dimensions, four potential
experiences

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Resilience in Childhood
What Is Resilience?
• “Bounced back to what?”
• Cultural differences in conceptualization
• External and internal adaptation

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Resilience in Childhood
B-head/section subheading (if applicable)
• Main point from section (brief)
• Main point from section (brief)
• Main point from section (brief)

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Resilience in Childhood
The Roots of Resilience Research
• At-risk children of Kauai
• Over 80% “bounced back” later in life
• Attributed to having one supportive adult

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Resilience in Childhood
Resilience Resources
• Potent protective factors in development
• Culture influences coping with adversity
• Thousands of development programs

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Positive Youth Development
What Is Positive Youth Development?
• Positive youth development—ongoing
process
• Nine positive outcomes
• Need to continue studying this area

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Positive Youth Development
What Is Positive Youth Development?
• Can be designed for specific groups
• May not be equally accessible
• Move away from studying negatives for
certain groups

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Positive Youth Development
What Is Positive Youth Development?
• Civic behaviors
• Thriving and “spark”
• Strong relationships are very impactful

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Positive Youth Development
Positive Youth Development Programs That
Work
• Big Brothers and Big Sisters
• Penn Resiliency Program
• Changing Lives Program

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The Life Tasks of Adulthood
The Trajectories of Precocious Children
• Terman’s longitudinal study of gifted
children
• IQ does not guarantee success
• IQ is not protection against poor decisions

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The Life Tasks of Adulthood
What Are the Primary Tasks of Adulthood?
• Valliant built upon Terman’s work
• Valliant refined six tasks of adult
development
• Objective of adulthood is mastery of these
tasks

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Successful Aging
What Is Successful Aging?
• MacArthur Study of Successful Aging
• Carr and Weir found three distinct themes
• Much room for cultural interpretation

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Successful Aging
The MacArthur Foundation Study of
Successful Aging
• Life engagement most relevant to positive
psychology
• Socioemotional and instrumental support
• Productivity in late adulthood

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Successful Aging
The Adult Development Study
• Valliant identified specific lifestyle factors
• Happy-well and sad-sick
• Positive emotional experiences in early life

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