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Ψ  Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

1. What factors might cause a midlife crisis?

2. What changes might occur in the five trait clusters in personality?

3. Give an example (other than the one in the text) of the way one's ecological niche contributes to stability of personality.

4. How might men& women be affected differently by middle age?

5. How does the relationship between children and elderly parents typically change when children reach middle age?

6. How does the relationship between parents and children change when the children reach adulthood?

7. How has grandparenthood changed over the past 100 years?

8. How does the marriage relationship change over the decades?

9. How do middle aged adults cope with divorce - their own and that of their adult child?

10. What are the differences between work in middle age and work in young adulthood?

11. In your experience - Describe a relationship that you know of in which a middle aged person and a younger adult learned from each other.