Marital Patterns of Separateness and Connectedness Are Likely to Be

question 14

Multiple Choice

Marital patterns of separateness and connectedness are likely to be altered by

• A) retirement
• B) the behavioral slowing that accompanies the aging process
• C) frailty
• D) all of the above

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Definitions:

Socioeconomic Status

Describes an individual's or group's economic and social position based on income, education, and occupation.

Life Course

The sequence of significant events, experiences, and transitions in an individual's life from birth to death.

Ethnicity

A category of people who identify with each other based on shared ancestral, social, cultural, or national experiences.

Midlife Crisis

In some normative-crisis models, stressful life period precipitated by the review and reevaluation of one’s past, typically occurring in the early to middle 40s.