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🎯 Main Points

Resilience in Later Years

PSY409 - Positive Psychology

🔑 Key Definitions

Resilience: The ability to bounce back from adversity and maintain psychological well-being 💪🌊
PYDP: Positive Youth Development Perspective - views all youth as having potential for positive growth 🌱👶
Developmental Assets: Internal and external resources that promote healthy development 🏗️💫

👤 Important Figures

  • Emmy Werner - 40-year Kauai longitudinal study on resilience 📊
  • George Vaillant - Harvard Study of Adult Development, identified 6 tasks of aging 🎓

🧠 Key Terms

  • Kauai Longitudinal Study - 1955 birth cohort, tracked 698 infants over 40 years
  • 40 Developmental Assets - Search Institute framework for youth development
  • Harvard Study of Adult Development - Longest running study of adult life

📋 Vaillant's 6 Tasks of Aging

  • 1. Caring for others 🤲
  • 2. Being open to new ideas 🔓
  • 3. Keeping social utility 👥
  • 4. Maintaining integrity 💎
  • 5. Feeling wisdom 🦉
  • 6. Experiencing spirituality 🙏

💡 Exam Tips

  • Remember Werner's study: 1 in 3 high-risk children became successful adults 📊
  • Know all 6 of Vaillant's tasks of aging in order 📋
  • PYDP focuses on STRENGTHS not deficits ✅