Adult Development

The Five-Factor Model of Personality

The five-factor model (FFM) of personality includes emotional stability, surgency, culture, agreeableness, and will or dependability with dimensions of neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. This model has become a prominent paradigm viewed as having generality and applicability. Thus for the big five: neuroticism refers to a lack of positive psychological adjustment and emotional stability; extroverts are described as being sociable, active, and impulsive; openness to experience is described as intellectual and unconventional; agreeableness is described as cooperative, trusting, and caring, and likable; and conscientiousness is described as hardworking, persistent, dependable, and orderly (Judge, Higgins, Thoresen, & Barrick, 1999).

Different personality patterns result in different perspectives. For example, results of one study showed that participants with low scores for neuroticism and high scores for openness, extraversion, and agreeableness tend to be more prepared and more willing to work hard. Alternatively, those with low scores on extraversion, open

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midlife crisis can lead to changes in body image and facing mortality and spiritual issues, and physical limitations. Older adults face dissatisfaction with life in general and increases in health problems with decreases in abilities and resources (Rich, Warsradt, Nemiroff, Fowler, & Young, 1991). The elderly, ages 65 and older may also suffer from increased levels of cognitive impairments. Social resources can alleviate negative effects of critical life events such as medical problems, however these resources may be lacking in very old age. Social resources are even more important in the elderly since individual resources may be decreased. The very old adult faces higher levels of morbidity, mortality, lower income and less appropriate housing (Martin, Grunendahl, & Martin, 2001). Homelessness and Adult Development Adult negative personality types and cognitive deficits are associated with discontinuing or dropping out of life, more so than ethnicity or sex (Shanan, 1991). Homeless individuals are typically mentally ill people who are regressed and unstable. One third of the homeless populations are suffering with mental illness; neurotic and stress-related conditions are found as are affective disorders and schizophr
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