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Match the following terms with their definitions.
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contemporary life-events approach

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social clock

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big five factors of personality

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empty nest syndrome

A)A decrease in marital satisfaction after children leave home.
B)Emotional stability (neuroticism), extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.
C)Emphasizes that how a life event influences the individual's development depends not only on the life event, but also on mediating factors, the individual’s adaptation to the life event, the life-stage context, and the sociohistorical context.
D)The timetable according to which individuals are expected to accomplish life's tasks, such as getting married, having children, and establishing themselves in a career.







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