Seventy-six-year-old Elizabeth, a white woman in the U.S., has been recently widowed. She is thinking about her choices of living arrangements. What is her first choice most likely to be?

Why are the Big Five personality traits important?

a. They help you understand which aspects of personality are good and which are bad. b. They seem to describe basic dimensions of behavior that explain why people act as they do. c. They are mental manoeuvres we use to decrease threats to our self-esteem. d. They result in limiting options in life, usually out of fear of disapproval from others.

Haberkern and Szydlik (2010), comparing 11 European countries, found that in the more individualistic north, care for elderly parents was provided mainly by ____

a. children b. siblings c. the government d. hospice volunteers