...Early and Middle Adulthood Paper Kimberly Smith PSY/280 August 17, 2015 Mrs. Barch Early and Middle Adulthood Paper Early to middle adulthood is more of a challenging ever-changing process. People in their early and middle adulthood go through transitions such as deciding to go to college, starting a family, getting married and establishing social and health-affecting habits. As a man and woman grow, these different changes will help him or her to form a wide variety of views on life. How social and intimate relationship has changed over time and identification of various roles changes during early and middle age. Lastly the direct and future influence the healthy and unhealthy behaviors experienced during early and middle adulthood. Social and Intimate relationship change In early adulthood, it’s a time of independence, identity seeking, and lifestyle forming. During this time, kids are graduating leaving their parents home starting new relationships and developing a life of their own. Erikson believed that people need constant contact with others throughout their lives, from birth to death, whether that contact is romantic intimacy or a relationship with friends and family. The time has changed where young adults were getting married fresh out of high school. Now middle adults are waiting until mid thirty’s are longer to have children and get married. Parents who waited longer to have children and who had highly educated degrees have a greater loss in happiness following...
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...Early and Middle Adulthood Francisco Del Angel PSY/280 February 15, 2013 Shannon Hilligoss Early and Middle Adulthood In this paper, early and Middle adulthood will be compared and contrasted. It will show how the decisions made earlier in age may or may not affect people. This paper will go through the changes of social and intimate relationships in these two different age frames as well as the various role changes people in this age group might encounter. It’ll talk about health problems and the reasons for these problems. In early adult hood the age range is 18-25. Around this time frame people tend to break away from social ties and begin to become independent from their parents. They move out the house and go to college or simply get their own apartment to gain ultimate independence. They choose not to be committed to anyone, like a serious girlfriend to avoid marriage or children. It was thought that in order to be intimate you were to be serious with someone and possibly get married and have children. However early adults are beginning to discover that marriage and parenthood are only two of several ways paths to go through when in search of intimacy. One of the main sources of intimacy for emerging adults is friendship. This is especially true for those who do in fact break away from their parents and choose not to be married or have children of their own. Usually men and women prefer friends of the same sex so they can participate in same sex activities to...
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...Early and Middle Adulthood Nakia Spates PSY/280 February 3, 2012 Michael Moore Early and Middle Adulthood The person must learn how to form intimate relationships, both in friendship and love. The development of this skill relies on the resolution of other stages. It may be hard to establish intimacy if one has not developed trust or a sense of identity. If this skill is not learned the alternative is alienation, isolation, a fear of commitment, and the inability to depend on others. Early adulthood you experience freedom and mistakes due to you becoming a young adult or somewhat anxious to get away from mom and dad. Some young adult are very careless with relationships as well as sexual acts too, which would change everything meaningless and unprotected sex usually ends up pregnancy. The intimacy comes in later adolescence and is marked by the teen's ability to sustain a relationship in which self-fulfillment is balanced with the desire to satisfy another's needs. Such a relationship is characterized by the ability to combine affection, sexuality, and friendship all in one. One can...
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...Adrienne Lindsey PSYC 2314.01 Early Adulthood Observation Observation Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 Time: 5:00-8:00PM Location: Adults Home OBSERVATIONS AND ANALYSIS Q was a 19 year old black male. He was in the Erickson’s intimacy vs. isolation stage. Areas of observation include physical, cognitive, and social/emotional development. Physical Development Q has reached maximum body growth and biological aging or senescence has begun. Biological ageing is “genetically influenced declines in the functioning of organs and systems that are universal in all members of our species” (Berk, 2010, p. 432). Q exercises daily but he admits that he doesn’t eat a healthy diet all the time. “Regular moderate to vigorous exercise predicts a healthier longer life” (Berk, 2010, p. 443). Also, “when too much saturated fat is consumed, some of it is converted to cholesterol, which accumulates as plaque on the arterial walls in atherosclerosis” (Berk, 2010, p. 441). Q was stressing about getting into college, helping his mother with bills, and finding a job. This is psychological development, “chronic stress resulting from economic hardships is linked to hypertension, which contributes to the high incidence of heart disease in low-income groups, especially African-Americans” (Berk, 2010, p. 450). Cognitive Development Q has not entered college yet but he knows that it is something he has to do in order to get a good paying job. Study shows that “about 20...
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...borrowed from Europe called the putting-out system. Under this system merchants would buy the raw materials, recruit dozens, or in some case hundreds, of farm families to do the work, and then sell the finished product. Many shoes in New England were made in this manner; women and children would make part of the shoe, which would be finished by experienced shoemakers. Beginning in the late 1780s the textile industry started to use power-driven machines and interchangeable parts. All power in these early factories came from water, so the early factories all were located along rivers. Most were located in New England or the Middle states. In the 1790s factories like those in Lowell, Massachusetts, began to weave cotton imported from the south. With the introduction of the cotton gin in the same decade, more cotton became available, and production boomed. By 1840 the textile industry employed nearly 75,000 workers, with almost half of them women. The workforce of many of the early factories was hired using the “Lowell System.” Young women from surrounding areas were brought in to work. They worked for a pittance, worked in horrible conditions, and slept in dormitories provided by the factory. The young women saw this as temporary work, as many went home after several years after making some money (and in some cases...
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...Early adulthood is the time in an individuals life where mature friendships, intimate relationships, job searching , college applications, graduate school applications, independency and many other things begin to take place. Early adulthood is an extreme developmental phase in the life cycle. Establishing a secure personal identity, building up of ideological values, selecting long-term and short term goals, and looking into the future are just some of the things that we start to figure out. All of these adulthood steps come with stress, road bumps, hardships, and lessons. Intimate relationships begin to form, along with these relationships comes attachment, with attachment comes heartbreak if the relationship does not work out, and of course heartbreak leads to depression and the chain continues. Job searching is another big step, finding a job is hard enough, but losing a job is even harder. Researchers have found that unemployment develops mental problems such as anxiety and depression which lead to marital problems and homicide. (Backhans & Hemmingsson, 2012;Freyer-Adam & others, 2011). Stress comes along with all these steps of early adulthood however the way an individual is brought up , the environment that he/she has grown up in all play a big factor as well. Individuals who grow up around parents who are alcoholics for example are more likely to be alcoholics themselves. So many major steps take place during early adulthood which is why so many psychological problems...
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...BS-PSYCHOLOGY Human Developmental Psychology Early childhood Summary Early adulthood is the prime of life, a phase of the life span between adolescence and full-fledged adulthood. They are not young enough to be included in the group of young teenagers, but also not old enough or don’t take on many of the responsibilities that 30 year olds are socially expected to perform. The people at this stage grow although does not grow taller but they become more strong and significantly healthier. This stage where drug abuse and alcoholism emerge causing many kinds of disease in later life. Those who engage in proper exercise and sports will likely to be healthier than those who are not. Cognitive development is also improving at this stage, thinking may become more adaptive, practical, and dialectical to take into account the inconsistencies and complexities encountered in daily experiences, as an individual takes on the responsibilities and commitments of adult life. Their moral thinking becomes deeper as well as religious faith becomes more reflective, with more appreciation of diverse viewpoints and also more commitment to one's own convictions. In terms of social and emotional development, the transition to early adulthood is a time of prolonged exploration of attitudes, values, and life possibilities in young adulthood. The need for affiliation is fulfilled by friends and often by a romantic commitment to a partner. Friendship is important to adulthood particularly to the single. The need...
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...Early and Middle Adulthood Marianne Williamson said, “In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they are no longer than what they are now, and that’s psychologically low-grade devastating”. As we age, we tend to look at the future, that growth with fear or trepidation. We mourn the loss of our “youth” rather than embrace the new changes we are heading toward. These changes we will experience are vast and necessary for each stage of development. As we grow become adults we will experience a variety of psychological changes as we adjust to aging and any changes that will happen to our lifestyle. These changes should not be feared, they simply mark the growth and experience that we will go through. During early and middle adulthood these changes are the most apparent. These changes can affect our relationships, the roles we play, and our later life. The way that people adjust to the changes of growing older and how this affects the rest of their life is what we will examine here. Social and Intimate Relationships During early and middle adulthood the way people view and interact within their relationships will be affected by a variety of factors. During middle to late adulthood, people will enter the fifth stage of Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory of Development. During this stage people will face a crisis where they will face being alone or being involved in meaningful relationships, called intimacy versus...
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...BS-PSYCHOLOGY Human Developmental Psychology Early childhood Summary Early adulthood is the prime of life, a phase of the life span between adolescence and full-fledged adulthood. They are not young enough to be included in the group of young teenagers, but also not old enough or don’t take on many of the responsibilities that 30 year olds are socially expected to perform. The people at this stage grow although does not grow taller but they become more strong and significantly healthier. This stage where drug abuse and alcoholism emerge causing many kinds of disease in later life. Those who engage in proper exercise and sports will likely to be healthier than those who are not. Cognitive development is also improving at this stage, thinking may become more adaptive, practical, and dialectical to take into account the inconsistencies and complexities encountered in daily experiences, as an individual takes on the responsibilities and commitments of adult life. Their moral thinking becomes deeper as well as religious faith becomes more reflective, with more appreciation of diverse viewpoints and also more commitment to one's own convictions. In terms of social and emotional development, the transition to early adulthood is a time of prolonged exploration of attitudes, values, and life possibilities in young adulthood. The need for affiliation is fulfilled by friends and often by a romantic commitment to a partner. Friendship is important to adulthood particularly to the single. The need...
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...BS-PSYCHOLOGY Human Developmental Psychology Early childhood Summary Early adulthood is the prime of life, a phase of the life span between adolescence and full-fledged adulthood. They are not young enough to be included in the group of young teenagers, but also not old enough or don’t take on many of the responsibilities that 30 year olds are socially expected to perform. The people at this stage grow although does not grow taller but they become more strong and significantly healthier. This stage where drug abuse and alcoholism emerge causing many kinds of disease in later life. Those who engage in proper exercise and sports will likely to be healthier than those who are not. Cognitive development is also improving at this stage, thinking may become more adaptive, practical, and dialectical to take into account the inconsistencies and complexities encountered in daily experiences, as an individual takes on the responsibilities and commitments of adult life. Their moral thinking becomes deeper as well as religious faith becomes more reflective, with more appreciation of diverse viewpoints and also more commitment to one's own convictions. In terms of social and emotional development, the transition to early adulthood is a time of prolonged exploration of attitudes, values, and life possibilities in young adulthood. The need for affiliation is fulfilled by friends and often by a romantic commitment to a partner. Friendship is important to adulthood particularly to the single. The need...
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...People who are charged with offences in the United States will very often attempt to use one of the criminal defences to make them not criminally responsible or less criminally responsible for the charge. Some of the Criminal defences used are the insanity defense, claiming that the offender was mentally insane, the necessity defence, claiming that the crime was committed to prevent a more serious crime from occurring, and being underage. Each of these three criminal defences are very effective ways of reducing or eliminating criminal responsibility from the offender. A person's age is a large variable in determining whether or not the person is criminally responsible. and child under the age of seven years old is most likely not going to be charged with any crimes because that child is not old enough to understand criminal intent based on brain development. A person is seven to eighteen years old is also considered underage, yet still able to be charged with crimes, however they are likely considered less responsible for crimes because their mens rea has not fully developed yet. These people are considered juveniles and are dealt with an entirely different system of courts and punishments. In Pennsylvania, twelve year old boy is being charged with two counts of murder for shooting a woman who was eight months pregnant, killing both the women and the fetus (Chen). This is an example of how the underage defence is not working someone that young should be trialed as a juvenile...
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...Early Adulthood When you're on the go in early adulthood, from ages 19 to 30, you need plenty of calories to fuel your busy lifestyle. The 2010 Dietary Guidelines tailor caloric recommendations not only to specific genders, but also to how physically active you are. Women ages 19 to 30 should consume anywhere from 1,800 to 2,400 calories a day, depending on activity level, while men should eat 2,400 to 3,000 calories a day. This is the time to eat plenty of calcium, found in low-fat dairy products and green leafy vegetables, as your bones continue to grow through your 20s, as well as iron and folic acid. Middle Age Your caloric needs decrease slightly as you hit your 30s and 40s. Women in this age range need 1,800 to 2,200 calories per day, while men should have 2,200 to 3,000 calories a day. During these two decades, boost your intake of omega-3 fatty acids, found in fatty fish, chia and flax seeds and walnuts; this unsaturated fat decreases inflammation and improves your cholesterol. Also ensure that you meet your iron needs -- choose fortified breakfast cereals, lean red meat or green leafy vegetables -- as this mineral helps keep you from feeling sluggish and boosts immune system function. Golden Years...
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...Donald Super Developmental self-concept Donald Super’s career model is based on the belief that self-concept changes over time and develops as a result of experience. [pic] One of Donald Super’s greatest contributions to career development has been his emphasis on the importance of the development of self-concept. According to Super, self-concept changes over time and develops as a result of experience. As such, career development is lifelong. Super’s five life and career development stages Super developed the theories and work of colleague Eli Ginzberg. Super felt that Ginzberg’s work had weaknesses, which he wanted to address. Super extended Ginzberg’s work on life and career development stages from three to five, and included different sub-stages. |Stage 1: Growth |Age 0–14 |Characteristics: Development of self-concept, attitudes, needs and general world | | | |of work | |Stage 2: Exploration |Age 15–24 |Characteristics: “Trying out” through classes, work experience, hobbies. Tentative| | | |choice and skill development | |Stage 3: Establishment |Age 25–44 |Characteristics: Entry-level skill building and stabilisation through work | | ...
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...Paper on Changes in Adulthood Amylyn Thomas University of Phoenix Change is a word that is said often but not many realize how much it affects their lives. As people grow, they change in each stage. The changes that occur during early, middle, and late adulthood are physical, emotional, cognitive, and developmental. As people grow, these changes help them to form personalities, and views on life. They go to college, get married, have children of their own, work for many years, and retire. It is smart to remember that change is a part of life and development and without it we do not become the people that they become. The first stage that will be discussed is early adulthood. There are many changes that occur during this stage because this is when the person goes from high school to college which is a new experience. This is the transition into adulthood because they start to think about their future. They decide on the degree that will impact what job field they will go into, start their finical stability and start to develop intimate and professional relationships. The physical aspect of early adulthood is biological aging. Biological aging begins in early adulthood and continues until death. There are many theories to biological aging. One theory is that the existence of aging genes that control the biological changes. These genes can control menopause, gray hair and the determination of body cells. One physical aspect is cardiovascular and repistroy systems...
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...Life Stages Interviews and Reports Everyone perspectives on lifestyle changes in all phases of adulthood have changed drastically over the years. Different choices, influences, and situations play a part in adult’s choices that they make throughout his or her young early, middle, and late adulthood years. Team A has conducted three interviews that focus on each stage of adulthood. The interview will cover some of the biological factors, cognitive factors, psychosocial factors, and cultural factors that influence the interviewees. All of the issues help to explain many of the lifestyle changes that adults make over the years. Young Adulthood The first interview conducted focused on the early stage of adulthood. A young woman age 25 by the name of Kelsey was asked a series of questions to help us gain some insight on her stage of development and allow her responses to be analyzed. I began with questions regarding her physical stage of development. I asked Kelsey how she feels about her physical state and what she does to take care of herself. Her response explained that she believes that she is in pretty good health although she does not have to do too much to stay that way. She reported that she eats fast- food a few times a week due to her busy schedule, but she does make time to exercise at least three times a week. She is a college student at the local college and she is also working part-time. I asked if there are any apparent differences between your previous physical...
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