...Young and Middle Adulthood Case Studies Yoneisha Maple BSHS/325 MAY, 23, 2016 Barbara Kennedy In life we all go through many changes. One of the changes that all of us endure is relationships. From childhood to adulthood we go through different changes and experience different relationships. This can be caused by many environmental and social factors. In the case study about Tina, it was caused by her ex-husband leaving her for a younger woman. Her role changes from early to middle adulthood will be discussed as well as the effects of healthy or unhealthy habits as well. Tina is a 45 year old woman with three children, Jackson, Oliver, and Crystal. Tina’s relationships have changed from young adulthood to middle adulthood. Tina’s three adult children live in her house with her. Tina’s ex-husband left her for a younger more attractive female. So Tina is now very obsessed with keeping her appearance up. She spends many hours at the gym working out, and a lot of time running, obsessing over staying in shape. Tina has not been satisfied with her progress at the gym so she has increased her exercising routine to 4 hours a day, which leaves less time to spend with the man she is dating, Michael. She is so obsessed with exercising and the way she looks it is affecting their relationship. She also spends a lot of time away from Michael, whom she has been dating for 5 years. Michael wants to marry Tina, but has second thoughts because of her lifestyle and the fact that...
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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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...Middle Adulthood Jamika Golden Mercer University Middle Adulthood According to Rathus (2016), Middle Adulthood spans from ages 40 to 65. Although we may mature at different rates, our physical rates can be reversed in some cases with diet and exercise. In this stage, people go through many physical changes such as hearing and hair loss graying of hair, vision changes, and wrinkling of skin just to name a few. Middle-agers are more susceptible to diseases such as cancer, heart disease, hypertension, arthritis, and diabetes. In mid-life there is a decline in vision, many gain weight, and reduce in height. Some men develop sexual dysfunctions while women go through menopause or what is also called the change in life. The menopause transition commonly takes place between 46 and 50 years old. Symptoms vary from person to person and/or region to region. According to a study conducted on menopause in Australia and Japan, the women menopausal symptoms had many differences. Most of the Australians had symptoms of night sweats while the Japanese women reported anxiety and nervousness as their main issues. On the other hand, the regional studies showed a significant increase in depression and hot flashes across the board. Meanwhile, both regions did not show major differences in being excitable, difficulty in concentration, feeling tired or lacking energy.(Anderson, D .J, Yoshizawa, T, Gollshewski S.E, Sara E.A, Fumi.C Mary D;2004) Although this may be true studying middle age...
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...Young and Middle Adulthood Transitions Interview 1 For my first interview I decided to interview myself. I am 35 years old with dark curly hair, hazel green eyes and fair skin. My face is round and symmetrical. I am confident in my own skin and I have an outgoing social personality. I enjoy adventures but get antsy easily. I know how to work a room and engage an audience. I have been in banking for 18 years and recently took on a manger position. In reference to the 5 factor model (Craig and Dunn 2013, p 437) I am still a little emotionally unstable. I am moody at times with a bit of sensitivity, yet I can be relaxed in certain situations and feel emotionally stable. I am very much an extravert who likes to talk and socialize. I have always been open to new things with a wild and creative imagination. I think of myself as warm, friendly, king and sympathetic; I have always been able to sense the emotions of those around me. I am also very dependable, someone who can be counted on in times of need. In regards to Erikson’s stages of development (Craig and Dunn 2013, p 417) I feel I have so much more to contribute to the world. I feel I have spent enough time in self-absorption and need to have more generativity. When I hit my 30’s it really hit me how much more I could do to add value in this world. I started to question my career goals and life aspirations, looking back at what I’ve done and thinking about all the things I could do in the future. Looking...
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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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...Young and Middle Adulthood Case Studies Nadia Garcia University of Phoenix BSHS 325 Cynthia Hebron March 19, 2014 Young and Middle Adulthood Case Studies In this essay I choose to pick case study # 2: Tina is a 45-year old female who’s occupation is a high school teacher with three children, Jackson, Oliver, and Crystal. She is a single parent with three adult children living at home. I portray this family lacking emotional stability among each other. Tina’s enjoys working out and spends most of her time doing so. Tina has a best friend named Ida, she confides and discusses personal issues with her. Michael, who is Tina’s boyfriend for 5 years works as a mentor in a youth program and has managed to spend time motivating young men to leave gangs and finish high school. Michael and Tina enjoy each other’s company even though it is limited by Tina’s dedication to exercise. Tina is refraining herself from having intimate relationship with Michael until she remarries. Michael respects her decision, but feels that she is also emotionally unavailable in their relationship. The roles that have occurred are: Tina enjoys working out and staying fit, and she does so by running and going to the gym which consumes her life. She has noticed a decline in her abilities at the gym and has increased her sessions to 4 hours a day. Michael has become upset with her excessive workout’s, which leaves her with little to no time to spend with him as a couple. Tina often discusses with...
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...Physical Development in Middle Adulthood Paper Team B BSHS/325 04/13/2015 Instructor: Maria Perrotta Physical Development in Middle Adulthood Paper Middle adulthood is a time of young adulthood and late adulthood. It accompanies many changes that some people may not be prepared for or welcome with open arms. The changes that usually deal with the mind and the body gradually develop as time continues to pass. Some of the most drastic changes are the physical changes that can have a profound effect on the way a person at this stage of life view themselves. Common health problems that evolve during this age The physical modification people in this stage of life may experience varies depending on many factors that contribute to one's health. Smoking, drinking alcohol, unhealthy eating habits and stress can all negatively affect a person's health and increase the chance of acquiring the common health issues middle-aged adult face. Common health issues include Cancer, Diabetes, Hypertension, Arthritis, High Cholesterol and Weight gain, all of which have a direct connection to one another. Hypertension In middle adulthood, the body starts to change and evolve in more ways than one. The metabolism starts to slow down, and health problems are more common to arise at this point. There are various common health problems that we see at this age, and a more common one is Hypertension also known as high blood pressure. The higher one's blood pressure becomes, the...
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...Early and Middle Adulthood Paper Morgaine Smith PSY280 April 17, 2012 Early to middle adulthood is a time of independence, identity seeking, and lifestyle forming. During this time people strike out on their own, building relationships and establishing social and health-affecting habits. Middle adulthood differs from young adulthood in social needs (although the basic need for socialization remains the same), and represents a shift in attitude about relationships and vocations that moves from fluidity to stability. Health practices are also at work here, with factors such as diet, exercise, and drug use in young adulthood impacting middle adulthood later on. 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. In romantic relationships, young adults tend to be “serially monogamous” [ (Berger, 2010) ], or remaining emotionally or sexually involved with only one person for a period of time, though the relationship is rarely permanent, and the young adult may have many of these relationships during this stage of his or her life. This is typical for the age group, which is characterized by an unwillingness to commit permanently to a job, a spouse, or even an educational program. Young adults today are markedly different from young adults in the previous generation, in that they marry later and may not start families or enter a permanent...
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...Physical Development in Middle Adulthood LaChina Allen Teresa Bird Tammi Bowen Janice Cintron Shannon Jones BSHS/325 July 20, 2015 Carrie Hill Physical Development in Middle Adulthood Middle age, the space on the timeline of life that surpasses young adulthood, but has yet to plunge into those good old golden years, bring about changes that are expected and unexpected to every living being and occurs within the age range of 45- 65 years of existence. During this phase many use the excuse of “mid-life crisis” to cover up the changes that are bound to happen organically with or without expectancy. In this paper, we will explore the various alterations within this frame of life. There are constant changes your body goes through when you reach a certain age that can affect your health. Illnesses such as: Diabetes, cancer, hypertension (high blood pressure), complications in the kidneys and gallstones. Studies show that people with lower incomes are more likely to acquire more health problems than those who are blessed with better finances, due to the lack of proper insurance coverage. Many of these problems are hereditary or can occur from unhealthy dieting. Eating healthy and exercising can help eliminate some of the risk of getting these health problems. Also, regular check-ups from an assigned physician can help detect health problems before they become incurable. Whether the conversation is about female menopause or the male climacteric stage, the discussion...
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...Making it in midlife or Middle adulthood is a very challenging throughout lives and many people faced enormous changes physical changes , cognitive Development as well personality. Someone that i can relate to from these chapters who has been through some experience when she reaches middle adult age is my sister. Before my sister reaches middle adulthood she was a very nice person to be at around with , she used to tell us stories and take us a beautiful places like lakes and rivers where we can enjoy and laugh. she used to helped my mother financial such as pay house rent partially since she was the one person who works at the present time. In addition to that my sister has also faced others challenges because she did not get...
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...relationship and this does not eliminate itself from the relationships of elderly people. However, both men and women do suffer some changes in their sexuality as they become older. As for the men one of the main worry’s as they become older is their capacity of reach an erection. In some men, it may take longer and contain more motivation to accomplishing an erection, and even then it may not be as strong as it was in their young years. According to Cherry "Some men are unable to achieve erection at all. This is referred to as impotence. Impotence doesn't only affect elderly men; younger men will also likely suffer this at least once in their lives” (Cherry). The women also go through some of the changes in witch is menopause during the middle adulthood. The menopause is one of the common cause for sexual changes in women as they get older. Cherry states that "following menopause, a woman's vaginal canal may be shortened and thinned and sometimes even becomes smaller all around. Many women also experience a decrease in lubrication" (Cherry). In my opinion as a women the combination of a smaller vagina and less lubrication might make sex uncomfortable. But if both men and women are experiencing sexual changes due to elderliness they should discuss these issues with their partner. By staying with an open mind and communicate, the husband or wife can take steps to...
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...Physical Development in Middle Adulthood Paper Ashley N. Sanders, Roderick Hill, Shea White, and Jessica Grimes BSHS/325 August 24, 2015 Erick Lear Physical Development in Middle Adulthood Middle adulthood is a perplexed period that requires a multifaceted outlook to understand all of the changes and developments that are going to happen. The different changes occurring in middle adulthood include physical, cognitive and social differences. Middle adulthood life stage is said to be between ages 35 to 64. Common health problems that are evolving through age Aging causes its own set of problems as individuals dexterity decreases, energy levels drop, and metabolism slows down which increases their risk for illness and disease. Cancer, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, and arthritis are the most common health problems for those in middle adulthood. Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the United States, however with advancements in cancer screenings and treatments, the survival rates are continuing to improve (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2015). Heart disease narrows or blocks the blood vessels leading to chest pain, stroke, or heart attack. Type 2 diabetes results from the body having too much glucose in one's bloodstream. Over time diabetes causes involvement with the cardiovascular system, damages the nerves, kidneys, eyes, and feet, skin and hearing problems. Arthritis is inflammation affecting one or more joints, causing pain and stiffness in the joint. Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid...
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...Physical Development in Middle Adulthood Middle adulthood is a time of change and has been referred to as the prime time of life. Middle age can range from ages 35 – 70. This is a time when you reflect on exciting milestones that had occurred in the past. For example, graduating from college, getting married, and starting a family. Most people at this age are in fairly good health both physically and psychologically, they are also apt to earning more money and having acquired wisdom through life experiences (Zastrow 2010 pg 410). However, in middle age there are also life crises, slow decline in health, changes in sexuality occur, and slight changes in intellectual activity and cognitive competence. Men and women are changing physically, cognitively and biologically during this time. There are four common health problems that arise from middle adulthood, Hypertension, Diabetes, Cancer and Arthritis, as individuals reach middle age they will feel a difference in physical functional so it is important for to stay healthy and practice a lifestyle of wellness. Hypertension also referred to as high blood pressure is a major health problem beginning in midlife. Middle-age Americans face a 90% chance of developing high blood pressure at some time during the rest of their lives, according to a new study supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). " Lenfant states, "high blood pressure is easily diagnosed and can be prevented by adopting certain lifestyle...
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...The changes in sexuality for men and women, sexuality are an important function in middle adulthood. Men tend to function sexually in a satisfying marriage and intimacy when they are overall pleased with their partner. Marital satisfaction probably increases the pleasure derived from sexual intercourse, and a satisfying sexual relationship probably increases the satisfaction derived from a marriage (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010). Women are much more likely to be orgasmic in very happy marriages than in less happy marriages (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, p.426). Men and women reach their sexual desire at two different ages, a man’s sex drive reaches its peak at a relatively young age, whereas a woman’s tends to peak in her late 30s or early 40s (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010). Other changes involved with couples experiencing difficulty with their sex drive, is having children, many adjustments, pressures, and problems can be associated with parenthood (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2010). Men engagement is in extramarital affairs decreases as men age, on the other hand, women extramarital relationships increases, of the thought men reaches their sexual peaks at an earlier age. Other changes that will cause an extramarital affair: reasons due to unsatisfying sex drive within the marriage or illnesses of the partner, or dysfunction in the relationship. Following a divorce, a man can have several partners, and women are more likely to an active sex life with more partners then...
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