Adulthood & Old age

Young adult age

20-40

Young adult characterized by

• Peak biological development

• Major social roles + Identity related to it

• Evolution (adult self and life structure)

Young adult: Successful transition requires __ of childhood and adolescent crises

Satisfactory resolution

Transition from adolescence to young adult: Characterized by __ from the family of origin and engagement of __

Intrapsychic separation

new phase-specific tasks

What phase: Childhood dependency to self reliance

Transition from adolescence to young adult

What phase: To develop a young adult sense of self

YA

What phase: To develop adult friendships

YA

What phase: To develop the capacity for intimacy, to become a spouse

YA

What phase: To become a biological and psychological parent

YA

What phase: To develop a relationship of mutuality and equality with parents when facilitating their midlife development

YA

What phase: To establish an adult work identity

YA

What phase: To integrate new attitudes towards time

YA

What phase: To establish a self that is separate from parents

YA

What phase: Work identity

YA

YA: Work identity:

• Source of frustration

• Enhance self-esteem

YA: Work identity: Can damage one’s core identity

Unemployment

What phase & developmental task: Primary source of emotional sustenance

YA: Developing adult friendships

What phase & developmental task: Substitute siblings and parents until more permanent replacements are found (own spouse, children)

YA: Developing adult friendships

What phase & developmental task: Search for intimacy

YA: Sexuality and marriage

What phase & developmental task: Increases desire for marriage

YA: Sexuality and marriage

What phase & developmental task: Increases bond between new parents

YA: Parenthood

What phase & developmental task: Expands their internal image of each other to include thoughts and feelings emanating the role of a parent

YA: Parenthood

What phase & developmental task: Continuing process of letting go

YA: Parenthood

What phase & developmental task: Separation from children and enhancing their independence

YA: Parenthood: Continuing process of letting go

Middle adulthood age

40-65

Golden age of adulthood

Middle adulthood

What phase: Physical health

Middle adulthood

What phase: Gratifying relationships

Middle adulthood

What phase: Emotional maturity

Middle adulthood

What phase: Competence and power at work

Middle adulthood

4 factors in middle adulthood

• Physical health

• Emotional maturity

• Competence and power at work

• Gratifying relationships

Middle adulthood: __ = the 4 factors

Normative sense of satisfaction and well-being

What phase: Some experience gap bw earlier aspirations and current achievements

MA: Work

What phase: Is it worth continuing

MA: Work

What phase + under what: I would like to live in a more satisfying way

MA: Work

What phase: May develop qualities that enable them to express emotions and recognize their dependency needs, traits that are considered feminine

Middle adulthood

What phase: No longer need to nurture young children

Middle adulthood

What phase: Release the energy into independent pursuits

Middle adulthood

What phase: Competitive and assertive

Middle adulthood

What phase: Considered masculine

Middle adulthood

Middle adulthood: 3 factors

Generativity

Self-actualization

Wisdom

Middle adulthood: Developmental theory by

Robert butler

Middle adulthood: Developmental theories: Issues

• Prime of life

• Stock taking; what to do c the rest of one’s life

• Fidelity and commitments

• Growth-death (to grow is to die, juvenescence and rejuvenation fantasies)

• Communication and socialization

Middle adulthood: Developmental theories: Positive features: Prime of life

• Responsible use of power

• Maturity

• Productivity

Middle adulthood: Developmental theories: Positive features: Stock taking

• Possibility

• Alternatives

• Organization of commitments

• Redirection

Middle adulthood: Developmental theories: Positive features: Fidelity and commitments

• Commitment to self, others, career, society

• Filial maturity

Middle adulthood: Developmental theories: Positive features: Growth-death

• Naturality regarding body

• Time

Middle adulthood: Developmental theories: Positive features: Communication and strategies

• Matters understood

• Continuity

• Picking up where left off

• Large social network

• Rootedness of relationships, places, ideas

Middle adulthood: Developmental theories: Negative features: Prime of life

• Winner-loser view

• Competitiveness

Middle adulthood: Developmental theories: Negative features: Stock taking

• Closure

• Fatalism

Middle adulthood: Developmental theories: Negative features: Fidelity and commitment

• Hypocrisy

• Self-deception

Middle adulthood: Developmental theories: Negative features: Growth-death

• Obscene or frenetic efforts

• Ex. youthful, hostility and envy youth and progeny, longing

Middle adulthood: Developmental theories: Negative features: Communication and socialization

• Repetitiveness

• Boredom

• Impatience

• Isolation

• Conservatism

• Confusion

• Rigidity

Middle adulthood: Erik erikson:

Generativity vs stagnation

Middle adulthood: Erik erikson: Process by which persons guide the oncoming generation or improve society

Generativity

Middle adulthood: Erik erikson: Raising children

Generativity

Middle adulthood: Erik erikson: No children:

Generativity: No children

• Helping others

• Being creative

• Contribute to society

T or F: Wanting and having children does NOT ensure generativity

True

Middle adulthood: Erik erikson: Stops developing

Stagnation

Middle adulthood: Erik erikson: Being in a cocoon of self concern and isolation

Stagnation

Middle adulthood:

• Developing __

• __

Midlife friendships

Sexuality

Middle adulthood: __: Usually do not have sense of urgency or the need to be frequently or nearly in constant physical presence of friend

Developing midlife friendships

Middle adulthood: __: Constant sources of gratification through:

Developing midlife friendships

• Spouse, children, and colleagues

Middle adulthood: __: Reappraising relationships

Developing midlife friendships:

Middle adulthood: __: __: Settle for what they have or search for greater perfection (affair, trial separations, divorce)

Developing midlife friendships: Reappraising relationships

Middle adulthood: Developing midlife friendships: Reappraising relationships:

• Providing a safe place for conflict and difference = acceptance

• Holding a double vision of eo

• Maintaining a healthy sexual life

Middle adulthood: Developing midlife friendships: __: Focused on maintaining intimacy in the face of pressures

Sexuality

Middle adulthood: Developing midlife friendships: __: Diminished sexual ability is compensated by feelings of love and tenderness generated over years by a satisfying relationship

Sexuality

Middle adulthood: Developing midlife friendships: __: Acceptance of partner’s middle aged body, find it stimulating and accept normative changes in sexual function

Sexuality

What phase: Climacterium

Middle adulthood

Middle adulthood: __: Decreased biological and physiological functioning

Climacterium

Middle adulthood: __: Sudden drastic change in work or marital relationships

Andropause midlife crisis

Middle adulthood: __: Severe depression

Andropause midlife crisis

Middle adulthood: __: Increased drug or alcohol use and shift to an alternate lifestyle

Andropause midlife crisis

Middle adulthood: __: Accompanied by significant, ongoing emotinoal turmoil for the individual and others

Andropause midlife crisis

M or F: Andropause midlife crisis

Males

M or F: Menopause

Females

A depression that occurs in some when the youngest child is about to leave home

Middle adulthood: Empty nest syndrome

Empty nest syndrome: more predominant in __

• Especially those whose predominant role in life is __ and those who stay in __

Females

• Motherhood

• Unhappy marriage “for the sake of it”

Empty nest syndrome: Develop __

Compensating activities

Middle adulthood: __: __: A mental state, not age

Adult maturity

Achieve of maturity

Middle adulthood: __: Mental state found in healthy adults

Adult maturity

Middle adulthood: __: Characterized by detailed knowledge of the parameters od human existence

Adult maturity

Middle adulthood: __: a sophisticated level of self awareness based on honest appraisal of one’s own experience and ability t use this intellectual and emotional knowledge and inisight caringly in relation to one’s self and others

Adult maturity

Middle adulthood: __: Emergence of __

Adult maturity

Wisdom

Middle adulthood: Adult maturity: __: Learned from the past

Wisdom

Middle adulthood: Adult maturity: __: Fully engaged in the life in the present

Wisdom

Middle adulthood: Adult maturity: __: Understanding and acceptance of persons place in the order of human existence

Wisdom

Late adulthood age

65-75

Old-old age

75 and beyond

What phase: Shift from pursuit of wealth to maintenance of health

Late adulthood

Late adulthood: Central concern

Aging body

What phase: Developmental task: To maintain the body image and physical integrity

Late adulthood

What phase: Developmental task: To conduct the life review

Late adulthood

What phase: Developmental task: To maintain sexual interests and activities

Late adulthood

What phase: Developmental task: To deal with the death of significant loved ones

Late adulthood

What phase: Developmental task: To accept the implications of retirement

Late adulthood

What phase: Developmental task: To accept the genetically programmed failure of organ systems

Late adulthood

What phase: Developmental task: To divest oneself of the attachment to possessions

Late adulthood

What phase: Developmental task: To accept changes in the relationship with grandchildren

Late adulthood