Middlelife Crisis Or Midlife Transition?

The world around us has many current issues that relate one way or another to family and consumer science. I recently read an article written by Joan R. McFadden and Kay T. Rawson Swan, entitled “Women During Midlife: Is It Transition or Crisis?”. The article talked about how women go through the different stages of menopause also known as mid-life crisis to some. With a mid-life crisis it is stated to involve a feeling of loneliness, a period of wanting to find one’s self in the world, a time to reinvent yourself, to live outside of a woman’s everyday life style, and to experience changes in health and family roles. For many women these statements are said to be true, but not all women are the same.

In Erik Erikson theory this stage is “Achieving a sense of generativity while avoiding self-absorption and stagnation (middle-age)” (Crisp and Taylor 2010, p.149). This stage is described as the focus of raising children and to sacrifice their own needs for others. (Crisp and Taylor 2010, p.149). Mrs Green may find that her relationship with her children is stronger, and may have a very active social life as she may be getting ready to retire from work (Koutoukidis, Stainton & Hughson 2013, p.224).

In middle adulthood there are many changes that occur physically, psychologically, and socially as explained in the above passages. Yet, some say that this is the best time of their life, they experience enhanced self-confidence, great sex lives, career success, and enhanced brain functions. Middle age adults are better equipped to make better life choices and decisions and not worry so much about the negative parts of life. Their problem solving skills are greater which allows them to reason more creatively. They are able to enjoy sex freely without the worries of getting pregnant and they feel more confident with their partners. In general they are happier about life and look forward to enjoying the rest of their lives.

In middle adult hood life seems to change drastically from the early years of the hustle and bustle of life. During middle adult hood it seems like everything starts declining slowly as you age. This decline slowly starts with physical changes in which you might decline in eye sight, hearing, and reaction time. During middle adulthood, roughly the period from 40 to 65 people typically decline slowly in height, weight and strength (Feldman, 2014, pp 504). The changes in sexuality for women include no longer being able to get pregnant and going from having a period to have hot flashes.

Middle Adulthood is a stage that happens when the adult reaches the age of 40-60. According to researchers, we are supposedly the most comfortable and happiest with what we have accomplished and what we have in life at this point. Along with being comfortable with life come the inevitable physical changes of aging. We have to come to grip with what’s happening to our body and the physical changes we see and accept them. This is an involuntary part of aging; a part of life that happens to everyone in the world regardless of culture or race. Just as the outside starts aging; our insides (our organs) start aging as well. This is a point where some of us start to wear corrective lens or may need corrective surgery because we lose the ability to focus on reading the newspaper, or looking at mail and reading small print; this is due to presbyopia- the natural aging process of the eye. Glaucoma is another disease of the eye. The optic nerve that channels sight becomes damaged and therefore builds up pressure causing loss of vision. If glaucoma is caught in time and treated with medications or surgery, you can actually slow down the disease that causes pressure in the eye. Osteoporosis and Presbycusis seems to weave its way into our lives as well. We start noticing that we need the television louder than usual. This is caused by weakening of internal membrane tissue

Middle adulthood begins at the age of 40 - 60. This is a time when you can’t believe where the time went. It seems like just yesterday you were graduating from college, got married, and had children. Your children are now approaching young adulthood, pushing you into the next stage of life, middle adulthood. You look in the mirror and all the signs of middle age are starting to set in. You notice wrinkles, gray hair, flabby skin and you’re having trouble reading the menu. You begin to reassess you life. Are you happy with what you have accomplished in life so far? Do you have good family

According to the reading, it states that “midlife crisis” is defined as men looking over what they have done and what they missed doing, choice to start acting younger and more extreme against their nature(Freund. A, Ritter. J, 2009).They tend to take radical measures to bring back their younger days, including seeing younger women(Freund. A, Ritter. J, 2009).

Mid-life crisis is when an individual reaches an age that has difficult duties. These duties include accept the idea that death is inevitable, where health risks as well as physical limitations are acknowledged, and being able to adapt to these changes. Mid-life crisis is a reality for most people. Oftentimes, the term life events approach is used to describe the different stresses that an individual deals with and responds in various ways. These stresses include normative and nonnormative events.

Someone who would be going through a “Mid-life crisis” is that of the age between 40 and 60("Development in midlife," 2004). It is the point during our lives where we go through periods of self-doubt, this is a natural and normal process ("Development in midlife," 2004). A mid-life crisis can be triggered by different experiences, for instance, children leaving the home, death of a parent or someone close, mid-life transition to

Mid-life crisis explain as a extremity in a middle ages, in people’s lives. Where middle ages may face a disappearance of identity and reduce their self-confidence. Midlife crisis has been known around the world for many years but has not always been believed by everyone because not everyone face it. Mid-life crisis is more of a normal change period that generally happen the time of a major life event that emphasizes getting older. A midlife crisis is something more person dependent rather than something everyone experiences. People go through many different experiences in their lives that happen at different time periods in their lives. Some experiences may seem worse than others and can make people feel like they will never be equal to anyone. On the other side, Some people may not experience any type of crisis during their middle age years. As we grow older we begin to put people aside and focus on new experiences in our lives such as having a career or having children. I accept that midlife crises do exist, but I am sure not everyone believe the same because some people might not happen .

In my perspective, mid life is a changing phase of life so may be for some people cross without a crisis and some does need to struggle with midlife life. Although I heard about popular topic mid life crisis, but I never saw happing in reality. It may depend on the person who cope with the mid life and some have really hard time to make his or her life in normal due to lot of changes going on such as physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially. In addition, changes in health start from as they step in mid life that has negative effects on most of the things. “In general, younger adults and adults of higher SES are more likely to attack problems while older adults and those of lower SES try to accept them. This may indicate that those

The stage that follows early adulthood is known as middle adulthood where people are generally caught between being productive and being stagnant. This stage reflects the need to create a living legacy: they would either need to feel they have become an important figure for the next generation to follow or they would develop a sense of purposelessness which is generally known as a “mid-life crisis”. This crisis can be solved by having the adults care and nurture children or help the fore-coming generation in other ways or means, however if the crisis remains the person would persist in random non-age-appropriate behavior as well as a continued feeling in stagnation. During this stage adults lose some of their physical aspects as their muscular strength, ability and agility weakens. Women will go through a menopausal

We as humans are constantly evolving each day. Our mentalities change with us for the better or worse. For many individuals, female or male, our mid-life crisis affects middle age adults from ages 37- 50’s. Everyone is different; people may experience a mild or severe case of a mid life crisis. The typical stereotype we know occurs when a big event has taken place in our lives such as retiring from a job, or even when a loved one passes on. Todays, the old midlife crisis is more likely to be called a midlife transition. Yale psychologist, Daniel Levinson states that experiencing a mid life crisis or transition is a normal and natural part of a human’s life. His theory claims that adult’s development a series of stages in their

Middle adulthood, or mid-life, is usually defined as ages 40 through 65. Experience Human Development authors Papalia and Martorell (2015) explain that during this phase, for the first time in life, development begins to deteriorate. Mid-life adults start to lose height due to shrinkage of the discs in the spinal column and their bones become more fragile. Skin becomes less elastic, hair may gray and thin due to declining melanin and hormone levels, and the senses begin to dull. Health concerns such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes become more common as well, even in previously healthy people. In addition, sexual functioning tends to change as hormone levels in both men

Finally, adulthood consists of early adulthood, middle adulthood and late adulthood. Early adulthood is a stage where individuals are physically in their best condition. Memory and thinking abilities are sharp, life decisions are made, and they take on roles of independence. Middle adulthood is when individuals start to reflect on their lives as a whole. Retirement planning and sadness over unaccomplished goals began to surface, during this particular stage. Some physical changes such as hearing and vision start to take place. Focusing more on health, relationships and becoming tolerable with death are all signs of late adulthood development. The immune system, vision, hearing, and muscle strength start to decline. Loss of memory is a cognitive trait that is related