The Stages Of Middle Adulthood

Middle childhood is a time that involves many changes for individuals as they are growing and maturing throughout their life span. These differences can be different depending on their sex and the way that they mature. They have significant differences from early childhood in both their cognitive development and their physical development. This also includes the social environment. A significant part of their development can be influenced by the way they are raised in their childhood, and especially in their middle childhood.

Divorce is something that has become more common in today’s civilization. It’s happening all over the world but mostly in the United States of America. Most marriages that have fail in the last 5 years have not succeeded have resulted in divorce. In earlier periods in life divorce was considered shocking and terrible, whereas in today’s world it’s accepted. Divorce has become acceptable in society for numerous reasons and will continue to be accepted. Though, many think divorce is frowned upon, it’s more acceptable in society because the images portrayed by the media, the morals of marriage have changed and because it’s no firm

I would like to assess for the stage of emerging adulthood aged from eighteen to twenty. I was born in S. Korea and came to the United States when I was eighteen years old. I believed that my transition to young adulthood was very challenging compared to other young people who were born and raised in the U. S. I faced many conflicts because of different cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. I would like to develop how the various systems and the social interaction impacted to my developmental opportunities and challenges through the ecological model.

Divorce according to an article from Global Issues in Context Online Collection, is defined as an official cessation of marriage, which eliminates all conjugal responsibilities between married couple and further gives them an opportunity to marry whosoever they so choose (Gale, 2015). Divorce is a global issue that has so many effects on both children and adults. The most intriguing aspect of divorce that has drawn my attention is how rampant it has become over the years amongst married couple and the psychological imbalance it creates to each individual going through it.

Adulthood is the last and longest lasting stage of life. It is also one of the most physically demanding, in the form of deterioration. Most adults tend to be the healthiest in the young adulthood. But by the time they reach middle adulthood the human body begins to lose a lot of its physical. This stage also takes a toll on the mind as well. Nueral processing begins to slow down during this stage. Sometimes to the point where sensory and memory functions no longer work. Exercise, good diet, and healthy attitude can create for a nice lifestyle during this stage. A healthy body leads to a healthy mind. Exercise can reduce stress and pump more blood to your brain to increase activity (mindhealthconnect.org). Not only would this improve your

I feel like I fit into the emerging adulthood stage. I’m 21 years old, working full time at Roger’s Memorial Hospital (always wanted to work here), going to school part time, and living in my own apartment. So, I feel mature in that aspect. However, in some ways I still feel like a teenager and really unsure of what I’m doing. For example, I was having car trouble a while ago. I wasn’t sure of what to do, started to panic and ended up calling both my partners and one of my roommates. So I feel like half an adult, there are moments where I feel like I have my life together. But other moments where I don’t know what I’m doing at all.

Middle Adulthood as a Twentieth Century Phenomenon in Western Culture Middle adulthood is a 20th century phenomenon in Western culture. In

I had given three interviews from people in different stages of their adulthood which include: early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood. For early adulthood, I asked someone who was in one of my classes because I wanted to have the perspective of someone who was going through college and wanted to know how they viewed their goals. For middle adulthood, I asked my mother because since we have a close relationship, I would be able to elaborate more on her answers. For late adulthood, I had asked one of the residents from where I work at in assisted living. She was someone I had grown close to and had many conversations with, but I was curious to how some of her answers would be.

Divorce is usually conceptualized as a stress process, or as a grief process (Yarnoz, 2008). Understanding the relationships that married couples have prior to divorce is important because it can provide clues to marital dissolution, as well as later well-being. Marital unhappiness has been shown to have a stronger impact on divorce in longer duration marriages compared to shorter marriages (White & Booth, 1991). Long-term, low quality marriages have significantly more negative effects on overall well-being (Hawkins & Booth, 2005). Although studies show that some individuals adjust soon after they divorce, others exhibit long-term deficits in functioning. Instead, they experience an immense amount of strain, anxiety, and psychological stress (Amato, 2000).

For this project I chose to focus on the middle childhood life stage. “Middle childhood, ages 6-12, is characterized by a child culture characterized by rules, reciprocity, and fairness” (Ashford and Lecroy, 2012). I chose to use middle childhood, rather than using early adolescence for this paper even though the two are interchangeable terms. I feel as if my subject, who is nine years old, leans closer to the childhood side of this life stage rather than the adolescent side. He too me still shows a lot of qualities of a child than of an adolescent. My focus during this observational project was my family friends ten-year-old son named Jake Brown. I have changed the names of the people in my observational study to protect their identities. The setting was at the Brown’s home over a course of three days, all at different times of the day. In my opinion, this specific setting and being there different times of the day are both important elements of my observation. The setting being Jakes own home is significant because this is where he might feel the most comfortable at, allowing him to express himself and his feelings in a genuine manner. Being able to be in an observational role at different times in the day allowed for me to see how Jakes mood could possibly be in reaction to the time of the day.

The adolescent years and emerging adulthood have completely different phases. The assignment was to ask two different people of two different ages an allotment of questions. I chose to ask my sister, Nicolle, who is fifteen years of age and in the category of teenager, and asked my boyfriend, Collin, who is twenty-one years of age and an emerging adult. Nicolle is a junior in high school, while Collin is a returned missionary attending Brigham Young University. Each of them has lived similar, yet quite different lives.

Erik Erikson was along with Jean Piaget the most influential psychologist of the 20th Century, more so than Sigmund Freud. He revised the stages of development in Freudian psychoanalysis away from the emphasis on gratification of the basic drives and instincts of the id to gratification and development of the ego, and therefore like most of the later Freudians has been considered an ego psychologist. Social demands on the ego force it to mature and develop progressively, from the time infants first learn to feed and small children undergo toilet training and first learn to walk. For this reason "new behaviors must" emerge in order for the person to mature into a healthy, functioning ego (Lerner, 2002, p. 418). With Erikson's stages "there are no second chances in development, once part of one's ego fails to appropriately develop, one will never be able to regain it" (Lerner, p. 419). This will lead to frustration, a sense of failure and despair, inability to form intimate relationships and perhaps even mental illness and antisocial behavior. This paper will address the adult life stages of an older male named "Jeff Smith" (age 67), and also include a brief summary of Erikson's theories. Jeff's life has not been generative or productive, and in fact he seems to have ended up with a sense of failure and despair.

The group I chose to observe is late adulthood. I proceeded to observe late adulthood people at the Eagle’s Bingo. The group participating in Bingo is a large group and consists of men and women, with very few young people. I observed the players for quite a long time and found the experience interesting. I noticed many different interactions among the group members but the most important is a lack of exclusion of any member from the group. The group consisted of people of many different nationalities, Oriental, Native American, American, from my observations. The cultural similarities seemed to span with the love of Bingo and brought many different type of people together.

The effects of a divorce can take an emotional toll on a person as much as a financial burden. There can be temporary effects to long lasting effects on the family. Divorce is emotionally devastating for most people. It forces us to kill “our dreams” when we are married to our mate. Often at times, we envision the “white picket fence” and growing old with that person and we never see divorce as an option. So, when the end result is divorce it can be the ultimate rejection, because we feel like we are being rejected by the one person that would “never hurt us”. Divorce is a type of death, and we need to grieve the loss such as we do a death. In a divorce, we can also lose our confidence. At times, we often feel like we have failed as a wife or husband, and that sometimes leads to “rebound” relationships where we can fall into a relationship right away, not choosing someone that is healthy. (Swaity)

Early adulthood is the period between the ages of 20 and 40 years characterized by a peak in physical and intellectual performance. During early adulthood, individuals are concerned with expanding the capability to share intimacy, find the right career pathway, and intimate love. Although in the past decades, all those events happened during late teens and early twenties, the trend nowadays is to postpone them into the thirties.