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Early and Middle Adulthood - Coggle Diagram
Early and Middle Adulthood
Early Adulthood
Developmental Tasks
Getting an occupation
Selecting a mate
Learning to live with a marriage partner
Starting a family
Rearing children
Managing a home
Taking civic responsibility
Finding a congenial social group
period of adjustments to new patterns of life and new social expectations.
young adult is expected to play new roles, such as that of spouse, parent, and breadwinner,
and to develop new attitudes, interests, and values in keeping with these new roles.
Physical Development
first signs of aging appear during
young adulthood.
This is the period that the very important
parts of the body reach their maximum strength
Cognitive Development
time for making
decisions which are crucial
decisions necessitates further decisions and can have long-term consequences such as marriage,
career, education, rearing of children
Social/Emotional Development
PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Affiliation
is filled primarily by the institution of marriage
and by the individual’s social convoy
Achievement
is attained through
careers and of course through parenthood
Middle Adulthood
considered to extend from
age forty to age sixty
The onset is marked by
physical and mental changes, as in the end
Developmental Tasks
Achieving adult civic and social responsibility
Developing adult leisure-time activities
Relating oneself to one’s spouse as a person
Accepting and adjusting to the physiological changes
Reaching and maintaining satisfactory performance
Adjusting to aging parents
Physical Development
must recognize that the body is not functioning as adequately as it formerly
did and may even be “wearing out” in certain vital areas
accept the fact that their reproductive capacity is waning or coming to an end and that they may be losing some of their sex drive and sexual attractiveness.
Cognitive Development
a traditional belief that as physical
abilities decline, so do mental abilities
Social/Emotional Development
Middle age often brings with a renewed interest in social
life
As the couple’s family responsibilities decrease and as their economic status improves , they are better able to engage in social activities than they were during early adulthood.
Middle-aged men and women have also been found to worry more than younger people.
By the mid-fifties, most individuals are fairly well adjusted to middle age and are no longer upset
by it
Life then move along smoothly until
the onset if old age.