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TOPIC 9: EARLY ADULTHOOD STAGE, REFERENCES, Hooker, K. (2015). Towards a…
TOPIC 9: EARLY ADULTHOOD STAGE
Definition
*Early adulthood defines individuals between the ages of 20 and 35, who are typically vibrant, active, and healthy, focused on friendships, romance, childbearing, and careers.
*During early adulthood an individual is usually ‘at their prime’.
*They are 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 Changes
Females reach their adult heights by age 18, and, except for some males who continue to grow in their early 20s, most have reached their adult heights by the age of 21.
Muscles continue to gain mass - especially among males, and both genders continue to add body fat.
Personal Identity
2. Problem Age
With the lowering of the age of legal maturity to eighteen years, young adults have been confronted with many problems they are totally unprepared to cope with.
It is difficult for a young adult to deal with the choice of a career and the choice of a mate simultaneously.
If they are married and still study, they do not able to divide their time in study and care their married well.
3. Period of Emotional Tension
When people are trying to get the lay of a new land in which they find themselves, they are likely to be emotionally upset.
Besides, when early adults feel that they have not been able to cope with the problems in the major areas of their lives, they are often so emotionally disturbed that they contemplate or attempt suicide.
1.Settle Down-Age
Settling into a line of work that would be the man's career for the rest of his life.
The young woman was expected to assume the responsibilities of homemaker and mother-responsibilities that would be hers for the remainder of her life.
Settle down and assume the responsibilities of adult life.
4. Time of Commitment
They establish new patterns of living, assume new responsibilities, and make new commitments.
While these new patterns of living, new responsibilities, and new commitments may change later, they form the foundations on which later patterns of living, responsibilities, and commitments will be established.
Sexual Development
Young adults enter into marriage and start a family. They preferring to cohabit with a partner.
Many young adults are also choosing to remain single, being celibate or entering into casual relationships.
During early adulthood they find for sexual identity and meaning continues.
The availability and variety of contraception also provides more options for young adults to engage in sexual activities and to choose when they will start a family.
Interpersonal Relationship & Intimacy
They are always vulnerable to criticism, and since they cannot be sure whether the criticisms are true or not, they protect themselves by a “lone wolf” stance.
Both intimacy and Generativity emerge in early adulthood, with shifts in emphasis that differ among young people.
They need social distance because of they are not sure of their identities.
Erikson’s believed that successful resolution of intimacy versus isolation prepares the individual for the middle adulthood stage, which focuses on Generativity-caring for the next generation and helping to improve society.
Most young adults vacillate between their desires for intimacy and their need for distantiation.
Achievement in Early Adulthood
People in their twenties and thirties work longer hours than they ever will at any other time in their careers. Their career is a major part of their lives due to all the time spent at work.
Achievement in work usually takes the form of promotions, and these occur more frequently during early adulthood than at any other period during a person's career.
Early adults are at the beginning of their careers, relative to adults in middle age or around retirement.
Socioemotional achievement takes the form of long-term relationships, particularly marriage, which many people engage in during this time.
Two types of achievement that become particularly important in early adulthood: career and socioemotional achievement.
Conclusion
completes education.
establishes a career.
becomes independent of parents.
establishes an intimate relationship.
REFERENCES
Hooker, K. (2015). Towards a new synthesis for development in adulthood. Research in Human Development, 12, 229–236. doi:8443/10.1080/15427609.2015.1068036
Young, C., Roberts, R., & Ward., L. (2019) Application of resilience theories in the transition to parenthood: A scoping review. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 37, 139-160. doi: 10.1080/02646838.2018.1540860
Nelson, L. J., & Chen, X. (2007). Emerging adulthood in China: The role of social and cultural factors. Child Development Perspectives, 1, 86–91.
