“True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.”-Lynn Coady. This quote from Lynn Coady implies that true adulthood occurs when one grasps the concept that unconditional love not only has to flow to you but also from you. This is represented in coming of age stories when the protagonist flows into adulthood through the author’s choice of tone and symbols.
Young adults seem to be achieving adulthood at a later time in life. Whether it’s college students going back to their home or living on their parents budget late into their lives, many adolescents seem to be achieving adulthood less and less in their twenties than generations before. In Henig’s article titled, “What Is It About 20-Somethings”, she states that “getting to what we would generally call adulthood is happening later than ever” (200). Trying to explain this new advancement, Henig sources Professor Jeffrey Arnett, who has introduced the rise of a new life stage, identified by exploring one 's identity, self-focus, and endless possibilities for the prospect called “emerging adulthood”. A bulk of the blame for the development of Arnett’s new stage of life that Henig explores can be sourced on the recent popularity of social media that is discussed in Maria Konnikova’s article “The Limits of Friendship”.
They feel that they are not ready to fulfill the responsibilities and expectations to be an adult. However, one cannot avoid entering adulthood for
Middle Adulthood During this stage in life, Erikson describes individuals in the generativity vs. stagnation stage (Capp, 2004). Individuals between the ages 40 to 65 have generally married, have a career and have their own families. Erikson refers to generativity as a concern of the next generation by guiding and establishing them.
“Emerging adulthood” article written by Arnett states that emerging adulthood is a stage that has been introduced for the beginning of the age 18 till 25. This new stage is a bridge that connects the adolescences and adult childhood. Various characteristics have described to define the emerging adulthood. The methods that have used includes the age of change, the age of possibility, the age of feeling in between and age of identity exploration. Emerging adulthood is time has been given to young people where they learn how to become adults.
Ashlyn Perez Mrs. Chadwick English 10H, Per. 3 17 April 2023 Man Vs. Adulthood: Not Everyone Finds Pleasure in Maturing One of the highest points in life, adulthood, some may think, may be considered one's prime time, however, an enemy to others.
Theories of late adulthood development are quite diverse in later adulthood than at any other age. They include self-theory, identity theory and stratification theory. The self-theory tries to explain the core self and search to maintain one’s integrity and identity. The older adults tend to integrate and incorporate their various experiences with their vision and mission for their respective community (Berger, 2008). Also, the older people tend to feel that their attitude, personalities and beliefs have remained in a stable state over their lives even as they acknowledge that physical changes have taken place in their bodies.
As they go through this stage young people will begin to solve problems more easily and have an appreciation of other people’s views and opinions. However as they are still inexperienced in life a young person may appear immature at times with regards to their ways of thinking and speech. During the Emotional Development stage, a young person will begin to spend less time with their parents and want to spend more time with their friends socialising instead. A young person may also feel conflicted at times, as they will want the affection from parents, however this is usually short lived as the young person will then also reject it when it is given.
I interviewed two individuals to help me gain their productive on this matter. The First was Julian Romero, age 15. When I asked for the definition of an adult in his words he stated “Being an adult basically means being a developed person.” - Being able to grow and learn for all your past experiences.
His generation is no longer the dominant one” (as cited in Agronin, 2014). He added that the late adulthood stage is a traumatic one because of the crises being experienced by individuals such as death of love ones, less recognition and authority and illness
Late Adulthood is the stage of the human life cycle where an individual nears the end of their life. The life expectancy in the United States has slowly increased over the years therefore allowed many to further analyze the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development during late adulthood. The stage of late adulthood has been emphasized by ageism and the stereotypical "old" person but, will be further educated by the normative development of the life cycle of late adulthood. For the “old” experience dramatic changes in their development as they face loss, death, and illness.
The field of social work can be challenging yet rewarding, but requires that clinicians have the knowledge of the habits and behaviors of human beings, to best use their skills to serve their clients. This chapter on young adulthood cover theories which discuss the stages and development throughout young adulthood. The discussions include, Erikson’s Intimacy v. Isolation, Levinson’s theory on 8 stages of adulthood, Emerging adulthood, cognitive development, and Sternberg 's theory of love. In order to understand the stages of adulthood, the author began by covering the developmental themes. The developmental themes within young adulthood are identified as , stage: intimacy v. isolation; economic independence; independent decision making;
He further goes on to say that it works as character development tool to shape behavior and attitudes. Adulthood, like many terms we use for describing data, it is a very poorly defined and a somewhat arbitrary concept. When does an organism become an adult? The answer in general would be “it depends on how you define adult.”
Late Adolescence to early adulthood spans from ages 18-25. This stage, also referred to as emerging adulthood, occupies the transitional period from adolescence to adulthood. This transition is accompanied by many changes and new achievements, but some things transcend the metamorphosis. Suicide is prevalent in both adolescence and adulthood. Emerging adulthood, often referred to as young adulthood, is characterized by five key features.
DEVELOPMENT PSYCHOLOGY: REFLECTIVE ESSAY In life of an individual there are several developmental changes or events which occur as continuity of span of life. Some of life developmental stages include infantile, adolescence, maturity, and adulthood. These phases have biological, social, psychological and physiognomic reasons to which an individual completed the course of life. Psychological analysis upon the developmental stages include the focus on characterization, demarcation and the social interaction of individual’s life (Baltes & Schaie, 2013).
