Early and Middle Adulthood

EARLY AND MIDDLE ADULTHOOD
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(03rd, February, 2011)
Early and Middle Adulthood
Introduction
Adulthood is a general term that describes the life of an individual from the period of twenty one years and onwards. The early adulthood stage ranges from age of eighteen to forty five years old. This stage of development is the period where individuals are at the peak of their development both biologically and physiologically. Changes that occur during early adulthood include changes in eyes, height, muscular strength, heart, skin, teeth and the health is at its optimal.
The stage of middle adulthood is considered as the third quarter of individual’s life span often ranging from forty five to sixty five years of age. During this stage individuals developmental tasks is contribution to society e.g. by helping in guiding future generations and when one does that they derive sense of productivity and accomplishment while those who fail to contribute to society through self-centeredness and unwilling behavior experience a feeing of stagnation and become dissatisfied with how relative lack of productivity in their lives. Adulthood is characterized by stabilization of the spurt of growth of adolescents and individuals look forward to playing more concrete roles in the society. During this stage the capabilities continue to change because of the biological growth process and the increased understanding of the way people interact within the society.
Psychological adjustments to aging and lifestyle
During this stage of development in the period of young as well as middle adult hood individuals undergo several psychological adjustments that are directed towards aging and their modes of lifestyles. Young adults see themselves as an autonomous and independent individuals and the major developmental task during this period is the choose of career and individual tend to settle in careers of choice a whole contemplating in settling down in a family life. Other social issues also come into concern and this includes forming close relationships with personal professional peers and the members of the community and their duties demand a two fold responsibilities which are directed towards oneself as well as towards the rest of the society.
Generally the psychological adjustments during the young and middle adulthood include individuals: in terms of romantic and erotic terms there is an ability of individuals especially these in the age bracket of nineteen and twenty five tend to experience an increased ability to commit oneself to others and maintain such commitments through various degrees of compromise and self denial. At age of twenty to forty years individuals adjusts their psychosocial traits to have a sense of appreciating certain things in life which have certain meanings and importance hence leading an individual to be productive in life. At the age of forty onwards individuals adjusts their psychology to appreciating the role that their past life and its worthiness through integration of its outcomes and one can either be satisfied and gain integrity or despair .
Social and intimate relationships
During the period of young adulthood individuals undergo a rise of intimacy and isolation and adults therefore must develop ability to forming deep and intimate relationships with others particularly in marriage failure to ...