Psychology lifespan
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Emotional and Social Development
in
Early Adulthood
DISCUSSION
Changes in the life span (revisited)
Age we marry
Age we have children
Emerging Adulthood: A new “phase”
Social Clock / Expectations placed on us by virtue of our age / progress and regress
Is it a new stage? What factors support yes or no?
OVERVIEW
Theorists
Important Relationships
Review Questions
THEORISTS
Erikson
Crisis: Intimacy versus Isolation (stage 6)
Forging meaningful, long-term relationships
Shifting one’s focus to not fitting in
“Lonely, alienated and isolated…”
Levinson
Great emphasis on adult transitions
Key in this stage: A “dream”. An emerging image as to how we see ourselves as an adult
A time when we establish a relationship with a mentor
IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIPS
Family
Age we marry
Childless families
The “death of the American family”
Family diversity
Love
The romantic love syndrome
Open versus arranged marriages
Friendship
Facebook friends and Instagram likes
Threat: Isolation (technology?)
REVIEW QUESTIONS
Who suggested that it is important in the this stage to establish a “mentor”?
What is the social clock?