General
Young Adulthood
Middle Adulthood
Men
Women
100
Family bereavement, divorce or separation, imprisonment, personal injury or illness.
What are some of the most stressful events?
100
Peak at around the ages of 25–30.
What is physical performance?
100
A marker of mid-life.
What is 40 yrs. old?
100
Men have twice loss rate as women.
What is hearing loss?
100
This declines during their 40s.
What is fertility?
200
Covers by far the largest part of our lives.
What is adulthood?
200
They leave this and set up a home separately.
What is parental home?
200
Brings the notion of the mid-life crisis.
What is Middle Adulthood?
200
A time of great physical change in which menstruation ceases and the ovaries stop producing estrogen.
What is menopause?
300
Secure, dismissing, preoccupied and unresolved.
What are the four categories of adult attachment?
300
Many people have children during this period.
What is Young Adulthood?
300
Physical decline, empty nest, and fewer career options.
What are commonly encountered issues?
400
Early, Middle, and Late Adulthood.
What are the 3 stages of adulthood?
400
This remains relatively unchanged after the age of 30.
What is personality?
400
Levinson found that middle adulthood was the time for this.
What are divorces and house moves?
500
The expectation a person must take responsibility for themselves and for others around them.
What is adulthood?
500
In young adulthood & adolescence the belief systems and this are developed in this stage.
What is character?
500
Described as ‘a kind of Pilgrim’s Progress without a creed, aiming not at heaven, but at integration and wholeness'.
What is Individuation ?
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