Psy/201 Week 6 Adult Development

Taylor Yager

PSY/201

Adult Development

The two topics I chose are; what are four factors that affect social development in adulthood? What is a midlife transition? Do you know anyone that has experienced midlife transition? What did that look like? And describe views of marriage and children in early historical periods and compare those views with today’s society. Why do you think this shift has occurred? How have these changes affected the roles of men and women?

Four factors that affect social development in adulthood are careers, family, and marriage. People don't stop developing when they reach adulthood. The process of social development is something that continues throughout most people's entire lives. Once a person becomes an adult though, the influences and motivations that affect social development change. When you’re a child, your parents and school are the largest factors in social development. As an adult, the influences are much more varied. A midlife transition is a period between early adulthood and middle adulthood that occurs between 40 and 45 years of age. I personally haven’t seen someone or been around someone who has experienced a midlife transition. If my grandparents did around me then I was too young to understand what I was seeing. My mom is only 43 and so far she hasn’t changed at all. My dad has always been the same as well.

Marriage in the early historical periods the man is the one who brings in the money, the woman was the one who took care of the household chores and taking care of the children. Most of them in the older days would also marry very young, like 16. In today's society most women have paying jobs outside of the home. In some cases the men are stay at home dads and in some households both parents work. Many of those women who work still carry the load of household chores and the children simultaneously with a full time job. Then there are some men who share the load of the household...