ADULT DEVELOPMENT

Vulnerability and difficulties across the adult lifespan in various stages of adult development

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of Vulnerability and difficulties across the adult lifespan in various stages of adult development in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on adult development and its relation with persons behaviour. The research also analyzes many aspects of literature available previously. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for adult development and tries to describe its overall effect on a person.

Vulnerability and difficulties across the adult lifespan in various stages of adult development

Developmental dynamics is described from three viewpoints: lifespan psychology, life-course sociology, and behavior genetics. The choice of the viewpoints for the description of the dynamics of adult development in this chapter was affected by several facts: all three viewpoints are needed for understanding human development; they represent the most modern conception of adult development; and they are more applicable to normal development and empirically more testable than clinically based psychodynamic theories. Theory and research on adult development is rather sparse compared with child development, and only recently has a wider interest in it arisen. An attempt has been made to incorporate material from a variety of cultures, but at present relatively little work on adult development is available on non-Western cultures.

Lifespan Developmental Psychology

In the annals of developmental psychology, the time continuum of the life span can be discovered in philosophers' writings over centuries (Reinsert, 1979), but it was empirically found out by Charlotte Buhler's works (1933) in Germany. Her beginning of developmental psychology covering the whole life span became quickly renowned in the United States and in other countries shortly after World War II through psychological textbooks. The values of lifespan psychology have, although, been more systematically formulated throughout the past 30 years.

 

Adolescence

Developmental jobs in adolescence encompass, for example, personal maturation, heterosexual connections, internalized ethics, autonomy from parents, and vocation choices. Adolescence is time when the competence required to entire developmental jobs is sustained by education. Competence mentions to productive adaptation to the natural environment demonstrated by close communal connections with gazes, prosaically demeanour, learned accomplishment, and a sense of self-identity (Master & Coats worth, 1998). The antecedents of competence encompass productive parenting, self-regulation, and cognitive functioning. The bases of competence lie in early development, particularly in the addition and self-regulation of emotion. They are affiliated with prosaically demeanour and gaze attractiveness, as well as with learned achievement.

Emotional turmoil, confrontation inside the family, and alienation from and hostility in the direction of humanity and mature individual standards has been marked adolescent rebellion. This line of considered proceeds back to the starting of the twentieth 100 years when G. Stanley Hall recounted adolescence as a time span of 'Sturm und Drag' (storm and stress). The occurrence is, although, much rarer than routinely considered (Offer & Schonert-Reichl, 1992). Less than 20% of teenagers fit this pattern. Parents and their adolescent young children often have alike ...