EARLY ADULTHOOD

PRESENTED BY: MAY QUEEN I. MANAOIS

SAINT MARRY S. JUAN
EARLY ADULTHOOD

-defines individuals between the ages of 18

and 40, who are typically vibrant, active, and
healthy, and are focused on friendships,
romance, child bearing, and careers.
CHARACTERISTICS OF EARLY ADULTHOOD

 Early adulthood is the ‘Settling – down

age’
 Early adulthood is the ‘Reproductive age’
 Early adulthood is the ‘Problem Age’
 Early adulthood is the ‘Emotional Tension’
 Early adulthood is the ‘Social Isolation’
SETTLING-DOWN AGE
This is the period when young men and
women are trying out different life
patterns in terms of jobs and different
individuals to share their life. Once
individuals decide upon the pattern of
life they believe will meet their needs,
they develop pattern of behavior,
attitudes, interests and values which
ARCHEOLOGISTS
will tend to be characteristically theirs
for the remaining of their lives.
REPRODUCTIVE AGE
Parenthood is one of the most
important roles in the lives of most
young adults.
PROBLEM AGE
Young adults need to cope up with all
adjustments within their work and
with partner and larger circle of
friends and relatives. Expectations
are too high and to meet demand
make it even more difficult.
EMOTIONAL TENSION
What young adults worry about
which leads to emotional tension
will depend upon their work load
at their work place, at home and
in the social circle and also how
much success or failure they are
experiencing in meeting these
problems.
SOCIAL ISOLATION
With the end of formal education and the entrance
into adult life pattern of work and marriage, the
association with peer groups is slowly weaned.
This is when they experience social isolation.
CHANGES IN INTEREST

 Physical Changes

 Cognitive Changes

 Emotional Changes
PHYSICAL CHANGES

Our physical maturation is complete, although our

height and weight may increase slightly. In early
adulthood, our physical abilities are at their peak,
including muscle strength, reaction time, sensory
abilities, and cardiac functioning. Most professional
athletes are at the top of their game during this stage,
and many women have children in the early-adulthood
years.
COGNITIVE CHANGES
Cognition changes over a person’s lifespan,
peaking at around age 35 and slowly declining in
later adulthood.
Unlike our physical abilities, which peak in our
mid-20s and then begin a slow decline, our
cognitive abilities remain relatively steady
throughout early and middle adulthood.
EMOTIONAL CHANGES

Theorist Erik Erikson (1902-1994) maintained

that individuals develop in psychosocial stages,
and that early adulthood marks the time when
individuals seek to form intimate relationships.
And Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) argued that a
healthy adult is one who can "love and work."
Simply stated, this developmental stage is
characterized by relationships and work.
 SUMMARY
 Early Adulthood the ages of 18 and 40, who are
typically vibrant, active, and healthy, and are focused
on friendships, romance, child bearing, and careers.
 Characteristics of Early Adulthood; Settling – down
age, Reproductive age, Problem Age, Emotional
Tension, Social Isolation
 Erik Eriksons theory on psychosocial development
(Intimacy vs. Isolation).
 Other Theories of Adult Psychosocial Development
describe and evaluate Levinson’s and Vaillant’s theories of
adult personality development.
 Levinson described a series of eras, each consisting of a
transition and a stable phase, in which people revise their
life structure.
 Vaillant refined Erikson’s stages, portraying the twenties
as devoted to intimacy, the thirties to career consolidation,
the forties to generativity, and the fifties and sixties to
cultural values.
 Changes in Interest; Physical Changes, Cognitive
Changes, Emotional Changes.
 QUIZ:

1._______________defines individuals between

the ages of 18 and 40, who are typically
vibrant, active, and healthy, and are focused
on friendships, romance, child bearing, and
careers.

ANS. Early Adulthood

2. ________________ is the sixth stage of Erik
Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial
Development.

ANS. Intimacy vs. Isolation

3. This is a cognition changes over a
person’s lifespan, peaking at around age 35
and slowly declining in later adulthood.

ANS. Cognitive Changes

4. This is the period when young men and
women are trying out different life
patterns in terms of jobs and different
individuals to share their life.

ANS. Settling-Down Age

5. This is the period when parenthood is
one of the most important roles in the lives
of most young adults.

ANS. Reproductive Age

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