Chapter 7: Young Adulthood Flashcards
Intimacy verses isolation
The challenge of finding meaningful connections to other without losing oneself in the process.
Individuals who can successfully resolve this crisis are able to achieve the virtue of love. Unsuccessful effort at this stage may lead the young adult to feel alienated, disconnected, and alone.
Erick Erickson.
Life structure
The outcome resulting from specific decisions and choices made along the life course in such areas as relationships, occupations, and childbearing.
Daniel Levinson.
Novice phase
Ages 17-33. Transitioning into adulthood. Includes leaving adolescence and making primary decisions about relationships, career, and belief system.
David Levinson.
Emerging adulthood
A developmental phase distinct from both adolescence and young adulthood, occurring between ages of 18-25 in industrialized societies. Individuals explore and experiment with different life roles.
Jeffery Arnett
Default individualization
Adulthood transitions defined by circumstance and situation, rather than individual agency.
Developmental individualism
Adulthood transitions defined by personal agency and deliberately charted growth opportunities in intellectual, occupational, and psychosocial domains.
Intimacy
Sense of warmth or closeness that has three components: interdependence with another person, self-disclosure, and affection.
Romantic love
Relationship that is sexually oriented, is “spontaneous and voluntary” and occur between equal partners.
Human capital
Talents, skills, intellectual capacity, social development, emotional regulatory capacity.
Community assets
Ie public infrastructure, community networks, and educational opportunities.
Moral development stage: adolescence
Post-conventional stage
Kohlberg
Greater independence in moral decision making. More complex contemplation of ethics principles. Development of moral consciousness. Recognition of larger systems and appreciation for community.
Spirituality
A focus on that which gives meaning, purpose, and direction in one’s life.
Develops in three dimensions:
Cognition- beliefs, values, perceptions.
Affect- sense of connection and support
Behavior- practices, rituals, and behavioral experiences.
Synthetic-conventional faith
Faith is rooted in external authority.
Individual-reflective faith
Stage in which the person begins to let go of the idea of external authority and looks for authority within self.
Stages of identity formation:
Diffused
No exploration, no commitment.
