PART 14. PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN EMERGING AND YOUNG ADULTHOOD Flashcards
Today, this stage of the life-span is a time of experimentation.
Emerging and Young Adulthood
Paths to adulthood are influenced by:
- Gender
- Academic ability
- Early attitudes toward education
- Race and ethnicity
- Expectations in late adolescence
- Social class
True or False. Early parenthood limited future prospects.
True
It is a development that is described as the combination of ability to understand oneself and one’s world, to integrate and synthesize what one perceives and knows and to take charge of planning one’s life course.
Ego development
This refers to the process that underlies the shift to an adult identity.
Recentering
These are theoretical models that describe psychosocial development in terms of a definite sequence of age-related changes.
Normative-stage models
This is Erikson’s 6th stage of psychosocial development, in which young adults either form strong, long-lasting bonds with friends and romantic partners or face a possible sense of isolation and self-absorption. If this stage is resolved, then individuals attain the virtue of love.
Intimacy vs isolation
Are those that are commonly expected life experiences that occur at customary times.
Normative life events
Are set of cultural norms or expectations for the time of life when certain important events, such as marriage, parenthood, entry into work, and retirement, should occur.
Social clock
Are those theories that focus on mental, emotional, temperamental, and behavioral traits, or attributes.
Trait models
This is developed and tested by Costa and McCrae, based on the Big Five factors underlying cluster of related personality traits.
Five-factor model
Clusters in the Five-factor model:
- Oppenness to experience
- Conscientiousness
- Extraversion
- Agreeableness
- Neuroticism
True or False. Agreeableness and conscientiousness generally decline. While neuroticism, openness to experience, and extraversion increase.
False. Agreeableness and conscientiousness generally INCREASE. While neuroticism, openness to experience, and extraversion DECLINE.
True or False. Agreeableness and conscientiousness generally increased. While neuroticism, openness to experience, and extraversion decline. These are said to be universal across all cultures.
True
An approach that identifies broad personality types, or styles.
Typological approach
Research found 3 personality types:
- Ego-resilientare those who are well-adjusted: self-confident, independent, articulate, attentive, helpful, cooperative, and task-focused.
- Overcontrolled people are shy, quiet, anxious, and dependable. They tend to keep their thoughts to themselves and withdraw from conflict, and they are the most subject to depression.
- Undercontrolledpeople are active, energetic, impulsive, stubborn, and easily distracted.
