Psychosocial Development in Adulthood
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Maslow's Pyramid
Midlife Changes: Approaches
theoretical
Is it possible to change at 50?
• Model of traits
– Neuroschism (anxiety, hostility, instability)
– Extroversion
– Openness to experience
– Scrupulousness
– Pleasantness
• Regulatory stage models
– Individuation and Transcendence (Jung)
• Achievement in men
• Expressiveness in women
• Recognition of mortality
– Generativity vs stagnation (Erikson) Virtue: Interest in others
– Interiority (Neugarten) Tendency towards introspection
• The moment of Events: Social clock
– Saying goodbye to the children, becoming grandparents, the retro.
Strength of the self
Age Success Failure
O virtue
8th stage Integrity of the Self Desperation Wisdom
Maturity One accepts one's own life as something [Link] is considered that he has wasted time and that life
Satisfaction of having lived end. Fear of death
7th stage Generativity Stagnation Care
Adulthood One is creative in many areas of life. Early impoverishment. Egocentrism.
25-64 years Collaboration with new generations Improductivity
6th stage Intimacy Isolation Love
Adult youth Capacity for love and dedication. Sexuality Difficulties in relating. Character problems.
18-24 años enriching and stable and open social bonds inauthentic relationships
5th stage Identity of the Self Role confusion Fidelity
Adolescence and One knows who they are and what they want in life. Security Uncertainty. One does not know what they want. One does not know.
independence. One is capable of learning a lot. to position oneself in relation to work, society, and sexuality
puberty
Integrated sexuality.
12-18 years
4th stage Diligence Inferiority Competition
6-11 years Worker. Entrepreneur. He/She likes to do things and
Laziness, lack of initiative, avoidance of the
play. Competitive. competition. He feels inferior and mediocre.
3rd stage Initiative Guilt Determination
4-5 years Imagination, liveliness, activity. Pride in the Lack of spontaneity. Inhibition. Feeling guilty.
own abilities bad
2nd stage Autonomy Shame and doubt Will
1-3 years The child appears independent, daring to do Too controlled by the parents, he/she does not dare,
things and develop their abilities. Doubt, learn everything late.
1st stage Confidence Distrust Hope
12 first months The child feels protected and safe, develops the
Fought, unprotected or abandoned, fears and learns to
basic feeling of trust in life. distrust the world.
Modelo de los rasgos
Midlife crisis
• Crisis de los 40-45 y la conciencia de
mortality. Failure to fulfill dreams of
youth.
• How identity develops in age
media?
• Psychological transitions, stress, and anxiety
• Vulnerability vs Resilience
Development of Identity
• Assimilation-Accommodation. Balance of the
Identity (Krauss)
• I am what survives me. Generativity,
Identity and Age (Erikson)
• Narrative Psychology (Singer). Life stories
• Gender identity and gender roles
tendency towards positive emotionality or
negative
Dimensions of well-being. Carol Ryff.
Self-acceptance (identity)
Positive relationships with others (openness)
3. Autonomy (independence)
4. Mastery of the environment (control over the
external world)
5. Purpose in life (goals)
6. Personal growth (willingness to change)
Relationships in Midlife
• Social Contact Theories
– Social Caravan Theory (network of acquaintances)
– Theory of emotional selectivity (choosing whom to spend time with)
• The veterans' game
• The ladies of Sanborns
• Differences in the quality of life between men and women
• Consensual relationships
– Sexual satisfaction influences marital satisfaction and stability.
– Cohabitation and depression
– Divorce vs marital capital
– Homosexuality in middle age
• Relationships with adult children
• Caregiver for parents / Care crisis
• Relationships with siblings
• Become grandparents