Emerging and young adulthood PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECT INTIMACY VS.

ISOLATION -erik erikson INFLUENCES that affect Young adulthood - gender - Academic ability -Expectations in late adolescence - DECISIONS that we make -RECENTERING: process that underlies the shift to an adult identity 3 stages 1. Your still living with your family but self-reliance increases 2. Remains connected to family through financial support but does not live in the family anymore, moving toward serious commitments 3. Independence from the family, commitment to a partner, career, children. FOUR VIEWS of PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT 1. Normative stage model- They are theoretical models that describe psychosocial development in terms of a definite sequence of age related changes 2. Timing of events model-Change is not related so much on age as to the expected or unexpected occurrence and timing of important life events 3. Trait models-Focus on mental, emotional, temperamental, and behavioral traits.

Costa and McCrae -have developed a five factor model that underlie clusters of related traits: Neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, conscientiousness and agreeableness.

4. Typological Models- They identify broad personality styles, that represent how personality traits are organized with in the individual. TYPES OF LOVE
NONLOVE-intimacy,passion,commitment are absent LIKING-intimacy only present INFATUATION-passion only present EMPTY LOVE-commitment only present ROMANTIC LOVE-intimacy and passion are present COMPANIONATE LOVE-intimacy and commitment FATUOUS LOVE-passion and commitment without intimacy CONSUMMATE LOVE-intimacy,passion,commitment are present