1.

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
Most young adults aged 18 and over will:
• complete the process of maturation,usually attaining
adult height.
•
2.COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
• develop new skills, hobbies and adult interest
• move to adult responsibilities and be aware of the
consequences.
•
3.EMOTIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
• Feel empathetic
• establish their body image
• move into adult
raletionshipwith their pare

4.SEXUAL
DEVELOPMENT
• Experience more intense
sexuality
• enter into intimate sexual
and emotional
relationships.
FAMILY ROLES

- For many young adults , a major

event is leaving the parental home to
reside independently or with others of
the same age.
-
other young adults may also leave home
to live independently but come back to
reside with their parents.

-Today,partnership in young adulthood is

most often viewed as a sequence from
cohabition.
SOCIOECONOMIC ROLE
-The transition from
student to worker is a
defining feature of young
adulthood, given that we
view financial independence
from parents.

-They are greatly affected

by global economic change,
tend to be less conflicted
than older adults about
divisive cultural debates
concerning behavioral
norms and values
Health Behavior

- Early adulthood is a time of

heightened psychological vulnerability
and onset of serious mental health
disorders, a problem compounded by
failure to recognize illness or to seek
treatment.