MIDDLE

ADULTH
OOD
Oswald Teneza
 01 CHARACTERISTICS OF
MIDDLE ADULTHOOD

02 PHYSICAL Development

topics 03 Cognitive Development

04 PSYCHOSOCIAL
development

05 FAMILY LIFE CYCLE

SUBDIVISION OF MIDDLE AGE:

In middle adulthood,
1. EARLY MIDDLE AGE
–from 40 to 50
2.what
ADVANCEDwe MIDDLE
have AGE been
- from 50 to 60- physical and
forms what
psychological we will
changes be.
that first
began during the early forties
become far more apparent
 - WHERE DID WE GO 01 A DREADED AGE

characteristics
WRONG SYNDROME
02 A TIME OF TRANSITION

- -SOMATIC
I HATE TOSTRESS
of PUT
- CULTURAL STRESS 03
MOTHER THERE A TIME OF STRESS

- ECONOMIC STRESS
middle
- TRYINGadulthood
TO DEAL
- PSYCHOLOGICAL 04 A DANGEROUS AGE

STRESS
WITH DEATH: ‘HOW
05 AN AWKWARD AGE

CAN I GO ON?’
 06 A TIME OF

characteristics ACHIEVEMENT

07 A TIME OF
EVALUATION

of
08 THE TIME OF THE
EMPTY NEST

middle adulthood 09 A TIME OF

BOREDOM
 DEVELOPMENTAL
TASKS
01 05
LOSING PARENTS ND BECOMING
EXPERIENCING GRIEF GRANDPARENTS

02 01
06
LAUNCHING PREPARING FOR LATE
CHILDREN INTO ADULTHOOD
THEIR OWN LIVES

03 07
ADJUSTING TO
04 ACTING AS
HOME LIFE DEALING WITH ADULT CAREGIVERS FOR
WITHOUT CHILDREN WHO AGING
CHILDREN RETURN TO LIVE AT PARENTS/SPOUSE
Physical
development
Physical Mobility in Middle Adulthood

• SARCOPENIA
• OSTEOPOROSIS
• RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
Physical development
Normal Physiological Changes in Middle Adulthood
 Changes in vision, more joint pain, and weight gain
 Presbyopia
 The accumulation of fat in the abdomen
 Hearing loss is experienced by about 14% of midlife
adults,

*Individuals with a healthy lifestyle or those who begin an

exercise regimen in their 40s may enjoy comparable benefits
to those who began in their 20s
the menopausal syndrome
 CESSATION OF MENSTRUATION

 DECLINE IN FEMININE APPEARANCE

 PHYSICAL DISCOMFORTS

 WEIGHT GAIN

 KNOBBINESS

 PERSONALITY CHANGES
male climaCteric syndrome
 DECLINE IN FUNCTIONING OF THE SEX ORGANS

 DECLINE IN SEXUAL DESIRE

 DECLINE IN MASCULINE APPEARANCE

 ANXIETY ABOUT VIRILITY

 PHYSICAL DISCOMFORTS

 DECLINE IN STRENGTH AND ENDURANCE

 PERSONALITY CHANGES
CHARACTERSITIC CHANGES IN
MIDDLE ADULTHOOD
 INTERESTS ARE COMMONLY NARROWED DOWN

 SHIFT IN EMPHASIS ON ALREADY PRESENT INTEREST

 SHIFT TOWARDS SOLITARY INTERESTS

 INCREASED INTERESTS IN CULTURAL PURSUITS

 LESSENING OF SEX DIFFERENCES IN INTERESTS

 TENDENCY FOR BOTH MEN AND WOMEN TO ENGAGE IN

SHARED INTERESTS

 INCREASED INTEREST IN SELF-IMPROVEMENT

 cognitive
development
Horn maintains that crystallized
intelligence continues to increase
in middle adulthood, whereas
fluid intelligence begins to
decline in middle adulthood

*Neurogenesis
*Neuroplasticity
 PSYCHOSOCIAL
development

Midlife Crisis
• A period of emotional turmoil in middle age
SOCIOEMOTION
AL SELECTIVE
THEORY
LAURA CARSTENSEN
• as time horizons shrink, as they
typically do with age,
people become increasingly
selective, investing greater
resources in emotionally
meaningful goals and activities
SELECTION,
OPTIMIZATION,
COMPENSATION
PAUL AND MARGARET BALTES
Setting goals and directing efforts
towards a
specific purpose is beneficial to healthy
aging. Optimization is about the best
use of the resources we have in
pursuing goals. Compensation is about
using alternative strategies in attaining
those goals
CHANGED WORKING
CONDITIONS THAT
AFFECT MIDDLE-AGED
WORKERS
 UNFAVORABLE SOCIAL ATTITUDES

 HIRING POLICIES

 INCREASED USE OF AUTOMATION

 COMPULSORY RETIREMENT
RELATIONSHIPS IN
MIDDLE ADULTHOOD
 INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS

-- life- long partner

 FORMAL RELATIONSHIPS

-- bound by the rules of politeness

 INFORMAL RELATIONSHIPS

-- friends, lovers, siblings, or others with whom you can relax

with
 ATTITUDES MILITATING AGAINST THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH A
HUSBAND’s ATTITUDES
SPOUSE
 Dissatisfaction with sexual adjustments
 If he is successful vocationally, the feeling that his wife has not kept face with him
in his upward climb.
 If he is unsuccessful vocationally, the feeling that his wife has been of no help and
may even have handicapped him.
 The feeling that he and his wife have little in common because she has refused to
be interested in the things that are important to him.
 A critical attitude toward his wife’s management of the home and the family
finances and a belief that her child-training methods have been too permissive.
 Dissatisfaction with his wife’s appearance
 The feeling that his wife dominates him and treats him like a child
 ATTITUDES MILITATING AGAINST THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH A
WIFE’S ATTITUDES
SPOUSE
 Dissatisfaction with sexual adjustments
 Disillusionment with her husband because of his lack of vocational success
 The feeling of being a slave to the home or to an elderly relative
 The belief that her husband is stingy about money for clothes and
recreation
 The belief that her husband does not appreciate the time and effort she has
devoted to homemaking.
 The feeling that her husband spends too much time and money on
members
of his own family.
 The suspicions that he is involved with another women
 HAPPY HEALTHY FAMILIES

•Teach morality
•Savor the good
•Use the extended family
network
• Create family identity
•Forgive
THAN
K
YOU
End
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