• What changes have led to this new developmental period (18 – 25)? o It is for many people a time of frequent change as various possibilities in love, work, and worldviews are explored o Sweeping demographic shifts have taken place over the past half century that has made the late teens and early twenties not simply a brief period of transition into adult roles but a distinct period of the life course, characterized by change and expel o These changes over the past half century have altered the nature of development in the late teens and early twenties for young …show more content…
o I think parenthood or even having a child changing the experience for someone in emerging adulthood because since they have a child they have more responsibilities than other emerging adults who do not have children. In addition, having children let emerging adults have various different opportunities than others through taking care of their children. Also, especially women who have a child in their body, they might not be able to do specific actions. So that these disabilities would let emerging adulthood changing the experiences.
• Are those 18 – 25-year-olds with children experiencing the period of “emerging adulthood” differently than those without children? If so, in what ways? If not, why …show more content…
What do you think? In those three specific areas, is identity exploration greater in adolescence or emerging adulthood? What are you basing your opinion on? o I think these three areas of identity explosion; love, work, and worldviews are depended on our experiences during childhood. According to Freud’s theory, our personality would be completed by age 5 or 6 years old. In the other words, the experiences that during after that age, would impact to shape our personality but before that age are biggest impacts to make up our own personality. I do not think, we were thinking about our love, work, or even worldviews when we were young. However, the environment around us such as our parents and grandparents must be the biggest influences on us.
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