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What did Daniel Levinson focus on?
He focused more on career development than family in young adulthood.
Life Structures
Levinson described Life Structure as the underlying patterns of a person's life at a particular point in time.
What does the Life Structure include?
The people in the person's life, the person's job, and their hobbies, interests, and other activities.
What are the two major stages of young adulthood (and their substages)?
1. Novice phase of early adulthood (ages 17-33)- building the initial life structure.
a. Early Adult Transition(17-22): Move out of the family home.
b. Entry Life Structure(22-28): Initial choices of occupation, relationship; establish life goals/dreams; find a mentor.
c. Age 30 Transition(28-33): Evaluate the life structure and make changes if needed.
2. Culminating phase of early adulthood (ages 33-45)- Achieving Life Goals.
a. Culminating Life Structure(33-40): Settling down into the revised life structure; deeper commitments to work and family; working on life goals; establishing one's niche in society; "becoming one's own man", or becoming independent from the power and authority of others and discarding the mentor.
b. Midlife Transition(40-45): Ending young adulthood.
What are the 4 major conflicts that the 40-year-olds face (now that they have reached some career stability)?
The transition from...

1. being young to being old.
2. being destructive vs constructive.
3. being masculine vs feminine
4. being attached vs separated.

Resolving these conflicts can be painful and may lead to major life changes.
What did Daniel Levinson study?


(Daniel Levinson)
He studied the development of men from midlife to older age.
What did Levinson focus on in his studies?

(Daniel Levinson)
He focused on achieving a stable life structure in early adulthood and extrapolated the theory to apply across the adult life span.