Chapter 13 Emerging adulthood Influences on health Diet weight gain obesity sleep barriers to healthy lifestyle Indirect SES relationships Late teens through mid to late twenties Period of time in which young people are no longer adolescents but have not yet settled into adult roles Legally 18 can vote marry enter binding contracts Sociological self supporting or have chosen a career and a partner Psychological discovering identity independent of parents values relationship state of mind rather than an event some never become adults Laypeople definition 1 Accepting responsibility for oneself 2 Making independent decisions 3 becoming financially independent Modern society due to technology and education entering college working moving away from home getting married having children Influences on health Genetic diet and nutrition obesity eating disorders physical activity stress sleep smoking alcohol use Reduces risk of high blood pressure Mediterranean lifestyle fruits veggies whole grain Weight Gain obesity Increase in snaking portions high fat diets technology Leads to depression high blood pressure heart disease stroke shortens life cancers Family and academic stress associated with insomnia Affects physical cognitive emotional and social functioning Impairs decision making memory and verbal learning Sleep improves learning of motor skills and prevent oversaturation of brain processing Indirect influences on health Income education race relationships Diet Sleep SES Higher income people rate their health as better and tend to live longer The less schooling people have the more likely they are to die of disease injury homicide suicide chronic problems Higher income tend to have better health care medical treatment and better diets African Americans metabolize more nicotine in the blood and have higher rates of homicide Relationships and health Social interaction engagement in social relationships and roles spouce parent neighbor friend etc Influence in healthful behaviors such as exercising eating right More likely to survive heart attacks less likely to be anxious or depressed less susceptible to colds Mediated by stress hormones such as cortisol decrease stress Social support material informational and psychological resources derived from social network used for coping with stress More likely to eat and sleep sensibly exercise eat right etc Less likely to be stressed depressed and die Married people tend to be healthier than those who are not People in poor marriage tend to have poorer health Peaks at age 18 to 25 In adolescence marijuana is the most popular drug Infertility Inability to conceive a baby after 12 months of intercourse in absence of birth control methods Men infertility Production of too few sperm ejaculatory duct may be blocked or sperm unable to swim well enough sometimes genetic Women infertility Failure to produce ova normal ova or mucus in the cervix Disease of uterine lining Blockage of fallopian tubes Mature type of thinking that relies of subjective experience and intuition as well as logic and allows room for ambiguity uncertainty inconsistence contradiction imperfection and compromise begins in emerging adulthood through higher education Salovey and Mayer s term for ability to understand and regulate emotions and important component of intelligent behavior 4 related skills perceive use understand and manage our emotions Mayer Salovey Caruso Emotional Intelligence test MSCEIT Generates a score for each ability then gives total score High score stronger relationships More than half of high school graduates go on to higher education 1 in 4 college students will take an online class at some point Higher education is associated with increases in financial literacy Hypothesis that there is a carryover of cognitive gains from work to leisure that explains the positive relationship between activities in the quality of intellectual functioning Cognitive gains from work spill over into nonworking Peak of illicit drug use most popular drug Infertility 1 cause for men and women Postformal Emotional Intelligence College Transition Spillover Hypothesis Chapter 14 Recentering hours Adult relationship with parents Quality of Failure to launch Quality of relationship Process that underlies the shift to an adult identity Primary task of emerging adulthood 3 Stages 1 Still embedded in the family of origin but expectations for 2 3 self reliance and directedness begin to increase Individual remains connected to but no longer embedded in the family of origin College jobs and intimate partners Moving towards serious commitments Age 30 Moves into young adulthood Independence from family of origin and commitment to a career partner and possibly children Positive parent child relationships predict warmer and less conflicted relationships at 26 years old Relationships better when young adult was married and childless engaging in productive activity and not living at home Quality affected by relationship between mother and father poor relationship between parents leads to depressive thoughts for young adults Movie 30 year old man living with parents Adult children who live with parents may have trouble renegotiating relationship In house adulthood live in adult children and their parents treat each other as equals Popular in Europe Failure to Launch Young adults either form strong long lasting bonds with friends or romantic partners or face a possible sense of isolation and self absorption Young adults who have developed a strong sense of the self during adolescence are in a better position to fuse identity with that of another person Theoretical model of personality development that describes adult psychosocial development as a response to the expected or unexpected occurrence and timing of important life events Normative life events Social clock In the timing of events model commonly expected life experiences that occur at customary times Society s norms or expectations for the appropriate timing of life events Erickson Intimacy versus Isolation 6th stage Timing of events normative social clock Timing of events model Five factor model of personality Friendship fictive kin Love Sternberg Gay and Lesbian relationships Cohabitation And divorce Marital satisfaction Expectations and Marital success Theoretical model of personality developed and tested by Costa and McCrae based n the Big Five factors underlying clusters of related personality traits NOCAE Neuroticism emotional
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