Chapter 13 Emerging adulthood Late teens through mid to late twenties Legally Sociological Psychological Period of time in which young people are no longer adolescents but have not yet settled into adult roles 18 can vote marry enter binding contracts self supporting or have chosen a career and a partner 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 Influences on health Diet weight Genetic diet and nutrition obesity eating disorders physical activity stress sleep smoking alcohol use gain obesity sleep barriers to healthy lifestyle Diet Indirect SES relationships 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 Sleep 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 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 Peak of illicit drug use most popular drug Peaks at age 18 to 25 In adolescence marijuana is the most popular drug Infertility 1 cause for men and women Infertility 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 Inability to conceive a baby after 12 months of intercourse in absence of birth control methods Men infertility Women infertility Production of too few sperm ejaculatory duct may be blocked or sperm unable to swim well enough sometimes genetic 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 Postformal Emotional Intelligence College Transition More than half of high school graduates go on to higher education Spillover Hypothesis Chapter 14 Recentering Mayer Salovey Caruso Emotional Intelligence test MSCEIT Generates a score for each ability then gives total score High score stronger relationships 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 hours 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 self reliance and directedness begin to increase 2 3 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 Adult relationship with parents Quality of relationship Quality of Failure to launch Erickson Intimacy versus Isolation 6th stage Timing of events normative social clock Timing of events model and father poor relationship between parents leads to depressive thoughts for young adults Failure to Launch 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 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 In the timing of events model commonly expected life experiences that occur at customary times Normative life events Social clock Society s norms or expectations for the appropriate timing of life events Five factor model of personality 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 instability Extraversion Positive emotions openness to experience willing to try new things and ideas Conscientiousness achievers Agreeableness trusting
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