Emerging/Young Adulthood

• Emerging adulthood is Marked by IDENTITY EXPLORATION and FOCUS ON SELF
• Emerging Adulthood a time during which young people are no longer adolescents but have not yet settled into adult roles
• Bariatric Surgery carried out to induce weight loss, and it generally involves rerouting or removing parts of the stomach or small intestine (effective solution only for severe obesity)
• Generally, adults ages 18 to 64 should engage in 75 to 150 minutes per week of aerobic exercise (depending on intensity levels) and muscle-strengthening activities, preferably spread across a week for substantial health benefits
• College-age women are more likely to use emotion focused strategies when dealing with stress
• Emotion-focused coping consists of attempts to manage the emotions associated with experiencing a particular event by such tactics as refusing to think about an issue or reframing the event in a positive light
• Problem-focused coping involves addressing an issue head-on and developing action-oriented ways of managing and changing a bad situation
• Among college students, family life stress, together with academic stress, is associated with high levels of insomnia
• A lack of sleep affects executive control, attentional processes (ability to inhibit, sustain, rapidly shift attention), and memory (working, long term and Prospective)
• Tobacco smoking is the leading PREVENTABLE cause of death worldwide
• Alcohol use peaks in emerging adulthood

  • College is a prime time and place for drinking, they tend to drink more frequently and more heavily
• What are INDIVIDUAL variables that affect the likelihood of alcohol consumption?

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender (boys)
• Social relationships seem to be vital to health and wellbeing
• Married people, particularly in young adulthood, tend to be healthier physically and psychologically
• Common Mental health Problem among young adulthood

  • Alcoholism
  • Drug Abuse
  • Depression
• Alcoholism is strikingly common with adult age of 20-39
• Use of illicit drugs peaks at ages 18 to 25
• Marijuana is by far the most popular illicit drug among young adults
• Adolescence and emerging adulthood appear to be sensitive periods for the onset of depressive disorders
• Sexual behaviors/Attitudes that are viewed the most negatively:

  • extramarital affairs
  • homosexuality
  • abortion
• Emerging adults tend to have more sexual partners than in older age groups, but they have sex less frequently
• People who become sexually active during emerging adulthood rather than adolescence tend to engage in fewer risky behaviors (those that may lead to STIs or unplanned pregnancies)
• Key populations at risk of STIs

  • men who have sex with men
  • people who inject drugs
  • prison inmates
  • sex workers
  • transgender people
• Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a disorder that produces physical discomfort and emotional tension for up to 2 weeks BEFORE a menstrual period
• Smoking and alcohol consumption may put women at INCREASED RISK for the development of PMS
• Dysmenorrhea tend to affect younger women, whereas PMS is more typical in women in their thirties or older