ADULT DEVELOPMENT

• 5 key features emerging adulthood

  Identity exploration (love and work), Instability, Self-focused, Feeling in-between, Age of possibilities opportunity to transform their lives)
• Markers of being an adult


  Having a fulltime-job, Being responsible for oneself, Living independently
• 20s and 30s 


  Young adults, peak of physiological development
• Emerging adults have more than twice the mortality rate of adolescents
• Sex and Fertility


  Men and women tend to reach their peak of sexual responsiveness at different ages.
• Men's sexual responsiveness


  late teens and early twenties
• Women's sexual responsiveness


  20s and 30s and may peak in the late 30s or early 40s
• Early Adulthood Reproduction


  time for having children
• Jean's Piaget's theory of Cognitive Development

  young adults move into a qualitatively higher stage of postformal thought that is more reflective, relativistic, contextual, provisional, realistic, recognized as being influenced by emotion
• Impact of work


  defines people in fundamental ways
• Temperament


  individual's behavioral style and characteristic emotional responses; less emotional
• Attachment security


  predicted more positive romantic relationships