FSHD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Genital Stage, John Gottman
18 May 2016
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What make someone an adult? traditional thinking says: legal age, graduation, full-time job, marriage and parenting researches say: nancial independence, independent decision making, personal responsibility. Post formal thought: allows us to deal with uncertainty, inconsistency, contradiction, imperfection and compromise. is exible and individualistic. Freud"s genital stage: mature sexuality and romantic partners. need to detach from parents and attach to a partner. Erikson"s intimacy and isolation stage: develop close relationships, challenge is balancing intimacy with autonomy. Marriage age in 1970 for women is 21 and men 23 in 1996, women 25 and men 27 in 2015, women 27 and men 29. Arnett extended erikson"s work: emerging adulthood is ages 18-25, in between adolescence and true" adulthood. controversial because it does not exist in all cultures. Gati, krausz and osipow: identi es problems that arise before and during the process of nding jobs. Before the process there is a lack of readiness (lack of motivation, indecisiveness and dysfunctional myths)
