PSY2071 Study Guide - Final Guide: Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood, Role Conflict, Attachment In Adults

• School: Monash University
• Department: Health Sciences - Psychology
• Course: PSY2071
• Professor: Jake Hoskin

Document Summary

Phase of life devoted to constructing an adult life. Begins after high school, tapers off by late 20s. Prolonging decisions on life and therefore postponing adult roles. Shared age norms of what behaviors are appropriate at particular ages, usually set by society. Highlights the challenged of transforming childhood self into adult person. Role confusion: failure in identity formation, marked by the lack of any sense of a future adult path. To achieve mature identity, we need to experience a crisis and become committed to that ideology. But real-life identity construction is more erratic, moving back and forth in statuses throughout adulthood. Shifts help to consistently rethink our lives, review goals and directions. But some do not move successfully toward an identity search, find themselves stuck (ruminative moratorium) Entering emerging adulthood upbeat and competent will flourish in college. Clingy, needy style of relating to loved ones. Secure attachment: genuine intimacy that is ideal in love relationships.