Middle Adulthood
Social and Emotional Development (the sandwich generation)
Things begin to change
children are usually born, grown up, and moved out of the house.
Retirement is around the corner.
Relationships grow, change, and sometimes dissolve.
Maturity
Maturity: the ability to adapt to the inevitability changes that happen in life.
Relationships
Supportive relationships reduce stress.
Re-establish relationship with spouse make or break stage in marriage.
Children move out.
Empty Nest comes into play.
Time to Accept
Generativity vs. Stagnation
is a stage you reach when you feel like you want to contribute to the next generation, without loosing morals or changing who you became from the last generation.
Generativity is the want to contribute to the next generation.
Stagnation is wanting to stay to your own beliefs without influence of the generation.
Generation X
this generation was born between 1965 to 1979
members of generation X are called the digital generation
Echo Boomers or Millennial Generation
this generation is born between 1980 and 1995