Stages Of Adult Lifehood

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|Figure 1. Adult Life Stages | Stage |Key Issues |Self-Image |Goal Focus |Relationships |Community | |Autonomy / Tentative Choices (18 - 26) |Autonomy vs. Dependence, Tentative vs. Lasting Choices |Developing sense of personhood as separate from parents and childhood peer groups |Defining self as an individual and establishing an initial life style |Testing out new relationships (e.g., love interests, peer groups, and friends) |Realigning focus from family of origin to new peers and groups | |Young Adult Transition (27-31) |Turmoil vs. Certainty, Settling Down vs. Keeping Things Open |Questioning sense of self and who/what we want to become |Re-assessing initial life style and making more permanent choices/ commitments |Sorting out and deciding which relationships will become more permanent |Re-thinking and evaluating commitments and connections | |Making Commitments (32-40) |Master vs. Apprentice, Permanent vs. Tentative Choices |Firming up/establishing a more permanent sense of self and who/what we want to become |Deciding a life direction and defining/ aggressively pursuing a dream of what we want to accomplish in life |Making more permanent commitments to love relationships, friends, and peers |Establishing more permanent connections and community ties/ responsibilities | |Mid-Life Transition (41-48) |Resolving Key Polarities Immortality vs. Mortality, Constructive vs. Destructive, Nurturing vs. Aggressive |Re-examining realities of projected ego and image vs. true self and struggling to define/accept true self |Questioning the dream whether or not it was achieved and developing a more mature sense of what is really important |Recognizing/ acknowledging one's own negative, as well as positive, impact on relationships and correcting course for

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