HDFS 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Midlife Crisis, Night Sweats, Middle Age
31 Oct 2016
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Physiological changes + psychological adaptations trajectory of middle adulthood. Changes including: health and psychological responses/adaptations you make. Become aware of physiological changes, not as strong, as fast as used to be, ache and pain, (cid:271)od(cid:455) (cid:271)egi(cid:374)s to re(cid:373)i(cid:374)d (cid:455)ou that (cid:455)ou"re agi(cid:374)g. Stage specific sources of anxiety mid-life polarities (focusing on the works of levinson, Each stage has developmental demands and certain anxieties. A(cid:374)(cid:454)ieties ha(cid:448)e to do (cid:449)ith differe(cid:374)t opposite for(cid:272)es/pressures the(cid:455)"re e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)i(cid:374)g. Lived longer than you have left to live. Raises anxiety about how lived life, what you have still to accomplish, how you use your time. Behavioral slowing: body is showing manifestations of aging, ca(cid:374)"t ru(cid:374) as fast, (cid:374)ot as strong, eye sight is changing, hearing is changing. Women and the changes in the markers of youth/femininity: menopause- no longer fertile, not discreet, emerges over time, ordinary physiological changes that are markers/symbolic of you getting old.
