HDFS 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Night Sweats, Midlife Crisis
6 Oct 2016
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Chronological age began to means less and psychological age becomes more important. Chronological age is just your actual age ex:35. Psychological age how you feel about your age and the experience and framing of your age- how you feel about how old you are. Physiological changes + psychological adaptations trajectory of middle adulthood. Physiological changes- health and your psychological responses/adaptations influence your psychological age and how you experience and cope with the challenges with the stage you are in. Not as strong, not as fast as you use to be- have aches and pains-body begins to remind you in slow and subtle ways that you are aging, hair gray, eye sight, hearing. Stage specific sources of anxiety mid-life polarities (focusing on the works of levinson, Mid-life polarities to capture that the axietys have to do with the different forces and pressure that they are experiencing.
