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MIDDLE AGE
PSYCHOSOCIAL
PROCESSES AND SOCIAL
CONSTRUCTION OF
MIDDLE AGE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Chapter 1 .........................................................................................................................................2
1.1 MIDDLE AGE ......................................................................................................................2
1.2 What events might characterize midlife................................................................................3
1.3 Importance Of Personality....................................................................................................3
Chapter 2..........................................................................................................................................4
2.1 The Midlife Crisis Concept....................................................................................................4
2.2 Midlife characteristically a time for evaluation, retrospection, introspection & dawning
awareness of time left to live.......................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Human development is majorly the process which is continuous process taking place
throughout the life. There is continuous progression in human development from the infancy to
late adulthood having all stages in between. The stages for the human development are
Childhood, Jung, Adulthood and work, midlife. There used to be the various factors in which are
affecting affection health , illness and the well-being of a human being from the middle
adulthood to an old age in the beginning of 21 St centuries. The factor is such as the Emotional
and psychological changes (Miyamoto And et.al. 2017). Children are the increase in opinion
and attitude in terms of food deepens. In childhood , the preference of the family impact the
decision-making of children. The next stage is adolescence which is maximum having the
factor about the physical changes along with psychological barriers. As all the physical changes
turned out to be very confusing and stressful period. The next stage is ultimately the adulthood
and the particular work life which bring all of newer challenges a major decision-making in
their personal and professional life.. the factor such as the emotional and financial instability is
an important factor. The factor of emotional and psychological changes have the contribution
during the life stage which have the includes the independence desire.
According to Carl Jung, there is nothing having the relationship with age or
accomplishment, and throughout the lives the human being often move forward and backward from
these stages. As per views of Carl Jung, there is are four stages of life that is termed as Athlete, the
Warrior,the Statement and the Spirit. In the stage of athlete tends to be pure stage and least mature. It
is characterized by being obsessed with our physical bodies and appearance. Warrior stage is the next
stage in which the individual start raking the responsibilities and dream to have conquered the world.
The warrior phase is also the most common phase that people revert to throughout their lives as they
“re-invent” themselves (Roberts, And et.al.,2016). The next stage is termed as the statement stage
when the individual start having the focus on personal achievement to have the objectives to
accomplish vanity of the athlete phase. The last one with spirit stage having the realization and
having the sense of the things beyond the physical needs.
There are different type of the life course among the human development cycle. There is
more focus paid in the contemporary study related to ageing and the development of human with the
concept of life course in different ways' particularity in terms of health and well-being.
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As there is more focus on the different ways in which the concept of “life course” is used in the
contemporary study of ageing and human development, particularly with regard to health and well-
being. After the detailed research it has been identified there are differ uses of the term life course.
As ion the basis of the time or age is termed as historical time line in which stage of human
development is decided on term of age and time period (Baron and Pletsch, C., 2019). On the other
hand life course on the basis of different stage is term's as biographical timeline. As these both
timeline and interlinked with each other and have equal contribution in development of human.
Chapter 1
1.1 MIDDLE AGE
Middle age has termed as the period for human adulthood that have the immediate
precedes to the onset of the old age of human being. Age period has been defined somewhat as
arbitrary having difference from oner person to another person but basically the age between the
ages of 40 to 60 is termed as the middle age (miller, and et.al., 2018). In middle age, the
individual used to experience a variety of physiological and psychological changed along with
decline gradually in terms of the physical ability and morality awareness. Middle age can be
termed as the period of adjustments in between the potentiality of past and the limitation of
future. The middle has been concerned with more of forming & performing the guidance to next
generation. On middle age there are more of the physiological and psychological change are
experienced which can be more relative potentialities of past, present and future which has to be
altered which has been increasingly having the direct efforts to the reminiscence process and
past reallocation. Middle age can be more understandable with having adjustment is human
begins cognitive ,emotional along with intellectual social capabilities (Tackett, and Lahey,
2017). There is giving away of the human being midlife behaviour from the normative crisis
model to the timing event to model which can have the clear explanation of midlife transition
and the midlife crisis. The former have the proper explanation of psycho-social task which are
had the occurrence in age related sequence while other has the endurance in response to
particular life events and their timing. The middle age is the time foe the revalidation of the long
time stationing that is prevailing the by holding the long held belief and the perioperative values.
With the starting age of the middle life there is beginning in having the sense of responsibility
along with morality in midlife adulterers whereas as being in youth the sense of responsibility is
minimal. In more of another understanding the model of normative crises have the definition
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