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Robert Peck elaborated on Erikson's eighth stage of development by dividing it into middle age and old age periods. Middle age consists of four stages from ages 42-55 focusing on valuing wisdom over physical powers, social relationships over sexualizing, emotional flexibility, and mental flexibility. Old age involves developmental tasks of differentiating identity from work roles, transcending physical limits, and finding purpose through contributions to future generations. Successfully navigating these stages and tasks leads to healthy transitions into late adulthood.
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- 1. Stages of AdultDevelopment Robert Peck
- 2. Robert F. Peck •A psychologist, has elaborated on Erikson’s eighth stage of development by further dividing it into two periods: – Middle age – Old age
- 3. Middle Age • Between42-55 • Has four stages, each of these stage help explain the progression that adult goes through psychologically while they are growing mature. • Successful movement through this stages can equate to a healthy transition from Middle Adulthood to Late Adulthood.
- 4. 4 Adjustments ofMiddle Age 1. Valuing wisdom versus Valuing Physical Powers 2. Socializing versus Sexualizing in Human Relationships 3. Emotional Flexibility versus Emotional Impoverishment 4. Mental Flexibility versus Mental Rigidity
- 5. Valuing wisdom versusValuing Physical Powers • Decrease in physical strength, stamina, attractiveness • Increase in wisdom An individual must accept that they do not have the energy to work as much as many hours as they did when they were younger.
- 6. Socializing versus Sexualizing inHuman Relationships • Sexual climacteric is related to general physical decline. • Success in this stage means valuing people more as individual personalities and companions rather than as sex objects. • A couple’s understanding of each other is deeper than earlier in life, when it was more egocentric.
- 7. Emotional Flexibility versus EmotionalImpoverishment • The ability to shift emotional investment from one person or activity to another is present throughout life. • Stage where parents die, children leave home for good. Friends and relatives are diminished by death. • Time when many have the widest circle of acquaintances within a wide age range, in both the community and at work.
- 8. Mental Flexibility versusMental Rigidity • Some people learn to master their experiences, achieve a degree of detached perspective on them and make use of them as provisional guides to solution of new issues.
- 9. 3 Developmental taskfor Older Adults 1. Ego Differentiation versus Work Role Preoccupation 2. Body transcendence versus Preoccupation 3. Ego transcendence versus Ego Preoccupation
- 10. Ego Differentiation versusWork Role Preoccupation • Stage where an old adult thinks about what he is going to do after retirement. • Finding ways to affirm self-worth outside the work role. • Must adjust values to place less emphasis on selves as workers or professionals and more on attributes that don’t involve work, such as being a grandparent or a gardener.
- 11. Body transcendence versus Preoccupation •Elderly individuals can undergo significant changes in their physical capabilities as a result of aging. • Focusing on cognitive and social powers in order to “transcend” physical limitations. • Individual must learn to cope with more beyond those physical changes.
- 12. Ego transcendence versusEgo Preoccupation • Accepting that life is finite by findings ways to contribute to the welfare of the future generations. • If people in late adulthood see these contributions, they will experience Ego Transcendence. If not, they may become preoccupied with the question of whether their lives had value and worth to society.
- 13. For Peck, the“successful ager” is one who is purposefully active in perpetuating the culture by “doing all he could to make it a good world for his familial or cultural descendants”.
- 14. -Eso es Todos- Preparedby: Apple Jane Salutan