Essays on Young Adulthood

Black Boy, written by Richard Wright in 1943, is a memoir of his childhood, split into two sections. The first section reflects on his childhood in Mississippi, and the second centers around his young adulthood in Chicago. The novel is designed to explore the plight of young blacks in America in an era when they were still navigating the violence of racism and findings their racial identity. As such, it deeply explores the concepts of race, class, and citizenship, and how those ideas are closely tied, and in some cases, greatly conflicted. Black Boy is primarily a book about ...

Developmental Tasks of Young Adulthood

Young adulthood developmental tasks are primarily centered on family, occupation, and social life. The first task is creating an initial adult identity, second is establishing independence, third is assuming responsibility, fourth is broadening social skills, and the final task is nurturing intimacy (Arnett & Turner, 2009). Broadening social skills is necessary for young adults to accomplish nurturing intimacy. This is because as the young adults develop their dependable and appropriate social skills and gain the ability to interact in different social settings. These social settings include different community groups that a young adult becomes a member and also marriage.

Functions of Fat in the Body

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Discussion of the problem and it’s prevalence in the country

A healthy relationship is defined by various factors, these include proper communication between partners, the existence of mutual trust and respect and most importantly, both partners should be able to understand each other, appreciate and embrace their differences (Brown & Bulanda, 2008). These conditions are necessary to ensure that partners are always in a position to resolve any matters arising between them in an amicable and rational manner without any violence. This scope of activities require certain skills that are unfortunately not found amongst the young adults; it’s as a result of lack of these skills amongst young adult ...

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

Quite often, people experience anxiety when faced with a difficult situation, and the anxiety ends once the situation is resolved. Occasional anxiety is a common phenomenon that people face especially before undertaking tasks for which they have little confidence in accomplishing. Besides, whenever confronted with the need to make important decisions, people tend to experience anxiety over the possible consequences of such decisions. In general, anxiety occurs when one is facing a difficult situation, has to make a difficult decision, or is about to carry out a task that one has no confidence in accomplishing successfully. In all these ...

Introduction

American youths between 18 and 25 years register the highest prevalence of illegal drug use, with 60.5% for lifetime rate of drug use (SAMHSA, 2004). This percentage represents a considerable rise from values of the period between 2002 and 2013 (SAMHSA, 2014). According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (HSDUH, 2010), young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 abuse prescription drugs the most in the United States. Results from studies indicate contradictory statistics regarding factors of race on drug abuse prevalence. However, studies such as McCabe et al. (2008) indicate that white and Hispanic ...

Abstract

This paper explores development of adolescents and young adults by involving adjustments and changes, which can vary in people of the same age. While studying their developments, I have considered emotional, social, cognitive, sensory and physical processes and even their combination. For instance, when individuals enter the puberty period, they may feel some implications for personal development and personality in whole. Although during adulthood and adolescence there are a lot of developmental aspects, wide personal variations occur because of core issues, achievements and circumstances. For example, not all people can attain stages of psychological development in early adulthood. There ...

Introduction According to Erik Erikson’s theory, youth is a time of self discovery (Alice and Landale 2011). A young person attempts to seek individual identity which is separate from family. During this period, the youth tend to think in terms of establishing a life philosophy which is free from conflict. This is in contrast to the reality, which is laden with conflict. In this process of self discovery, the youth tend to be rash and ignorant and in a sense consider themselves ‘immortal gods’. This can be illustrated by the carefree attitude they adopt (Hunt et al., 2009). Many ...

The current demographic, economic, and career paths trends are changing the more traditional conceptualizations of midlife as defined by certain roles or a stage of parenthood or of marriage (David, 1998). Traditionally middle age has involved middle years of parenting and career peaking with the later phase of midlife being a time of relinquishing the employment and parenting of children. However, given economic recess, many middle age individuals are reconsidering and delaying the anticipated retirement age hence the age /cohort boundaries of midlife are not static and are likely to continue to evolve with further demographic, economic, and social/health policy changes ( ...