Question

1) Explain how and why emerging adulthood is a time of experimentation and exploration.

2) Peak performance is often reached between 19 - 26. How does this affect individuals in emerging and early adulthood in health and wellness, as well as in competitive sports.

3) Binge drinking is a special problem among U.S. college students. Explain how this is a problem and how it affects individuals in the future.

How do individuals in early adulthood form loving relationships?

2) How do they choose their spouses/partners?

3) How does the arrival of children affect this relationship in the first two years after the arrival of children?

4) How do children and other factors affect the long-term relationship? How does family and children affect career choices?

Answer 1

Emerging adulthood is the stage just after the adolescence stage. One of the important characteristics of emerging adulthood is explorations and experiments. This is the age at which young people identify and explore various possibilities of love and work.This is the time in which they explore their life throughly. They starts new jobs, change in jobs, some may follow college studies, different types of romantic and sexual relationships, experimentation with drugs , alcohol and also engaging in risky and dangerous behaviour. Young adults in industrialized countries spend most of the time with experimenting and exploring potential directions of their life. Another important characteristics of emerging adulthood is identity explorations. About 50 years ago in America , the median age of marriage was 22 for men and 20 for women. Now it is of 27 for women and 29 for men. This is because many of the young people attend higher education and do their own explorations and experiments.