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A midlife crisis is a transition of identity and self-confidence that can occur in middle-aged individuals, typically 45 to 64/65 years old. [1] [2] [3] The phenomenon is described as a psychological crisis brought about by events that highlight a person's growing age, inevitable mortality, and possible lack of accomplishments in life.
Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis is a 2020 non-fiction book by Ada Calhoun. It builds upon her essay for O, The Oprah Magazine , "The New Midlife Crisis for Women". [ 1 ] Calhoun interviewed more than 200 women and studied social trends to identify new roadblocks for Generation X women. [ 2 ]
In the United States during the early 1960s, the average age that young adults were marrying was 20 for women and 23 for men, [40] which means young adulthood consisted of parenthood and continuing higher education. Young women concentrated on becoming full-time mothers, whereas men focused on their careers while parenthood took a backseat. [10]
In popular psychology, a quarter-life crisis is an existential crisis involving anxiety and sorrow over the direction and quality of one's life which is most commonly experienced in a period ranging from a person's early twenties up to their mid-thirties, [1] [2] although it can begin as early as eighteen. [3]
Minority stress theory was originally developed to explain associations between social situations, stress, and health for LGB individuals. [1] Still, researchers have used the same general theory to examine stress processes among African Americans, and findings have generally converged with those from LGB populations.
Stage-crisis view is a theory of adult development that was established by Daniel Levinson. [1] [2] Although largely influenced by the work of Erik Erikson, [3] Levinson sought to create a broader theory that would encompass all aspects of adult development as opposed to just the psychosocial.
Some were graduates of newly formed black and women's colleges. Their defining characteristics were missionary and social crusades: "muckraker" journalism, prohibitionism, workers' rights, trade unionism and women's suffrage. [74] In midlife, they developed prohibition in the United States, immigration control, and organized vice squads.
African Americans with high John Henryism scores were less likely to be current or former smokers than those with low scores. African-American college students with high John Henryism scores were less likely to have carried a weapon on campus for self-defense, more likely to have been arrested for driving under the influence, and more likely to ...