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Download full textKuchner, John F. – 1993
Postponed childbearing increases the likelihood that the responsibility for caring for frail elderly parents will coincide with the period of active mothering. A woman who is 40 at the time she first becomes a mother may easily have parents or other family members over the age of 65, or even over 85 years of age. Noting that 44 percent of women…
Descriptors: Adults, Employed Women, Family Relationship, Midlife Transitions
Roberts, Betty H. – 1973
There is increasing popular interest in the phenomenon of the successful professional or businessman who switches careers in middle age. There is little hard data available about the phenomenon although there is a great amount of psychological conjecture. This paper briefly reviews the various theories that attempt to explain midlife career…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Change, Career Guidance, Interests
Roberts, Betty H. – 1975
This research deals with the phenomenon of the successful middle-aged careerist who drops out of his occupation into an alternate life style. These people are considered a subset of the growing numbers who change occupations in midlife, despite continuing success in their chosen career. There is some exploration of the philosophical and practical…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Change, Career Guidance, Dropouts
Peer reviewedBograd, Ruth; Spilka, Bernard – International Journal of Aging & Human Development, 1996
Self-disclosure and marital satisfaction were studied among 125 males and females who were in their first remarriage. Essentially equal numbers had remarried in midlife (ages 30-45) and late life (ages 60-75). Employed the multidimensional Wheeless self-disclosure scales and Locke-Wallace measure of marital satisfaction. Discusses findings. (KW)
Descriptors: Adults, Disclosure, Divorce, Interpersonal Communication
Jones, Franklin Ross – 1980
The long-held belief that a person became an adult at about 20 years of age and, henceforth, remained psychologically and physically on a plateau until old age, has recently been found unacceptable in the light of research contributed by developmental psychology. Adult development may be viewed as the function of the interaction of the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Adult Development, Adults
Curtin, Bernadette M.; Hecklinger, Fred J. – 1981
Information and accompanying exercises in this four-part booklet are designed to assist adults make changes in their career and personal lives. After introductory material describing career and life planning as a continual assessment process, Part I of the booklet reviews the common characteristics and problems of adults in each of five life…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Career Change, Career Choice
