Balancing it all out!!!
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People experience many transitions in their work and family roles during middle adulthood. These adults have broad responsibilities in caring for other people. Sigmund Freud believed that the goal in adulthood is to develop a balance between all areas in life. Freud also argued that a healthy adult is one who can love and work.
Each adult typically engages in in all of the following developmental tasks: managing a career, nurturing an intimate relationship, expanding caring relationships, and managing the household. Through their roles in the family, at work, and in the community, middle adults have to nurture, educate, and care for children, adolescents, young adults, and older adults. The strains of middle adulthood result largely from difficulties in balancing many roles and striving to navigate through predictable as well as sudden role transitions. A social role is any set of behaviors that has a socially agreed-upon function and an accepted code of norms. Social role serves as the bridge between the individual and society. Social role theory suggests that as adults acquire and lose roles, they change their self-definitions and their relationships with social groups. Social Role Theory is the principle that men and women behave differently in social situations and take different roles, due to the expectations that society puts upon them (including gender stereotyping). This includes women taking positions of lower power, meeting ‘glass ceilings’, having home-making roles, and etc.