5 different life factors which effect the development within adolescence are: Puberty; This occurs for females at an early age of 11 onwards, and in males at a later age of 13 onwards. Children which experience puberty at an earlier age tend to go into depression and can experience some anxiety, which could mean they don’t feel comfortable in themselves because other children of their age have not went through this stage yet. Girls who go through this at an early age tend to suffer from lower self-esteem and think negatively about their body image. Boys on the other hand tend not to have these negative effects.
Relationships; Children will experience highs and lows in relationships, as they get older they will get involved in more serious relationships and more effective relationships in both friendships and boyfriend/girlfriend relationships. Relationships could effect children in a seriously bad way they could lead to; depression, eating disorders, self-harm and family problems. On the other hand they could effect children in a good way including; advice, help whenever it is needed, someone to be there for them no matter what, someone to talk to and most of all making someone happy and wanted.
Independence; This is a big change to adolescence, it affects children in all types of ways. They will use it in a variety of different ways including; in school work, in day to day life skills and in challenges. Using Independence in all those ways will effect them in a good way in ways such as; helping them towards the future, encouragement and making them realise that they need to look after themselves and that they may not always have someone there for them.
Peer Pressure; This is something in which mostly everyone will experience at some point in their lives, and it usually occurs to be around the time of adolescence. Peer Pressure is something which can affect a child badly, it could get them into some seriously bad habits including; smoking, taking drugs, drinking alcohol, theft and crime. These things could affect the whole future of a teenagers life, it could affect; later life jobs, relationships, finance and shelter. Family Problems; This could harm a child adly, it could effect the child’s health. Ways in which it could effect the health of a child include; eating disorders, self-harm, depression, secrecy, and mentally.
Family problems have a huge impact on how a child acts, they could change their personality inconsiderably and could lead them onto things in which are not acceptable and are illegal. It could lead to; abuse of drugs, alcohol, theft, crime and smoking, things in which the child wouldn’t of normally of done but has seen it as the only helping cause of their pain/anger. Adulthood (19-65) different life factors which effect the development within Adulthood are: Menopause; Changes which the menopause have on the body are; having hot flushes, sleeping disturbances and psychological changes. The physical changes which effect the woman are; more frequent urination, higher risk of heart disease and stroke and thinning of bones. These changes could effect the woman immensely they could make the woman feel insecure about themselves and their body, they also know that they are at higher risk of certain things so this could make them constantly worried or scared and could maybe lead them into depression.
The side effects are; nausea, breast tenderness, weight gain, fluid retention. Marriage; One of the biggest life changes anyone will experience is Marriage, it is one huge emotional roller-coaster yet one of the best times of your life. It can effect an adult in ways of making emotional and social attachments with another man/woman as well as experiencing intimacy. Meaning that they will be hitting some things which they may not have experienced before and will be with the person that they love the most.
The way in which marriage effects an adult is emotionally because it is an extremely high point to get marriage and makes you feel on top of the world, but it can unfortunately lead to some horrible points in their lives. Marriage can lead to a lack of independence and could even head into divorce, which is everyone’s worst nightmare, so this will effect the adult in a horrific emotional way. Parenthood; As well as marriage, parenthood is one of the biggest life changes you will experience. You are bringing a new life into the world and you are bringing a bundle of joy into your life.
It will effect parents in a fantastic way, it will make them relive some moments of their childhood as they will be teaching an infant new skills such as how to talk, walk, eat, write and read. Which will help gain parenting and loving skills. On a downside, parenthood could effect an adults social life. It could lead to their children being to attached to them or the parent being to attached to the child meaning no free time for you to go and see their friends. Careers; Throughout adulthood people will go through a lot of different working experiences to find the right job/career for them.
They will do the best that they can to get into the career they love and will set themselves targets to do so. This will effect adults by walking them down the right paths, and making them the happiest they could be, in a job which they love and something which they have worked towards for a long time. It could also lead to redundancies meaning getting laid off from your job and going through the stage of finding another, this could lead to depression, lack of independence or lack of motivation.
Retirement; Something which everyone does at some point of their life is retire, people tend to do so in their early 60’s. Some people will love retirement because they are getting to do things which they love and get to do them any time they want. On the other hand some people may not like the retirement life, and could miss the work they used to do and could go into depression mode and could even have no motivation what so ever. This is a hard stage for some people and it effects their life dramatically.
