Talk:Young adult (psychology)

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Changed 'deficits' to 'overdrafts' as I feel this is a more appropriate word for what was trying to be got across, and deficit just linked to a page of government defecits. JiMternet 13:44, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Disambiguation needed? 2 Please don't merge or erase distinctions 3 Marriage Partner 4 Women 5 Young adulthood

[edit] Disambiguation needed?

It looks like, without discussion, citation, etc., this has been turned from a stub article about people "in the transition from a teenager to an adult… informally considered to encompass the period from age 16 to age 25" to medium-sized (but unsourced) article about people "between the ages of 20 and 40". These are two different topics. My guess is that most incoming links are now wrong in terms of the material here. I'm also pretty dubious on anyone using the term "young adult" to refer to someone as old as 40, and somewhat dubious past 30. After all, in the not-so-distant past, life expectancies weren't much more than 40. Is there a citation for extending the term this far? Certainly the 16-25 usage is easily citable from the extensive citations in Young adult literature.

If these two rather different usages are really both current, we need a disambiguation and two separate pages, probably Young adult (16-25) and Young adult (20-40), because these are two somewhat overlapping but rather different phases of life. -- Jmabel | Talk 18:48, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

You're right, this is currently very confusing. But perhaps Young adult (literature) and Young adult (psychology) is a better disambiguation, what do you say? --Woggly 22:13, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Excellent choices. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:46, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

So I've turned this page into a disambiguation page, and started going through the links and sorting them, but it's tiresome work. It looks like most references are to young adult literature, or simply to teenagers. --Woggly 07:09, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Quote: "I'm also pretty dubious on anyone using the term "young adult" to refer to someone as old as 40, and somewhat dubious past 30"

This is nothing more than your opinion, and not based on facts. Is a 31-year-old "middle aged"?!?! I didn't think so, either! {{subst:88.108.46.207|15 August 2006}}

No, it's not just my opinion. What I'm saying is that no one has brought forward a decent citation of the term being used that way. Certainly a 31-year-old is not "middle aged". That is a straw man. - Jmabel | Talk 01:33, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please don't merge or erase distinctions

There is a reason that psychology and human development are listed seperately on this page. Doctors and psychologists tend to use the term "young adult" to refer to slightly different age groups. This page is a disambiguation page, the point of this page is to clarify distinctions, not to blur them. --Woggly 09:20, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Marriage Partner

I notice that 'choice of marriage partner' has been changed to 'choice of marraige partner if married'. I don't think people who are married should go around choosing marriage partners. In addition, marriage is no longer an all-encompassing term, so I've changed it to 'choice of life partner' which I feel more accurately reflects modern society. JiMternet 12:34, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

-a middle aged person is a person between adulthood and senior citizen which should be noted on here as starting at the age of 55 because senior citizen benefits &housing are given to 55yr olds. middle age should be redifined as 33-54 as well because a 21yr old doesn't have the same mindset or objectives in life as a 39yr old.

please provide some more information besides of your personal opinion. -- tasc ^talk_deeds 15:37, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

I've never heard the term middle-aged used for someone as young as 33. Even 39 is pushing it. - Jmabel | Talk 00:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

The life expectancy in men is 75, so technically, middle age is between 25 and 50. See chart below:

|00|01|02|03|04|05|06|07|08|09|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20|21|22|23|24|25 Young

|26|27|28|29|30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|40|41|42|43|44|45|46|47|48|49 Middle aged

|50|51|52|53|54|55|56|57|58|59|60|61|62|63|64|65|66|67|68|69|70|71|72|73|74|75 Old

Gm1121983 21:41, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

This is simply not how the term is used. - Jmabel | Talk 21:35, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

But Cedric has a point. According to what his dad said, 25-50 is middle aged, and 50-75 is 'old'. He said it would be a miracle if he made it past 75. Cedric's dad is going to turn 50 this year, isn't that right, Cedric? Mr. Conrad 12:57, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, he will turn 50 on November 19. Gm1121983 12:59, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Women

The "women" section is very thin and only touches the issue of bearing children. Perhaps it could be expanded?

[edit] Young adulthood

The category for young adults in psychology is 19-40. The term can also be used for adults that aren't quite fully developed, which in this case, the age group is 18-25. The category for adolescents is 13-17. The age group 26-54 refers to adults who have the experience to figure out life, but not old enough to be a senior citizen. A person who's 55 or older is a senior citizen. —Bill Conrad 17:46, 3 January 2007 (UTC)