Social Development Research Paper

I chose this article because it talks about how they investigate the effects of success and failure of social investment on personality development across young adulthood. Over time their personality changes because neuroticism, and self-esteem, and the environment they live in. The year between ages 18 and 25 are the ages in were teenagers personality changes because it is the time were they are finding themselves, their meaning in life, and start thinking of becoming a reliable partner, and a parent, they start with their own expectations. Around that age they get freedom which means that it can open a wide variety of life paths that they can chose from.  Sometimes from the ages of eighteen to twenty-five they chose a path, and have fun, but then they decide to choose a different path because they didn’t like the other one or they think it will be better for them, they keep doing that until they hit adulthood, that is when they stay in the last path they chose. When they get to their twenties and thirty’s people become more social and dominant, agreeable, and emotionally stable because of self-esteem, and life experiences. Personality development have several principles are plasticity, cumulative continuity, maturity, corresponsive, role continuity, and social investment.  This personality principle indicates that personality traits are open to environmental influences at any age. However life experiences do not lead only to an increase in stability, but they also support personality maturation. Maturity is defined by being happy, and a person who has warm and compassion relationships with family and friends. In other hand reciprocal transactions between personality and partner attachments were stronger in stable relationships because expectations are transported through relationships, more relationships based on normative social roles. Finding a job, finding and being a partner, becoming a parent are expected to trigger personality maturation, when you find all of them in your early adulthood. Sometimes some of them that get married get depression, and low self-esteem. At last they made many different test on how self-esteem changes when you get married or is in a relationship or you are single. They made test on how it makes you adapt yourself to the environment. They argued that romantic relationships can be considered one of the most important facets of social environment. At last all of the studies that were made can be based on replication across two Western cultures, Germany and the United States. All of the study was done by Neyer, and Lehnart using a large comparable quasi-experimental design.  I think I would write a research paper on this topic because it has a lot of information about social development in adulthood. It explains to you from step to step on how your self-esteem and personality changes over the years. It explains to you how it changes when you are in a relationship, married, divorced or single. It gives you a lot of different charts on how your self-esteem is, and your mood. In every part it shows you, and tells you from where they got the information from, and they explain it to you in their own words so you can understand it. It is interesting on how you change over the years because on how your experience in life was. I would absolutely write a research paper on this article.