Midlife Crisis

While reading the section on midlife crisis in our textbook, I closely thought about the studies of Gail Sheehy. She didn't use the modern scientific way of gaining results which ended up making her results less valid. I thought it was interesting that  every attempt at replication has failed to confirm the existence of a midlife crisis for most adults (Berger, 2011). It makes sense why the theory came to existence however. The generation and culture from adults in the fifties differed from the life we life today. It is said that technically, chronological age has nothing to do with the midlife crisis. It is based on  situational context rather than the age of and individual. I don't fully believe this since I've seen many adults in my life become "teenage like" as soon as the hit their middle ages. Whether or not this has to do with their situations or their age is a mystery to me. It is ironic how each person that has tried to become a younger version of themselves again that I know is always around age fifty. I believe more research should be conducted from different cultures to gain more facts about the mid life crisis. 

Berger, Kathleen. (2011). The Developing Person Through the Life Span. New York, NY : Worth Publishers.