Introduction
The process of adult development is specific in different transformations in an individual’s mind and behavior on the whole. In this respect it is necessary to mention that a behavioral approach toward the theme of growing up is the most appropriate, for its methods can be helpful in outlining main callings and reasons for some definite actions. People grow and logically they should elaborate their capabilities in various fields of life. Thus, the idea of leadership skills worked out in the process of adult development is at a core of the research. This theme is significant because of its strategic destination for the well-being of a definite community of people. Furthermore, leadership just like growing up is a process which can go forward in its elaboration. However, it may also delay or even by the way of degradation. For the purpose of detailed evaluation of such a viable and significant process in an individual’s life the report urges for making efforts in comparison of adult development and leadership skills in the reciprocal relation toward each other.
Discussion
With a flow of time people notice some changes in their characters due to outside factors and their estimation of events happening at the time. It contemplates different psychological approaches toward processes of cognition and behavioral effects after accumulation and reflection of information about the environment, people, and world, on the whole. The manifestation of leadership skills begins with ordinary communication within peers, then with other age categories of people. This extent of interaction is flexible and provides a dynamic drive in terms of further authoritative attitudes from the side of other individuals. This is why the research deals with relevantly all three stages of adulthood, but the most attention is concentrated in this respect on the middle adulthood.
The development of identity, moral reasoning, and ethical behavior, as well as cognitive frameworks for more sophisticated sensemaking (i.e., epistemic cognition) are all thought to be major developmental tasks for adults. Each of these areas is of fundamental concern in leader development (Day and Halpin 55).
Social aspect of life presupposes correspondence to an individual’s position or status in the society according to how one has risen to prominence. As a matter of fact, the notion of effective leadership can be addressed to those individuals who feel a great responsibility for current goals in personal life, in the workplace, in the society. Moreover, the process of adulthood can be fastened when an individual takes responsibility for other ones. It is so due to the authority of an individual which can appear as a result of taken responsibility. A period of gradual change in character and interests which is observed on different stages of aging provides a cognitive approach of adult development. In this case the point on the plasticity, flexibility, and vitality of current studies in adulthood seem to have a problematic evaluation with the flow of the time reaching toward decline in a person (Hoare 5). That is why from the side of cognition the significance of its existence in a person is too high. The process of aging presupposes rise to mature age when the physiological functioning is at a peak and decline of physical well-being due to natural reasons. According to some studies this process does not correspond to cognitive approach in terms of its longitude. Thus, psychological and physiological attitude toward adult development presupposes the following assertion: “successful aging” can be characterized by maintenance or enhancement of cognitive powers, continued autonomy, superior physiological functioning, and increased longevity” (Hoare 6).
Stating such ideas there should a space for making definite experiments or providing survey on the problem. Thus, it is concerned that with a development of time in everyday life an individual is likely to disregard time limits or transitional points in age due to contemporary fastened tempos of scientific and technological progress. More powers are concentrated on the idea of making some profits for life. In this respect the middle age period is rather appropriate for such analysis. However, the problems and proper estimations of adult development from the scientific point of view can be divided into three main directions, namely: the neuropsychological, the correlational, and the activation imaging approach (Smith & DeFrates-Densch 5). Each approach outlines different cases in growing-up relation. In other words, all traditional and unprecedented cases in adult development with points on progression or retardation are taken into account with the help of above mentioned approaches. In this respect the main goal in an individual’s life should touch upon the positive trends in adult elaboration.
The results of different researches showed the ability of the aging process to follow different trends in the course of natural development. Here the behavioral and genetic evaluation plays a great role for making conclusions about positive or negative perspectives in an individual’s personal life. Thus, it was identified that cognitive powers and functioning in people saves its longevity up to eleven decades (Hoare 7). Theory development is influenced by wider research in brain learning because of an ability of the brain in most cases to preserve its cognitive functions (experience, vocabulary, wisdom etc.) better than physical or those concerned with the speed of reaction (Smith & DeFrates-Densch 5). The researchers are still trying to relate the behavior of individuals in terms of aging to the latest studies in the brain capabilities and structural or functional peculiarities. Nevertheless, neuroscientific methods also have some limitations in terms of age development outlined with cognitive and Socioemotional, for some activities observed in peculiar regions of the brain do not obligatory correspond to a definite psychological process (Smith & DeFrates-Densch 6). All in all, the advantageous points in current psychobiological studies straightforwardly concerned with adult development provide wider scope of knowledge and approaches to be helpful and appropriate for further research in this area.
Conclusion
To sum up, the material represented in the report shows that adult development is a difficult process during which the physical, physiological, social, neurobiological, and genetic implementation of an individual’s characteristics should be touched upon. Thereupon, at each stage of adulthood people go through particular changes in their feeling and perception of the world on theoretical and practical levels. In other words, above described studies showed that aging is a rather dynamic and flexible process which can have different vectors in its developmental variable. Though, there is a wide field for current discussions as of future direction of the research. As for me, theses studies help better underline my personal attitude toward gradual growing up in a cognitive approach. By this I mean that adult development should be concerned with many faceted areas of an individual’s activities, so as not to lag behind the tempos of life. Moreover, such an attitude toward the problem can be quite helpful for personal success in various sectors of employment.
Works cited
Day, David V., and Halpin, Stanley M. An Integrative Approach to Leader Development: Connecting Adult Development, Identity, and Expertise. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2008.
Hoare, Carol Hren Handbook of adult development and learning. Oxford: Oxford University Press US, 2006.
Smith, M. Cecil, and DeFrates-Densch, Nancy. Handbook of research on adult learning and development. London: Taylor & Francis, 2008.