Recent studies in adult development counter the conventional view that psychological growth is essentially completed by the early twenties and that adult life continues on a relatively predictable path thereafter. The view now emerging is that adults tend to move through identifiable developmental stages. Each stage involves characteristic issues and developmental tasks that tend to be interrelated. Various aspects of an individual's development are interactive rather than isolated, both within a developmental stage as well as across stages. Personal life and professional life are seen as inevitably intertwined, and the developmental processes of each are interdependent [4, 10, 17, 22]. There is, of course, disagreement among scholars concerning aspects of adult development. For example, are the stages identified age specific, or is the concept of stage more metaphorical in nature? Is the progression of stages inevitable, or can a particular stage be suppressed or bypassed? Are there sex differences in the pattern of stages? To what extent are developmental patterns culture bound? These and
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