Asees Kaur and Baiju Gopal
CHRIST University, Bangalore, India
According to the development theorist’s midlife can be a time of crisis in terms of
development of the individual but it is similar to all other stages of an individual’s life and
each of us would undergo similar experiences. The present study aims to explore the
experiences of women when they undergo a transition from adulthood to early midlife
in various aspects of their life like familial role, perception of self etc. through purposive
sampling 13 women aged between 45-55 years of age from the region of Chandigarh
were recruited for the study. Semi structured interview was used to obtain the subjective
experience of their transitional phase which were then later thematically analysed.
Factors indicating initiation of midlife, changes in relationship with the partner, changes
in familial role and feelings during the transition were the major factors that majorly
affected the experiences of the women when they transit from adulthood to midlife.
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