| Early Adulthood(20~40) | Middle Adulthood(40~60) | Late Adulthood(over 60） |
| 1.Psychologically independent of parents | 1.Adapt to physical changes or illiness,alter body image | 1.Maintain good health |
| 2.Take responsibility for your own body | 2.Adjust to changes in your sex life in mid-adulthood | 2.Adapting to physical debilitation or permanent injury |
| 3.Be aware of personal life history and time constrains | 3.Accept the passing of time | 3.Spend your time as you wish |
| 4.Integrated experience(homosexuality or heterosexuality) | 4.Adaptation to aging | 4.Adjusting to the death of a partner or friend |
| 5.Develop the ability to maintain an intimate relationship with your partner | 5.Exposure to illness and death of parents and peers | 5.Be oriented towards the present and the future and not dwell on the past |
| 6.Deciding whether or not to have children | 6.Facing the reality of death | 6.Create new emotional bonds |
| 7.Having children and the relatonship with them | 7.Redefining the relationship as a spouse or partnership | 7.Reversal of relationship with children and grandchildren (from caregiver to care recipient) |
| 8.Build an relationship with your parents | 8.Deepen relationships with grown children and grandchildren | 8.Seeking and maintaining social connections: Friendship versus loneliness |
| 9.Acquire vocational skills | 9.Maintain lasting friendships and make new ones | 9.Notice changes in sexual needs and expressions |
| 10.Choose a career | 10.Strengthen work identity | 10.Continue to engage in meaningful work and play (satisfactory use of time) |
| 11.Use money for further advancement | 11.Transfer skills and values to young people | 11.Use financial resources wisely for yourself or others |
| 12.Assume a certain social role | 12.Allocate financial resources effectively | 12.adjust to retirement and build a new lifestyle |
| 13.Adapt a ethical and spiritual values | 13.Accept social responsibility | |
| 14.Accept social changes |
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