Difficulties Of Dating In Middle Age

CHAPTER 2
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

This chapter discusses some relevant literature and studies that provide an overview with sufficient knowledge and insight about the present study. This includes articles, journals, published and unpublished studies, and books, which contributes to the study.

Related Literature In this section, the researchers provided discussions about the relevant facts, issues and principles in support to the present study.

The study could be also explained by the article “Difficulties of Dating in Middle Age” by Melanie Scheller, studioD. This article explains how difficult for middle age singles to find their compatible partners. It is also stated that Oxford University conducted an international

It is known for its infamous midlife crisis, wherein the mid-aged adult who failed to develop generativity may be or will be going to experience this so-called ‘stagnation’. This can result to the change in behavior among mid-aged men and women. Middle aged men may try to bring back their confidence and masculinity by engaging themselves in more youthful behaviors same as in women. They may also experience low sex drive or decreased in sexual desire during this period up to their male menopausal stage, or the opposite of it that can lead them to leave their wives for younger women to prove themselves and convince other people. In mid-aged women, they’re worrying too much about how they look and tend to have cosmetic surgeries to fix them up or just simply trying to look as young as their adult children by wearing trendy clothes and dying their hair. They may also experience the feeling of inferiority, insecurity and being depressed. Middle age can also be defined as a process of questioning life desires, values, goals, and accomplishments in the past years and the things they can still do in the future. (Erik Erikson,

Melissa Lee Phillips (2011), wrote a book entitled “The mind at midlife”, which describes how the brain changes when we reach middle age. It says that the adult brain can still be well functioning as we reach the middle age stage and through the study that she have conducted, it is said to be that the middle age people tend to be calmer in handling dilemmas and being able to communicate through social and other kinds of interactions. According to Sherry Willis, PHD of the University of the Washington in Seattle (2007), Middle age is also considered as the time when memorization skills and neurological speed are starting to decline but the cognitive skills such as abstract and spatial reasoning are being improved in this stage. A study published in 2007 entitled "Neurology" (Vol. 68, No.9)researchers including Willis have conducted a test on pilots ages 40-69. After the said study, they proved that the processing speed and memory capacity are declining during middle