Jeff is now 50 years old. He is still overweight and has developedboth high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes. At the same time, Jeff hassome accomplishments. He is the CEO of a midsize company that he builtfrom the ground up. However, he works long hours and does not spend asmuch time with friends or vacationing as he would like. Still, he lives acomfortable life and is married, with two children. He has a daughterin college and another who is a senior in high school.

Use your module readings and the Argosy University online libraryresources to research the stages of adult development proposed by ErikErikson and Daniel Levinson. Locate at least two peer-reviewed articlesthat examine these theories. Write a 4-5 page paper in which you compareand contrast Erikson’s and Levinson’s theories of development duringmidlife and summarize the findings and conclusions of at least tworesearch studies examining Erikson’s and Levinson’s theories.
In your paper, use Erikson’s and Levinson’s theories to

• Describe the physical, social, cognitive, and emotional developmentof Jeff as he has transitioned from early adulthood into middleadulthood.
• Predict Jeff’s development as he moves through middle adulthood and into late adulthood.

Be sure to incorporate how issues specific to diversity (e.g.,socioeconomic status, ethnicity, religion, gender, etc.) have affectedhis transition into middle adulthood. For example, consider how Jeff’stransition into middle adulthood would differ if he were Caucasian,African-American, Asian-American, or Native-American. Similarly, howwould his development at midlife differ depending upon whether he livedin New York City, Tucson, or Memphis?

Write a 4–5-page paper in Word format. Your paper should bedouble-spaced and in 12 point, Times New Roman font with normal one-inchmargins, written in APA style, and free of typographical andgrammatical errors. It should include a title page with a running headand a reference page. Use the following file naming convention:LastnameFirstInitial_M3_A2.doc.