...Jeffrey Arnett, author of Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties has written that “emerging adulthood is neither adolescence nor young adulthood, but is distinct from them both.” Emerging adulthood is a time of transition, a developmental bridge between adolescence and adulthood. This period of development is a period of change and exploration. The goal of emerging adulthood is to emerge from the chrysalis of adolescence and transform into an adult. There are beneficial results as well as negative impacts of this developmental stage. A beneficial result of emerging adulthood is the gained understanding of how to manage one’s emotions. This can be as simple as learning to control angry outbursts or disappointment with ease. This is beneficial because it demonstrates the transition between a child and a grown adult. Emotional development is a major beneficial result from emerging adulthood. Furthermore, this developmental stage encourages and aides the change from dependence upon parents to the independence that is typical of adults. This independence is beneficial because it prepares the emerging adult for their future autonomously from their parents. Currently society has labeled these emerging adults as the “Me Generation” because they are more self-focused. Furthermore, they have a sense of entitlement. “We're seeing an epidemic of people who are having a hard time making the transition to work — kids who had too much success early...
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...Emerging Emerging Adulthood Kelley Walker Psych/600 November 23, 2015 Susanne Beier Emerging Adulthood Erickson describes a number of further stages of personality development. In young adulthood, the healthy individual has to achieve the capacity for closeness and intimacy through love, or else suffer a sense of isolation that will permit only shallow human relationships (Berk, 2010). In early middle age, she has to develop a sense of personal creativity that extends beyond her own self. This includes a concern for others, for her work, for the community in which she is part. And towards the end of her life, there is a final crisis during which each person has to come to terms with his or her own life and accept it for what it was, with a sense of integrity, rather than despair. The term adolescence is derived from the Latin for “growing up.” It is a period of transition in which the individual changes from a child to an adult. Biological maturing ultimately leads to social and economic changes: from dependence on one’s family to ever increasing independence. And of course there are the numerous psychological changes that accompany the process of growing up. These include the progressive maturing of sexual attitudes and behavior that will ultimately allow the adolescent to start his or her own family, and the acquisition of various skills that will eventually enable him or her to become a fully functioning member of adult society. In effect, adolescence is simply...
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...After leaving the adolescence stage, entering into young adulthood, I was not prepared mentally to handle adult duties. Therefore, the stage called emerging adulthood happened prior to me entering adulthood. Many feel they stepped they’re way into adulthood by the end of their 20’s or early 30. During this period, changes took place in educational paths, jobs, love partners, and identity. Also, many people make changes their majors several times, and after graduating enter graduate school which delays settlement into the desired career path. Since young adults are always on the move, they move in and out of homes and resident halls. Due to unsettlement in career and being on the move, results in delay marriage as well. However, not every young adult in the world goes through this process of emerging adulthood. Many young adults in non-western countries have no emerging adulthood. They enter marriage, parenthood, and lifelong work early. In low income families, young people do not finish high school or are unprepared for college, and are less likely to leave home, therefore emerging adulthood is nonexistent. Emerging adults also begin too to build intimacy and trust in relationships that will last a lifetime. However, individuals in emerging adulthood think of intimacy in a different way than in the past. Emerging adults have created a new shift during the period of adolescence and young adulthood in which they are more open to and accept uncommitted sexual activity during...
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...the most part. These years in a persons life have often been referred to as emerging adulthood. Emerging adults have reached a step up from childhood but are not yet ready to fully take on adult responsibilities. This part of life is open to many new experiences which can be very good for the morality of this upcoming generation of adults. People find themselves changing majors in college or taking different classes to explore their interests and find out where they best belong in their future career field. In this period of time, it is hard to advance in a career field without having education further than a high school diploma. Hence, the reason many people are starting families and careers later in life because they cannot simply graduate high school and get a job to support a family comfortably. This situation makes the changing from being an adolescent to an adult much more drawn out. Our culture creates this outlook on how we should live. In other countries it is harder to go to school and most people jump straight into adulthood rather than having such a long emerging period. A lot of times emerging adults take a lower standard of living in order to leave home sooner, allowing that person an independence and self reliability they have not yet experienced. After a taste of the life on their own, most young adults end up moving back home at some time for numerous reasons. From my own experience, I can say that if you have lived on your own, moving back home is one of...
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...Nicholas Baumgarten Dr. Bishnu Ghimire English 1010 10/1/2015 Evaluation Essay on Emerging Adulthood In a time of economic instability and limited opportunities, the road to successful independence has been nothing short of a suicide mission for young adults of today. It was once mandatory and it was a way of American life to go out and live on your own after you technically become an adult. A lot of times it was expected, but now our country and our society has gone through a world of change and success is not as probable for young adults today as it was back then. This has brought to our attention a very important question we as a nation, a society should ask ourselves, “should young adults around the age of 18 move out of their parent’s house as soon as graduation or even months following.” The early years of adulthood are about finding, nurturing and learning to take care of yourself before you step out into the real world and make your own choices that will change your future so let’s not rush teens out of the house. Instead, support them and make that decision when it’s the right time and not right away. Throughout the past our society led us to believe that young adults, coming fresh out of high school, should be ready to move out of their parent’s house right after graduation to start their own lives and become independent human beings just like their parents did, and their parents did. Considering that things have changed over the years and the world is not at...
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...Emerging Adulthood: A Multicultural Comparison Vincent C Allen PSY205 April 6, 2015 Dr. Tanya Semcesen Emerging Adulthood: A Multicultural Comparison The term “emerging adult” refers to individuals in their late teenage years all the way through their twenties. Emerging Adults are individuals that are no longer children, yet have not reached complete adulthood yet (Jensen, 200). The expectations of teenagers, in America, graduating from high school have changed over the few centuries. Initially, Americans teenagers exiting high school were expected to join the workforce, get married and have children, and all before their mid twenties. Now there is a new grace period, called “emerging adulthood”. This period of time, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine, has become a time where young men and women are expected to search for their own identities, continue their education, find a suitable career, then settle down into a married life and have children of their own if they so choose. There is still a wide variety in difference in expectations in America, especially when considering the social, ethnical and financial background that these young individuals come from. Children from more affluent families are likely to go to a college or university right after high school, where as children from less financially stable backgrounds are likely to join the military in order to afford schooling, or head straight into manual labor type jobs, in hopes of going to...
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...The phrase “emerging adulthood” was first introduced by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett and encompasses individuals between the ages of 18 and 25. Characteristics of emerging adulthood according to Arnett (2007) include the “age of identity explorations, the age of instability, the self-focused age, the feeling of in-between, and the age of possibilities” (p. 69). It is important to understand this particular developmental period so that young adults will be better prepared for possible challenges within these seven years. This paper will examine the concept of emerging adulthood through the four developmental domains (cognitive, social, emotional and physical), with an emphasis on college student research. The cognitive domain deals with how one thinks,...
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...Friendship and Emerging Adulthood Emerging adulthood is a unique period in a person’s lifespan around age 18 to 25. Individuals within this age bracket do not perceive themselves as adolescents or adults but as individuals in extensive identity exploration (Shurts & Myers, 2008). Barry et al. (2009) determined that identity development and achieved adulthood criteria were related positively to romantic relationships but not friendships. This indicates a stronger focus on romantic relationships during emerging adulthood than friendships. Friends serve as allies in assisting each other in achieving adult criteria. The more criteria achieved, the less a friend is needed (Barry et al, 2009). This study concluded that as emerging adults take on adult roles and responsibilities they also experience a developmental need to shift focus from friendship to romantic relationship. As a result quality of friendships is impacted (Barry et al., 2009). Ledbetter, Griffin, and Sparks conducted a study of best friend pairs beginning in 1983.They collected data over a period of 19 years focusing on long-term friendship predictors over years of life course changes. Several variables were examined the closeness of the friendship: expressed intimacy, perceived difference, and Manifest Similarity (months of friendship and communication). Expression of intimacy did not predict future relational closeness between friends. Perceived difference did not predict future closeness suggesting...
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...This week we started the “adult simulation” part of MyVirtualLife. The beginning of the assignment was similar to what we did when making our child. We had to input physical traits as well as take a personality and cognitive quiz. Once this was done, we were introduced to the scenario and were asked about questions pertaining to “emerging adulthood” This assignment was exciting! It wasn’t very challenging to do and there weren’t any issues preventing me from completing the assignment. Doing this assignment gave prime examples of some the five characteristics of emerging adulthood. I will some examples. An example for age of instability would be having the decision of where I would stay for my undergraduate studies. Whether staying with my parents,...
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...errands that must be done to be successful in college and daily life. Would you be okay with your parent/guardian making choices for you? Probably not… Although you haven't reached a stage where you are financially stable, one is still growing into a well off adult. Often people describe adulthood as a mark of completing certain stages of life until you can ¨technically¨ be considered an adult. It's not though. Adulthood is when you've reached an age that requires responsibility and independence. That age is 18. “A theory first proposed by psychologist Jeffrey Arnett in 2000. “Emerging adulthood” classifies that time between 18 and the late 20s, when young adults are-in lay times, self absorbed, insecure, wide eyed and bushy tailed searching for a sense of identity, either from privileged background or an underserved one.”(Scaccia par.3). Arnett suggests this is a gap between adolescence and actual adulthood, however the way i see it, this can be considered an adult who is still finding themselves in adult life. Which is a good thing, in that “remember the storm is good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and stability”-Ho Chi Minh...
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...Emerging adulthood should be acknowledged because during this time frame you experience a lot of different situations compared to those of an adolescent or of those as an adult. After I graduated high school I made a sudden decision to move from Texas to Colorado with my husband two weeks later after graduation. It was such a big move for me I have never been outside of Texas until then.During this time of my life I experienced for the first time how it was to have responsibilities as an adult. Both my husband and I did not have full responsibilities until we actually moved out on our own. Also within this period before we got pregnant with our first born living life was like being on eternal ecstasy. I felt as if I knew everything about...
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...Emerging Adulthood Victoria Peacock August 11, 2014 PSY/205 Karen Underwood Emerging Adulthood The transition into adulthood is one of the most complex and significant shifts of any generation. It is a complex and ongoing process that starts as soon as a child is born and continues as the child becomes an adolescent, to early adult life, and then through the stages of adulthood. When I think of the meaning of becoming an adult I think of setting aside childish ways and becoming a responsible adult. When emerging to adult hood you have to do adult things like being financially responsible, taking care of the household, cooking, cleaning, servicing your car regularly, and putting gas in it. There are so many things you need to do to for a smooth transition into adulthood. Becoming an adult is the most important thing in life. Culture I think going into adulthood in my culture the expectations were set pretty high. After high school I was expected to get a job and start making my own money. I had a boyfriend so my expectations where not to move out with him until I was married, no kids until I was married. I also had to continue to go to church every Sunday. In my culture graduating from high school is a big part of growing up it is an accomplishment we wait to see and work hard to get to. Graduating from high school is the stepping stone into adult hood. It is the first thing that starts your life because it is a what is next process. One has to ask ones self is college...
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...Life Stages Interviews and Reports Everyone perspectives on lifestyle changes in all phases of adulthood have changed drastically over the years. Different choices, influences, and situations play a part in adult’s choices that they make throughout his or her young early, middle, and late adulthood years. Team A has conducted three interviews that focus on each stage of adulthood. The interview will cover some of the biological factors, cognitive factors, psychosocial factors, and cultural factors that influence the interviewees. All of the issues help to explain many of the lifestyle changes that adults make over the years. Young Adulthood The first interview conducted focused on the early stage of adulthood. A young woman age 25 by the name of Kelsey was asked a series of questions to help us gain some insight on her stage of development and allow her responses to be analyzed. I began with questions regarding her physical stage of development. I asked Kelsey how she feels about her physical state and what she does to take care of herself. Her response explained that she believes that she is in pretty good health although she does not have to do too much to stay that way. She reported that she eats fast- food a few times a week due to her busy schedule, but she does make time to exercise at least three times a week. She is a college student at the local college and she is also working part-time. I asked if there are any apparent differences between your previous physical...
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...Early and Middle Adulthood Francisco Del Angel PSY/280 February 15, 2013 Shannon Hilligoss Early and Middle Adulthood In this paper, early and Middle adulthood will be compared and contrasted. It will show how the decisions made earlier in age may or may not affect people. This paper will go through the changes of social and intimate relationships in these two different age frames as well as the various role changes people in this age group might encounter. It’ll talk about health problems and the reasons for these problems. In early adult hood the age range is 18-25. Around this time frame people tend to break away from social ties and begin to become independent from their parents. They move out the house and go to college or simply get their own apartment to gain ultimate independence. They choose not to be committed to anyone, like a serious girlfriend to avoid marriage or children. It was thought that in order to be intimate you were to be serious with someone and possibly get married and have children. However early adults are beginning to discover that marriage and parenthood are only two of several ways paths to go through when in search of intimacy. One of the main sources of intimacy for emerging adults is friendship. This is especially true for those who do in fact break away from their parents and choose not to be married or have children of their own. Usually men and women prefer friends of the same sex so they can participate in same sex activities to...
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...affectionate bond formed between an infant and their primary caregiver. Research suggests that the attachment bond that one has with one's caregiver in childhood significantly influences the relationships that one forms in adulthood. Russo describes the relationship that he and his mother formed throughout Richard’s childhood as one in which “we, the two of us, were all we needed [because] as long as we had each other, we’d be fine” (Russo, 19, 2012). This characterization foreshadows an adult bond of interdependence and reliance, one in which Richard and Jean would rely on each other to provide guidance, counsel, and meaning in life. As such, Richard’s transition into adulthood, marked by his move away to college at the University of Arizona, is complicated by his relationship with his mother. Arnett (2000) describes the period of emerging adulthood...
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