Transition to adulthood
By Rosalyn Pen. 2010
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Today’s young people are taking longer to leave home, attain economic independence, and form families of their own than did their peers half a century ago. Rather than reaching the milestone of adulthood at age eighteen or twenty-one, as happened during the mid-1950s, some young Americans today are well into their thirties before they attain that goal today. The lengthened transition not only burdens parents who need to be providing for their own retirement, but is a potent source of social stratification. The forces behind the lengthening transition— employers’ reluctance to hire young people without educational credentials. the longer time it is taking many young adults to finish their postsecondary education, longer life spans, shifting sexual attitudes and practices—are unlikely to change any time soon. The question for policy makers is whether families and the social institutions that have successfully educated, trained, and supported young adults are up to the task today. Not surprisingly, researchers find that existing institutions work much better for affluent young adults than they do for most others, leaving the playing field for young adult development sharply tilted.
Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies
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Citations in the corpus
- Presidential Address: The Emergence of Emerging Adulthood (2014, background): “I soon discovered that there was a large body of research in sociology on the transition to adulthood (e.g., Hogan & Astone, 1986), but all of this research was based on the assumption that reaching adulthood could be defined by specific events, mainly leaving home, finishing education, marriage,…”
- Young Adult Outcomes and the Life-Course Penalties of Parental Incarceration (2016, background): “Successful transitions to adulthood include, in part, developing (1) mastery and competence in understanding how to participate in prosocial ways in societal activities, including work and recreation, (2) interpersonal skills necessary for creating and maintaining intimate relationships with others ”
- Review of risk and protective factors of substance use and problem use in emerging adulthood. (2012, background): “…(usually defined as the period from age 18 to age 26) an important developmental period characterized by peak prevalence of substance use problems and problems related to use, it also sets the stage for later adult development (Arnett, 2005; George, 1993; Hogan & Astone, 1986; Shanahan, 2000).”
- Adolescence in male African elephants, Loxodonta africana, and the importance of sociality (2008, unknown): “Thus, this learning process may benefit adult reproductive success and hence justify delaying reproduction (Walters 1987).”
- Personality Trait Development During the Transition to Parenthood (2016, background): “Psychologists (Lodi-Smith & Roberts, 2007), sociologists (Hogan & Astone, 1986), and anthropologists (Schlegel, 1995) agree that parenthood is among the most far-reaching normative life transitions during early adulthood.”