Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties

By Jeffrey Jensen Arnett. 2004

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Religiosity and spirituality during the transition to adulthood (2010, background): “Although the identity development process begins during adolescence (Erikson, 1968), the quest for self-definition of one’s values and beliefs including those in the religious or spiritual domain ensues during the late teens and early twenties, particularly among those in industrialized countries wh”
Self-Presentation and Interaction in Blogs of Adolescents and Young Emerging Adults (2010, background): “, Dolgin & Minowa, 1997; Hunt, 1995), Bortree (2005) described adolescent female bloggers in her ethnographic study as more self-disclosing and sharing more intimate details than male bloggers. However, Huffaker and Calvert (2005) found no gender differences in the frequency of teenage bloggers’ dis”
Emerging Adults’ Financial Well-being: A Scoping Review (2017, background): “For emerging adults, the matter is more complex, because they are in-between adolescence and adulthood (Arnett 2004).”
Finding a Meaningful Life as a Developmental Task in Emerging Adulthood (2014, background): “It is a true ‘‘age of possibilities,’’ in which emerging adults have ‘‘an unparalleled opportunity to transform’’ themselves (Arnett, 2004, p. 8).”
Online and Offline Social Networks: Use of Social Networking Sites by Emerging Adults (2008, background): “Arnett (2004) coined the term emerging adulthood to capture the unique transitional period in human development that occurs between late adolescence and young adulthood in cultural contexts where marriage and parenthood are delayed until the late twenties or beyond.”
Can You Guess Who I Am? Real, Ideal, and False Self-Presentation on Facebook Among Emerging Adults (2015, methodology): “In this article, we combine these different theoretical and empirical insights (e.g., Arnett, 2004; Brown, 2007; Harter, 1990; Harter et al., 1996, 1997; Harter & Monsour, 1992; Higgins, 1987; Markus & Nurius, 1986; Selman, 1980; Snyder, 1987) into a multiple selfpresentation framework, which…”
Handbook of Consumer Finance Research (2008, background): “In the USA and other industrialized nations, fi nancial self-reliance is an important marker of adult status (Arnett, 2004 ); a growing number of young adult consumers are, however, fi nding it diffi cult to achieve that milestone.”
Adolescent development in interpersonal and societal contexts. (2006, background): “As these transitions are occurring at later ages in contemporary society, Arnett (2000, 2004) has proposed that the period between ages 18 and 25 should be treated as a separate developmental period, which he labels emerging adulthood.”
Socialization processes and pathways to healthy financial development for emerging young adults (2015, background): “…financial development for emerging adults Achieving self-sufficiency is a critical developmental task during a period known as emerging adulthood (ages 18 to 24) (e.g., Arnett, 2004), and financial independence is one key marker of a successful transition to adulthood (Danziger & Ratner, 2010).”
Employment, Sense of Coherence, and Identity Formation (2008, methodology): “Because identity is a crucial developmental task of emerging adulthood (Arnett, 2004), it may well serve to mediate the relationships of SOC and college attendance to perceived adulthood.”
Rethinking the Youth Phase of the Life-course: The Case for Emerging Adulthood? (2005, background): “Jeffrey Arnett’s theory of ‘Emerging Adulthood’*/which has attracted much attention in North America*/could be said to suffer from these problems (Arnett 2000, 2004).”
Identity Formation in Early and Middle Adolescents From Various Ethnic Groups: From Three Dimensions to Five Statuses (2008, background): “These latter results may be explained by the fact that identity exploration is mainly a key feature of emerging adulthood (Arnett 2004); therefore achievement and searching moratorium could be expected to increase during this latter period.”
The role of career values for work engagement during the transition to working life (2013, background): “This finding suggests that for young people engagement as a work related psychological state is not so much dependent on economic factors, perhaps because they were in an development stage to explore different career opportunities before settling down for a long-term employment (Arnett, 2004), of wh”
The Challenge of Romantic Relationships in Emerging Adulthood (2013, background): “Much has been written about the complexities and difficulties with which young people must cope nowadays (Arnett, 2004; Côté, 2000; EGRIS, 2001).”