Conceptions of the Transition to Adulthood: Perspectives From Adolescence Through Midlife

By Jeffrey Jensen Arnett. 2001

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Emerging Adulthood: Theory, Assessment and Application (2007, background): “Emerging adulthood is the age of feeling in-between because the majority of emerging adults feel they are no longer adolescents but not yet fully adults (Arnett, 1998, 2001).”
Understanding the Impact of Poverty on Critical Events in Emerging Adulthood (2010, methodology): “Youth in this age cohort were chosen to capture the period during which emerging adulthood is thought to occur (ages 18-25; Arnett, 2001) and to allow an examination of youth who completed transition tasks in nonnormative timing.”
Emerging Adulthood in Europe: A Response to Bynner (2006, background): “For example, I have performed numerous studies investigating emerging adults’ views of what it means to reach adulthood (Arnett 1994, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003a, 2004).”
CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION (2007, background): “This discussion can be seen against the backdrop of adolescence and teen emancipation that is the process of moving out of the sphere of their parents’ home and into a period of life where they are, more or less, responsible for their own affairs (Arnett, 2001; van Gennep, 1960; Glaser & Strauss, 19”
How universal is emerging adulthood? An empirical example (2010, result): “There is some evidence from surveys in different countries that, indeed, a large group of young people experience these (i.e. Arnett 2001, 2003, Facio and Micocci 2003, Mayseless and Scharf 2003).”
The Relationships Between Emerging Adults' Expressed Desire to Marry and Frequency of Participation in Risk-Taking Behaviors (2009, background): “Combined with the finding that emerging adults themselves no longer place a great importance on marriage as a necessary marker for adulthood (Arnett, 2001; Nelson & Barry, 2005), some scholars have questioned whether marriage now takes place too late in one’s life to represent the transition to adul”
The Role of Religion in the Transition to Adulthood for Young Emerging Adults (2005, methodology): “The criteria then were grouped into 6 categories based upon previous research (e.g., Arnett, 2001, 2003 ).”
Why youth leave care: Understandings of adulthood and transition successes and challenges among youth aging out of child welfare (2011, background): “In two surveys, Arnett (1997, 2001) found that Americans, both young and middle aged, endorse items related to individualism (e.g., accepting responsibility for one's actions, making independent decisions, and being financially independent) as the most important indicators of adulthood, which were…”
Emotion regulation from early adolescence to emerging adulthood and middle adulthood (2014, background): “Adaptive changes in goals, including long-term goals and an increasing selectivity, become even more relevant for emotion regulation during emerging adulthood (Arnett, 2001), and especially for the second half of life (Carstensen, Fung, & Charles, 2003).”
Failure to Launch, Failure to Achieve Criteria for Adulthood? (2010, background): “Three criteria that consistently emerged as most important markers of adulthood for (young) people today are as follows: accepting responsibility for one’s self, making independent decisions, and 746 Journal of Adolescent Research 25(5) being financially independent (Arnett, 1998, 2001, 2003).”
Emerging Adulthood: Understanding the New Way of Coming of Age. (2006, background): “…of ethnic groups, in studies using both questionnaires and interviews, people consistently state the following as the top criteria for adulthood (Arnett, 1994, 1997,1998,2001, 2003, 2004; Facio & Micocci, 2003; Mayseless & Scharf, 2003; Nelson, Badger, & Wu, 2004 ): • Accept responsibility for…”
The Dangerous Myth of Emerging Adulthood: An Evidence-Based Critique of a Flawed Developmental Theory (2014, background): “In spite of numerous critiques and alternative formulations based in the very literature on which his theory is based, Arnett stands by his claim of having discovered ‘‘a new, universal life stage’’ in the U.S. (Schoon & Schulenberg, 2013, p. 46).”
Ideological Views in Emerging Adulthood: Balancing Autonomy and Community (2001, background): “Studies also indicate that a majority of young people in American society do not consider themselves to have become fully adult until they reach their late twenties (Arnett, 1997, 2001).”