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Bartoszuk, Karin. "Emerging Adulthood/Prolonged Transition to Adulthood/Extended Moratorium." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4159.
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Brennan, Megan Ilene. "Mother-daughter relationships in emerging adulthood and young adulthood /." Connect to CIFA website:, 2008. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pdwerner/cifa1.htm.
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Finedore, Hilary. "The Accessibility of Adulthood." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1307120890.
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Seiter, Liann Nicole 1983. "Emerging adulthood in India /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3215.pdf.
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Seiter, Liann Nicole. "Emerging Adulthood in India." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1978.
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This paper explores the nature of emerging adulthood in Southern India. Survey data was collected from 450 college students in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India and 100 non-students from rural villages surrounding Coimbatore. Unlike American samples, the majority of the 18- to 26-year-olds studied felt that they had achieved adulthood. The sample emphasized attributes needed to fulfill family roles as characteristics necessary for adulthood. Differences in optimism levels were found between students and non-students. Arnett suggests that emerging adulthood would be affected by cultural influences. The unique cultural and structural influences in India such as, Hinduism, caste, gendered socialization, and the educational system, are discussed as possible explanations for the unique findings.
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Bartoszuk, Karin. "Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4167.
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Jacobsson, Gunnel. "On the threshold of adulthood : Recurrent phenomena and developmental tasks during the period of young adulthood." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Dept. of Education, Stockholm University, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-331.
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Boschetto, Lacee R. "Navigating Adulthood: Exploring the Impact of a High School Life-Skills Course on Adulthood Transition Experiences." DigitalCommons@USU, 2019. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7705.
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This study was conducted to explore the adulthood transition experiences of Utah high-school graduates, with heightened focus on the application value of educational content from the course, Adult Roles. The purpose of the study was identified through experiential interactions with high-school graduates, and was supported by research on 21st century adulthood transitions shown to divert away from traditional adulthood markers. The inconsistency between modern adulthood transition behaviors and traditionally held adulthood assumptions lead to negative perceptions about young adult’s capability to adapt to adulthood. The researcher was motivated to investigate opportunities that may provide increased preparation for the transition into adulthood.
Exploring the level of adulthood preparation and the methods of preparation was completed by conducting a survey and follow-up interviews, using questions pertaining to traditional and modern adulthood markers. The study was designed to take place during the spring 2019 semester, gathering experiences from participants in two parts. A 16 question, online survey was completed by 39 Utah State University students, and 287 Utah high-school graduates not enrolled in college to assess the level of preparation and methods of acquiring preparation to transition into adulthood, according to specific responsibilities. Follow-up interviews with seven volunteers from the Utah State University participants, consisted of 11 questions, to explore specific adulthood preparation received from enrollment in the Adult Roles course.
Concluding results found that Utah high-school graduates perceived themselves as “moderate-positively” prepared for the adulthood transition responsibilities aligned with traditional adulthood markers. Preparation levels for 21st century markers show “minimally prepared” perceptions. The study determined enrollment in the life-skills course, Adult Roles, provided a moderate benefit to transitional experiences. Findings show that high-school graduates seeking a college degree have more positive perceptions of preparedness than graduates not seeking a college degree. Concluding findings show the level of preparedness for adult responsibilities, reflect the instructional emphasis on adulthood markers found within the Adult Roles curriculum.
The study suggests that environments influencing adulthood preparation have the potential to support youth adult’s transitional experiences by incorporating preparation related to 21st century adulthood markers.
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Bennett, Donald G. "Seasons of adulthood an integrated identity /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.
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Schirm, Eric. "Drug exposure from conception till adulthood /." Veenendahl : Universal Press, 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/373330324.pdf.
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McDermott, Mark R. "Rebelliousness in adolescence and young adulthood." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309357.
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Wentzell, Katherine. "Measuring Diabetes Distress in Emerging Adulthood:." Thesis, Boston College, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:109070.
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Thesis advisor: Judith A. VesseySignificance of Problem: Emerging adults (ages 18-30) with type 1 diabetes (T1D) are a specific group that experiences worse glycemic control, more frequent severe hypoglycemia and more frequent diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) than any other age group. The multiple transitions and stressors associated with the developmental stage of emerging adulthood can magnify and exacerbate the diabetes specific emotional burden of living with T1D, resulting in increased diabetes distress (DD). However, there is no measure of DD specific to the developmental stage of emerging adulthood. Purpose: The purpose of this program of research is to explicate the need for a developmental stage-specific measure of DD, as well as to develop, refine and psychometrically validate a new measure of DD in emerging adults. Method: This multi-phase study employed methods grounded in both item response theory (Rasch analysis) and classical test theory to reduce, refine and validate a new measure of DD in emerging adulthood, entitled the Problem Areas in Diabetes-Emerging Adult version (PAID-EA). In phase 1, data were collected from emerging adults with T1D using a cross-sectional online survey strategy. Rasch methodology was used to reduce and refine the PAID-EA. In phase 2, an additional cross-sectional online survey was conducted using the refined PAID-EA. Classical test theory-based approaches were employed to examine the psychometric properties of the refined measure. Finally, the relationships between scores on the PAID-EA and related constructs and clinical variables were explored. Conclusions: Collectively, this work advances the science by providing insight into how the challenges of emerging adulthood impact life with T1D during this developmental stage and providing a new measure to accurately and validly capture this experience for both clinical and research purposes
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2021
Submitted to: Boston College. Connell School of Nursing
Discipline: Nursing
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Alva, Jessica Isabel. "Emerging adulthood and willingness to caregive." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1354917802.
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Bartoszuk, Karin. "Emerging Adulthood during the College Years." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4168.
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Hohn, Sylvain. "Financial decision making in late adulthood." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/204292/1/Sylvain_Hohn_Thesis.pdf.
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Financial decision-making is an important determinant of financial well-being. We investigated the willingness to delegate financial decision-making within older couples. We further analysed which cognitive domains are predictive for financial capacity in late adulthood. Our results show that especially men in late adulthood systematically under-delegate financial decision making. An option to revoke delegation significantly increases the willingness to delegate. We show that age has a negative influence on executive functioning and memory, which are positively correlated with financial capacity. Assessment of executive functioning could be utilised to help identify older adults who are at risk of making poor financial decisions.
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Kirby, Amanda H. "Emerging adulthood and developmental co-ordination disorder." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2008. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1193/.
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The aim of this thesis was to investigate key themes of emerging adulthood in young adults with motor co-ordination difficulties from both a parental and personal perspective using a mixed method approach. A number of studies over the past twenty years have considered longer term outcomes in children with Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DCD) (Losse et al., 1991, Cantell et al., 1994, Cousins and Smyth,2003) but few have considered the social experiences of these young people and the views of their parents as they move into further and higher education. This study has focused particularly on the 16-25 year age group, a time of emerging adulthood and continuing developmental change (Arnett, 2000), which differs from the key previous study in adults by Cousins (2003), which centred around an older age group. Emerging adults in further and higher education with motor difficulties completed questionnaires alongside a cohort of parents of these individuals. A subset from each group were also interviewed. A retrospective analysis of case notes of those seen in childhood from a clinical setting was also undertaken, in order to consider changes from childhood. Students were matched with a cohort of students without any reported difficulties. Social behaviour including driving, drinking, and leisure pursuits were compared with typically developing students. An additional comparison was made with students who considered themselves to be 'clumsy' but had a diagnosis of Dyslexia, in order to compare current support in Further and Higher Education. This study has highlighted the persistent, pervasive and variable nature of DeD with over 50% of students reporting some level of impairment in an area of their life. These difficulties included learning to drive a car, difficulties with planning and organising themselves and their property, and continuing motor difficulties especially with handwriting and everyday tasks. Differences in social behaviour were also noted compared with control students. This study provides evidence that even in this resilient group who had reached further and higher education, DCD does not disappear for all once they reach adulthood.
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Rezek, Cheryl A. "Depression across early, middle and late adulthood." Thesis, City University London, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269412.
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Nielsen, Katherine. "Study abroad : perspectives on transitions to adulthood." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/47901/.
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The Irish immrama literary style seems the most appropriate way to represent student narratives based on their study abroad experiences in Ireland. The chapters containing the immrama of students are an ethnographic experiment in which the reflexivity students demonstrated through the interview process is presented in narrative form. This writing style provides the context for the examination of issues related to academic aspirations, professional, and personal wandering, and how study abroad experiences and tourism behaviour contribute to the transition to adulthood. The immrama are located in the evennumbered chapters. Daily challenges and student-organised travel experiences that develop as part of a study abroad have the potential to transform the participants. Eight months of fieldwork in the Republic of Ireland during the 2008/9 academic year revealed the types of activities students independently organised during their period as educational tourists in an international context and the nature of the learning outcomes. The most reported outcome of their sojourn was increased self-confidence. Wandering among academic settings, geographic locations, and social interactions resulted in the development of intercultural competences and the shift in frames of reference. Chapter 3 recounts the theoretical and epistemological basis for this thesis. Anthropology provides the basis for discussion of adulthood, liminality, and the development of friendship through learning opportunities inherent in study abroad programmes. Andragogical theories identify and define adult learning as independent and student-directed. This approach allows for discussion of learning such as intercultural competences, the outcomes of studying abroad, settings that foster personal development, experiences that transform students, and learning as a transition to adulthood. Chapters 5 and 7 examine the opportunities for learning and personal development that result from independent travel. Students developed friendship groups by living and travelling together. The establishment of friendship networks facilitated intercultural competences through interactions with other international students and the travel that they undertook together. Students did not think of themselves as tourists in Limerick, but did when travelling on the continent. At other times, they needed to host guests who came to visit. Study abroad was not without risks associated with credit for courses taken, personal risks associated with travel, and online risks in the use of social media. Travel and overcoming challenges resulted in the development of a sense of self-confidence and self-reliance. Students felt they learned more from travelling than they did in their courses. Chapter 9 presents the methodology that was established to conduct this research and the strategies used to collect data. The multi-sited field combined with multiple methods of data collection yielded a rich set of data. This writer participated in the activities with students during the fieldwork period, becoming an observant wanderer. Data collection was designed to elicit students' points of view about the value and challenges of the experience. Educational ethnography in the future will need to consider issues relating to multisited ethnography, the researcher as a primary site, and autoethnography. The relationship between the students and the observer became important because as memory, storytelling and writing revealed the power of reflexivity, the ethnographer was challenged to represent the intertextuality of the process. Chapter 10 identifies the implications of methodological positioning: the importance of wandering as a legitimate strategy for learning, accounting for intertextuality in fieldwork and analysis, and the need to reconceptualise the educational ethnographic field.
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Appleman, Michael J. "Emerging Adulthood: The Pursuit of Higher Education." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1429111444.
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Wu, Huijing. "Living apart together (LAT) in older adulthood." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566408515111424.
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Salvatore, Christopher. "Emerging Adulthood and the Arrested Adolescent Offender." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/93467.
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This study is an examination of how delayed transitions to adulthood have influenced the period of active offending for low-level offenders. This research has implications for the criminal justice system, its policies directed toward dealing with low-level offenders, and the branch of criminological research that explores offender taxonomies and the relationship between age and crime. Arnett's (2000) theory argues that emerging adulthood is a new stage of the life course, neither adolescence nor young adulthood, that is the result of several areas of social change. During this stage, despite having reached biological maturity, individuals postpone the achievement of adult commitments and responsibilities. Combined with a lack of traditional social bonds and a failure to meet various life course turning points, these individuals exist in a state of "arrested adolescence." During this state, many have the opportunity to explore their identities in areas such as romantic relationships and work. These explorations have also been theorized to include deviant and criminal behavior. While Arnett's theory has been cited extensively, only a handful of studies have attempted to empirically test its tenets with regard to delinquency or criminality. Prior research in life course criminology has established several different offender typologies linked to the impact of transitions to adult roles as turning points (for most) away from criminality (see for example, Laub & Sampson, 2003; Moffitt, Caspi, Rutter, & Silva, 2001). The present study answered the following research question; "Does the emerging adulthood stage of the life course influence offending trajectories?" Specifically, it predicted that emerging adulthood has delayed transitions to adult roles for those in their early to mid twenties. As a result, there is a higher rate of low-level, non-violent crimes such as vandalism and disorderly conduct for certain (arrested adolescent) offenders. Defined as a low-level criminal offender between the ages of 18 and 25, the arrested adolescent offender has yet to successfully transition to adult social roles (e.g., marriage, parenthood) that inhibit deviance and increase traditional social bonding. If Arnett's theory of emerging adulthood is correct, arrested adolescent offenders will continue to commit low-level offenses at rates typically seen in adolescents. Beyond examining this core question, this dissertation also extends Arnett's theory in three significant ways: by utilizing the theory to explicitly examine crime and deviance, clarifying how emerging adulthood influences offending, and by exploring whether the delay of turning points (e.g., marriage, parenting) and changes in social bonds (e.g., religious participation, bonds with family) influences offending. These questions were addressed using three waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Udry, 1998). At each wave of data, measures of crime, arrested adolescent vs. life course persistent offending (minor vs. serious) and drug use, arrested adolescent vs. life course persistent drug use (minor vs. serious) were examined as dependent variables. These indicators were selected from the crime and delinquency scales available in all three waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Arrested adolescent (minor) crimes consist of low-level offenses such as drunken and disorderly conduct and shoplifting. Arrested adolescent (minor) drug use is defined as using "softer" drugs such as alcohol and marijuana. Life course persistent (serious) crime is defined as more severe types of offenses such as burglary and selling drugs. Life course persistent (serious) drug use is defined as the frequent use of "harsher" drugs such as cocaine. These data were analyzed cross-sectionally using both bivariate and multivariate analyses. At waves 1 and 2, bivariate relationships between indicators of arrested adolescence and offending allowed an exploration of how these factors relate to offending during late childhood and adolescence. At wave 3, when members of the sample are in the emerging adulthood stage of the life course, a series of regression models examined how measures of arrested adolescence related to offending. The findings of this dissertation support the idea that many traditional turning points and social bonds do operate effectively during emerging adulthood. Turning points including education and hours worked were found to predict arrested adolescent offending. Social bonds including religious participation, economic stability, and parental attachment also were significant predictors of arrested adolescent offending. However, many of the other turning points, such as having children and military service, and social bonds, such as job satisfaction, that were found to be effective at reducing offending in other samples were not significant. Results suggest that specific turning points and social bonds are relevant factors in reducing offending for emerging adults. These findings, taken as a whole, suggest that emerging adulthood is a factor influencing offending. Emerging adulthood has the potential to alter patterns of offending over the life course, and there is a need for prospective longitudinal studies to examine the long-term influence of emerging adulthood on life course offending.
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Espinosa, Hernandez Maria Graciela Lefkowitz Eva S. "Sexual behavior and motives in emerging adulthood." [University Park, Pa.] : Pennsylvania State University, 2009. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-4711/index.html.
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Reynolds, Andrea. "Dyslexia in adulthood : screening assessment and manifestations." Thesis, Bangor University, 2014. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/dyslexia-in-adulthood--screening-assessment-and-manifestations(257580ea-2be8-453c-b3a4-4f05477a5130).html.
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Ginsberg, Corey. "My impediment adulthood : quarterlife crisis and beyond." FIU Digital Commons, 2009. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3939.
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My Impending Adulthood: Quarterlife Crisis and Beyond is a collection of personal essays that chronicles the time before, during and shortly after the narrator's quarterlife crisis. The further removed from childhood she grows, the more the narrator clings to aspects of her youth she fears she'll lose when she resigns to enter the adult word-a place she believes is stifling and terrifying. Each essay in this collection serves as a lens through which the adult world is examined, admired, feared, avoided and misunderstood as the narrator works to accept that she must grow up, despite nearly three decades of persistent resistance. The essays illustrate ways in which innocence is incrementally lost, while at the same time celebrating ways in which portions of this innocence is preserved and appreciated. This collection aspires to give a voice to readers in their twenties whose struggles are often ignored by the literary world.
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Shaff, Thomas Jay. "Development of writing talent in emerging adulthood." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1748.
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Research on talent development has focused on K–12 and adult eminence. This investigation addressed the gap in knowledge regarding talent development between the ages of 18 and 27. The purpose was to explain how a group of emerging adults continued to develop their writing ability into talents valued by themselves and society. The key questions investigated the role of self-perception of high ability in writing in the process of talent development as a lived experience, and the relationship of high ability to adult identity formation. The study also investigated how changes in family relationships and the establishment of independence related to talent development in emerging adulthood. It was a multiple case study of 7 creative writers from top-20 MFA programs. The study results indicated a number of findings. Development of writing talent in emerging adulthood is related to achieving adult identity and independence. Self-perception of high ability was universal, as was creativity. Achievement represented the confluence of intention, intellect, volition, knowledge, and imagination expressed as original work. The psychological process of differentiation and integration was used in adapting to achieve individual goals. Achieving identity for these writers and poets meant finding their voices. Ability was a pervasive factor in achieving identity. Parents, teachers, and peers guided and believed in the subjects’ ability. Family support was generally unconditional. Family mental health issues did not prevent talent development and fathers had a strong impact on sons and daughters. Independence was related to identity and represented having established primacy of self-authority. Contrary to theory, participants benefited from continued institutional support.
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Wood, David L. "Transitioning Your Child with Autism to Adulthood." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5182.
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Turner, Ariana. "Love in the Golden Years: A Narrative Examination of Romantic Relationships in Older Adulthood as Compared to Young Adulthood." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/874.
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Life-stories offer an approach to understanding personality processes within a larger, developmental context. This study examines the role that one area of a person’s larger context (namely romantic relationships) plays in that person’s life-story. Specifically, the study examines whether this role changes over the lifespan. Nineteen students from a consortium of colleges in southern California, and an equal number of older adults living in a nearby retirement community, were interviewed about their romantic relationship history. The interview was semi-structured and asked participants about past and current relationships, and their most meaningful relationship overall. The interviews were coded for the themes of agency, redemption, and contamination, reported self-growth, and an additional variable called unprompted discussion of sexuality that was added based on a series of unexpected occurrences during the interviews. The results showed significant differences in both agency and unprompted discussion of sexuality between the romantic relationship narratives of young and older adults. However, no significant differences were found between the age groups on any of the other three variables, or between the sexes on any of the five variables. The results not only help us to better understand the ways in which our stories about our romantic relationships change across the lifespan, but also suggest significant differences between how younger and older adults think about love and sex.
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Bartoszuk, Karin. "Emerging Adulthood in North America: Identity Status and Perception of Adulthood Among College Students from Canada and the United States." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4.
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Grinter, Kristopher. "“Just cuz you wear a cowboy hat doesn't make you a cowboy": perceptions of masculinity among emerging adults." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35237.
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Research conducted since 1990 suggests that young adults over 18 but under 29 years of age feel as though they are neither an adult nor an adolescent but somewhere between. This blur of boundaries between adolescence and adulthood can lead to the question, if a male does not yet think he is an adult, does he also not yet think he is a man? Guided by Arnett’s theory of emerging adulthood, the purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to identify the inter-individual differences in characterizing masculinity and the factors that may contribute to the development of these definitions. Males (n = 20) from a public Midwestern university, ages 18-23 (x̄ = 19.7 years) participated in individual interviews addressing their perceptions and definitions of masculinity. Three dominant themes about masculinity emerged including physical, emotional and behavioral characteristics, with behavioral characteristics containing 11 dominant and 4 lesser themes. While participants’ ideas about the extrinsic or visible characteristics of men and masculinity were similar to that of their peers in this study, the intrinsic or ideological characteristics of men were more closely aligned with that of their families. The majority of participants identified as not being men but stated that they are in the process of achieving manhood. Thus the development of a man may be separate from but similar to that of the development of an adult. Implications of this study include the practitioner response to influences responsible for differing masculine characteristics and the behaviors that result. Drinking alcohol has strong peer and media influences, as does disrespect toward women, both of which could have an impact on the individual. Also, the stress associated with various conflicting messages from family, peers, media, and their own opinions may be problematic for many youth.
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Chamberlain, Daniel Luke. "Emerging Adulthood and Reflexive Modernity: Defining an Adult Identity in Early 21st Century Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365721.
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Defining adulthood in contemporary Australian society has become an increasingly difficult task over the past few decades, particularly since the new millennium. This thesis argues that young people in contemporary Australia form their own definition of what it means to be an adult, using individualised measures of success which reflect the social, cultural and economic conditions of young people. The thesis uses the concept of emerging adulthood which posits the existence of an extended period of identity formation after the age of 18. The thesis argues that the characterizations of emerging adults are better able to frame the structural, social and cultural shifts in conceptions of adulthood that have occurred in the last 40 years, than the frameworks from the sociology of youth and the transitions theory. The thesis uses the ‘social generation’ framework to position young people within contemporary Australian society, and incorporates ‘emerging adulthood’ as a thick description of the conditions that shape the period of life during the late teens and early to mid twenties. 21 respondents were interviewed for this project, using a novel research method that mixed qualitative and social network techniques. The interviews focused on three aspects of emerging adulthood: the ways in which the respondents used their time, the managing of their personal communities, and their conceptions of adulthood, including their self-identification of adult status. The thesis found that the respondents’ work and study obligations constrained the ways in which they could spend their time, particularly when the activity would have required a substantial investment of time.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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School of Humanities
Arts, Education and Law
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Stansfield, Kirstie Helen. "Neurochemical analysis of cocaine in adolescence and adulthood." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001132.
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McKibben, Sherry Lynne. "The social construction of adulthood: Menarche and motherhood." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1645.
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Demographic and sociological theories usually do not incorporate biological variable into their explanations. This dissertation addresses this void by examining the influence of age at menarche on age at first birth, the event of a first birth, and the number of children ever born (CEB). I expand on Demographic Transition theory by incorporating biology as one of the effects of modernization that has an effect on reducing fertility. Age at menarche decreases as a society modernizes. I use data from the 1995 Survey of Family Growth, Cycle V for the U.S., and the 1997 China Survey of Population and Reproductive Health. I further stratify the data into five race/ethnic groups: Chinese Han, Chinese minorities, U.S. Non-Hispanic Whites, U.S. Non-Hispanic Blacks, and U.S. Hispanics of Mexican origin. I use four different statistical methods to model my dependent variables: Ordinary Least Squares Regression, Cox Proportional Hazard Analysis, Poisson Regression, and Negative Binominal Regression. My first major finding is that the younger a woman is when reaching menarche, the younger she will be when giving birth to her first child. Second, the younger a woman is when reaching menarche, the longer the duration to a first birth and the less likely she is to experience a first birth. These two results are consistent in all the groups I analyze. Third, the younger a woman when reaching menarche, the fewer children she will produce. The U.S. Mexican-Origin women are an exception in this final outcome. It is well known that as a society modernizes, age at menarche decreases. Analyses in my dissertation indicate that as womens ages at menarche decrease, their ages at giving birth to the first child also decrease, but their chances of having a first birth also decrease and their waiting time for having the first birth increases. Also, fertility will decline as age at menarche declines.
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Court, Gudrun Elizabeth. "Body change and body image in older adulthood." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27829.
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Background: In the course of their lives, individuals evolve a body image, which can be challenged due to ageing. Individuals who have difficulties reconciling their body image with reality may resort to various strategies, such as exercise and dieting, in order to cope. These behaviours may in turn result in more severe psychological problems, e.g. eating disorders, which are under researched in older adults. Body image, body change, physical illness and ways of coping with ageing have been researched to various degrees in older adults, but these findings have not been integrated. To justify the further investigation of eating disorders in older adults, these previous findings should be integrated and confirmed in a representative sample of the general population. The aim of this study was to assess gender differences in body image and to explore the associations between physical & psychological health and body image in an older adult non-clinical sample. Methods: The study was between groups, cross-sectional in design comprising of a single administration of a combined self-report questionnaire as no intervention requiring a follow up was offered. The non-clinical sample was recruited through multiple channels i.e. community centres, church groups and the staff of a large teaching hospital. 103 women aged 50-96 and 57 men aged 50-84 returned a total of 160 completed questionnaires (80.0% of the questionnaires distributed). Results: Older women were found to have more body image concerns than older men. Older women's body image concern was found to be associated with BMI, whereas older men's body image concern was associated with BMI and physical health. Older women and men presented with similar negative attitudes towards ageing. Both older women and older men desired weight loss despite being of normal weight, although this was more common in older women. Physical illness was not associated with psychological symptoms, physical illness was directly associated with body image concerns in older men only, while body image concerns in older women were associated with age controlling behaviours. Summary: The current study demonstrates that the many of the associations relating to body image in younger populations are also present in older adults. These results, in combination with the literature on the aetiology of eating disorders, which emphasises the association with body image discontent, provides sufficient justification for epidemiological work to establish the prevalence of eating disorders in older adults. Ultimately, the current study serves as a staging point between the vast literature on body image in younger populations & the limited literature on body image in older adults and future research investigating gender differences in the components of body images.
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Taylor, Griffin Sandra. "Successful African-American men : from childhood to adulthood /." New York [u.a.] : Kluwer Academic, 2000. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0818/00021071-d.html.
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Dessecker, Maeghan B. "Contemporary Amish Youth and the Transition to Adulthood." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/anthro_hontheses/6.
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As adulthood looms in an Amish adolescent’s life, he must make a crucial decision that will affect the rest of his life: To be or not to be Amish. Amish teens undergo a ‘coming of age’ rite of passage known as Rumspringa. This experience allows the Amish teen to be cast out in the Non-Amish world of electricity and other vanities. This rite varies among the different orders of the Amish church. Popular television shows and books often sensationalize Amish Rumpringa, but my research among the Amish in 2011 revealed some of the different variations within the Amish church and within families. Although Amish families handle the practices that lead to adulthood differently, often 80-90% of Amish youth join the Amish church. In a world of enticing accessibility, why do Amish youths generally choose a life of simplicity? In this paper, I explore the question concerning this high retention rate within the Amish church based on interviews and participant observation in the community.
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Cousins, Margaret. "The persistence of developmental coordination disorder into adulthood." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421613.
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Brosh, Lisa. "Narratives of living with epilepsy diagnosed in adulthood." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/6482.
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Background and aims: The individual’s experience of living with epilepsy is often neglected with the dominant focus being upon seizure control. However, the experience of living with epilepsy is more than the seizures. Epilepsy is an illness that is understood in many different ways and the narratives the person draws from will impact their own understanding, experience and management of the condition. Based upon this gap in the literature this study sought to hear the narratives of people diagnosed with epilepsy in adulthood as told to an outsider with the hope of developing understanding, informing clinical practice and improving support for people diagnosed with epilepsy in adulthood. Methodology: A qualitative approach was chosen for this project. A purposive sample of eight individuals diagnosed with epilepsy in adulthood was recruited. Individual interviews were conducted, audio-recorded and transcribed. Narrative analysis was used to analyse the transcripts with a focus upon both what was spoken about and how it was told. Analysis and findings: Each participant is introduced individually, presenting a ‘global impression’ of their narrative. This is followed by a consideration of the similarities and differences across all participants under the shared plots of stories of: onset; changes and challenges; and meanings of epilepsy. Within the shared plot of stories of onset are the storylines of ‘affirmation’ of self; ‘continuation’ of self; biographical disruption and searching for a cause. Within the changes and challenges shared plot there are storylines of: dependency; emotional expression; ‘I try to think positively’ and ‘It’s like talking about someone else.’ Within the final shared plot of meanings of epilepsy there are storylines of: something ‘normal’; something ‘all a bit scary’; something ‘people used to get locked up for’; a ‘hidden illness’ and ‘it’s not to be spoken about.’ The narratives show that having epilepsy is a journey that has different effects on people at different times of their lives and in different contexts. The findings are discussed in relation to clinical implications; strengths and limitations of the methodology and directions for future research.
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Gamache, Peter Eugene. "HIV Education for Youth in Transition to Adulthood." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3113.
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This dissertation investigated the role of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) stigma in program implementation. A case study design comprising qualitative methods provided in-depth, context-sensitive comparisons of adult educator (n = 8) and youth (n = 67) perspectives among programs that provide HIV services and those that provide risk reduction services. Nearly half of the youth participants were male, 42% were female, and 6% identified as transgender. Two thirds of participants were Black or African American, one quarter of participants were Hispanic or Latino, and the average participant age was 19. Although program personnel from all youth service programs in this study are acutely aware of how HIV stigma detracts from HIV education, programs that provide HIV services address stigma differently from programs that provide at-risk services. HIV education differs by language, inclusion, and stigma experiences. Based on the research literature and the findings from this study, structural changes are needed to accurately address HIV stigma and improve educational effectiveness across youth programs.
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Nicholls, Wendy. "Pathways to depression from childhood and adulthood attachment." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2005. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/12671.
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Background: The overall aim of the present study was to clanfy the role of attachment as a vulnerability factor towards depression. Further aims were to examine whether attachment was continuous and offered a conduit through which childhood experiences could have an effect on mood In adulthood; and to explore whether each of childhood and adulthood attachment each had separate roles with regards to vulnerability towards depression due to discontinuity between childhood and adulthood attachment, It was hypothesised that the attachment system would not act as a conduit between childhood experiences and depression. It was hypothesised that the association between childhood attachment and depression could instead be mediated by a third variable outside of the attachment system; the Involuntary Defeat Strategy. Attachment theory holds that attachment style moderates the effect of stressors upon depression. It was therefore hypothesised that adult attachment style would moderate the association between stressors and depression. The temporal association between adult attachment and depression is unclear. Based on the findings of prospective studies, It was hypothesised that adult attachment would predict depression over time previous research had used the Parental Bonding Instrument (Parker, Tupling, & Brown, 1979) as an indicator of childhood attachment. It was hypothesised that the Parental Bonding Instrument was not an adequate measure of attachment and by using this measure, past research had been Impeded. A new measure of childhood attachment was therefore constructed for the present study. Method. Data were collected using questionnaires on current depression, childhood attachment experiences, adult romantic attachment, social comparison, and defeat. 1 Data were collected at two stages, with a five month interval. Intemet Mediated data collection and the "paper and pencil" method were both used there were 244 (200 females and 44 males) participants at time one, of which 70 (55 females and 15 males) returned at time two. Results: It was found that the new measure was an improved measure of childhood attachment when compared with the Parental Bonding Instrument. As expected, the association between childhood attachment and depression was mediated by the third variable outside of the attachment system; the Involuntary Defeat Strategy. Contrary to expectations, the association between childhood attachment and depression was mediated by adulthood attachment Changing to a secure adult attachment style had the effect of attenuating the influence of childhood experiences on depression. As hypothesised, It was found that adulthood attachment moderated the association between a stressor and depression specifically, a significant association was found between a stressor and depression only for those participants with an insecure attachment style. Finally, the temporal association between adult attachment and depression could not be established. Both attachment and depression were consistent over time. Conclusions: It was concluded that attachment was a stable vulnerability factor through which childhood experiences could have an effect on depressed mood in adulthood. The pathway from childhood attachment to depression was also mediated by the Involuntary Defeat Strategy. It was concluded that childhood attachment presented an early vulnerability factor, and adult attachment moderated the association between a source of stress and depression suggestions were made for future research where a temporal association between adult attachment and depression would be detected.
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Hailliwell, Emma Louise. "Sociocultural influences on body image concerns through adulthood." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250169.
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Williams, Bryn T. R. "The effects of early 'non attachment' in adulthood." Thesis, Open University, 1999. http://oro.open.ac.uk/58010/.
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Early conceptualisations of Attachment Theory placed considerable emphasis on the importance of early experiences of relationships on development throughout life. Central to the theory is the notion that early experiences determine internalised representations of relationships and experience which subsequently affect the way individuals perceive themselves in relation to others. However, the evidence suggests that development is not so deterministic and that the impact of early adversity can be overcome through reparative experiences. The current study is part of a larger longitudinal investigation concerned with the impact of pure non attachment on development. The study reported in this thesis aims to consider the impact of early non attachment in adulthood, by exploring the sense that adults have made of their lives having been placed in institutionalised care in early childhood, with no opportunity to develop attachment, and who were then adopted or restored to biological parents. The meanings given to these experiences were explored by conducting a Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the accounts given by 15 participants using the Adult Attachment Interview. The results of the study suggest that the over all experience of non attachment did not prevent or severely inhibit development. However, six themes were identified in the study which highlight difficulties in people's ability to make sense of the pastJUld how they function in the present. The findings provide further insight into the impact of early non-attachment in adulthood and suggest that internalised representations of relationships may have a lasting influence, although alternative experience can ameliorate their impact.
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Teixeira, Vânia Fernandes. "Socioeconomic factors in childhood and obesity in adulthood." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/53775.
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Johnson, Wendi L. "Parent-Child Relations and Offending During Emerging Adulthood." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1271095765.
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Frech, Adrianne. "Healthy Behavior Trajectories between Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1241733569.
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Chebra, Janice Marie. "Family correlates of sibling relationships in young adulthood." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1247849580.
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Poynter, Danielle M. "Siblings, Emerging Adulthood, and Facebook: A Dialectical Analysis." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307104419.
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Holbrook, April Dawn. "Handgun Owning During Emerging Adulthood: Predictors and Consequences." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1562772838684327.
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Akibar, Alvin. "Sexual Identity and Social Anxiety in Emerging Adulthood." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984158/.
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Elevated social anxiety (SA) is linked to issues with emotional distress, substance use, and social anxiety disorder (SAD). Notwithstanding concerns of how sexuality has been defined in the extant literature, emerging evidence suggests that the prevalence of SA and related challenges may be disproportionately present among sexual minorities, including lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals (LGBs). This trend may be especially relevant within the developmental context of emerging adulthood, an important period for development of sexual identity, and a time when individuals are already predisposed to heightened feelings of SA. The present study examined the relationship between sexual orientation (measured using sexual identity, sexual attraction, and past romantic and sexual behavior) and social anxiety (related to social interaction and social performance) among emerging adults. minority sexual identities [Welch's F(5,48.08) = 5.56, p = .002, ηp2 = .02.], same-sex attraction [Welch's F(4,108.06) = 11.27, p < .001, ηp2 = .04], and same-sex romantic [Welch's F(5,85.91) = 6.88, p < .001, ηp2 = .03] and sexual experiences[F(5,61.95) = 8.88, p < .001, ηp2 = .04], particularly among those who indicated attraction to multiple sexes. Findings support research that indicates that sexual minority adults experience higher levels of SA than majority (i.e., heterosexual, opposite-sex oriented) adults, and that assessment of sexuality may reflect number of sexual minorities identified. Future directions including intersections of race/ethnicity and gender are discussed.
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Wenner, Eleanor V. "Issues Impacting Female Self-Sufficiency in Young Adulthood." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1624025590727146.
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Pirolli, Ann (Ann Josephine) Carleton University Dissertation Psychology. "The relationship between metamemory and memory through adulthood." Ottawa, 1990.
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