Emerging Adulthood by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
In recent decades, the lives of people in their late teens and twenties have changed so dramatically that a new stage of life has developed. In this provocative work, Arnett identifies emerging adulthood as distinct from both the adolescence that precedes it and the young adulthood that comes in its wake. Rather than marrying and becoming parents in their early twenties, most people in industrialised societies now postpone these transitions until at least their late twenties, spending these years in self-focused exploration as they try out different possibilities in their careers and relationships. Emerging adults face the challenge of defending their new and longer road to adulthood to parents and others who entered adulthood at an earlier age in a different time. In spite of these challenges, Arnett's research shows that emerging adults are particularly skilled at maintaining contradictory emotions - they are confident while being wary, and optimistic in the face of large degrees of uncertainty. Merging stories from the lives of emerging adults themselves with findings from years of research, Arnett covers a wide range of topics, including love and sex, relationships with parents, experiences at college and work, and views of what it means to be an adult.
"Engaging..informative and insightful...charts a new terrain that is only likely to grow in the 21st century. His sense of optimism and advocacy for young adults are infectious. This work is likely to help build a field of scholarship that is urgently needed to renovate policies, programs and general understanding of the lengthy and arduous process of becoming an adult in American society."-The Washington Post "This is a book worth reading..."-NACADA Journal
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is a Research Professor at Clark University's Department of Psychology in Worcester, Massachusetts. He studied at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark as a Fulbright Scholar in 2005. Dr. Arnett is the editor of the Journal of Adolescent Research and the author of Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from Late Adolescence to the Twenties (2004). He is also the author of Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Perspective, 4th Edition (2009), one of the most extensively used textbooks on adolescent development. He has appeared on television and in the print media often, and in August 2010, he was featured on the cover of the New York Times Sunday magazine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195309379 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195309375 |
| Title | Emerging Adulthood |
| Author | Jeffrey Jensen Arnett |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2006-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
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