Emerging adulthood : the winding road from the late teens through the twenties / 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 his provocative work, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett has identified the period of emerging adulthood as distinct from both the adolescence that precedes it and the y...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Edition: | Second Edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 394 pages : illustrations; cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- A longer road to adulthood
- What is it like to be an emerging adult? : four profiles
- From conflict to companionship : a new relationship with parents
- Love and sex : new freedoms, new problems
- Meandering toward marriage
- The road through college : twists and turns
- Work : more than a job
- Digital natives : emerging adults' many media uses
- Sources of meaning : religious beliefs and values
- How important is social class?
- Wrong turns and dead ends
- Sometimes goodbye is a second chance : resilience in emerging adulthood
- Beyond emerging adulthood : what does it mean to become an adult?
- Notes
- References
- Index.