Emerging adulthood in an European context / edited by Rita Žukauskienė.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Žukauskienė, Rita, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adulthood--Europe.

Adulthood.

Adulthood--Psychological aspects--Case studies.

Adulthood--Psychological aspects.

Europe.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

x; 225 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

This ground-breaking edited collection is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of emerging adulthood in a European context, which includes a comparison of findings in 9 different European countries and the USA. Each chapter, written by a leading European researcher, describes the sociodemographic characteristics of emerging adults, reviews the state of the field, synthesises new findings, and provides suggestions for how to move forward in research, interventions, and policy. The book examines how the traditional domain markers of adulthood, such as finishing education and caring for children, have changed. It also highlights how different factors such as gender, working status, living arrangements, romantic status and parental educational background affect the importance assigned to each set of adulthood criteria. The theory of emerging adulthood is further developed by considering how Arnett's emerging adulthood, Erikson's early adulthood, and Robinson's theory of early adult crisis fit together, and data is provided to support the new framework given. The book will be of great interest to researchers interested in these developmental transitions, and to advanced students of Emerging Adulthood on developmental psychology and lifespan courses, and related disciplines. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I. Introduction and Conceptual Foundations: 1. The experience of being an emerging adult in Europe / Rita Žukauskienė; 2. Emerging adulthood, early adulthood and quarter-life crisis : updating Erikson for the twenty-first century / Oliver Robinson

Part II. Experiencing the Transition to Adulthood:dg3. Are being responsible, having a stable job, and caring for the family important for adulthood? examining the importance of different criteria for adulthood in Italian emerging adults / Elisabetta Crocetti & Semira Tagliabue; 4. - What does it mean to be an adult? : perceptions of adulthood among Lithuanian emerging adults / Rimantas Vosylis, Goda Kaniušonytė, & Saulė Raižienė 5. Experiencing the transition to adulthood in germany : including emerging adults of the "forgotten half" / Inge Seiffge-Krenke; 6. The transition to adulthood in Turkey : views from college students and working individuals / Aysun Doǧan, A., Demet, Vural Yüzbașı, & Melikșah Demir

Part III. Trajectories and Diverse Patterns in the Transition to Adulthood: 7. Becoming an adult in Portugal : negotiating pathways between opportunities and constraints / Luísa Marinho Saraiva & Paula Mena Matos; 8. Emerging adulthood in Finland / Katariina Salmela-Aro, Dlorencia M. Sortheix, & Mette Ranta; 9. Swedish emerging adults' sense of identity and perceptions of adulthood / Maria Wängqvist & Anna Frisén; 10. Emerging adults in the Czech Republic : views into and across different domains of life / Petr Macek, Stanislav Ježek, Lenka Lacinová, Ondřej Bouša, Lucia Kvitkovičová, Radka Neužilová Michalčáková, & Jan Širůček

Part IV. Closing Summary: 11. Emerging adults in Europe : common themes, diverse paths, and future directions / Jeffrey Jensen Arnett.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138808461

1138808466

9781138808478

1138808474

OCLC:

909323334