In the past half-century, however, family diversity has become the new rule; interracial marriages and extramarital cohabitation have both risen sharply. A key to understanding the lack of family diversity in the past and the recent rise in diversity is the changing nature of young adulthood. ...
AOlder adults were more influenced by impulsive social influence than young adults (W = 1861,Z = −2.67,r(140) = 0.22 [0.07 0.38],P = 0.008). In contrast, older and young adults demonstrated similar susceptibility to patient social influence (W = 2723,Z = ...
Young people in this age range are in a critical developmental stage characterised by significant physical, cognitive, emotional and social changes (Hurrelmann and Quenzel 2018, Sawyer et al. 2018). They also often make important decisions regarding their education and career paths, and may face ...
Caitlin Ryan at San Francisco State University has demonstrated (here) that bullying and harassment experienced by students even perceived by their peers to be LGBTQ led directly to lower levels of life satisfaction and higher rates of depression in young adulthood. Might some version of the same ...
Using longitudinal data from a sample of 369 Finnish adolescents, the authors examined whether problems in social functioning in young adulthood were interrelated and accumulated, and analyzed processes that may lead to cumulative problems. The log-linear modeling showed that an unstable career line of...
(2002). Attachment, social support, and loneliness in young adulthood: A test of two models. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 684–693. doi:10.1177/0146167202288012. Article Google Scholar Lasgaard, M., Goossens, L., & Elklit, A. (2011). Loneliness, depressive symptomatology...
‘Responds appropriately to mood changes in others (for example, when a friend’s or playmate’s mood changes from happy to sad)’. The parent rated the behavior of the child over the past six months on each item using a 4-point Likert scale ranging from 1 ‘not true’ to 4 ‘almost...
These differences between young and mid adolescents may be driven by changes in social networks during early adolescence, which in turn may partly be due to the transition from primary to secondary school (Burnett Heyes et al., 2015; Cantin and Boivin, 2004). Participants over the age of 18...
In this way, they are also agents of change in the organizational culture—if they, for example, demand changes in how plastic waste is managed, the institution might comply and change its ways. Coupled with the previously described self-selection when enrolling in specific study programs and ...
G. The transition into young adulthood: a critical period for weight control. Curr. Diab. Rep. 17, 114 (2017). PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Nikolaou, C. K., Hankey, C. R. & Lean, M. E. Weight changes in young adults: a mixed-methods study. Int. J. Obes. 39, 508...