Jeffrey Arnott’s theory of “emerging adulthood” provides a context in which I can evaluate my life in terms of my remerging development into adulthood. I am in my early twenties. Physically, I am a fully developed female that understands my own biological functions with great awareness. Cognitively, I am in the process of developing critical thinking skills by attending college, which has allowed me to develop my own ways of processing thoughts and ideas outside of my family and high school. This cognitive development is a very difficult process, which continually engages me to open my mind and learn new ways of thinking about life, society, and mental development. Socially, I am also developing a broader sense of cultural, racial, and think …show more content…
In my earlier development in high school, I had talked with a school counselor about the broader social structure of college, which has become realized as part of my emerging social development into adulthood. Emotionally, I am learning to talk more with my friends at school, which offer s a much more mature interaction than the emotional connection I had with friends in high school. I can cry, express deep emotions, and reflect on my feelings with greater trust and freedom in college. Finally, I am involved in a relationship with a guy or girl (depending the customer’s sex identity), which is providing a more profound understanding of intimacy and healthy sexual relations at the collegiate level. I am searching for a long-term commitment from a partner, which defines my maturation from the process of “dating” in high …show more content…
Cognitively, I have developed a strong sense of deductive skills, which have provided me with the ability to discern social situations with increasingly good accuracy. In this manner, I had developed a good sense of “hypothetico-deductive reasoning” as a way to gauge social circumstances in my social activities: “When faced with a problem, they start with a hypothesis, or prediction about variables that might effect an outcome, from which they deduce logical, testable inferences” (Berk, 2010, p.383). For instance, in my first few days at college, I had met a new friend on campus that seemed pretty stable at first, but he soon turned out to a troubled person. I “deduced” from this person that they had been using drugs (they talked increasingly of getting high, red eyes, etc.), which I had learned about with troubled students I had met in high school. This aspect of my sociability gave the “street smarts” to deduce this individual as a somewhat dangerous person, since they could potentially have an overdose or be arrested by law enforcement. However, I had the compassion and understanding for drug addiction as a biological and social problem that helped me to slowly disengage from this person. This is one aspect of the subsequent manifestation of social skills, which are a major part of my personality when interacting with other people. Finally, I really enjoy interacting with people
In her book, Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus, Kathleen Bogle studied the different relationship trends over the past 100 years. She explained how young adults shifted from calling on each to dating each other to now hooking up with each other (Bogle 2008). In today’s society, college-aged adults have adopted the practice of hooking up, which involves different levels of intimacy (kissing to sex) without a long-term commitment to one’s partner. Throughout her research, Bogle explored the social script for hooking up and the different relationship dynamics for young adults due to this practice (2008).
Leon Botstein, the author of “Let Teenagers Try Adulthood,” serves as the president of Bard College, as well as a professor of arts and humanities. Botstein wrote this article after the tragic shootings at Columbine high school in 1999. This event triggered something inside Botstein causing him to think negatively about the American high school system. In the article “Let Teenagers Try Adulthood,” Botstein explains, in his own words, of the corrupt happenings of present day American high school (368-369). Although Botstein may have high credentials, he provides no evidence to support his negative claims and opinions about teenagers and American high schools.
emerging adults report that they get along better with their parents now than they did in their mid-teens (Arnett, 2015, p. 51 ). Most parents feel they have a better relationship now with their emerging adult children now too . The national Clark poll shows that 55% of emerging adults have daily or almost daily contact with their parents (Arnett, 2015, p. 50). Parents and children have more frequent contact and enjoy spending more free time together (Gillen, 2015)
They base their findings on the National Health and Social Life Survey, which found that those born after 1942 were “more sexually active at younger ages” than those born from 1933-42, and the trend toward greater sexual activity among young people “appears to halt or reverse” among those born from 1963-72. In addition to these facts, an English survey of more than 14,000 students from 19 universities and colleges about their hookup, dating, and relationship experiences revealed that 72% of students experience a hookup at least once by their senior year in college, but hooking up hasn’t replaced committed relationships and is not a new concept to young adults. The evidence is convincing and shows that students often participate in both at different times during college (69% of heterosexual students participated in a relationship lasting at least 6 months by senior year as well.) Based on this, the amount of hookups and committed relationship by college students seems to even out over
Emerging Adulthood represents the period of development from late teens through their twenties, mainly focusing on the ages 18-25. This is the period which people start exploring and realizing the capabilities of their lives, which then helps them characterize as adults and no longer teenagers. This topic of psychology is compelling to me because it’s a stage that every adult has lived through, it’s interesting that we have all experienced it differently based on our life circumstances and demographics. It’s interesting to see the changes throughout the years and eventually it will be easier for young people to explore these years as more young adults are going to school nowadays. It teaches me to further understand why emerging adults go through
...through 8 different psychosocial stages of life. Each step has to be completed in order to have gained knowledge and to be able to be successful in the next stage of development. Researching this topic has taught me that we can’t skip over skills and expect to have success or live happily ever after. I now realize how important learning from my mistakes can be. Childhood becomes the remembered past and adulthood the anticipated future (McAdams, 2001).
In today’s culture, the number of issues that the average person has to face on a daily basis, are astronomical. Millennials, in particular, have been greatly affected by this, so much so that a new phase in the human lifespan has been created just for them! Dubbed “emerging adulthood” by psychologist Jeffrey Arnett, plopped smack dab in the middle of adolescence, and adulthood, this phase captures any, and all doubts that 20-29 year olds are plagued with. From their economic standing, to racial, ethnic, and identity issues, and to disabilities ranging from both mental, and physical, this phase captures every single uncertainty, fear, and qualm that one person can possibly have in a neat little package.
Emerging Adulthood is the newest stage of human development. Young Adults engage in more risk taking events, than any other stage of development, because health and physic wise they are at their peak. Emerging adults engage in premarital sex which makes them vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases.
Arnett, Jeffrey. A. A. "Emerging Adulthood." A theory of development from late teens through the twenties. N.p., n.d. Web. The Web.
Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development consist of eight stages. Stages six, seven, and eight are characterized as young adulthood, adulthood, and old age, in that order. According to John Cavanaugh and Fredda Blachard-Fields (2011), authors of Adult Development and Aging, “During young adulthood, the major developmental task, achieving intimacy versus isolation, involves establishing a fully intimate relationship with another. With the advent of middle age, the focus shifts from intimacy to concern for the next generation, expressed as generativity versus stagnation. Finally, in old age, individuals must resolve the struggle between ego integrity and despair. This last stage begins with a growing awareness of the nearness of the
Due to the demand to completely re-center his or her life and choose a new life path, emerging adulthood is described as one of the most difficult time in an individual’s life (Belsky, 2013). In order to better understand the complex milestones met during this period, I interviewed twenty-two-year-old Aly. Aly graduated from East Tennessee State University in 2015 and has recently relocated to Nashville in order to start her career with the state government. Additionally, only a month after turning 19, Aly married her husband and has currently been married for three and a half years. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, watching television with her husband, and going out or shopping. I met Aly through our
Emerging adults are always in the search of their own identity while experimenting with their life, love life and career path. Constant changes in emerging adult’s life are common. From changing residential place to love life, work and education, instability often presents during emerging adulthood (Santrock, 2013). In addition, emerging adults tend to place focus on themselves where they have no commitment and responsibilities toward others. This provides them a great chance to exercise their own will and to execute their plans for the future. During emerging adulthood, many feel like as if they do not belong to either adolescents or adult. The transition ends only when they have distinct marks of an adult. According to Arnett (as cited in Santrock, 2014), “emerging adulthood is the age of possibilities” (p. 296). The age of possibilities is when an individual has the opportunity to turn things around in life, especially when they are from a poor family
As my peers and I enter the stage of emerging adulthood, we have to begin thinking about what each of us needs to do as individuals to remain healthy and happy in our days on Earth. As of now many of us are in school; pursuing the degree that will be used as a tool to get the job we want. Regardless of the path in life we choose, however; there are a few general categories that we need to work on fulfilling in order to (in theory) lead healthy lives. Throughout this paper I will be using information from the MSU Dept of Health and Human Development well-being model, as well as information form the chapters about adulthood in the textbook “Experiencing the Lifespan”, and seeing how my life matches up with the ideas presented in these sources.
I am now twenty years old and would fit in the category of emerging adulthood. Emerging adulthood is considered to be the transition from adolescence to adulthood which usually occurs from about 18 to 25 years of age (Santrock, 2018). There are some key features of this developmental stage in life and one I can really relate to is the “feeling in-between.” The best example of this in-between feeling I experience is one day the summer after my freshman year in college a I boy I had never really met before asked me on a date. I grew up in a small town so everyone knew everyone, and my parents were always used to knowing who the people were that went to my school and who were my friends. This boy was not from around my town or old high school, but we got to talking and he wanted to meet me. My parents have always been strict, and so of course I tell them about the boy and how he asked me on a date. I expected to go on this day without any trouble from my parents because to me I was plenty capable of handling myself. I was basically an adult well, so I thought. My parents did not think so, and totally freaked out saying that I did not really know this boy and so on. I told them I am an adult I can make these decisions on my own, and then they started naming all the things that would actually make me an adult, all of which I did not meet. I began feeling frustrated because in my head I was an adult, but then I started having that “feeling in-between” feature. I did not really feel like I was an adolescence to me I was past that stage, but then I did not really feel like an adult either because I did not meet all the “full fledged adult”
To begin, some argue that becoming an adult has to do with science, and how the human brain works. Neuroscientists have proved that brain maturation continues much further into human development than it has been previously discovered. Although, if science had a critical influence on this topic, we would not live in a society where it allows teenager...