In this article, we draw on the theoretical and empirical literature to name what appear to be
core dimensions of successful young adult development. We also describe some possible …

Many myths about adolescence have been refuted by research, but similar myths have
grown up in recent years around emerging adulthood. This essay addresses three of those …

What does it mean to grow up today as working-class young adults? How does the
economic and social instability left in the wake of neoliberalism shape their identities, their …

This article analyzes data derived from the first detailed long-term follow-up of a sample of
serious adolescent female delinquents and similarly situated males. Neither marital …

The major trends in family structures and their shifts across the industrialized world over the
past decades are well known: fertility rates have declined below the level sufficient for the …

This chapter draws on recent empirical work that illustrates the dynamic yet highly variable
paths that emerging adults take from dependence toward independence. Moreover, in this …

A symbolic interactionist perspective on the emotions is presented that highlights their social
character, forges links to cognitive processes, and suggests ways in which emotions …

Using recently released cohabitation data for the male sample of the National Longitudinal
Survey of Youth, first interviewed in 1979, I conducted multinomial discrete-time event …

Au fil des ans, la course contre la montre semble s' être accentuée et la préoccupation pour
le manque de temps s' être intensifiée. Bien que les données de Statistique Canada …

Should teenagers have jobs while they're in high school? Doesn't working distract them from
schoolwork, cause long-term problem behaviors, and precipitate a" precocious" transition to …