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 …

What is personality? How is temperament related to personality? Where does emotion fit in?
What is the significance of emotion, personality, and temperament for understanding …

This chapter examines the conceptions of adulthood of adolescents, emerging adults, and
parents of adolescents in Israel. It shows a general consensus regarding the important …

This study explored the relationship between chronological age and subjective age in
emerging adulthood. Predictors of variability in subjective age were also examined. A …

This study investigated young adolescents' perceptions of their peers' prosocial behaviours.
In eight focus groups, 53 11-to 13-year olds described specific prosocial acts of their peers …

The transition to adulthood involves, for most individuals, moving from school to work,
establishment of long-term relationships, possibly parenting, and a number of other …

The beginning of adulthood may well be the most nebulous transition of the life course. It is
fair to say that no clear-cut universal marker indicates the beginning of adulthood, leading to …

This research examined links among adolescents' maturity status, their biological, social,
and psychological characteristics, and parents' perceptions of their adolescents' maturity …

Recent research has identified a discreet set of subjective markers that are seen as
characterizing the transition to adulthood. The current study challenges this coherence by …

Girls' early pubertal timing has been linked in many studies to behavioral problems such as
delinquency and substance use. The theoretical explanations for these links have often …