Emerging Adulthood Summary

When growing up children always dream of having a perfect family with two caring parents who are both active in that child’s life. Children want to be able to spend time with both parents and have a great relationship with them but that is not always the case. Some children go through life with an active parent and a absent parent. One parent always has a positive effect on the child and the other parent has a negative effect. Active parents and absent parents differ in many ways of how they treat their children, how often they see their children, how strict they are on their children, and how they nurture their children.

This article was on a study that compared developmental trajectories of non-students, versus college-educated young adults, on the aspects of Arnett’s theory of emerging adulthood (Mitchell & Syed, 2015). However, there is a large group that literature has not been explored, and that category is on the young teen/adults who choose to not attend college, or are unable to because of socio economic status (Mitchell & Syed, 2015). The emerging adulthood theory has been controversial. The controversial topic has been brought up by researchers questioning how non-students may not experience the development of other emerging adults based on their interests to pursue adulthood without attending postsecondary education. The aim of the study was intended to compare emerging adulthood among individuals with college degrees, some college, and no college (Mitchell & Syed, 2015). Arnett’s development tasks for emerging adulthood include: finding a reliable and satisfying career, choosing a partner and starting a family, and establishing financial independence (Mitchell & Syed, 2015).

Parents are losing the true focus of parenting because they are too attached. Parents should realize that if a person does not work hard, they can’t achieve great things like they want for their children. “The Fine Art of Letting Go” is an article that appeared in the news magazine, Newsweek, written by Barbara Kantrowitz and Peg Tyre. The article discusses many causes and consequences of hovering parents, as well as personal experiences from hovering parents. Kantrowitz is responsible for many cover stories on education, social trends, and health in Newsweek since 1985. Parents feel a range of emotions as their child is growing up, but as the parent, their role is to be strong in order

The transition to adulthood is an important area of research because of the multitude of changes that are experienced after adolescence, including the changing achievement goals, values, and aspirations that many young adults face. In your discussion post discuss significant physical, cognitive and other related life changes that impact adults during this particular stage in life.

Parents’ attitudes do not always have a direct impact on their parenting actions which are often directed by the situation. As a result of this realization the study of parent cognitions has been widened to include more specific ways of thinking. When having a kid a person’s behavior is a key part to how they child may grow up and act towards others. A violent parent might result in a violent child. Not only does it affect their behavior it affects their health, a sour mood can cause a child to starve themselves or cause them to harm themselves physically. An unfit parent could starve their child because they don’t want them or the child may do something wrong and upset their parents and cause them to hurt them. A parents behavior could affect the way that child may raise their own children. For example, if a child is abused and comes out of it strong when they have kids they may feel like the only way their child will grow up and hold their own is if they are abused to. When given a license they will have taken a test and that would possibly show them that maybe their idea of parenting would have not been the best. (Should it be mandatory to get a license to be a parent: Advancing education for

A human’s development is a lifelong process beginning before birth and extending until the moment of death. In every moment of life, every human being is constantly evolving in their own person way. Some evolve mostly with physical changes while other evolve based more solely on mental evolution. However, as humans grow their cognitive abilities advance and decline in response to the brain’s growth from childhood and reduced function in their old age. Psychosocial development is also significantly influenced by physical growth, as our changing body and brain, together with our environment, shape our identity and our relationships with other people.

Emerging Adulthood is a fascinating period of development with the shifting of life choices thanks to people living longer in countries such as the US. The 18 to mid 20-year-old person has a different outlook on life with the competitive job market, and the decision to try to attend college at the risk of not being able to find the job they need. The days of getting married before adulthood are long gone as people try to have a social life before settling down with a single individual. Trying new things and meeting new people is exciting and has taken a stronger meeting than to buy a home and start a family. With the healthier trends, people are living longer, and the age bracket has expanded and shifted for when settling down begins. Many

A parent is not only the loving mother who holds you close to her for nine months and then many years, or the father who plays baseball with you and intimidates his daughter’s dates. It is someone who is there for you from the start, guiding you to the right path of knowledge and teaching you how to stay on the right path independently. A parent does not need to have any biological associations to the child in order to be a parent to them. A parent has certain characteristics who needs to be met to be justly named a parent. For many years, psychologists have defined ways to correctly support a child into adulthood for parents all

Most mothers and fathers love their kids with all their heart. As a child begins to age, parents begin to influence their kids and will mold them as they mature. However, parents without much care for their kids will leave a long-term effect on their children and in this study, the main impact is the father.

Adulthood is when an individual is past the stage of being considered to be a teenager or “young adult”. In America, adulthood starts at the age of 18, but in certain circumstances it has limited access. The fact that many adolescents have relied on another individual for about eighteen years, it will take more than two years for one to transit into their 20’s when it comes down to getting their life together. Many expectations are expected for people in their 20’s, but one person’s expectations may be different from another. This new generation have a mind of their own, which makes it hard to compare them to the earlier generations. From a young age, young adults learned the strategy of lacking deep connection with their surroundings, which makes it harder for them to mature into their 20’s. At that point of age, one should only be learning the strategies of relying on their self, in which Robin Henig elaborate more on through Jeffrey Jensen Arnett theory. Arnett consider the 20’s to be the stage of emerging adulthood. Arnett believes that emerging adulthood is “identifying exploration, instability self-focus, feeling in-between, and rather poetic characteristic, he calls “a sense of possibilities” (Henig 200). One must first experience these things before becoming an actual adult. There is an extreme amount of individuals in there 20 something’s that may be taking longer to fully develop into an adult, but it helps them figure out who they are as an individual, develop

depicted a parenting style filled with warmth, acceptance, engagement, independence, and support. Many Western families adopt the same authoritative approach and raise successful children to adulthood. Authoritative parents “recognize children’s individuality, encourage verbal exchange, engage in joint decision-making, and insist that children progressively assume more responsibility for responding to the needs of other family members within the limits of their capabilities” (Marsiglia, Walczyk, Buboltz, Griffith-Ross, “Impact of Parenting Styles…”). Authoritative parents are responsive to their children, knowing when to back away to foster independence and when to support them. Based on Chua’s stance on parenting, she might scoff that an authoritative parent would not produce successful, confident children, but that is far from the truth. Children of authoritative parents are self-reliant, demonstrate social and academic competence, exhibit fewer problem behaviors and fewer mental health problems than authoritarian parents (Waterman, Lefkowitz, “Are Mothers’ and Fathers’ Parenting Characteristics…”). Children of authoritative parents have been linked to perfectionism throughout their college years, exhibiting higher grades, being task-involved, and better rapport with instructors (Waterman, Lefkowitz, “Are Mothers’ and Fathers’ Parenting Characteristics…”). Authoritative parents foster more secure attachments with their children, leading to positive working habits such as independent reading, planning for the future, and taking the initiative to solve academic problems which leads emerging adults to have better academic performance and adjustment. Empirical research has also discovered that authoritative parenting is associated with emerging adult’s better study skills and higher GPA (Waterman, Lefkowitz, “Are Mothers’ and Fathers’ Parenting

Being a parent is something that most people will experience at some point in their lives. Considering how integral becoming a parent is to the human condition, it is always interesting to see how parenting varies not only among people of distinctively contrasting cultures, but even among people one might consider analogous. Being a parent myself, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time attempting to find the right balance of parenting styles by not just my own trial and error, but by also observing others such as my own parents. Parenting varies due to numerous reasons such as income, location, culture and perhaps most notable recently, the advancement of technology. Raising children to become well-adjusted and productive adults is no simple matter, especially when considering not only different styles of parenting, but also the different temperaments, cognitive abilities and personalities of the children. To gain insight on this issue, and perhaps gain insight as to how parenting affected me personally, I chose to interview my parents, Tawana and Gregory Barger.

My questionnaire and PAQ responses support my conclusion that both of my parents demonstrated an authoritative parenting style. My mother rated a responsiveness score of “10.” Even today, my mother drops everything to meet my needs, therefore, her exceptionally high score of 53 for emotional support (responsiveness) was not surprising. Despite my father’s busy schedule, he found time to play sports, was always cognizant of my needs, and listened without interrupting me. As a result, my father scored a “9” for responsiveness and a “51”

His biggest dream was to enter the military after high school graduation. He applied and was refused because of his epilepsy. He was so intent on getting into the service that he waited a year and applied again, this time lying about his condition and not putting it on the application form. He got all the way into basic training when he told a friend about his lie. That friend told the commander and he was kicked out. He recalls being very disappointed and devastated because this was the only thing he wanted to do. As an average student he wasn’t interested in going to college. His greatest challenge as a young adult was dealing with his epilepsy and coming to terms with the reality that a career path he had always dreamed of and had the most passion for was not going to happen for him. He enjoyed cooking so he worked at several restaurants as a grill cook. He recalls being wild and sexually promiscuous. When the AIDS epidemic began he put a stop to that type of behavior so as not to contract that disease. It was during this time that he met his first wife and they were married in 1985 when he was 30 year-old. Although his wife was the same age he recalls knowing it wouldn’t last because he was attracted to much older women. When I asked him why he married her then he said sadly “because I thought that was expected of me”. Their social life consisted of working at their jobs and going out socially to concerts and sporting events. They hung

I am in the emerging adulthood phase because I am in that age group. At first I thought emerging adulthood was the start of paying bills, and having all kinds of new responsibilities that adults usually do like car payments, applying for insurance, finding a new doctor, maybe starting a family, etc. Pretty much not being under your parents financial support is what I’m trying to say. Recently my thoughts on emerging adulthood changed. Emerging adulthood is the time to prepare and ‘evolve’ one’s self into becoming a young adult. Right after I graduated high school I wanted to have a source of income so I do not have to rely on my parents too much. I wanted to prove to them I can attend school and have a job simultaneously. I was surprised I