Yes / Transitioning to adulthood is a fundamental yet challenging phase in human development. Despite its relevance, the literature has paid little attention to the impact that transitioning to adulthood has on multiple aspects of individual well-being. This is one of the few attempts that has employed a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study to explore how the path to adulthood impacted on the psychological and overall well-being of Italian young adults. In the quantitative phase, we employed two-step cluster analysis to assign 45 young adults, who had completed the Italian I COPPE scale of multidimensional well-being, to three clusters based on their level of change in psychological and overall well-being. Results from mixed design ANCOVA revealed that participants belonging to the high change cluster showed the highest significant positive change over time with respect to well-being. In the qualitative phase, 17 individuals took part in focalized narrative interviews, which aimed at exploring significant events, barriers, and facilitators, which had impacted on their well-being during the transition to adulthood. The textual material was analysed through the Grounded Theory Methodology. It emerged that the state of transition was associated with some triggering events and a temporary negative impact on the interviewees' well-being. However, findings also revealed that people assigned to different clusters had put in place or learned several resources, skills, and copying strategies, which led to different transitional and well-being outcomes.

This dissertation examines the health insurance status of young adults during the transition to adulthood. In a series of three essays, I analyze what happens as young adults reach important milestones and the effects of public policies. The first essay is a descriptive study on how insurance status changes after reaching age 19 and graduating from college. The likelihood of becoming uninsured rises sharply once turning age 19 and then peaks at age 23. While the proportion uninsured also increases following college graduation, this increase disappears after one year. The second essay analyzes the effect of a dependent age law in New Jersey, which allowed dependent coverage for young adults up to age 30 and did not require full-time student status. Pennsylvania did not pass a law and was used as a control state. Among 19-to-22-year olds, there was a rise in health insurance coverage in New Jersey relative to Pennsylvania. There also was a negative effect on college enrollment in New Jersey relative to Pennsylvania. The final essay considers other unintended consequences of dependent age laws. Using a national dataset, I estimate that there were no clear effects on decisions related to living arrangements, marriage, and full-time employment.

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The background to this study is that there is no studies on youth and their transition to adulthood in preindustrial Sweden. The main objective of this thesis has therefore been to analyze young peoples transition to adulthood during the late 18th and 19th centuries in a region of the northern part of Sweden. The social context of the region was mainly agrarian during the investigated period despite the fact that in the later part of the 19th and beginning of 20th century, a development of a growing forest industry had started. The main questions is: How and when in life did different social categories of young people establish an independent and adult life? Where there any changes in transitional patterns and was the establishment smoother or more troublesome at different times during the investigated period ? Where there any changes regarding social norms related to the establishment of adult life? The transition to adult life is studied from a life-course approach and four key-transitions; The First Holy communion, leaving home, marriage and parenthood are regarded as significant steps within the process to a independent social position. Individual data related to keytransitions is mainly collected from cathectical examination records and comprised 2206 individuals born in six different cohorts between 1770 and 1900. The selected cohorts represents individuals that had to deal with different social conditions during their youth and transition to adult life. The main results regarding the transition to adult life can be summarized in two words, complexity and variance. Usually it was a "long" transition but the number of accomplished keytransitions and the order between them varied, as well as ages when taking the first Holy Communion, leaving home, marriage and entering parenthood varied. Transitional patterns varied between different categories of youth. A dividing line existed between the sexes, those from households strongly rooted in the agricultural structure and those with background in social categories that didn't own or was in possession of land. Social norms related to keytransitons changed along this dividing line during the investigated period of time, and became less permissive within landowning or land-possessing categories and less prescriptive in other categories. Transitional patterns were also influenced by the social situation at different historical times. The need for labor, war and years of famine directly intervened in timing and sequencing of keytransitions. A long term development was that the transition to adult life became more problematic in the later part of the 19th century, especially among young people who were less integrated in the social context and among socially stigmatized youth. Finally, young people were active and reflexive in seeking social space to make the transition to adult life, actions that sometimes caused tensions and conflicts between generations. / digitalisering@umu

Recent research has proposed a new stage in human development, termed emerging adulthood by Jeffrey Arnett, which is characterized by a prolonged journey to adult roles and responsibilities. This thesis explores the experience of Chinese emerging adults, university students aged 20-25 years using Erikson’s and Levinson’s developmental theories as a theoretical framework. These authors proposed that three major developmental tasks are necessary for the transition to adulthood: separating from family of origin, forming an adult identity and finding the place for the self in the larger society. Qualitative interviews were conducted virtually with 12 Chinese university students to understand their perceptions and lived experience. Qualitative thematic analysis was used to analyze the interview transcripts. The results suggest Chinese emerging adults (a) have a low level of separation from parents; (b) have not formed a clear sense of identity and have not achieved a self-definition in adulthood; and (c) have not made initial commitments to love and work. It is speculated that the Chinese sociocultural context may further postpone its young adults’ independence and autonomy, and this prolonged transition to adulthood is both positive and problematic to Chinese young adults. This study lends support to Arnett’s emerging adulthood theory through its exploration of emerging adulthood in China, where, to date, little research has been done on this subject. It provides rich descriptions of the experience of Chinese emerging adults’ lives and enhances understandings of the role of culture in influencing the emerging adulthood period.

Recent research has proposed a new stage in human development, termed emerging adulthood by Jeffrey Arnett, which is characterized by a prolonged journey to adult roles and responsibilities. This thesis explores the experience of Chinese emerging adults, university students aged 20-25 years using Erikson’s and Levinson’s developmental theories as a theoretical framework. These authors proposed that three major developmental tasks are necessary for the transition to adulthood: separating from family of origin, forming an adult identity and finding the place for the self in the larger society. Qualitative interviews were conducted virtually with 12 Chinese university students to understand their perceptions and lived experience. Qualitative thematic analysis was used to analyze the interview transcripts. The results suggest Chinese emerging adults (a) have a low level of separation from parents; (b) have not formed a clear sense of identity and have not achieved a self-definition in adulthood; and (c) have not made initial commitments to love and work. It is speculated that the Chinese sociocultural context may further postpone its young adults’ independence and autonomy, and this prolonged transition to adulthood is both positive and problematic to Chinese young adults. This study lends support to Arnett’s emerging adulthood theory through its exploration of emerging adulthood in China, where, to date, little research has been done on this subject. It provides rich descriptions of the experience of Chinese emerging adults’ lives and enhances understandings of the role of culture in influencing the emerging adulthood period.

The current study employed a mixed methodology to investigate whether emerging adulthood differs based on vocational setting. Quantitative questionnaires were completed by 18-29 year-olds from university, vocational college/trade school, and the labour force (without post-secondary) to examine conceptions of what marks adulthood, perceptions of having reached adulthood, perceptions of having reached markers of adulthood, identity development, identification with themes of emerging adulthood, and the importance of vocational setting in shaping emerging adulthood. Qualitative interviews exploring the same areas were undertaken with a subset of participants. Results revealed few associations between vocational setting and conceptions of adulthood or perceptions of having reached adulthood, with most emerging adults feeling ambiguous about their adult status and viewing independence as the most important marker of adulthood. Those from the labour force did perceive reaching independence, role transitions, and family capacities to the greatest degree; earlier adverse circumstances seemed relevant in reaching these markers. Fewer than expected from the labour force had achieved identities, yet identity development appeared to be a gradual process for all. Participants generally identified with themes of emerging adulthood, although university students did so to a greater degree in some ways. Emerging adulthood was identified as a time of fewer possibilities and diminished agency for those from the labour force. Unique life experiences and social interactions were also deemed important factors in emerging adulthood. Together, findings largely support emerging adulthood as a valid theory of development, while also suggesting some diversity in its full expression across vocational settings.

Recent research has proposed a new stage in human development, termed emerging adulthood by Jeffrey Arnett, which is characterized by a prolonged journey to adult roles and responsibilities. This thesis explores the experience of Chinese emerging adults, university students aged 20-25 years using Erikson’s and Levinson’s developmental theories as a theoretical framework. These authors proposed that three major developmental tasks are necessary for the transition to adulthood: separating from family of origin, forming an adult identity and finding the place for the self in the larger society. Qualitative interviews were conducted virtually with 12 Chinese university students to understand their perceptions and lived experience. Qualitative thematic analysis was used to analyze the interview transcripts. The results suggest Chinese emerging adults (a) have a low level of separation from parents; (b) have not formed a clear sense of identity and have not achieved a self-definition in adulthood; and (c) have not made initial commitments to love and work. It is speculated that the Chinese sociocultural context may further postpone its young adults’ independence and autonomy, and this prolonged transition to adulthood is both positive and problematic to Chinese young adults. This study lends support to Arnett’s emerging adulthood theory through its exploration of emerging adulthood in China, where, to date, little research has been done on this subject. It provides rich descriptions of the experience of Chinese emerging adults’ lives and enhances understandings of the role of culture in influencing the emerging adulthood period.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O presente trabalho consiste em um estudo de caso exploratório acerca das formas de transição para a vida adulta entre jovens das classes populares. Busca-se compreender se e de que maneira as desigualdades territoriais em localidades periféricas, como São Gonçalo, podem expressar desigualdades nas formas de se vivenciar a juventude. Uma das principais hipóteses explicita que morar nos distritos extremos desse município influencia a forma como os jovens se reconhecem, se projetam e se apropriam dos espaços da cidade, tornando a dimensão territorial um dos elementos influenciadores na construção de suas trajetórias. A metodologia utilizada envolve: inicialmente, uma revisão bibliográfica dos conceitos chaves de juventude, transição e território; em seguida, a caracterização do município e diálogo com dados secundários sobre o banco de dados da pesquisa suporte, fornecendo-nos os critérios para a escolha dos entrevistados; logo, as análises das quatorze entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas com jovens dos dois grupos de distritos extremos. Ao final, fica claro, dentre outras constatações, que há influencia do território sobre modos de vida distintos entre os jovens, nos permitindo caracterizá-los a partir de elementos comuns ("jovens de fronteira", "jovens enraizados" e "jovens híbridos") e mostrando que apenas certa configuração de condições(englobando tipos de escola, trabalho, circulação, forma de divertimento, etc.), disponível para alguns, permite a busca por romper com a circunscrição ao território de residência. / This work consists of an exploratory case study on the forms of transition to adulthood among youngsters from the popular classes. We seek to understand whether and how the territorial inequalities in peripheral locations such as São Gonçalo can express inequalities in the ways of experiencing youth. One of the main hypotheses explicit that living in extreme districts of that city influences the way young people recognize, project and appropriate themselves of the city spaces, making the territorial dimension one of the influencing elements in the construction of their trajectories. The methodology involves initially, a literature review of key concepts of youth, transition and territory; then, the characterization of the municipality and dialogue with secondary data on the database of the support research, providing us the criteria for the choice of interviewees; therefore, the analysis of fourteen semi-structured interviews with young people of the two extreme groups of districts. At the end, it is clear, among other findings, that there are influences of the territory on the distinct lifestyles among young people, what allowed us characterizing them by common elements ("border youngsters", "rooted youngsters" and "hybrid youngsters") and showing that only certain configuration of conditions (including types of school, work, movement, form of entertainment, etc..), available for some, allows the search for breaking with the territory of residence circumscription.

COELHO, Raquel Nascimento. El alargamiento de la juventud: un análisis psicosocial de las trayectorias de jovenes en Brasil y España. 2013. 402f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social, Madrid (ESP), 2013. / Submitted by Charles Oliveira (charles_oliveirab@outlook.com) on 2016-06-23T13:23:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_tese_rncoelho.pdf: 2782956 bytes, checksum: f1ff1a5b5cf392eb3dffadccfa2950f6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-06-27T21:52:33Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_tese_rncoelho.pdf: 2782956 bytes, checksum: f1ff1a5b5cf392eb3dffadccfa2950f6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-27T21:52:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_tese_rncoelho.pdf: 2782956 bytes, checksum: f1ff1a5b5cf392eb3dffadccfa2950f6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / This paper aims to investigate the manifestation of the phenomenon of youth prolongation in Brazilian and Spanish youngsters and its influences on identity construction processes of these individuals. For this, we have taken as a reference group individuals aged 25 to 29 years old in the cities of Fortaleza (Brazil) and Madrid (Spain).We start from the idea that the process of social and labor precarization and flexibility currently observed in various contexts and accentuated by the economic crisis severely obstructs the social inclusion of young people, often resulting in delayed entry into the labor market and in achieving their financial stability. This would have as one of its consequences the postponing intensification of the thresholds of transition to adulthood - leaving parents’ home, pairing and having children - as a you th strategy to deal with these difficulties. This postponement would represent the opening of a larger temporary space for youth in the lives of young people producing new experiences, discourses and meanings of the very condition of being young and new possibilities of identity construction. In addition, the idea of an elongated youth tends to expand further through the media as an ideal model and it becomes a possibility of identification for a significant group of young people. To study this phenomenon we have developed a qualitative research, using an analytical - descriptive and cross - sectional design. We have chosen to work with individual in - depth and semi - structured interviews with 50 young men and women from 25 to 29 years old, half of them from Madrid / Spain and half from Fortaleza / Brazil. We chose this group because they are officially in the last years of the juvenile stage in both countries and also because they live more closely issues of the transition to adulthood and experience the possibility of youth prolongation. The interviews were recorded - with the consent of the interviewees - and transcribed. The speeches of the interviewees have been organized through the Atlas-ti ® softwear and analyzed through a semantic content analysis. The discussion of the data and presentation of the contents have been made from three macro categories: transition paths to adulthood, social identity and being young, and youth prolongation. From our analysis the phenomenon of youth prolongation would be manifes ted in two ways. On one hand, the youngsters elongate their youth by the postponement of transition thresholds to adulthood - being young - remaining in a state of less independence and autonomy. That is evident mainly among young Spanish people and Brazilians with better financial situation. On the other hand, young people tend to prolong their youth through the almost unlimited postponement of the feeling of being young - feel young - maintaining the attitudes, values and lifestyles of youth that are positively evaluated in our society and that are represented by the youthful spirit and ideal of eternal youth. This is observed more generally among young people of both countries showing the intensification of youth prolongation as a new social ideal. And as it promotes the building of a positive social identity, the youth prolongation becomes a possibility for identification for an increasingly significant group of people. / Este trabajo tiene como objetivo investigar la manifestación del fenómeno del alargamiento de la juventud entre los jóvenes de Brasil y España y su influencia sobre los procesos de construcción de identidad de estas personas. Para ello hemos tomado como grupo de referencia a individuos de 25 a 29 años en las ciudades de Fortaleza (Brasil) y Madrid (España). Partimos de la idea de que el proceso de precarización y flexibilización social y laboral observado actualmente en diversos contextos y acentuado por la crisis económica dificulta considerablemente la inserción sociolaboral de los jóvenes, resultando muchas veces en un retraso de su entrada en el mercado de trabajo y en la conquista de su estabilidad financiera. Esto tendría como una de sus consecuencias una intensificación del aplazamiento de otros umbrales de transición a la vida adulta – salida de la casa de los padres, emparejamiento y llegada de los hijos – como una estrategia de los jóvenes para lidiar con dichas dificultades. Ese aplazamiento representaría la apertura de un mayor espacio temporal para la juventud en la vida de los jóvenes originando nuevas experiencias, discursos y significados de la propia condición de ser joven y nuevas posibilidades de construcción identitaria. Además, la concepción de una juventud alargada tendería a expandirse aún más a través de los medios de comunicación como un modelo típico ideal y se convierte en una posibilidad de identificación para un grupo significativo de jóvenes. Para estudiar este fenómeno hemos desarrollado una investigación cualitativa, utilizando un método analítico - descriptivo y un diseño transversal. Hemos optado por trabajar con entrevistas individuales en profundidad y semiestructuradas con 50 hombres y mujeres jóvenes de 25 a 29 años, la mitad de ellos procedentes de Madrid / Españay la otra mitad de Fortaleza / Brasil. Hemos elegido este grupo por estar oficialmente en los últimos años de la etapa juvenil en ambos países y porque potencialmente vive de forma más cercana las cuestiones relacionadas a la transición a la vida adulta y además vive la posibilidad de prolongar su juventud. Las entrevistas fueron grabadas – con el consentimiento de los entrevistados – y transcritas. Los discursos de los entrevistados han sido organizados a través del softwear atlas-ti® y analizados a través de un análisis de contenido semántico. La discusión de los datos y presentación de los contenidos han sido hechas a partir de tres macro categorías: las trayectorias de transición a la vida adulta, la identidad social y el ser joven, y el alargamiento de la juventud. A partir de nuestros análisis el fenómeno del alargamiento de la juventud se manifestaría a través de dos formas. Por un lado los jóvenes alargan su juventud a partir de un aplazamiento de los umbrales de transición a la vida adulta – ser joven – , permaneciendo en una situación de menos independencia y autonomía. Eso se evidencia principalmente entre los jóvenes españoles y entre aquellos brasileños de mejor situación económica. Por otro lado los jóvenes tienden a alargar su juventud a través del aplazamiento casi ilimitado del sentimiento de ser joven – sentirse joven – , manteniendo las actitudes, valores y estilos de vida positivos de la juventud representados por el espíritu joven y el ideal de la eterna juventud. Eso se observa de forma más general entre los jóvenes de ambos países evidenciando la intensificación del alargamiento de la juventud como un nuevo ideal social. Y al favorecer la construcción de una identidad social positiva, el alargamiento de la juventud se convierte en una posibilidad de identificación para un grupo cada vez más significativo de personas.