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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/19152 |
| Date | 15 September 2022 |
| Creators | Di Napoli, I., Di Martino, Salvatore, Agueli, B., Arcidiancono, C., Esposito, C. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Published version |
| Rights | (c) 2022 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the Creative Commons CC-BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), CC-BY |
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