Search results for "Adult development"

Implications of Timing of Entering Adulthood for Identity Achievement

2007

Five external markers of adulthood, self-perceived adulthood at age 27, and identity achievement at ages 27, 36, and 42 were explored for 95 women and 94 men in a cohort of Finns born in 1959. Earlier transition to adulthood in family life (moving from the parental home, entering marriage or cohabitation, having a child) anticipated higher identity achievement in adulthood. However, later transition to adulthood in working life, composed of the first certification conferral, and entering a full-time job were associated with higher identity achievement. Both components correlated with the higher level and thus the length of education. Self-perceived adulthood was unrelated to the age of ach…

Socio-Demographic Vulnerability: The Condition of Italian Young People

2009

For a kind of inertia effect, today the Italian welfare state protects the older too much and, on the contrary, it does not counter sufficiently the new risks associated with other phases of life. Not much seems to be implemented in favour of Italian young people who, as a matter of fact, seem to suffer a lot from the present changes: young people remain longer in the parental home and postpone setting up their own independent life to a most advanced age. In order to understand the situation of vulnerability increasingly widespread among young people, it seemed more and more necessary an in-depth analysis of the reasons and the subjective status of the discomfort that affects young people b…

Socialización parental en España a lo largo del ciclo vital

2019

Los padres tienen como una de las principales responsabilidades la socialización de sus hijos. La socialización se define como un proceso iniciado por un adulto por el cual el joven, a través de la educación, la formación y la imitación adquiere su cultura, así como los hábitos y valores congruentes con la adaptación a esa cultura. La socialización incluye un conjunto de procesos por los cuales los adultos son capaces de tener un funcionamiento adecuado dentro de las necesidades del grupo o grupos sociales particulares a los que pertenecen. Tradicionalmente, muchos estudios han examinado la socialización parental a partir de dos dimensiones teóricamente ortogonales identificadas como afecto…

Changing Economic Conditions and Identity Formation in Adulthood

2010

Identity formation in political and occupational domains was examined from young to middle adulthood based on an ongoing longitudinal study. In addition to the participants’ identity status (diffused, moratorium, foreclosed, achieved), we assessed their perceived importance of politics, future orientation, and career stability four times in adulthood, at ages 27, 36, 42, and 50. The number of participants varied between analyses, from 168 to 291. Changes in the economic situation in Finland from 1986 to 2009 provided a context for the study. Data collections at ages 36 (in 1995) and 50 (in 2009) took place during economic recessions, and at age 42 (in 2001) during an economic boom. The res…

Integrative thinking is the key : An evaluation of current research into the development of adult thinking

2011

Post-formal relativistic-dialectical thinking has been widely claimed to be a new developmental stage of intellectual development. Other theoretical models come very close to post-formal thinking, with overlapping features such as the study of wisdom and epistemic understanding, as well as models of expertise, critical thinking, and scepticism. No coherent theory exists in the fields of post-formal and relativistic-dialectical thinking, though scholars have claimed that there is some similarity between the models. While empirical evidence of interconnectedness between them exists, a major difficulty lies in the theoretical definition of concepts. We critically assess the definitions of rela…

Is timing everything? : a longitudinal perspective on adult transitions, their antecedents, and psychological implications

2012

Change and stability of sense of coherence in adulthood: Longitudinal evidence from the Healthy Child study

2007

Abstract The main aim of this three-wave 35-year follow-up study among Finnish employees ( n  = 532) was to investigate whether Sense of Coherence (SOC) is more stable among those with high SOC compared to those with low SOC, as hypothesized by Antonovsky [Antonovsky, A. (1987). Unraveling the mystery of health: how people manage stress and stay well. San Francisco, CA, US: Jossey-Bass], using two measurement points over 13 years. The participants were first studied in adolescence in 1961–1963, after which they responded to two postal questionnaires measuring SOC, first in 1985, and again in 1998. The results of the Factor Mixture Modeling identified two groups of individuals with different…

Parental Socialization and Its Impact across the Lifespan

2020

Classical studies have found that parental warmth combined with parental strictness is the best parental strategy to promote children&rsquo