Religious upbringing and other religious influences among young adults and changes in faith in the transition to adulthood: a 10-year longitudinal study of young people in Finland

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Kati Tervo-Niemelä
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Young People ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Religious Influences

“Only a Friend”

2016 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iren Johnsen ◽  
Kari Dyregrov
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Young People ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Daily Experiences ◽  
Depth Interviews

Friendships are very important for human beings, and especially for young people, but few studies have explored the consequences of losing a close friend. To identify and help this often overlooked population of bereaved, we need more knowledge of their bereavement processes. This study is part of a larger longitudinal study which aims to increase awareness of bereaveds’ situation after the killings at Utøya, Norway, July 22, 2011. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with 13 young adults on the experiences of losing their close friend. Themes identified were how circumstances of the event complicate the grieving, the daily experiences of the loss, and recognition of friends as bereaved. Findings show that the loss of a close friend has had a profound effect on the young people, and the loss of a friend is also a distinct loss that is not comparable to other losses.

scholarly journals Troubling Meanings of “Family” for Young People Who Have Been in Care: From Policy to Lived Experience

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (16) ◽  
pp. 2239-2263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Boddy
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Young People ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Complex Dynamic ◽  
Care Policy ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Children In Care ◽  
Cross National

This article seeks to trouble the concept of “family” for young people who have been in out-of-home care, by reflecting on the continuing significance (and troubles) of family relationships beyond childhood. The analysis draws on two cross-national studies in Europe: Beyond Contact, which examined policies and systems for work with families of children in care, and Against All Odds?, a qualitative longitudinal study of young adults who have been in care. Policy discourses that reify and instrumentalize the concept of family—for example, through the language of “contact,” “reunification,” and “permanence”—neglect the complex temporality of “family” for young people who have been in care, negotiated and practiced across time and in multiple (and changing) care contexts, and forming part of complex, dynamic and relational identities, and understandings of “belonging” for young adults who have been in care.

A longitudinal study of general practitioner consultations for psychiatric disorders in adolescence

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 709-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Smeeton ◽  
Greg Wilkinson ◽  
David Skuse ◽  
John Fry
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
General Practitioner ◽  
Young People ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnoses

SynopsisPatterns of psychiatric diagnoses given during adolescence to a group of individuals continuously registered with a single general practitioner in South London over 20 years were analysed first during ‘early adolescence’ and secondly during ‘early adulthood’. Psychiatric diagnoses were found to be relatively common. Of the young adolescents who received a psychiatric diagnosis (almost one in ten of the group), 38% received a psychiatric diagnosis as young adults compared with only 16% of the remainder. Comorbidity was found to be very common – over 50% of young adults with a diagnosis of depression also had a diagnosis of anxiety and phobic neuroses. Young people with problems of a psychological nature therefore deserve more attention, particularly from the primary care team.

Housing For Young People: What Are Their Opportunities?

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Mahazril 'Aini Yaacob ◽  
Siti Hajar Siti Hajar Abu Bakar ◽  
Wan Nor Azriyati Wan Abdul Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Eligibility Criteria

Housing does not only serve the basic needs of the citizens, but it is also considered as one of the important features of independent living. A comprehensive literature search revealed that access to housing is vital in the transition to adulthood, mainly to ensure that young adults enjoy a higher quality of life. Young adults face many hardships in their pursuit of adequate and affordable housing. Nevertheless, the act of leaving  home, are typically determined by the economic resources (income) and other influential  factors. The  debate on establishing the homeownership was  rampantly discussed by numerous searchers. However, efforts to examine the factors influencing the housing opportunities among the young people are limited. In response to this need, a preliminary study was carried out to identify the factors  affecting the housing opportunities among the young people. Except for locational factor, affordability,housing knowledge and structural factors play prominent roles in inducing housing opportunities among the youth. Therefore, strategies such as comprehensive information about housing schemes should be made available and accessible to the young people. Additionally, other relevant parties, such as financial institutions and developers, may need to revise their requirement for loan financing, and the eligibility criteria. Overall, these measures should be able to ensure that young can people enjoy housing opportunities and improve their quality of life Keywords: affordability, housing knowledge, housing opportunities, location, structural

“Marriage Is More Than Being Together”: The Meaning of Marriage for Young Adults

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 845-875 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria J. Kefalas ◽  
Frank F. Furstenberg ◽  
Patrick J. Carr ◽  
Laura Napolitano
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Developmental Perspective ◽  
Diverse Population ◽  
Rural America

Based on 424 qualitative interviews with a racially, ethnically, and socio-economically diverse population of young people ranging in age from 21 to 38, the authors ponder the paradox of the evolving role for contemporary marriage within the developmental perspective of the transition to adulthood. The authors identify two groups: marriage naturalists and marriage planners. Naturalists comprise one fifth of the sample, are largely from rural America, and follow the fast-track into marriage that defined the mid-twentieth century. Planners comprise the remainder of the sample, are based in metropolitan areas, and follow an elongated transition to adulthood. The authors examine the views of each group on commitment and the nature of relationships, and apply their findings to the debates about whether marriage is resilient, in decline, or becoming deinstitutionalized.

scholarly journals Open-ended transitions to adulthood: Metaphorical thinking for times of stasis

2020 ◽  
pp. 003802612097034
Author(s):  
Rachel Thomson ◽  
Jeanette Østergaard
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Young People ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Youth Studies ◽  
Metaphorical Thinking ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood ◽  
Adult Lives ◽  
New Generation ◽  
First Offers

In this article we engage critically with how metaphors have been used in sociological youth studies, including a turn to new metaphors that capture the foreclosure of futures and experiences of waiting, delay and non-institutional temporalities. Drawing on the resources of queer theory we challenge the developmentalism that underpins youth studies, employing notions of the impasse and growing sideways to capture the open-endedness of young adult lives. Working with data from a qualitative longitudinal study of Danish youth, we focus on how 47 young people responded to an invitation to talk about and through an object that represented the last three years of their lives. These rich accounts can be understood as examples of Paul Riceour’s ‘metaphoric discourse’, characterised by the simultaneity of ‘is’ and ‘is not’. The article first offers a schema of the biographical objects (trophies, hobbies, mortal, connective and protest) that captures the work of ‘being in time’ for young adults, mapping this onto the formal and informal markers of adulthood. We then engage with participants’ own metaphorical thinking in greater depth – suggesting that the paradoxical metaphors that emerge from their talk can expand how we understand the struggle for maturity. The metaphor of open-endedness is offered as a hybrid term, allowing us to look in two directions at once: capturing and comparing transitions as part of a project of social justice, while also recognising the limits of such frameworks for understanding the experiences of a new generation.

scholarly journals Does Religiosity in the Transition to Adulthood Predict Filial Norms in Midlife?

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 394-394
Author(s):  
Jeung Hyun Kim ◽  
Woosang Hwang ◽  
Maria Brown ◽  
Merril Silverstein
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Elder Care ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Aging Parents ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Broad Consensus

Abstract Objective This study aims to identify multiple dimensions of religiosity among young adults at the beginning and end of the transition to adulthood, and describe how transition patterns of religiosity in early adulthood are associated with filial elder-care norms in midlife. Background There is a broad consensus that religiosity is multidimensional in nature, but less is known regarding transitions in multiple dimensions of religiosity from early to middle adulthood and predicted filial eldercare norms as a function of those religiosity transitions. Methods The sample consisted of 368 young adults participating in the Longitudinal Study of Generations in 2000 (mean age = 23 years) and 2016 waves. We conducted a latent class and latent transition analyses to address our aims. Results We identified three religious latent classes among young adults in both 2000 and 2016 waves: strongly religious, weakly religious, and doctrinally religious. Staying strongly religious young adults between 2000 to 2016 waves reported higher filial elder-care norms in the 2016 Wave than those who were in staying weakly religious, staying doctrinally religious, and decreasing religiosity transition patterns between 2000 to 2016 waves. Conclusion Our findings suggest that religiosity is still an important value for young adults shaping their intergenerational relationships with their aging parents. Keywords: religiosity, filial eldercare norms, young adults, transition to adulthood

The new ‘spectral army’: biography and youth poverty on Teesside’s deprived estates

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Ruddy
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Financial Hardship ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Material Hardship ◽  
Multiple Deprivation ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
North East ◽  
Insight Into

Anthony Ruddy examines the experiences of young people growing up in contexts of multiple deprivation and material hardship in a small, deindustrialised town in North East England. Using ethnographic and biographical subjective narratives from young people he focuses on the interplay between youth poverty and material inequality, resistance and the ordinary lives of young people from marginalized communities. This is a study on significant financial hardship and deep poverty intersects with structural economic and social degeneration, discrimination and individual victimization. He offers direct emotional insight into the lives of young adults who on a day-to-day basis experience different forms of marginalisation as part of their struggle of transition to adulthood.

Youth Development in Europe

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katariina Salmela-Aro ◽  
Ingrid Schoon
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Reciprocal Interactions ◽  
The Family ◽  
Key Players

A series of six papers on “Youth Development in Europe: Transitions and Identities” has now been published in the European Psychologist throughout 2008 and 2009. The papers aim to make a conceptual contribution to the increasingly important area of productive youth development by focusing on variations and changes in the transition to adulthood and emerging identities. The papers address different aspects of an integrative framework for the study of reciprocal multiple person-environment interactions shaping the pathways to adulthood in the contexts of the family, the school, and social relationships with peers and significant others. Interactions between these key players are shaped by their embeddedness in varied neighborhoods and communities, institutional regulations, and social policies, which in turn are influenced by the wider sociohistorical and cultural context. Young people are active agents, and their development is shaped through reciprocal interactions with these contexts; thus, the developing individual both influences and is influenced by those contexts. Relationship quality and engagement in interactions appears to be a fruitful avenue for a better understanding of how young people adjust to and tackle development to productive adulthood.

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