Emerging Adulthood: Resilience and Support

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Hinton ◽  
Jill Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Computer Search ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Adult Roles ◽  
And Coping

Purpose: This article provides an overview of emerging adulthood, recentering, and resilience of youth with disabilities. Emerging adulthood is a developmental period during which individuals experience delays in attainment of adult roles and social expectations. Recentering is a process that emerging adults experience as they make distinct shifts from adolescence to adulthood. Successful recentering is a result of supports, opportunities, and available choices. In addition, resilience is a psychological construct that manifests when positive experiences come out of adverse situations and is a key factor in one’s ability to recenter. This article also provides an overview of identified aspects of resilience within the emerging adulthood framework.Method: A computer search of ERIC and PsycINFO was used to locate studies published between 1990 and 2013. This timeframe was selected because the genesis of emerging adulthood came about in the early 1990s (Arnett, 2006).Results: The authors explored various factors such as social supports, self-determination, agency, adaptation, and coping that are linked to resilience and an emerging adult’s ability to recenter.Conclusions: Important connections with evidence-based practices and considerations for professional development are discussed in assisting consumers who are emerging adults in the recentering process. There is great diversity among individuals’ supports, opportunities, and choices, and there is a need for research investigating emerging adulthood and individuals with disabilities.

scholarly journals Stumbling Into Adulthood: Learning From Depression While Growing Up

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (9) ◽  
pp. 1392-1408
Author(s):  
Rachel Grob ◽  
Mark Schlesinger ◽  
Meg Wise ◽  
Nancy Pandhi
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Nutritional Supplement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Resilience Theory ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Multiple Regions ◽  
Adult Roles ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
And Coping

Depression manifests in distinct ways across the life course. Recent research emphasizes how depression impedes development during emerging adulthood. However, our study—based on 40 interviews with emerging adults from multiple regions in the United States, analyzed following grounded theory—suggests a more complex narrative. Increasing experience with cycles of depression can also catalyze (a) mature perspectives and coping mechanisms that protect against depression’s lowest lows; (b) deeper self-knowledge and direction, which in turn promoted a coherent personal identity; and (c) emergence of a life purpose, which fostered attainment of adult roles, skill development, greater life satisfaction, and enriched identity. Our synthesis reveals how depression during emerging adulthood can function at once as toxin, potential antidote, and nutritional supplement fostering healthy development. Our central finding that young adults adapt to rather than recover from depression can also enrich resilience theory, and inform both social discourse and clinical practice.

Family functioning and psychological outcomes in emerging adulthood: Savoring positive experiences as a mediating mechanism

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (9) ◽  
pp. 2693-2713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Y. M. Cheung ◽  
Man Chong Leung ◽  
Hey Tou Chiu ◽  
Joyce L. Y. Kwan ◽  
Lydia T. S. Yee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Family Functioning ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Psychological Outcomes ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Positive Experiences

The present study tested the mediating role of perceived capability of savoring positive experiences in the associations between family functioning and emerging adults’ psychological outcomes, namely, depressive symptoms and life satisfaction. A sample of 167 Chinese emerging adults (112 female) were recruited from two major universities in Hong Kong. Participants were asked to complete a set of self-reported questionnaires. Findings based on structural equation modeling indicated that family functioning and savoring positive experiences were associated with emerging adults’ depressive symptoms and life satisfaction. Results from bootstrapping further suggested savoring positive experiences as a partial mediator between family functioning and depressive symptoms. These findings enriched the literature by suggesting family dynamics and savoring positive experiences as important correlates of psychological outcomes in the Chinese context. Contributions of these findings to the understanding of psychological functioning in emerging adulthood are discussed.

scholarly journals Prosociality in Relation to Developmental Tasks of Emerging Adulthood

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-25
Author(s):  
Iwona Nowakowska
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Developmental Tasks ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The Family ◽  
Basic Human Needs

Prosociality, understood as the capacity to act in a way that benefits others, is an important feature for emerging adults to fulfill their personal needs and fulfill developmental tasks. This life period is a time of exploration within various areas of life, enabling individuals to try out and choose own worldview, lifestyle, work and preferred patterns of interpersonal relationships. This review aims at bringing together the evidence on how prosociality (prosocial orientations, values, behaviors) or deficits in such features may be linked to the fulfillment of three basic human needs as conceptualized by the self-determination theory in emerging adults. The relation of prosociality to the three tasks in the context of development in emerging adulthood: (1) reaching autonomy from the family of origin, (2) achieving own identity and (3) establishing positive relationships with others, are outlined based on a literature review. Implications for future research are also provided.

Self-Regulation and the Writing Process: Enhancing the Performance of Students With Language and Learning Difficulties

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary A. Troia
Keyword(s):  
Writing Process ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Struggling Learners ◽  
Evidence Based Practices

Abstract This article first provides an overview of components of self-regulation in writing and specific examples of each component are given. The remainder of the article addresses common reasons why struggling learners experience trouble with revising, followed by evidence-based practices to help students revise their papers more effectively.

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