scholarly journals Föräldrars förhållningssätt till sitt unga vuxna barns transidentitet

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Bergström ◽  
Petra Roll Bennet
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
The Third ◽  
Relational Perspective ◽  
Parental Views ◽  
The Family ◽  
Identity Expression

Parental views of relationships with trans identified young adults The shaping of identities in relationships is an important part of people’s lives and so are norms of identity expression, for example, how gender continuity is expected to be expressed. Relationships can be challenged when a closely related person does not identify as the gender assigned at birth. This study focuses on how parents describe their views of their relationship with their young adult child who identifies as transgender. From a relational perspective, the study focuses on how parents position the child’s agency and the results are discussed in terms of care. Based on fifteen interviews with parents, three ways to relate to the child have been identified. The first is a protecting and questioning approach, which is characterized by a view where the adult child appears to be regarded as someone who needs to be protected and persuaded to change their decision. The second is a supportive and neglecting view where the significance of gender is toned down while the parent gives practical and emotional support to the child. The third identified view can be described as respectful and ambivalent, characterized by ambivalence facing the child changing, but at the same time trying to support the child’s process. The three approaches show how the parents present themselves as caring parents, but that the interpretations of what this means differ, as well as the perception of the adult child’s position in the family. Parents’ attitudes and behaviour towards the adult child can be understood as ways of caring, but do not necessarily mean that the child’s trans identity is confirmed.

scholarly journals “A Life in Paradox”: Experiences of Young Adult Stroke Survivors

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolf Cymorr Kirby Palogan Martinez ◽  
Migliore H. Macuja ◽  
Paul Remson Manzo ◽  
Sarah J. Bujawe
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Stroke Survivors ◽  
The Family

This study, rooted on phenomenological approach, explored the experiences of post-stoke young adults. Seven (7) participants were gathered as co-researchers and were selected thoroughly based on the following criteria: 1) They are Filipino who had stroke at the age of 15-35 and 2) They are able and willing to articulate, participate, and share their life experiences. Further, the experiences of the participants were gathered and enhanced through the following methods: 1) Interview, and 2) Storytelling. Subsequently, three levels of analysis were done ensuing the process developed by Martinez (2013), grounded on interpretative phenomenology. Through the process of reflective analysis, three themes have emerged and are as follows: (a) “Sometimes, what is forbidden is pleasurable”: Dilemma of Needs and Wants(b) “I accepted it... my family is still accepting it”: Centrality and Ambiguity of the Family(c) “I become feeble but stronger”: Resilience in VulnerabilityThe themes represent a recurring pattern among the lives of the co-researchers from having the desire to change their old ways and habits but acting otherwise. Further, these patterns are reflected in the positionality of their family as both a burden that reminds them that they have a disease yet serves as the main reason they continue to fight. This also mirrors how they view stroke as something that defeated them but in the process taught them resilience in life. The insight of a “life in paradox”, then serves as the central essence of the study.Insights from the study suggest that the experience of the co-researchers is more than an individual experience of conflict resolution but a phenomenon of family’s contextualization. Studies that explore compliance among post stroke young adult as well as family involvement in rehabilitation is then suggested.

scholarly journals Contesting “Conversion” and “Reversion” among Young Adult Asian American Buddhists

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Chenxing Han
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The Other ◽  
The West ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One

This paper engages the perspectives of thirty young adult Asian American Buddhists (YAAABs) raised in non-Buddhist households. Grounded in semi-structured, one-on-one in-person and email interviews, my research reveals the family tensions and challenges of belonging faced by a group straddling multiple religious and cultural worlds. These young adults articulate their alienation from both predominantly white and predominantly Asian Buddhist communities in America. On the one hand, they express ambivalence over adopting the label of “convert” because of its Christian connotations as well as its associations with whiteness in the American Buddhist context. On the other hand, they lack the familiarity with Asian Buddhist cultures experienced by second- or multi-generation YAAABs who grew up in Buddhist families. In their nuanced responses to arguments that (1) American convert Buddhism is a non-Asian phenomenon, and (2) Asians in the West can only “revert” to Buddhism, these young adults assert the plurality and hybridity of their lived experiences as representative of all American Buddhists, rather than incidental characteristics of a fringe group within a white-dominated category.

scholarly journals Expectations and Prospects of Young Adult Caregivers Regarding the Support of Professionals: A Qualitative Focus Group Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 4299
Author(s):  
Hinke M. van der Werf ◽  
Wolter Paans ◽  
Geertjan Emmens ◽  
Anneke L. Francke ◽  
Petrie F. Roodbol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Focus Group Study ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Education Professionals ◽  
Adult Caregivers

There is a lack of service provision for young adult caregivers (18–25 years of age). This study aims to describe the expectations and prospects of young adult caregivers regarding support from health and education professionals. A qualitative focus group design was used. Twenty-five young Dutch adults (aged 18–25 years) who were growing up with a chronically ill family member participated in one of seven focus groups. Qualitative inductive analysis was used to identify codes and main themes. Two overarching themes with five sub-themes emerged from the focus group discussions. The overarching themes are: the ‘process of approaching young adults’ and the ‘types of support these young adults require’. The process of approaching young adults contains the sub-themes: ‘recognition, attention, and listening’, ‘open-minded attitude’, ‘reliability’, and ‘respecting autonomy’. The types of support this group requires contains the sub-themes: ‘information and emotional support’. Health and education professionals should first and foremost be aware and listen to young adult caregivers, pay attention to them, have an open-minded attitude, respect their autonomy, and have the knowledge to provide them with information and emotional support. Further research could yield comprehensive insights into how professionals can meet these requirements and whether these results apply to male young adult caregivers and young adult caregivers not enrolled in a healthcare-related study program.

Untying the Ties That Bind: Dispositional and Relational Patterns of Negative Relational Disclosures and Family Members’ Feelings of Being Caught

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 1962-1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Schrodt ◽  
Tamara D. Afifi
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
The Other ◽  
Relational Patterns ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mothers And Children ◽  
Unique Relationship

This study examined the associations among family members’ reports of negative relational disclosures and their feelings of being caught. Participants included a mother, father, and young adult child from 170 families. Social relations analyses revealed positive associations between each family member’s actor effect for negative disclosures (i.e., each member’s individual disposition to perceive receiving negative disclosures across all family relationships) and their feelings of being caught between the other two members of the family triad. The child’s actor effect for receiving negative disclosures from parents was positively associated with both parents’ feelings of being caught between their child and spouse. Important patterns of association emerged between unique relationship effects of receiving negative disclosures and family members’ feeling caught. Whereas negative disclosures in parent–child dyads were positively associated with feeling caught (especially for mothers and children), in spousal dyads, they were inversely associated with feeling caught.

“Family Is Who They Say They Are”a: Examining the Effects of Cancer on the Romantic Partners of Adolescents and Young Adults

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-404
Author(s):  
Nancy J. Moules ◽  
Catherine M. Laing ◽  
Andrew Estefan ◽  
Fiona Schulte ◽  
Gregory M. T. Guilcher
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Cancer Survivor ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Impact Effect ◽  
Biological Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, we discuss a study we conducted to examine the effects of cancer on romantic partners (i.e., boyfriends and girlfriends, social/romantic/intimate partners) of adolescents and young adults experiencing, or who have experienced, cancer. In this hermeneutic study, we interviewed partners who were involved with an adolescent/young adult with cancer, a cancer survivor who was in a relationship during his treatment, and two healthcare professionals who have worked with these couples and witnessed many other situations of impact, effect, and repercussion. Out of this study, we suggest that partners are affected in many ways that can vary from estrangement, to termination of the relationship, to premature decisions about remaining in the relationship, to family disregard of the partner, and to disregard of the family due to influence of, or relationship with, the partner. We discuss these findings within the context of the larger picture of the psychosocial relational impact of cancer on members beyond those in the immediate and biological family.

scholarly journals Cost of Young Adults

EDIS ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanna Smith
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Radio Program ◽  
The Family

FAR0071, a 2-page transcript of the Family Album Radio Program broadcast by Suzanna Smith, provides research-based information on the types of contributions parents make for young adult children to help them get started. Includes references. Published by the UF Department of Family Youth and Community Sciences, March 2009.

The Other 128 Hours a Week: Teaching Personal Management to Blind Young Adults

1974 ◽  
Vol 68 (10) ◽  
pp. 454-469
Author(s):  
Mary Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young People ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
The Other ◽  
Money Management ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Household Task ◽  
Personal Management ◽  
The Family

The blind young adult has been given an education and prepared for the job market but he has not been taught the skills necessary for independent living. Parents often assume the blind son or daughter will always live with the family and fear that injury will occur if the blind youth attempts to perform a household task himself. These young people are often not even oriented to areas (such as the kitchen) of their own homes. Areas of personal management discussed include signature writing, shopping, money management, cooking, and using a calendar.

‘On some precipice in a dream’: Representations of Guilt in Contemporary Young Adult Gay and Lesbian Fiction

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-194
Author(s):  
Kate Norbury
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Survivor Guilt ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
Positive Identity ◽  
The Family ◽  
Depressive Episodes

This article explores the representation of guilt in six recent young adult novels, in which it is suggested that teen protagonists still experience guilt in relation to their emerging non-normative sexual identities. The experience of guilt may take several different forms, but all dealt with here are characterised by guilt without agency – that is, the protagonist has not deliberately said or done anything to cause harm to another. In a first pair of novels, guilt is depicted as a consequence of internalised homophobia, with which protagonists must at least partly identify. In a second group, protagonists seem to experience a form of separation guilt from an early age because they fail to conform to the norms of the family. Certain events external to the teen protagonist, and for which they cannot be held responsible, then trigger serious depressive episodes, which jeopardise the protagonist's positive identity development. Finally, characters are depicted as experiencing a form of survivor guilt. A gay protagonist survives the events of 9/11 but endures a breakdown, and, in a second novel, a lesbian protagonist narrates her coming to terms with the death of her best friend.

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