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.

scholarly journals Implementing evidence-based assessment and selection in organizations: A review and an agenda for future research

2020 ◽  
pp. 204138662098341
Author(s):  
Marvin Neumann ◽  
A. Susan M. Niessen ◽  
Rob R. Meijer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Assessment Instruments ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Outcome Feedback ◽  
Evidence Based Decision Making

In personnel- and educational selection, a substantial gap exists between research and practice, since evidence-based assessment instruments and decision-making procedures are underutilized. We provide an overview of studies that investigated interventions to encourage the use of evidence-based assessment methods, or factors related to their use. The most promising studies were grounded in self-determination theory. Training and autonomy in the design of evidence-based assessment methods were positively related to their use, while negative stakeholder perceptions decreased practitioners’ intentions to use evidence-based assessment methods. Use of evidence-based decision-making procedures was positively related to access to such procedures, information to use it, and autonomy over the procedure, but negatively related to receiving outcome feedback. A review of the professional selection literature showed that the implementation of evidence-based assessment was hardly discussed. We conclude with an agenda for future research on encouraging evidence-based assessment practice.

Diverse Trajectories at the Intersection of Religion and Sexuality During Emerging Adulthood

2021 ◽  
pp. 347-370
Author(s):  
Brian J. Willoughby ◽  
Loren D. Marks ◽  
David C. Dollahite
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sexual Intimacy ◽  
Sexual Values ◽  
Sexual Decision Making ◽  
Religious Lives ◽  
Religion And Sexuality

This chapter explores the intersection of religion and sex among emerging adults. It first discusses the extant empirical literature related to how religion influences sexual behavioral decisions as well as the link between religion and sexual values and attitudes. It then acknowledges a general waning from religion during emerging adulthood but presents diverse trajectories related to the religious lives of emerging adults and their sexual decision making. Next, the chapter discusses a variety of pathways and trajectories through which emerging adults may travel as they navigate decisions involving relationships and sexual intimacy and how such decisions are, may be, or are not influenced by religion. The four presented trajectories are religious rejecters, religious remainers, religious returners, and religious innovators. The chapter concludes by addressing some additional complexities regarding emerging adults, religion, and sex and offers some concluding questions and directions for future research.

Emerging Adults Who Have Flourished Through a Physical Health Challenge

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaehee Yi ◽  
Tian Tian ◽  
Jonghee Kim
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Developmental Outcomes ◽  
Illness Experience ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Illness Experiences ◽  
Specific Career

This chapter elucidates the positive developmental outcomes of emerging adults facing physical chronic illness in five areas, using the emerging adulthood theory: (1) exploring identity, (2) being self-focused, (3) feeling in between adolescence and adulthood, (4) experiencing uncertainty and instability, and (5) having optimism/perceiving possibilities. The chapter describes how emerging adults with physical health challenges might flourish more than their healthy peers in each of the five areas, despite or even because of their illness experiences. For example, they are likely to develop a specific career path related to their illness experience, be more autonomous and mature, and have greater tolerance and resilience. The chapter also includes limitations and directions for future research.

The role of transitional instability, psychological distress, and dysfunctional drinking in emerging adults’ involvement in risky sex

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 1097-1119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill R. Bowers ◽  
Chris Segrin ◽  
Nicholas Joyce
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Peer Acceptance ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sexual Risk Taking

The consequences of risky sexual behaviors are a serious health concern. We hypothesized that the transitional instability that occurs as a part of typical developmental changes in emerging adulthood would be positively associated with sexual risk taking. A survey of emerging adults showed that the instability–sexual risk-taking association was positive and significant as predicted. Moreover, psychological distress (depression and loneliness) and dysfunctional drinking motivations (drinking to ease emotional pain or to gain peer acceptance) moderated and intensified the association between instability and sexual risk taking. Implications for future research with instability and risk-taking behaviors in emerging adulthood are discussed.

scholarly journals Study The Impact Of Disturbance Fulfillment Sexuality Needs After Heart Attack On Acute Myocardial Infarction In Men Patients On Cardiac Poly Clinic Dr. Iskak Hospital Tulungagung

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Eko Arik Susmiatin ◽  
Rika Yolanda Sari
Keyword(s):  
Myocardial Infarction ◽  
Acute Myocardial Infarction ◽  
Heart Attack ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The Family ◽  
Basic Human Needs ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Provide Health Education

Basic human needs is the most basic physiological needs, including sexual needs in it. Sexual  fulfillment in the husband-wife not everything can be done well because of several factors, one of them due to heart disease (acute myocardial infarction). AMI patients are usually the same as the other pair, really wants her sexual needs fulfilled, but they are afraid to do it because they fear an attack recurrence. Impacts that could result from unfulfilled sexual needs including couples will quickly get angry or suspicious, unhappy, cynical, psychological relation between husband and wife is getting worse, decreasing the frequency of coitus, having psychosomatic illness. The research objective was to determine the impact of sexual fulfillment disorders after cardiac arrest in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in men Poly Clinic Heart Dr.Iskak Hospital Tulungagung. The study design used is descriptive design. Population of outpatients each month reaches 5-8, the sample used 8 people, taken with accidental sampling technique. Results of research obtained from all respondents stating no interference effects occur sexuality needs. This is due to the coping meccanism of the respondent and couple, and mutual understanding, and the support the family, so there is no impact of interference sexuality needs.Expected partner (wife) will understand situation the disturbed husband after Acute Myocardial Infarction attack occurred, and should be more active respondents also asked the doctor when the control, so the impact was not to happen. And for nurses, should provide health education about sexuality needs of post-heart attack.

scholarly journals Emerging adults’ family relationships in the 21st century: A systematic review

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Oliveira ◽  
Gabriela Fonseca ◽  
Luciana Sotero ◽  
Carla Crespo ◽  
Ana Paula Relvas
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Parent Child

<p>The current study aims to describe the relationships between emerging adults and their families and how these evolve over emerging adult years. Through a systematic review of the literature, we extracted data from 38 empirical studies, which met the following inclusion criteria: published since 2000, included emerging adults and/or their relatives as participants, and focused on family relationships. The results showed that most studies examined the parent-child relationship, providing insight into the relational renegotiations occurring during emerging adulthood and into inter-generational discrepancies in the way that parents and children viewed their relationships. Family support was also found to be of substantial relevance during this developmental stage. In addition, sex, age, living arrangements, family structure, socioeconomic status (SES), ethnicity and cultural contexts emerged as key factors influencing family relationships in varied ways. Implications for future research include the need to consider the family as the unit of analysis and to collect data from multiple family members; to conduct longitudinal studies in order to better understand changes in family relationships across emerging adulthood; and to focus on family relationships beyond the parent-child dyads, namely on sibling and grandparent-grandchildren relationships. In conclusion, this review provided a renewed perspective on family relationships during the transition to adulthood, contributing to clinical insights on individual and familial shifts in the fast-paced and complex contemporary context. </p>

scholarly journals The need for cognition within the academic motivation space

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-30
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Vasic
Keyword(s):  
Academic Motivation ◽  
Need For Cognition ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Internal Motivation ◽  
Cognition Scale

The self-determination theory presumes several types of motivation distributed along the theoretical continuum. On the other side, certain research studies point to the need for cognition which is the source of internal motivation, as one of the aforementioned types of motivation. This theoretical and conceptual closeness served as an impetus for the research conducted on the convenient sample of 364 students of both genders (59% of female respondents), aged 18 to 35 (M=20.05; SD=1.52). In generating the data, the Academic Motivation Scale for Students (AMS-SI) and the shortened version of the Need for Cognition Scale (NFCS-S) were used. During data analysis, we first checked the internal metric characteristics of the scales and quantitatively defined the features measured by these instruments. In locating the need for cognition within the academic motivation space, hierarchical multiple regression analysis and multidimensional scaling were used. Four valid and reliable dimensions of student academic motivation were defined as internal, introjected and external motivation, and amotivation. One dominant, reliable and valid main subject of measuring of the need for cognition scale was defined as well. In the common space of academic motivation and the need for cognition, internal motivation clearly stands out as the basic correlate of this need. Future research should further reexamine the assumption of the self-determination theory about three basic psychological needs vital for the development of motivation.

scholarly journals Are Chapter 31 Military Veterans Returning to College More Likely to Choose Intrinsically-oriented Versus Extrinsically-oriented Majors?

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Glen Miller ◽  
Gary Blau ◽  
Deborah Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Military Veterans ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Small Samples ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Civilian Life ◽  
College Majors ◽  
Undergraduate Major

Helping military veterans successfully transition to civilian life is an important issue. Education can help with this transition. No prior studies were found on the general type of undergraduate major United States (US) Chapter 31 veterans enroll in. Chapter 31 provides tuition benefits to help entitled transitioning military veterans, with service-connected disabilities, go to college to obtain a degree. Self-determination theory (SDT) suggests two general categories of majors, intrinsic (I) versus extrinsic (E). Intrinsic motivation emphasizes doing a task for its inherent satisfaction, while extrinsic motivation targets doing the same task to achieve external rewards, such as compensation. Archival data was analyzed using small samples of undergraduate Chapter 31 military veterans in 2016, 2018 and 2020. Overall, the results supported the research question, i.e., Chapter 31 veterans will be more likely to choose intrinsically motivating versus extrinsically motivating college majors. Results, including limitations and suggestions for future research are discussed.

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