Emerging adulthood features: An overview of the research in approaches and perspectives in goals area

Dominika Spišáková,Beáta Ráczová

doi:10.31577/cas.2020.01.565

Abstract

The Institute of Social Sciences of the CSPS of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Košice is an interdisciplinary workplace of social sciences and humanities with a primary research focus on the area of Central Europe in the field of social psychology, sociology and history.

Highlights

In the last two decades, there has been an important change in developmental psychology research
Despite the discrepancy between social pressure and the individual importance that young people attribute to goals (Seiffge-Krenke & Gelhaar, 2008), the results suggest that normative expectations in achieving development goals are still present in society (Galambos, Barker, & Tilton-Weaver, 2003)
The presented paper has focused on the developmental age period between 20 and 30. This is referred to as emerging adulthood in the current scientific literature (e.g., Arnett, 2018; Macek et al, 2015, 2016). This life stage is mainly considered to be a period of transition to adulthood (Caspi, 2002; Salmela-Aro et al, 2007)

Summary

Introduction

In the last two decades, there has been an important change in developmental psychology research. Emerging adulthood features: An overview of the research in approaches and perspectives in goals area use in emerging adulthood research and in the effort to adapt the measurement to different countries and cultures. When the original factor structure of the IDEA was not confirmed, the authors proceeded with EFA We consider this approach to be more appropriate, given that these studies aimed to adapt the original inventory for use in different populations. Emerging adulthood features: An overview of the research in approaches and perspectives in goals area questionnaire to the Slovak population in order to investigate this developmental period in Slovakia with the possibility of cross-cultural comparison

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