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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Transition to Adulthood"”.
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Age Identity among College Students within the Transition to Adulthood
… in the life course known as, “emerging adulthood.” This phase is a period for exploring one's identity before accepting adult responsibilities and there has been a marked postponement of those responsibilities. Economic forces are pushing today's youth to pursue a college education …
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The Transition to Adulthood: Experiences of Young Adults with Asperger Syndrome
<p>This study sheds insight into the unique, daily struggles of individuals with Asperger Syndrome (AS) as they transition into adulthood. The majority of research available regarding individuals diagnosed with AS focuses on childhood experiences. What happens when these individuals age out of high …
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Uncertain futures : young women in transition to adulthood in a post-industrial British city
This study examines the transitions to adulthood of a group of 19 young women of mixed age, social class and ethnic backgrounds, from two adjacent ‘outer-urban’ neighbourhoods in the post-industrial city of Birmingham, UK. It focuses on three distinct, and inter-related, spheres of transition: …
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Coming of age in Khayelitsha: gendered identity, sexual partnerships and the transition to adulthood
… challenges. These include inadequate access to education, limited opportunities to find gainful employment, exposure to violence and the risk of contracting HIV. Several conventional avenues of transition to adulthood, for example achieving financial independence, moving out of the parental …
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Empowerment in the Transition to Adulthood: Supporting Career Exploration in College Using Participatory Design
Developmental challenges in the transition to adulthood call for a process of empowerment that supports young people in guiding themselves and building capacities toward adult commitments and roles. The purpose of this study is to investigate empowerment in emerging adulthood, aiming to develop …
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Reframing (im)maturity : interrogating representations of the transition to adulthood in contemporary American film and television
… changes caused adolescence as a life stage to become increasingly overdetermined, while simultaneously blurring its definitional boundaries. Although the concept of youth as a culturally defined category is of relatively recent origin, adolescence is culturally recognized as a biological and …
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The Transition to Adulthood and Prisoner Reentry: Investigating the Experiences of Young Adult Men and their Caregivers
The issue of reentry has become an important topic to criminal justice scholars and to law makers due to the sheer number of incarcerated individuals being released and the rate in which they cycle back to incarceration. Despite the attention reentry issues have received recently in the areas of …
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The transition to adulthood revisited: Gender and socio-economic differences in the timing of events among young Europeans
Over the last decades, the transition to adulthood of young Europeans has become increasingly long. Nevertheless, the existing literature has not comprehensively examined the timing at which events are experienced among recent birth cohorts across European countries; further, the composite role …
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Gaps in the Mental Health System,Justice System and The Transition to Adulthood: An Analysis of Unmet Needs
… justice system every year. An alarming number of transitional age young adults (ages 17-25 years) in the United States justice system suffer with serious emotional problems that have at least one diagnosable mental health illness. The multiple needs for rehabilitation among these young adults have …
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Traversing the transition abyss : examining lived experiences of the transition to adulthood process for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Bear, Samantha J. The transition to adulthood for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) remains a critical yet under-researched area, often characterized by fragmented planning and systemic barriers. Despite evidence-based practices and legal mandates, many individuals …
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The Role of Institutions in the Transition to Adulthood and Their Impact on Pathways to Adulthood and Adult Criminal Outcomes
In today's social and economic context in the U.S., many individuals experience an extended transition to adulthood period during which they are able to delay adopting adult social roles and responsibilities, such as initiating careers, making long-term commitments to a romantic partner, and …
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Gender values, schooling, and transition to adulthood: a study of female and male pupils from two urban primary schools in Kenya.
… low rates of female enrolment, participation, transition, and achievement. Though gender equality has become a major focus in Kenyan education policy, the practice and outcomes of schooling have yet to reflect such intentions. Kenyan studies have tended to describe and explain the persistent …
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The experience of money and the domestic moral economy of a group of young adults in Khayelitsha and their transition to adulthood
… of young South African men and women, aged 25 to 35, in Khayelitsha, a mainly poor, Black African residential area of Cape Town. As less skilled ‘youth,' they are rarely able to sustain regular employment and therefore remain intermittently dependent on household income and resident in or near …
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An anxious time? exploring the worries experienced by people with a mild to moderate intellectual disability at the stage of transition to adulthood.
Background: This exploratory study examined the content and salience of worries experienced by young people with mild intellectual disabilities (ID) at transition to adulthood. Self-efficacy and anxiety in relation to worry was also examined. Fifty-two participants (17-20 years) took part; 26 with …
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Education, occupation and family patterns of second generation immigrant youth in the U.S.: the importance of embeddedness in social relationships in the transition to adulthood
… they also vary substantially in their access to family and institutional resources which may influence their ability to make a successful transition to adulthood. Utilizing national, longitudinal data from the adolescent (2002/2004), young adult follow-up (2006) and later adult follow-up …
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Vaikeavammaisen nuoren aikuistuminen : Yksilöllinen ja erilainen elämänkulku
Transition to adulthood of severely disabled adolescents. Diversity in individual life courses. The focus of this study is to examine the transition to adulthood of severely disabled adolescents as part of their life course. The data for this study were gathered through interviews with nine …
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