Cultural Identity Salience, Individuation, and Life Satisfaction in Emerging Adulthood

<p>This quantitative study examined emerging adults’ (18-29 years old) cultural identity domains of race/ethnicity identity, gender identity, sexual identity, spiritual identity, and socioeconomic class identity with their features of individuation from parents and life satisfaction. Additional emphases were placed on understanding the differences between college-going and non-college-going emerging adults and the differences between early (18-23 years old) and later (24-29 years old) emerging adulthood. This study supported both significant and non-significant relationships among the cultural identity domains salience with the features of individuation and life satisfaction. Emerging adults who attend college were revealed to have higher life satisfaction than those who have never attended college. No differences were found between early emerging adulthood and later emerging adulthood. The findings suggest that emerging adults’ salience in their specific cultural identity domains is related to their life satisfaction and features of their individuation from their parents. Implications of these results for professional counseling practice and the practice of pedagogy are explored. Future directions for research and limitations of the study are also discussed.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

One-year Embargo

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Counselor Education and Supervision (ExCES)

Year dc:date.available

2020

Author dc:creator

• Nice, Matthew L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Matthew Joseph
• Jered B. Kolbert
• Nicole R. Hill

• emerging adulthood
• cultural identity
• identity salience
• salience
• individuation
• life satisfaction
• Counseling
• Counselor Education
• Development Studies

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1898

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-2908