Friendships are vital to emerging adults' adjustment due to the rapid changes that come
during this decade (eg, leaving their families of origin, delaying adult roles of marriage and …

Social networking sites (SNSs) provide emerging adults with extreme and unprecedented
transparency, exposing them to a plethora of opportunities for social comparison. In light of …

Within the cultural context of MySpace, this study explores the ways emerging adults
experience social networking. Through focus group methodology, the role of virtual peer …

The aim of this cross-national longitudinal study was to evaluate the prevalence and
sociodemographic predictors of mental health indicators (coronavirus-related post-traumatic …

Introduction Recreational drug use by emerging adults has been identified as an
increasingly normalized trend in social contexts. It has been documented that the …

Quarter-life crisis (QLC) is a popular term for developmental crisis episodes that occur
during early adulthood (18–30). Our aim was to explore what linguistic themes are …

Unemployment is associated with increased levels of anxiety, depression, and
disconnection among emerging adults. Given the greater risk of unemployment for emerging …

Critics of emerging adulthood theory have suggested that it only applies to college students,
but this assertion has largely gone untested. The purpose of the present study was to …

Historically, divorced women have been vulnerable to devaluation. This study examined the
experiences of divorce-related stigma in emerging and young adult women, who at the time …

Qualitative methods are viewed as central to the theory of emerging adulthood, but there
remains a relative dearth of qualitative inquiry that fully captures the richness and …