The American Psychological Association says young adulthood, also known as emerging adulthood, is the “in-between age” where young adults find out who they are (Munsey, 2006). I will be explaining these five steps in my paper, along with some of the many personal changes that the young adults go through. What is emerging adulthood? The APA has five features they use to describe it:
• Age of identity exploration. Where young adults find out who they are what they want out of work, school, and love.
• Age of …show more content…
J., 2006). Does this mean that you can apply these features to young adults around the world? It depends. Demographers make good distinction between countries that are developing and countries that are a part of the OECD, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. These countries make up 18% of the world’s population (United Nations Developmental Programme (UNDP), 2011). Developing countries make up the rest of the population, which have less opportunities for education, high income jobs, and more cases of illness and early