Emerging Adulthood Research Paper

Introduction
Emerging adulthood is a stage in of our life span where we transition between adolescence and being an adult, it focuses on late adolescence and early adulthood. This idea came from Jeffrey Arnett who is an American Psychologist who wrote an article in 2001 “Conception of the transition to adulthood: Perspectives from adolescence through midlife.” Arnett’s research looked at people in developed countries and he suggested that emerging adulthood is the distinct period between 18 and 25 years of age where adolescents become more independent and explore various life possibilities. The research was important to see how people viewed themselves, if they were adults or still adolescences. Arnet’s study was replicated and conducted on …show more content…
The survey consists of two questions:
Do you consider yourself to be and adult? And how old are you? The reason for this study is to see how many students that are attending the George brown college and are taking the psychology class NURS1103 considered themselves to be an adult base on Arnett’s life span development stage of emerging adults. The Results
Descriptive Statistics Twenties (20-29 years old) Young- midlife (30-55 years old)
Answers Arnett Nurs 1103 Arnett Nurs 1103
Yes 46% 24% 86% 76%
NO 4% 2% 2% 5%
Yes/No 50% 74% 12% 19%

The Nurs 1103 student participated in a survey that asked two questions on whether or not they considered themselves to be adults. Two different age groups were used and are shown in the table above. The statistics results from the showed that 46% of the participants in Arnett’s study considered themselves to be adults while 24% of the student in the NURS 1103 class considered themselves to be an adult. 4% of Arnett’s participants did not consider themselves to be adult while only 2% of the NURS 1103 class considered themselves not to be adults. 50% of the participants in Arnett’s study did not consider themselves to be either an adults or not while 74% of the Nurs 1103 class did not consider themselves to be either an adult or …show more content…
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