Pub Date : 2024-03-26DOI: 10.1177/21676968241242154
Siwar Makhoul Khoury, Hadas Rosenne, Netanya Mischel, Talia Dor-Wollman, Michal Gudinski-Elyshiv, L. Hamama
Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DBMD) are genetic disorders that are characterized by progressive muscle weakness. As such, individuals with DBMD may need constant assistance with medical and physical care, which is oftenE provided by their family members. An essential part of patients’ medical management and their parents’ care is to develop appropriate coping strategies. This study focuses on young adults in the developmental period of emerging adulthood and parents, aiming to obtain an in-depth understanding of their coping strategies with DBMD. Qualitative methodology was employed and implemented within three focus groups: one group of young adults (ages 18–23) and two groups of parents. The findings of themes related to young adults and parents coping with DBMD included negative emotions alongside positive perceptions, hope, coping with loneliness in the context of being different, and familial adjustments. Our findings revealed similarities and differences in relation to both young adults’ and parents’ coping strategies, referred to in this study as “adjustments”. It may be advantageous to have an interdisciplinary professional team (i.e., physicians, nurses, and psychologists/social workers) intervene with young adults and parents to get a comprehensive understanding of the impact DBMD has on the multidimensional aspects of their daily functioning and the “adjustments” they employ to cope with DBMD.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-26DOI: 10.1177/21676968241240182
Robert O. Motley, Eric Williamson, Alex L. Pieterse, Madelyn Harris
This study characterizes the profile of Black emerging adults aged 18-29 generated from sociodemographic characteristics and indicators of police contact and exposure to racism-based police violence (RPV), and the relationship between profiles and traumatic stress symptoms. A purposive sample of 300 Black emerging adults was recruited for this exploratory study. Cluster analysis (CA) was performed to generate profiles of this sample. Two distinct profiles emerged from the CA. Cluster 1 is characterized by participants with low rates of police contacts and direct RPV exposure, whereas Cluster 2 consists of participants with higher rates of police contacts and direct RPV exposure. Regression analysis revealed that being in Cluster 2, as opposed to Cluster 1, was associated with increased scores for depression, avoidance, and intrusion symptoms. Findings provide guidance for mental health intervention strategies to combat the psychological impact of RPV exposure for Black emerging adults.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-23DOI: 10.1177/21676968231217781
Jacqueline N. Gunning, Jody Koenig Kellas
The onset of autoimmune disease (AD) in emerging adulthood is a disruptive illness experience that is difficult to make sense of. Compounded by hegemonic ideologies, including the master illness narrative of restitution and stereotype of the hysterical female patient, women with AD struggle with narrative coherency. Guided by the retrospective storytelling heuristic of communicated narrative sense-making theory (CNSM), the present study investigates the meanings, values, and beliefs found in emerging adult women’s narratives of AD onset and diagnosis. Using qualitative in-depth interviews, findings identify how young women experiencing disruptive chronic illness at a formative age make sense and meaning of their experience, highlighting the role of identity (re)construction and resistance to dominant narratives. Framed as lessons learned, themes include rediscovering trust in self, separating self from illness, creating and committing to new normals, challenging assumptions about illness, and recognizing privilege and disparities in care. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1177/21676968231214837
Gabrielle Wilcox, Arianna M. Gibson, Brittany L. Lindsay, Sonal Prasad, Andrew C. H. Szeto
The transition to adulthood, including mental health, has been a focus of research; however, little is known about the mental health outcomes of emerging adults with high incidence diagnoses including ADHD and specific learning disabilities (SLD). This scoping review describes the current state of the research on our understanding of both positive and negative mental health outcomes in these populations. Results of this scoping found an emphasis on emerging adults with ADHD (78%) over those with SLD (12%) or with ADHD and SLD (10%), and over half focused on those who attended postsecondary institutions despite low percentages of these populations going on to postsecondary education. Studies included frequently provided limited information on race or ethnicity, sex or gender, or ADHD or SLD subtypes. Additionally, there was greater focus on negative mental health outcomes (e.g., anxiety, depression) than positive mental health outcomes (e.g., wellbeing, flourishing). We end by discussing implications for future research.0020.
{"title":"Mental Health in Emerging Adults With ADHD and/or Specific Learning Disabilities: A Scoping Review","authors":"Gabrielle Wilcox, Arianna M. Gibson, Brittany L. Lindsay, Sonal Prasad, Andrew C. H. Szeto","doi":"10.1177/21676968231214837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21676968231214837","url":null,"abstract":"The transition to adulthood, including mental health, has been a focus of research; however, little is known about the mental health outcomes of emerging adults with high incidence diagnoses including ADHD and specific learning disabilities (SLD). This scoping review describes the current state of the research on our understanding of both positive and negative mental health outcomes in these populations. Results of this scoping found an emphasis on emerging adults with ADHD (78%) over those with SLD (12%) or with ADHD and SLD (10%), and over half focused on those who attended postsecondary institutions despite low percentages of these populations going on to postsecondary education. Studies included frequently provided limited information on race or ethnicity, sex or gender, or ADHD or SLD subtypes. Additionally, there was greater focus on negative mental health outcomes (e.g., anxiety, depression) than positive mental health outcomes (e.g., wellbeing, flourishing). We end by discussing implications for future research.0020.","PeriodicalId":502440,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Adulthood","volume":"110 3","pages":"128 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139257944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-18DOI: 10.1177/21676968231215878
Chengfei Jiao, Ming Cui, F. Fincham
Emerging adults frequently report feelings of loneliness and social anxiety owing to changes in their social environment, instabilities, and transitions. One of the risk factors that could contribute to emerging adults’ social well-being is overparenting. We examined the association between overparenting, loneliness, and social anxiety among emerging adults and investigated the potential mediating role of emotion regulation as a mechanism that might account for the association. Overparenting was operationalized as a domain-specific construct comprising various aspects of emerging adults’ lives (i.e., academic, health, financial, and relational). College students (N = 287) participated in a short-term longitudinal study and responded to self-reported measures on overparenting, emotion regulation, loneliness, social anxiety, and demographics. Findings from structural equation modeling suggested that relational overparenting was related to higher levels of loneliness and social anxiety among emerging adults and that this association was mediated by emotion regulation. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-18DOI: 10.1177/21676968231217344
Yanping Liu, Wenyi Zhu
This qualitative investigation explored the identity development of emerging adults who revealed their parents’ negative experiences. Participants were 169 Chinese college students (M = 19.83, SD = 1.19, 76.92% women) from southwest China. Thematic analysis of the data which were collected in December 2022 suggests that the participants revealed various parental negative experiences including hardships and poverty, failure and regrets, as well as family scandals and interpersonal conflicts. The participants strived to make meaning out of such experiences and looked into the future to make a difference based on their meaning-making capacities. Such a process leads to both personal identity exploration and family identity negotiation which become foundations for their future family narratives. We created a model of personal and family identity development to capture the process of identity development in revealing parental negative experiences. The findings of this study contribute to the scholarship on family narratives and identity development.
{"title":"Identity Development of Emerging Adults Revealing Negative Experiences of Their Parents","authors":"Yanping Liu, Wenyi Zhu","doi":"10.1177/21676968231217344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21676968231217344","url":null,"abstract":"This qualitative investigation explored the identity development of emerging adults who revealed their parents’ negative experiences. Participants were 169 Chinese college students (M = 19.83, SD = 1.19, 76.92% women) from southwest China. Thematic analysis of the data which were collected in December 2022 suggests that the participants revealed various parental negative experiences including hardships and poverty, failure and regrets, as well as family scandals and interpersonal conflicts. The participants strived to make meaning out of such experiences and looked into the future to make a difference based on their meaning-making capacities. Such a process leads to both personal identity exploration and family identity negotiation which become foundations for their future family narratives. We created a model of personal and family identity development to capture the process of identity development in revealing parental negative experiences. The findings of this study contribute to the scholarship on family narratives and identity development.","PeriodicalId":502440,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Adulthood","volume":"60 11","pages":"96 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139261556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1177/21676968231216512
Katrina R. Abela, Avnee Sharma, Danielle M. Law
While living with roommates in residence presents a unique set of challenges for emerging adults who are just beginning to navigate a world of adult responsibilities and are adjusting to living with an often-unfamiliar companion, conflicts become inevitable. Common sources of conflict, such as disputes over cleaning duties or noise levels, combine with still-developing conflict resolution skills to create an escalating environment of hostility that can develop into bullying if not properly addressed. However, what remains relatively understudied is how emerging adults navigate conflict management and how conflict resolution styles mitigate such household conflicts. Employing a multi-methods approach, this study utilized quantitative (i.e., questionnaires) and qualitative (i.e., short answer questions) methods to investigate the relative influence of conflict management styles and social support on roommate victimization and bullying among 804 undergraduate students aged 18–21 years old (79% female; M = 19). Multiple hierarchal linear regressions and thematic analyses were employed to analyze the data. The findings revealed that roommate compromise predicted an increase in roommate victimization and bullying, and an inverse relationship between resolving conflict with self-interest, where increased self-interest predicted lower roommate victimization and bullying. Social support was significantly inversely related to roommate bullying and victimization, such that increased social support tended to mitigate bullying and victimization. Taken in unison, these findings convey while students may believe they are compromising, whether they are requires further investigation. This work highlights the need to teach students how to manage conflict in healthy ways while verifying the continued importance of social support.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-16DOI: 10.1177/21676968231215877
Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh, Steven Krauss, K. M. Nouri
While validation of positive youth development (PYD) measures has increased considerably of late, validation of the Five C’s of PYD among emerging adults in non-WEIRD countries remains limited. The main objective of this study was to examine the factor structure, measurement invariance, and criterion-related validity of the Five C’s model of PYD through the use of the Positive Youth Development Inventory (PYDI). Data were collected from 436 university students in Malaysia, with a mean age of 21.19 (SD = 1.19). The findings supported a modified bifactor model of the PYDI, which demonstrated strong measurement invariance across gender and race, but not across age categories. Connection showed the strongest latent factor correlations with the other four C’s. Criterion-related validity was supported through its association with psychological hardiness. The findings demonstrate adequate psychometric properties and cultural applicability of a modified bifactor model of the Five C’s model of PYD among emerging adults in Malaysia.
尽管近来对青少年积极发展（PYD）测量方法的验证大大增加，但在非世界青少年发展报告（WEIRD）国家的新兴成年人中，对青少年积极发展五C模型的验证仍然有限。本研究的主要目的是通过使用积极青年发展量表（PYDI）来检验积极青年发展五 C 模型的因子结构、测量不变性和标准相关效度。数据收集自马来西亚的 436 名大学生，他们的平均年龄为 21.19 岁（标准差 = 1.19）。研究结果支持修改后的PYDI双因素模型，该模型在不同性别和种族之间表现出很强的测量不变性，但在不同年龄段之间则没有。连接与其他四个 C 的潜因子相关性最强。通过与心理坚韧性的关联，标准相关有效性得到了支持。研究结果表明，在马来西亚的新兴成年人中，PYD 五 C 模型的修正双因子模型具有充分的心理计量特性和文化适用性。
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