Title: Personality Development in Emerging Adulthood
Abstract: In Chapter 1, the authors describe the general purposes of the book, and more specifically, its focus on Erik Erikson’s approach to personality development, using Erikson’s own life as a way of illustrating some of the issues of the transition to adulthood as framed in his own theory. Erikson’s theory is then reviewed, and its role in the development of identity research streams, both traditional and narrative in nature, is outlined. The idea of emerging adulthood as a framework for thinking about historical changes in the patterning of the transition from adolescence to adulthood is introduced, and some of its insights and controversies are discussed, as well as its relations to the Erikson stage model. Finally, the chapter covers the history of the Futures Study of young Canadians making the transition to adulthood, and explains the general features of the sample and its broad patterns of development across this period.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-06-21
Language: en
Type: book
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