Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is a Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 2000 he proposed the theory of emerging adulthood to describe development from age 18 to 29, and since then it has become a thriving international field. He was the Founding President of the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood and served as its first Executive Director.

• Preface to the Third Edition


• 1. A Longer Road to Adulthood


• 2. What Is It Like to Be an Emerging Adult? Four Profiles


• 3. From Conflict to Companionship: A New Relationship with Parents


• 4. Love and Sex: New Freedoms, New Problems


• 5. Meandering Toward Marriage


• 6. The Road Through College: Twists and Turns


• 7. Work: More Than a Job


• 8. Digital Natives: Emerging Adults' Many Media Uses


• 9. Sources of Meaning: Religious Beliefs and Values


• 10. How Important Is Social Class?


• 11. Wrong Turns and Dead Ends


• 12. Sometimes Goodbye Is a Second Chance: Resilience in Emerging Adulthood


• 13. Beyond Emerging Adulthood: What Does It Mean to Become an Adult?


• 14. Emerging Adulthood(s): Cultural and International Variations


• Notes


• References


• Index

This 20th anniversary, third edition of Emerging Adulthood fully updates and expands Arnett's findings from his groundbreaking original book with a new chapter on cultural and international variations. Merging stories from the lives of emerging adults themselves with decades of research, Arnett covers a wide range of topics, including love and sex, relationships with parents, experiences at college and work, and views of what it means to be an adult.