Emerging Adulthood is an ambiguous period in a person’s life. It is a period that most people do not know who they are as a person or know what to expect next. Throughout the first week of class we learned where the term emerging adults came from and how it became such a phenomenon in the field of Psychology. Arnett (2014) defines emerging adulthood as an age of identity exploration, instability, self-focus, feeling of in-between, and possibilities; which he called the key features of emerging adulthood. After learning about the five key features in emerging adults, there were three that stood out to be me; the age of identity exploration, instability and self-focus.
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Being self-focused is a way to figure out who you are, Arnett (2014) says “Emerging adulthood is a self-focused age, the sense that it is a time of life when people have relatively few obligations to others.” My male cousin was dating the same girl throughout high school, she had really strict parent and wasn’t able to participate in many social gathering as an adolescences. The girl just started college 30 minutes away from her house, she decided to break thing off with my cousin and gave a good reason. Her reason was that she wanted to use this time of new experience to find herself and not have to worry about a partner thoughts and failing to meet someone else’s expectations. She felt as though she wasn’t able to explore her identity during her adolescences year since her parents gave her less space than other adolescences who received enough space to start exploring their …show more content…
Arnett (2015) categorized four religious beliefs for emerging adults. The first one is Agnostics/ Atheists, representing 40% emerging of adults. Agnostics are the EAs that have questions about religion, they generally have no option on the topic or religion because they don’t give it much thought. Atheists are the EAs that don’t believe in God, a higher power and often reject any beliefs according to religion. Agnostics and Atheists, may be hostile towards religion and believe that religions cost many problems in the word (Gillen, 2015). The second category is Deists, representing 15% of EAs. Deists believe there in a higher power, but not in the setting with religious tradition. Some deists might reject all organized religions, and others might believe in different ideas form multiple religions (Gillen, 2015). The third category is liberal believers, representing 30% of EAs. Liberal believers identify themselves as being a part of a certain religion, but take what they want from it. They are often skeptical of religions and believe religious services aren’t important (Gillen, 2015). The fourth category is conservative believers, representing 15% of emerging adults. The conservative believers still hold on to their traditional conservative faith, which guides their everyday life (Gillen,
Our identity is a state of mind in which someone recognizes their personal …show more content…
Being self-focused is a way to figure out who you are, Arnett (2014) says “Emerging adulthood is a self-focused age, the sense that it is a time of life when people have relatively few obligations to others.” My male cousin was dating the same girl throughout high school, she had really strict parent and wasn’t able to participate in many social gathering as an adolescences. The girl just started college 30 minutes away from her house, she decided to break thing off with my cousin and gave a good reason. Her reason was that she wanted to use this time of new experience to find herself and not have to worry about a partner thoughts and failing to meet someone else’s expectations. She felt as though she wasn’t able to explore her identity during her adolescences year since her parents gave her less space than other adolescences who received enough space to start exploring their …show more content…
Arnett (2015) categorized four religious beliefs for emerging adults. The first one is Agnostics/ Atheists, representing 40% emerging of adults. Agnostics are the EAs that have questions about religion, they generally have no option on the topic or religion because they don’t give it much thought. Atheists are the EAs that don’t believe in God, a higher power and often reject any beliefs according to religion. Agnostics and Atheists, may be hostile towards religion and believe that religions cost many problems in the word (Gillen, 2015). The second category is Deists, representing 15% of EAs. Deists believe there in a higher power, but not in the setting with religious tradition. Some deists might reject all organized religions, and others might believe in different ideas form multiple religions (Gillen, 2015). The third category is liberal believers, representing 30% of EAs. Liberal believers identify themselves as being a part of a certain religion, but take what they want from it. They are often skeptical of religions and believe religious services aren’t important (Gillen, 2015). The fourth category is conservative believers, representing 15% of emerging adults. The conservative believers still hold on to their traditional conservative faith, which guides their everyday life (Gillen,