To become an adult in society we must go through many stages in psychological development. We first start off as infants and as we develop into school age, we become children, as we continue developing and go through puberty we enter the stage of adolescence and once we mature and develop a sense of identity we reach adulthood. Although this may be true, developing a sense of identity has become harder to obtain as industrialization and other factors have affected the way adolescents achieve adult roles. This state of limbo between adolescence and adulthood is identified as Emerging Adulthood. Jeffrey Arnett proposed this concept as a “new life stage with five features such as feeling in between, identity exploration, self-focused goals, instability
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For this country it is a bit harder to adapt a sense of EA as some parts are under poverty and as Arnett recognizes “EA is restricted to countries that can afford it” (Module 3, 18). This demonstrates how the changing world dictates how emerging adulthood is viewed. Some countries in Latin America do not have the opportunity to go through adolescence much less emerging adulthood as they are rushed into adult roles to be able to survive. An example would be as the lecture states about “56% of 20-24 years old woman are married and many are before the age of 18” (Module 3, 18). These women do not have the opportunity to find a sense of self but instead are rushed into forming a family to feel secure. For the parts of Latin America that have the opportunity of emerging adulthood, this stage is described as “improvement in secondary educational opportunities, decline in fertility rates, and age of marriage” (Module 3, 18). This type of emerging adulthood focuses on getting a better secondary education, and delaying the age of family baring. Depending on the financial circumstances of Latin America on the current generations, emerging adulthood might be a more common stage of development for future generations to
For this country it is a bit harder to adapt a sense of EA as some parts are under poverty and as Arnett recognizes “EA is restricted to countries that can afford it” (Module 3, 18). This demonstrates how the changing world dictates how emerging adulthood is viewed. Some countries in Latin America do not have the opportunity to go through adolescence much less emerging adulthood as they are rushed into adult roles to be able to survive. An example would be as the lecture states about “56% of 20-24 years old woman are married and many are before the age of 18” (Module 3, 18). These women do not have the opportunity to find a sense of self but instead are rushed into forming a family to feel secure. For the parts of Latin America that have the opportunity of emerging adulthood, this stage is described as “improvement in secondary educational opportunities, decline in fertility rates, and age of marriage” (Module 3, 18). This type of emerging adulthood focuses on getting a better secondary education, and delaying the age of family baring. Depending on the financial circumstances of Latin America on the current generations, emerging adulthood might be a more common stage of development for future generations to