Do I Really Need Someone in Order to Become an Adult? Romantic Relationships During Emerging Adulthood in Italy

Lanz, Margherita; Tagliabue, Semira

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“…In this period, it is not easy to individuate a key relational reference point. For most emerging adults, the most important person within the social network is represented by the romantic partner (Fincham and Cui 2010;Lanz and Tagliabue 2007). For those not involved in a romantic relationship, family members, in particular parents, represent a reference point.…”

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Correlates of Identity Configurations: Three Studies with Adolescent and Emerging Adult Cohorts

Crocetti

Scrignaro

Sica

et al. 2011

J Youth Adolescence

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Adolescence and emerging adulthood are two core developmental periods in which individuals can develop a meaningful identity across domains. However, there is a lack of studies exploring correlates of different identity configurations. The purpose of this article was to fill this gap in examining correlates of configurations characterized by identity stability or instability in both ideological and relational domains or identity stability in one domain and instability in the other domain. Three studies were presented. In the first study, we investigated links between identity configurations and internalizing problem behaviors in early and middle adolescents (N=1,891; M (age) =14; 55% female); in the second study, we focused on associations between identity configurations and identity functions in late adolescents and early emerging adults (N=1,085; M (age) =19; 63% female); in the third study, we investigated relationships between identity configurations, sense of coherence, and basic psychological need satisfaction in emerging adults (N=489; M (age) =21; 71% female). Overall, findings highlighted that participants experiencing a condition of identity stability in both domains reported a better profile than their peers displaying a condition of instability in both realms. Further, individuals with identity stability only in one domain reported intermediate scores and the effect provided by each domain varied according to the correlate examined and the age group taken into account. Implications of these findings are discussed.

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Section: Aims Of the Present Studiesmentioning

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Correlates of Identity Configurations: Three Studies with Adolescent and Emerging Adult Cohorts

Crocetti

Scrignaro

Sica

et al. 2011

J Youth Adolescence

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“…Emerging adults with a good relationship with their parents would be more likely to experience a sense of well-being in the parental home and thus may be attracted to continued co-residence (Lanz & Tagliabue, 2007).…”

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Patterns of home leaving and subjective well-being in emerging adulthood: The role of motivational processes and parental autonomy support.

Kins¹,

Beyers²,

Soenens³

et al. 2009

Developmental Psychology

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In Western, postindustrial societies, the timing of home leaving is increasingly delayed. The diversity of home-leaving patterns, resulting from this evolution, has not yet been systematically studied from a psychological perspective. In this study, the authors aimed to examine how emerging adults' living arrangements-and the motives underlying those arrangements, as conceptualized in self-determination theory-relate to subjective well-being. A Belgian sample of 224 emerging adults and their parents completed self-report questionnaires. Analyses that used structural equation modeling showed that autonomous motivation for one's living arrangement is more strongly related to emerging adults' well-being than the living arrangement per se. Further, autonomy-supportive parenting was found to relate positively to an autonomously regulated residential status. Implications for the meaning and development of autonomy during emerging adulthood are discussed.

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“…Researches in Finland and Poland (Trempala & Malmberg, 1998), North America (Arnett, 2003), Israel (Mayseless & Scharf, 2003), Argentina (Facio, Resett, Micocci, & Mistrorigo, 2007), Austria (Sirsch, Dreher, Mayr & Willinger, 2009) and Greece (Petrogiannis, 2011) showed that culture and nationality have a distinct effect on emerging adults' view on adulthood. Other researches have also highlighted how the perception one has of him/ herself as still a youth and/or already an adult is related to age, gender, marital status and the level of education received (Buhl, 2007;Fadjukoff, Kokko & Pulkinnen, 2007;Fierro & Hernández, 2007;Lanz & Tagliabue, 2007;Macek, Bejcek & Vanýckova, 2007). Anyhow, the transition to adulthood remains a conventional construct and one of the key issues is whether and which conditions or events signify the adult status.…”

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Working status and perception of adulthood: a comparison between Italian and Dutch emerging adults

Piumatti¹,

Giannotta²,

Roggero³

et al. 2013

Psihološka obzorja / Horizons of Psychology

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Abstract:The purpose of this study was (a) to identify the criteria Italian and Dutch emerging adults consider important to achieve adulthood; (b) to compare Italian emerging adults' criteria with the criteria espoused by Dutch emerging adults; and (c) to examine how these criteria might differ on the basis of the working status (temporary job contract vs. permanent job contract) of the participants. Participants included 111 Italian (M age = 25) and 151 Dutch (M age = 22) university working students. Results revealed that (a) on average, Italian and Dutch emerging adults agreed upon the same order of importance for the criteria of adulthood presented to them; (b) Italian participants, more than Dutch participants, considered particularly important for defining the adult status the criteria related to family capacities; and (c) taking into account the working status of the participants, the answers differed only approaching significance. These findings have important implications for future research as they evidence that emerging adults experience their path to adulthood differently depending on their nationality. Specifically, the main contribution of this study is to have tested such hypotheses in a cross-national manner where contextual and individual differences are both taken into account. Oddelek za psihologijo, Laboratorij za razvojno psihologijo, Univerza v Torinu, Italija 2 Center za razvojne raziskave, Šola za pravo, psihologijo in socialno delo, Univerza v Örebru, Švedska Povzetek: Namen pričujoče raziskave je bil (a) v identifikaciji kriterijev, ki jih italijanski in nizozemski mladi odrasli dojemajo kot pomembne za doseganje odraslosti; (b) v primerjavi italijanskih kriterijev mladih odraslih s tistimi od nizozemskih; (c) v proučevanju tega, kako so ti kriteriji povezani z zaposlitvenim statusom (začasno delovno razmerje proti stalnemu delovnemu razmerju). Udeleženci so bili italijanski (M = 25 let) in nizozemski (M = 22 let) študenti v delovnem razmerju. Rezultati so pokazali, da (a) se v povprečju italijanski in nizozemski mladi odrasli strinjajo o pomembnosti kriterijev za doseganje odraslosti; (b) so italijanski mladi odrasli, v primerjavi z nizozemskimi, večjo pomembnost pripisovali kriterijem, ki so povezani z zmožnostjo ustvarjanja družine; (c) da so razlike v povezavi z zaposlitvenim statusom bile zgolj na meji statistične pomembnosti. Dobljeni rezultati imajo pomembne implikacije za prihodnje študije, saj dokazujejo, da mladi odrasli različno dojemajo kriterije za doseganje odraslosti v odvisnosti od narodnosti. Natančneje je glavni doprinos raziskave v preverjanju naših domnev v dveh državah, kjer smo hkrati upoštevali tako kontekstualne kot individualne razlike.Ključne besede: prehod v odraslost, merila odraslosti, zaposlitveni status, Italija, Nizozemska

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Do I Really Need Someone in Order to Become an Adult? Romantic Relationships During Emerging Adulthood in Italy

Cited by 93 publications

References 31 publications

Correlates of Identity Configurations: Three Studies with Adolescent and Emerging Adult Cohorts

Correlates of Identity Configurations: Three Studies with Adolescent and Emerging Adult Cohorts

Patterns of home leaving and subjective well-being in emerging adulthood: The role of motivational processes and parental autonomy support.

Working status and perception of adulthood: a comparison between Italian and Dutch emerging adults

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