Description: Here is a research-based claim you may have heard about recently. Jean Twenge, based on data she drew from several huge population (big sample) surveys, suggests that 5 or more hours of daily involvement with social media is having negative impacts on teenagers these days. Now, rather than thinking about whether you agree or… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Emerging Adulthood
Student Mental Health: What is going on here?
Description: The article linked below is important and potentially interesting on three levels. First, if you are currently an undergraduate student somewhere then it is important because it may be directly relevant to you or to a friend close to you. Second, It is important because it shines light onto and asks important questions about… Read more »
Clarifying Your Future: Development and Living on Purpose
Description: If you are currently in high school, college or university, or any other post-secondary educational/training setting you undoubtably regularly spend time wondering what the job market will look like when you complete your education and wonder what potential employers will want to see in you when you engage with them in search of employment…. Read more »
Developmental Resolutions and Getting Jobs That May or May Not Exist Yet
Description: I am writing this post on New Years Eve Eve (Dec 30) and thought it might be timely to link back to a series of posts I put up last year at this time. New Year’s often involves resolutions, stated intentions to do something differently and better than before. The previous posts linked in… Read more »
Degree of Independance and Social Media: Socio-Historical Impacts on Development in Emerging Adulthood
Description: Answer two questions: Where you born before or after 1995? How old were you the first time you were allowed, by your parents, to out of your house and into your neighborhood by yourself? If you were born after 1995 you are more likely to have said 10, 11 or 12 years of age… Read more »
Anxiety Disorders versus Plain Old Anxiety: The Difference and Some Developmental Opportunities
Description: This is the last of three posts relating to anxiety and research into its prevalence and management. For students in high school and especially in college or university, anxiety can be a regular occurrence. Particularly as one moves beyond high school and out into post-secondary life there are many things that can give rise… Read more »
Life After High School: Is it still an Easter egg hunt or ?
Description: The fall term approaches and that means that many of you are gearing up to head back to college or to university. It also means that some of you are about to take the first step on your post-secondary developmental pathways. I have written a lot previously on issues related to the developmental shift… Read more »
Souvenirs: More Self-Seeing than Sight-seeing
Description: Have you travelled? If so, did you pick up any souvenirs on your trip? What did you get? Think back to when you picked out (and bought) or picked up (and pocketed) your souvenirs. What were you thinking about at the time? Why did you pick the thing or things that you picked? Where… Read more »
Is Civic Engagement Good For You? Maybe …. It Depends on What Type!
Description: A key theme in the recently identified life stage of emerging adulthood is engagement. While often not well defined, engagement can range form self-engagement (digging into figuring out what you are going to do and how you are going to do it in life and in the development of a sense of personal identity)… Read more »
Resolutions? Better to Work on Life Engagement!
Description: My previous blog (http://wileypsychologyupdates.ca/human-development/resolutions-not-the-places-to-start-life-development-and-change/) might have seemed a bit bleak in that it talked about how the largest proportion of 1st year university students (40 to 45%) utilize an Identity Processing Style called Diffused which suggests that in taking on the Big Life Task of figuring out who they are, where they are going,… Read more »
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