Readings on Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

by Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen

• ISBN13: 9780130894557
• ISBN10: 0130894559
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-15
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Addressing both the changes in the study of adolescent behavior and the changes in the nature of adolescent development in Western society, this informative collection of readings provides a comprehensive cross cultural perspective of adolescent development. Covering every aspect of adolescent development as it takes place in cultures worldwide and historically, this book takes a longer age range approach to emerging adulthood and provides a look at this pivotal developmental period extending into the early twenties.Essays analyze the changes in the study of adolescent development and changes in adolescent development from age ten to early twenties historically and around the world.For individuals interested in adolescent development.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
PART I Introduction, History, and General Issues
The History of Adolescence	1	(5)
Adolescence in Literature, Biography, and History
G. S. Hall
The Storm and Stress Debate	6	(11)
Adolescent Storm and Stress, Reconsidered
J. J. Arnett
The Concept of emerging Adulthood	17	(16)
Emerging Adulthood: A Theory of Development From the Late Teens Through the Twenties
J. J. Arnett
PART II Biological Foundations
Puberty Rituals in Melanesia	33	(7)
Mythic Images and Objects of Myth in Rauto Female Puberty Rituals
T. Maschio
Effects of the Timing of Puberty	40	(20)
Is Psychopathology Associated With the Timing of Pubertal Development?
J. A. Braber
P. M. Lewinsohn
J. R. Seeley
J. Brooks-Gunn
PART III Cognitive Foundations
Understanding Deception and Sarcasm
Words Speak Louder Than Actions: Understanding Deliberately False Remarks	51	(60)
A. Demorest
C. Meyer
E. Phelps
H. Gardner
E. Winner
The Development of Social Cognition	60	(9)
Cognitive Theory and the Developmental Psychology of Impression Formation
W. J. Livesley
D. B. Bromley
PART IV Cultural Beliefs
Cultural Beliefs Among Immigrant Adolescents	69	(15)
Cultural Values and Intergenerational Value Discrepancies in Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Families
J. S. Phinney
A. Ong
T. Madden
Religious Beliefs in Emerging Adulthood	84	(11)
A Congregation of One: Individualized Religious Beliefs Among Emerging Adults
J. J. Arnett
L. A. Jensen
PART V Gender
Requirements for Manhood in an East African Culture	95	(6)
Markers to Manhood: Samburu
D. Gilmore
Gender Socialization in Girls' Teen Magazines	101	(10)
Dilemmas of Desire: Representations of Sexuality in Two Teen Magazines
M. G. Durham
PART VI The Self
The Complexity of the Self in Adolescence	111	(9)
The Development of Multiple Role-Related Selves During Adolescence
S. Harter
S. Bresnick
H. A. Bouchey
N. R. Whitesell
Variations in Ethnic Identity	120	(13)
Variations in Bicultural Identification Among African American and Mexican American Adolescents
J. S. Phinney
M. Devich-Navarro
PART VII Family Relationships
Adolescents' Family Relationships in India	133	(9)
Adolescent's Family Relationships in India: The Daily Family Lives of Indian Middle Class Teenagers
R. Larson
S. Verma
J. Dworkin
How Leaving Home Influences Relations With Parents	142	(9)
Adolescent-Parent Relationships and Leaving Home in Young Adulthood
T. G. O'Connor
J. P. Allen
K. L. Bell
S. T. Hauser
PART VIII Friends and Peers
Popularity and Unpopularity in Middle School	151	(10)
Segregating the Popular From the Unpopular
D. Eder
The Complex World of Peer Crowds	161	(12)
Casting Crowds in a Relational Perspective: Caricature, Channel, and Context
B. B. Brown
M. S. Mory
D. Kinney
PART IX Dating, Love, and Sexuality
Learning the Ways of Romance	173	(12)
Concepts of Romance in 15-Year-Old Adolescents
B. Feiring
When Love Is Betrayed	185	(14)
Sexual Betrayal Among Late Adolescents: Perspective of the Perpertator and the Aggrieved
S. S. Feldman
E. Cauffman
PART X School
Ethnic Differences in School Performance	199	(11)
Family Obligations and the Academic Motivation of Adolescents From Immigrant and American-Born Families
A. J. Fuligni
V. Tseng
How College Affects Students	210	(9)
How College Makes a Difference: A Summary
E. T. Pascarella
P. T. Terenzini
PART XI Work
The Costs and Benefits of Employment in Adolescence	219	(13)
How Do Prior Experiences in the Workplace Set the Stage for Transitions to Adulthood?
J. T. Mortimer
C. Harley
P. J. Aronson
Cross-National Variation in the Post-High School Transition to Work	232	(9)
Employment Prospects as Motivation for School Achievement: Links and Gaps Between School and Work in Seven Countries
S. F. Hamilton
PART XII Media
Media Use Among Moroccan Adolescents	241	(9)
``The Mosque and the Satellite'': Media and Adolescence in a Moroccan Town
S. S. Davis
D. A. Davis
Media Use in Adolescents' Bedrooms	250	(11)
Adolescent Room Culture: Studying Media in the Context of Everyday Life
J. R. Steele
J. D. Brown
PART XIII Problems
Alcohol Use in College	261	(12)
Alcohol Use and Binge Drinking as Goal-Directed Action During the Transition to Postsecondary Education
J. L. Maggs
Adolescent Problems in the East and the West	273	(10)
The Perceived Social Contexts of Adolescent Misconduct: A Comparative Study of Youths in Three Cultures
E. Greenberger
C. Chen
M. Beam
S. M. Whang
Q. Dong
Index	283

Excerpts

This book of readings can be used to supplement a textbook in an undergraduate course on adolescent development or as a foundation of readings for a graduate course. I assembled and edited this book as a companion to my textbookAdolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach(2001, Prentice Hall), but it should also work well as a companion to other textbooks. The readings cover a broad range of topics found in most textbooks, from biological and cognitive development to relationships with family and friends to young people's experiences with school, work, and media, among other topics.A good textbook provides students with a credible, well-informed, and comprehensive overview of afield, but even the best textbook must translate and paraphrase research rather than present it directly. To understand how scholarship in a field is conducted, it is important for students to read original theoretical and research papers. This book contains 27 papers to inform students of the range of scholarship currently taking place on development from age 10 to 25.The principles that determined the selection of the papers here were similar to those that guided my writing of the textbook: take a cultural approach, include emerging adulthood (roughly age 18 to 25) as well as adolescence, and draw from a variety of disciplines. Taking a cultural approach allows students to see what adolescents are like in different parts of the world. This approach is intended to inspire readers to examine their assumptions about the "natural" course of development in adolescence and also analyze the assumptions sometimes made by scholars on adolescence. In my experience, students are fascinated by learning about how different adolescence can be from what they have experienced themselves, and their understanding is expanded by this knowledge.Emerging adulthood is also included because doing so reflects the profound changes that took place in the nature of "adolescence" in the twentieth century. In that time span, puberty moved about 2 years earlier in the life course of people in industrialized, societies so that most young people now show the first physical changes of puberty at age 10 to 12. Meanwhile, since 1950 the typical age of entering marriage and parenthood has risen steeply; it is now in the late twenties in every industrialized country.In my view, the age range of 10 to 25 is too broad, and the changes that take place during that period too vast, to be considered one developmental period of adolescence. I have proposed emerging adulthood as a separate period, different from adolescence but not fully adult. I included material on emerging adulthood in my textbook, and this book of readings contains several selections that pertain to this age period, including a theoretical framework for understanding it (Reading 1.3). Students enjoy readings on this age period, in part because for many of them it is a period they are in themselves or have passed through recently.The readings are taken from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, and education. I believe it is important to draw from all these disciplines, because each has information and insights to offer that contribute to a whole portrait of adolescence and emerging adulthood. Drawing from a variety of disciplines also means representing a variety of methods, including questionnaires, text analysis, interviews, and ethnographies. My goal was to present a broad view so that students learn about many different ways that scholarship in the field is conducted.In selecting the readings, then, I sought to represent a variety of different cultures, to represent scholarship on emerging adulthood as well as adolescence, and to draw from numerous disciplines. In addition, I sought readings that were written clearly and with a minimum of arcane terminology so that they could be digested by students. I avoided articles