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Meier, Ann; Hull, Kathleen E.; Ortyl, Timothy A. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2009
Recent decades have brought significant social changes in the industrialized West that may influence young adults' attitudes about intimate relationships, including changes in gender expectations and behaviors and changes in sexual attitudes and practices. We used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N = 14,121) to…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Young Adults, Sexuality, Sexual Identity
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Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick; Berg, Justin Allen; Sirotzki, Toni – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2007
This study examines and extends the confluence model of age identity by testing whether young people's self-perceptions as adults are linked to role transitions, self-assessed personal qualities, and social location. We propose that young people's sense of adulthood and the factors associated with it vary based on socially structured experience…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Self Concept, Developmental Stages