TY - JOUR
AU1 - Vosylis, Rimantas
AU2 - Klimstra, Theo
AU3 - Raižienė, Saulė
AB - Emerging adulthood theory highlights ambivalence aboutone’s adult status as a distinctive feature of this period. However, moststudies that addressed this ambivalence employed rather limited, single-itemmeasures, or measures that focused on specific life domains but addressed themseparately. Although existing literature suggests that various life situationsare likely to contribute differently to a sense of adulthood, no attempt hasbeen made to date to conceptualize these situations as contexts and to develop ameasure that takes them into account. The first study of the present researchaims at unveiling the contexts that shape a sense of adulthood by conducting amultiple group exploratory factor analysis on the self-perceived adulthood scale(Shanahan, Porfeli, &Mortimer, 2005). The analyses revealed two factors contributing to asense of adulthood, which were interpreted as adult and peer contexts. Thesecond study aims at developing a new measure designed to address sense ofadulthood in these two contexts. This measure was proven reliable, valid, andstable across three age groups. The present research demonstrates that sense ofadulthood is a context-specific feeling. Thus, adult and peer contexts ought tobe considered and addressed separately, which has been made possible with ourproposed measure.
TI - Context-Related Sense of Adulthood
JF - European Journal of Psychological Assessment
DO - 10.1027/1015-5759/a000380
DA - 2019-12-29
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/context-related-sense-of-adulthood-666R0Wd0y5
SP - 255
EP - 265
VL - 35
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -