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Psychosocial functioning among people experiencing developmental transition in young adulthood
Millová, Katarína ; Blatný, Marek
Theoretical background: In the research, we studied the psychosocial context of the developmental transition during young adulthood. We stem from the Arnett´s model of emerging adulthood, where we focused on the dimension of feeling „in between” (subjective developmental status). Objectives: The aim of the study was to compare young people with different subjectively perceived developmental status with respect to the characteristics of psychosocial functioning. Sample: The sample comprised 2025 university students (658 men) in emerging adulthood between 18-27 years (mean age 21.76 years) who participated in online research. Methods: In addition to subjectively perceived developmental status (feeling of immaturity – in between stage - full adulthood), we also examined emotional and social competences (SSI, Riggio & Carney, 2003), coping strategies (BriefCOPE, Carver, 1997) and planned life goals. Main findings: Young people who have subjectively experienced feeling of “in between” were different from immature and fully adult people, especially in areas of future life planning, emotional control and social sensitivity (SSI), and strategies of active coping, planning, humor, acceptance, denial, use of emotional and instrumental support, behavioral disengagement and self-blame (BriefCOPE).
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