Affording Emerging Adulthood: Parental Financial Assistance of their College-Aged Children

College Student Development and Emerging Adulthood

Evaluation of Parental Attitudes toward Lumbar Puncture in their Children

Introduction:   Sometimes physicians need to assess some markers on selected children's cerebrospinal fluid specimen according to lumbar puncture (LP). Although immediate diagnosis and treatment especially for meningitis is necessary, But just at this moment, due to some incorrect believe in society, some parents may not allow physician to do LP. The reality is that most of these people, if the...

Valuing education and affording college: Two studies

Recent research by Institute affiliates on the role of education in economic growth has produced two works which run counter to current thought. One study challenges standard measures of the value of schooling and concludes on the optimistic note that its full value has been underrated. The other study analyzes data on college enrollment over the past decade and concludes, on a pessimistic note...

Emerging Adulthood and Its Characteristics in Iranian University Students

Purpose: Emerging adulthood (EA) theory has been proposed as a distinct developmental period between adolescence and adulthood by Arnett in 2000. This construct is promptly embraced by contemporary scholars, and research on emerging adulthood increased over the past decade in many countries, but yet questions remained about the universality of emerging adulthood. This article is extracted from ...

Parental support during young adulthood: Why does assistance decline with age?

Previous research has found that financial transfers from parents to young adult children decline as children age and that age is one of the strongest predictors of support. Using data collected from young adults (ages 18 to 34) and their parents (ages 40 to 60; N=536 parent-child dyads), we explore the possibility that the relationship between age and financial support is mediated by offspring...