Emerging Adulthood in Brazilians of Differing Socioeconomic Status: Transition to Adulthood1

A Gradual Transition: Emerging Adulthood

Obesity, race/ethnicity and life course socioeconomic status across the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

BACKGROUND Differences in the association of socioeconomic status (SES) with obesity may underlie the racial/ethnic disparities in obesity that increase dramatically across the transition to adulthood in the United States. The aim of this study was to examine racial/ethnic differences in the influence of life course SES on longitudinal obesity patterns from adolescence to adulthood. METHODS L...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

Socioeconomic lifecourse influences on women's smoking status in early adulthood.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To incorporate women's domestic trajectories and circumstances into analyses of the socioeconomic influences on women's smoking status (current and former smoking) in early adulthood. DESIGN Cross sectional survey. SETTING Southampton, UK. PARTICIPANTS 8437 women aged 25-34 recruited from 1998-2002 via patient lists of general practices. MAIN RESULTS Domestic lifecourse ...

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 ...