Self-disclosure to parents in emerging adulthood

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 ...

Adoptees' contact with birth parents in emerging adulthood: the role of adoption communication and attachment to adoptive parents.

As adoptees transition to adulthood, their roles in the family may shift, providing them with opportunities to have increasing autonomy in their decisions about contact and initiating conversations about adoption. Research has often focused more on adoptees as children, yet in emerging adulthood, there are important shifts in the life roles and relationships of adoptees during which adoptive pa...

Participation in occupation and diabetes self-management in emerging adulthood.

I present the findings of a study aimed at developing an in-depth understanding of how engagement in occupation influences young adults' ability to effectively manage diabetes and, conversely, how their diabetes self-management strategies shape their occupational participation. The qualitative interview-based study of 8 people ages 19-25 with Type 1 diabetes revealed that study participants oft...

Emerging Issues in Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure

Security vulnerability in software is the primary reason for security breaches, and an important challenge for IT professionals is how to manage the disclosure of vulnerability information. The IT security community has proposed several disclosure policies, such as full vendor, immediate public and hybrid, and has debated which of these should be adopted by coordinating agencies such as CERT. O...

A Gradual Transition: Emerging Adulthood