Mental Health in Emerging Adulthood

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ID19973690
AuthorsJennifer L Tanner (corresponding author)
EditorsJeffrey Jensen Arnett (0000-0002-6968-7168)
Year2015
Publication date2015-08-06
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueOxford Handbook of Emerging Adulthood (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199795574.013.30
OpenAlexW2220746848
ISBN9780199795574
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited1

This chapter examines the role of mental health in emerging-adult development and adjustment describing a stage-specific model of mental health. It first addresses the importance of the mental health needs of emerging adults before considering a model that conceptualizes and measures mental health based on four general approaches: mental health as normality, mental health as a set of personality traits, equating mental health with personal maturity, and considering whether an individual has achieved average development for age and stage. The chapter also explores three hypotheses that scientifically probe associations between criteria of “adulthood” and mental health: social exclusion, social adaptation, and developmental maturation. Finally, it looks at how the theory of emerging adulthood can be used to set the context for conceptualizing not only new social norms, but also new developmental norms, complemented with the concept of “recentering.”

Context (archaeology) · Developmental psychology · Geography · Mental health · Normality · Personality · Psychiatry · Set (abstract data type) · Clinical Psychology · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Psychology · Social Psychology

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