Sexuality in Emerging Adulthood provides a comprehensive overview of sexuality at the stage straddling adolescence and adulthood. The first section of the volume offers conceptualizations and foundational perspectives on sexuality in emerging adulthood, with topics including theory, developmental considerations, sexual behavior, sexual beliefs and attitudes, associations with romance, casual sex, and sexual orientation. The second section systematically examines contexts and socializing agents of sexual development, including parents, peers, media, and religion. The third section narrows in on the overarching theme of the series by addressing factors leading to flourishing and floundering in the area of sexuality during emerging adulthood, such[…]
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Leaving Care and the Transition to Adulthood
International Contributions to Theory, Research, and Practice
Generation Disaster
Coming of Age Post-9/11
Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood
Positive Development During the Third Decade of Life
Emerging Adults’ Religiousness and Spirituality
Meaning-Making in an Age of Transition
Emerging Adulthood
Emerging Adulthood (EA) is the flagship journal of SSEA published by SAGE. It is an interdisciplinary and international journal for advancements in theory, methodology, and empirical research on development and adaptation during the late teens and twenties. It covers clinical, developmental and social psychology, and other social sciences. The journal seeks manuscripts that advance basic and applied knowledge of normative and atypical development during emerging adulthood, in addition to other topics.
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Thriving in Complexity
Cultivating Student Success
The last book of the Emerging Adulthood Series published by Oxford University Press and sponsored by SSEA is Cultivating Student Success. The book’s editors are Tisha A. Duncan and Allison A. Buskirk-Cohen. Higher education in the United States is facing a critical juncture. Tuition costs are rising, while measures of success are declining. Students struggle to meet the most basic academic requirements, barely passing their courses, while others battle physical and mental health difficulties that profoundly impact their ability to do well in college. This book responds to these challenges, offering a holistic collection of practices to guide those working[…]
Call for Nominations for New SSEA Editor
The Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood began in 2003 and launched the journal Emerging Adulthood in 2013. As our discipline has grown in leaps and bounds, we are delighted to launch this new chapter to expand the opportunities to bring together scholars and practitioners more seamlessly with this new journal through APA known as Applied Studies in Emerging Adulthood (ASEA). APA has announced this partnership on their website: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/sea/partnership-announcement. Our webpage is now live. To learn more about the journal’s aim and scope: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/sea, We are delighted to name Dr. Luzelle Naude (SSEA Governing Council Member, Professor of[…]
