[Thesis] Adult status, identity consolidation, religioousness and transcendence as predictors of psychologic well-being in the emergent adulthood
- Authors: Torres Jiménez, Francisca. Dirigida por: Sancerni Beitia, Dolores.
- Place, Editorial, Year: València, Universitat de València , 2016.
- Publication types: Tesi
- URL Publication: [Thesis] Adult status, identity consolidation, religioousness and transcendence as predictors of psychologic well-being in the emergent adulthood
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Abstract:
This thesis foundation is a connatural inclination for the topics related to the personal maturity and the tasks of maturity in the adult stage, from the perspective of the Lifespan Theory of human development. It is deepened in the study on the transition of the adolescence to the adult age and in the concept of emerging adulthood proposed by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett. Emerging adulthood is considered a new developmental stage in which the individual can find a privileged space where to advance in his developmental tasks, so that his own identity remains definitively shaped.
This new stage would be a product of an effect of psychological and sociological, existential adjustment to the new socioeconomic and cultural conditions of nowadays young people, immersed in the postmodern world or that, even, has overcome the postmodernism. The sociocultural changes have lit a new profile in youth, as effect on the processes of maturity and identity of the subjects.
There are exposed in depth the characteristics of this new stage, introducing the developmental and psychological characteristics it owns, trying to contribute some clarifiers on her, as well as the developmental tasks which resolution is necessary to reach the age understood as adult age.
We also present the criteria for the adulthood, as well as the role that the autoperception recovers in the achievement of the adult identity, alluding necessarily to the concepts of identity and personal maturity, and proposing a model of status of adulthood based on the maturity of identity and the processes of autoperception of the subjects. The categories defined in the model were adult in functions, autoperceived, adult not prepared adults and emerging adults.
This work there defends itself the need to include the variables of religiousness, spirituality and transcendency in the study of the healthy development of the identity and the personality of the individual, since we think that the religiousness, the spirituality and the transcendence recover his own role in the transition to the adulthood.
Provided that this process of construction of the identity is not neutral, it will promote different levels of well-being, depending on which it is the madurative advance particularly in the transition to the adulthood of every individual. Also the religiousness and the transcendence allow the positive development of the individual and, therefore, sense makes link them to the study of the identity and the personal maturity.
The used methodology has been quantitative, using surveys of not probabilistic sample with " ball of snow " procedure. 546 subjects between 18 and 30 years old took part in this investigation, and there were studied the variables of adult status, consolidation of identity, maturity, religiousness and transcendency, developmental optimization, ideal development and well-being. The analysis of collected information was done by different tests of quantitative methodology, which fully fit to the exploratory character of the study
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