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Fales, Ann W. – Educational Gerontology, 1981
Formulates a model for viewing the transitions and losses of the aging process as opportunities for growth and self-enhancement. Reviews major categories of social-psychological transition events. Summarizes social-psychological resources that aging individuals bring to these events and discusses three processes of adaptation to transition…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Development, Aging (Individuals), Change
Walsh, Sophie; Shulman, Shmuel; Feldman, Benny; Maurer, Offer – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2005
This study examines the experience of emerging adult immigrants, a group simultaneously attempting to navigate the developmental period of exploration and experimentation of emerging adulthood, together with the need for re-organization of the self, following immigration. In this study, in-depth interviews were conducted, with 41 emerging adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Immigration, Developmental Tasks