{"id":4415,"date":"2009-02-23T00:08:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T00:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/02\/igens-8.html"},"modified":"2009-02-23T00:08:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T00:08:40","slug":"igens-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/02\/igens-8.html","title":{"rendered":"iGens 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Arnett.jpg\"<\/span>I’ve been reading about 20somethings of late and one book I found particularly helpful is by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett: Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties<\/a>\"\"
\n<\/strong><\/em>. (The title has nothing to do with the emerging movement.)<\/p>\n

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Jean Twenge’s own works at times uses Jensen’s research to provide categories and interpretations to make sense of the facts she found. I want to make two points about Arnett’s book that are helping me. He has chps on most of these themes.<\/p>\n

Do you find these five themes accurate about iGens? What other themes do you think need to be present?<\/b><\/div>\n

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First, he finds five features in emerging adulthood. Emerging adults are roughly 18-25 yr olds, though it can extend to almost 30 for many. (There’s no automatic cut-off.) They are…<\/div>\n
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1. Exploring their identities in love, work, and beliefs.<\/div>\n
2. Experiencing a high degree of instability in life.<\/div>\n
3. Exploring their identity to the degree that they are self-focused.<\/div>\n
4. Experiencing that they are in an in-between stage of life: neither adolescent nor adult.<\/div>\n
5. Exploring an endless list of possibilities for their future.<\/div>\n
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Second, he says “adulthood” has changed from being connected to marriage to being defined by self-sufficiency:<\/div>\n
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1. An adult accepts responsibility<\/div>\n
2. An adult makes independent (of parents) decisions<\/div>\n
3. An adult is financially independent.<\/div>\n
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There’s much to ponder in this very well written, even if textbook-ish, book.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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