Talk:Young adult

message: The lead needs to be made into more of a introduction rather than just a definition of what young adult it. I would also consider changing the title of the article to early adulthood as this seems to be a better fit for what the article is really about. The article needs to have a lot more references and the references it has need to have links that give people access to that reference. Peterhniceler (talk) 02:56, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixes 

message: Changed 'deficits' to 'overdrafts' as I feel this is a more appropriate word for what was trying to be got across, and deficit just linked to a page of government defecits. JiMternet 13:44, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Changed '[[deficit|deficits]]' to '[[overdraft|overdrafts]]'

message: It looks like, without discussion, citation, etc., this has been turned from a stub article about people "in the transition from a teenager to an adult… informally considered to encompass the period from age 16 to age 25" to medium-sized (but unsourced) article about people "between the ages of 20 and 40". These are two different topics. My guess is that most incoming links are now wrong in terms of the material here. I'm also pretty dubious on anyone using the term "young adult" to refer to someone as old as 40, and somewhat dubious past 30. After all, in the not-so-distant past, life expectancies weren't much more than 40. Is there a citation for extending the term this far? Certainly the 16-25 usage is easily citable from the extensive citations in Young adult literature. 
If these two rather different usages are really both current, we need a disambiguation and two separate pages, probably Young adult (16-25) and Young adult (20-40), because these are two somewhat overlapping but rather different phases of life. -- Jmabel | Talk 18:48, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, this is currently very confusing. But perhaps Young adult (literature) and Young adult (psychology) is a better disambiguation, what do you say? --Woggly 22:13, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent choices. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:46, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: So I've turned this page into a disambiguation page, and started going through the links and sorting them, but it's tiresome work. It looks like most references are to young adult literature, or simply to teenagers. --Woggly 07:09, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

text: No, it's not just my opinion. What I'm saying is that no one has brought forward a decent citation of the term being used that way. Certainly a 31-year-old is not "middle aged". That is a straw man. - Jmabel | Talk 01:33, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation needed? 

message: There is a reason that psychology and human development are listed seperately on this page. Doctors and psychologists tend to use the term "young adult" to refer to slightly different age groups. This page is a disambiguation page, the point of this page is to clarify distinctions, not to blur them. --Woggly 09:20, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Please don't merge or erase distinctions

message: The "women" section is very thin and only touches the issue of bearing children. Perhaps it could be expanded?
Similarly, I think the section on "women" could be expanded to include cultural differences on topics such as marriage, childbirth, and women in the workforce.157.201.96.100 (talk) 19:39, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Women 

message: The category for young adults in psychology is 19-40. The term can also be used for adults that aren't quite fully developed, which in this case, the age group is 18-25. The category for adolescents is 13-17. The age group 26-54 refers to adults who have the experience to figure out life, but not old enough to be a senior citizen. A person who's 55 or older is a senior citizen. —Bill Conrad 17:46, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Young adulthood 

message: The source in the article titled as Erik Erikson's page says that a young adult is generally a person between the ages of 19 and 40, whereas an adolescent is a person between the ages of 12 and 18. Yet the sources that Tbo 157 added say that Erik Erikson actually means a young adult is generally a person between the ages of 20 and 40, whereas an adolescent is a person between the ages of 13 and 19. I do not doubt the sources Tbo 157 has provided, but is the Erik Erikson page in this article not his page? And wouldn't his page be correct about his thoughts? If his page is not even correct about this, then why are we using it in this article? Flyer22 (talk) 22:50, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Considering Erikson is dead, I don't see how that can be "his" page.  Powers T 23:56, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: LOL. I know what you mean. That is part of the reason I am questioning its use in this article. The other and main part is due to it apparently being wrong about what I mentioned above, and likely being an unreliable source. Flyer22 (talk) 00:00, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

text: The way the reference is formatted in the article, it says that it is from Martin Briner's site about learning theories, USMA Department of Mathematical Sciences, Center for Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE), United States Military Academy at West Point. Flyer22 (talk) 00:11, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi all.  I've had a look at a a few sources and yes they do vary.  Generally psychology textbooks say that an adolescent is between 13 and 19.  I think the only way to see which is actually correct is by getting hold of the original source -i.e. what was written by Erikson himself.  Thanks. Tbo 157(talk)  11:14, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

text: Thanks a lot, Tbo, for weighing in on this matter and explaining. Yes, I am aware that psychology textbooks generally list that an adolescent is between 13 and 19; I was just a little perplexed by this specific matter. Flyer22 (talk) 22:42, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem.  I agree, it is confusing.  The boundary between adolescence and adulthood is very blurred and can vary greatly, anywhere from 16 to 21, but regarding Erikson's theory, Im pretty confident that its 13-19.  However do feel free to say if you find something else in another source. Tbo 157(talk)  18:56, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which to use for young adult and adolescent? 

message: This page constantly references Erik Erikson and his book, which was written in 1950. His stages of psychosocial development already have a wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_stages_of_psychosocial_development) and his definition is very narrow. 18-year-olds are in most places considered adults, despite the fact that they are still developing (as are 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24-year-olds in terms of brain development). The Massachusett's Institute of Technology considers young adulthood to be the between 18-22/25 (http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/youngadult/changes.html), for example. 194.144.70.200 (talk) 17:13, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Why does this page constantly reference a model created in 1950?

message: Should be simplified. They are outdated sections of the article that don't really go well with the middle/older adulthood articles, they're remnants that have gone barely changed for years. Schwarbage (talk) 12:16, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theories of Adult Development Section are Mostly Useless/Fringe 

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thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Developmental Psychology