Exploring cultural conceptions of the transition to adulthood
By: Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Nancy L. Galambos, editors.
Contributors: Galambos, Nancy L.; Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen.
Series: New directions for child and adolescent development -- no. 100; Jossey-Bass education series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Adulthood -- Cross-cultural studies; Young adults -- Cross-cultural studies; Adolescence -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: "Summer 2003."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What does it mean to be an adult? -- Ofra Mayseless, Miri Scharf; title: Emerging adulthood in Argentina -- Alicia Facio, Fabiana Micocci; title: Rites of passage in emerging adulthood : perspectives of young Mormons -- Larry J. Nelson; title: Biographical self-definitions from adolescence to adulthood and beyond -- Heiner Meulemann; title: Conceptions of the transition to adulthood among emerging adults in American ethnic groups -- Jeffrey Jensen Arnett; title: Canadian adolescents' implicit theories of immaturity : what does "childish" mean? -- Nancy L. Galambos, Erin V. Barker, Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver; title: Culture and conceptions of adulthood -- Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Nancy L. Galambos -- Index.