College Students as Emerging Adults: The Developmental Implications of the College Context
College Students as Emerging Adults: The Developmental Implications of the College Context
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DOI：
10.1177/2167696815587422
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发表时间：
2016-06-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen
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作者：
Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen
在这篇对Reifman和Grahe编辑的《新兴成年人》特刊的评论中，我试图为这些研究提供一个更广泛的发展背景。我开始描述在过去世纪大学参与的上升，注意到即使是现在也只有大约20%参加4年制住宿学院和大学。然后，我描述了这些学生的一些独特的特点，如他们往往来自较高的社会经济地位的家庭，他们是不成比例的白色和女性（这是真实的，以及目前的学生样本）。我把这个透镜简单地应用到特刊的文章中，注意到大学环境对解释结果的一些重要方面。最后，我讨论了一些可能的未来方向，为这条线的研究，例如，在比较学生，如这些非大学样本和跨国比较。
In this commentary to the special issue of Emerging Adulthood edited by Reifman and Grahe, I seek to provide a broader developmental context for the studies. I begin by describing the rise in college participation over the past century, noting that even now only about 20% attend 4-year residential colleges and universities. Then, I describe some of the distinctive characteristics of these students, such as that they tend to be from higher socioeconomic status families and they are disproportionately White and female (which is true of the present student samples as well). I apply this lens briefly to the articles in the special issue, noting some of the ways the college context is important for interpreting the results. Finally, I discuss some possible future directions for this line of research, for example, in comparisons of students such as these to noncollege samples and in cross- national comparisons.