Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood highlights the third decade of life as a time in which individuals have diverse opportunities for positive development.

• Foreword by Lene Arnett Jensen


• About the Editors


• Contributors


• Section 1: Positive Development during Emerging Adulthood


• 1. Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood: An Understudied Approach to the Third Decade of Life


• Laura M. Padilla-Walker and Larry J. Nelson


• 2. Identity Formation and Moral Development in Emerging Adulthood


• Daniel Lapsley and Sam A. Hardy


• Emerging Adult Essay: Between "being" and "having": How faith and charity changed my life


• 3. The Role of Purpose Among Emerging Adults


• Kendall Cotton Bronk and Rachel Baumsteiger


• Emerging Adult Essay: Be japy - We make people happy


• 4. Healthy Transitions to Family Formation


• Erin Holmes, Geoffrey Brown, Kevin Schafer, and Nate Stoddard


• Emerging Adult Essay: Success Through Hands and Feet


• Emerging Adult Essay: Charlie and Me


• 5. Healthy Transitions to Work


• Phil Gardner and Georgia Chao


• Emerging Adult Essay: Surviving the Usual


• Emerging Adult Essay: What Color is your Collar


• 6. The Role of Civic and Political Participation in Successful Early Adulthood


• Dan Hart and Anne Van Goethem


• Emerging Adult Essay: History Shapes Us, Molds Us, and is Part of Us


• Emerging Adult Essay: Generation Citizen


• 7. Environmental Activism in Emerging Adulthood


• Kyle Matsuba, Susan Alisat, and Michael Pratt


• Emerging Adult Essay: Founder, Spirit Bear Youth Coalition


• Emerging Adult Essay: Turning our Unfortunate Past into our Strengths: The Story of Ruganzu


• 8. Positive Relationships as an Indicator of Flourishing During Emerging Adulthood


• Laura Padilla-Walker, Madison Memmott-Elison, and Larry Nelson


• Emerging Adult Essay: Change


• Emerging Adult Essay: Grandparents' Influence on Developmental Growth


• 9. "I Think, Therefore I Do": Cognitions Related to Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood


• Larry Nelson, Nathan Jorgensen, and Adam Rogers


• Emerging Adult Essay: Marriage: It is our cornerstone rather than capstone


• Section 2: Unique Opportunities for Service during Emerging Adulthood


• 10. National Service as an Institutional Pathway to Flourishing


• Victoria Faust and Constance Flanagan


• 11. Cultural Immersion as a Context for Promoting Global Citizenship and Personal Agency in Young Adults


• Bryan Sokol, Katie Gauthier Donnelly, Justin Vilbig, and Katie Monsky


• Emerging Adult Essay: Crossing Borders


• Emerging Adult Essay: Finding Purpose Through a Romanian Adventure


• 12. Military Service in Midlife


• Meredith Kleykamp, Ryan Kelty, and David Segal


• Emerging Adult Essay: Taking the Long Road


• 13. Crucibles of Transformation: Religious Service and Emerging Adults


• Pamela King and Christine Merola


• Emerging Adult Essay: Sweden: A Beautiful Crucible


• Emerging Adult Essay: My Crucible Flame: My Encounter with the Street Children of Lima, Peru


• Section 3: Positive Development Around the World


• 14. Positive Development in Africa


• Joseph Lah Lo-oh


• Emerging Adult Essay: Overcoming Challenges During Young Adulthood


• Emerging Adult Essay: My Life My Struggle


• 15. Volunteer Work among Young Adults in Asia


• Ben Law, Daniel Shek, and Rosemary Liang


• Emerging Adult Essay: The positive impact of volunteerism on young adults


• 16. Flourishing Through Participation: Positive Young Adult Development in Australia and New Zealand


• Bonnie L. Barber


• Emerging Adult Essay: Sport as a vehicle for growth


• 17. Flourishing in European Emerging Adults: The Challenges of Positive Development in a Continent of Inequality


• Oliver Robinson and Rita Zukauskiene


• Emerging Adult Essay: In a strange land but a stranger no more


• 18. Positive Development in Latin American Emerging Adults


• Alicia Facio, Maria Cecilia Sireix, and Maria Eugenia Prestofelippo


• Emerging Adult Essay: I Believe


• Section 4: Positive Development in the Face of Challenge


• 19. Former Foster Care Youth and Resilient Functioning in Young Adulthood: Predictors of Success and Future Research Directions


• Manfred Van Dulmen and Haylee DeLuca


• Emerging Adult Essay: Stepping in when others step back


• 20. Healing From Inner City Violence


• Jocelyn Smith


• 21. Offender Rehabilitation and Reentry during Emerging Adulthood: A Review and Introduction of a New Approach


• Michael Rocque, Judy Plummer-Beale, and Agneiska Serwick


• 22. The Transition to Adulthood for Those With Disabilities


• Ryan Kellems, Dawn Rowe, Denya Palmer, and Caroline Williams


• Emerging Adult Essay: Jenny Lu Designs


• Emerging Adult Essay: Life Moving Forward: A Personal Perspective on Transitioning into Adulthood


• 23. Emerging Adults Who have Flourished Through a Physical Health Challenge


• Jaehee Yi, Tian Tian, and Jonghee Kim


• Emerging Adult Essay: Cancer: Why I can't look at anything the same again


• 24. Positive Development during Emerging Adulthood for Queer Populations


• Christina Peter, Russell Toomey, Justin Heinze, and Stacey Horn


• Emerging Adult Essay: Pathways to positive development for Queer Emerging Adults


• 25. Emerging Adults and Migration: Diversity and Social Contributions


• Hinda Seif and Jason Jenkins


• Index

Laura M. Padilla-Walker, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. Her research focuses on how parents and other socialization agents (e.g., media, siblings) help to foster prosocial and moral development during adolescence and emerging adulthood.
Larry J. Nelson, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. His research examines social and emotional development in childhood with a particular emphasis in shy and withdrawn behaviors, flourishing and floundering during the third decade of life, and the role of parents and culture in the transition to adulthood.