Exam 12: Socioemotional Development in Emerging and Young Adulthood

A good piece of friendship advice for emerging adults is:

As a romantic relationship moves closer to a committed partnership, a couple's love is likely to transform from romantic love to companionate love to:

Emerging adults looking for same-sex partners are more likely to ________________ compared to emerging adults looking for opposite sexual partners.

Emerging adults (ages 18-29) use social networking sites to build and maintain their social support systems at a rate that is ________________ the rate among young adults (ages 30-49).

Mental health is defined by the absence of problems.

Healthy resolution of Erikson's sixth stage of psychosocial development in young adulthood results in the ability to:

Most college students report feeling emotional stress, including feelings of being overwhelmed, depressed, lonely, and hopeless:

Family relationships change dramatically at the transition from adolescence into emerging adulthood.

Under which conditions are we most likely to see a healthy functioning emerging adult make a smooth transition to adulthood?

Another term for mental health, proposed by Keyes, is:

As marriage has become delayed and less common over the past 50 years, _________________ become more common in emerging adulthood.

If a young adult is grappling with the questions, "Who am I?" and "What can I become?" we can assume that difficulty achieving intimacy can at least partially be attributed to:

Intimate partner violence involves _________________ against a victim by a current or former partner or spouse.

According to Sternberg, there are_______ dimensions of consummate love.

In combination, the Big Five personality traits are organized into unique patterns that determine an emerging adult's personality:

Gains in the ability to _____________________ scaffold increased emotion regulation in emerging adulthood.

Passion, defined as _____________________, is one element of consummate love.

From the late teens through the 20s, emerging adults experience a decrease in negative emotionality.

The transition-to-work is stressful for emerging and young adults when unemployment and _______________ are common.

Romantic relationships in emerging adulthood may be a source of fulfillment, but may also be a source of stress.