Post-adolescence
The post-adolescence ( lat. Post "after", adolescere "grow up"; also Nachjugend ) is an independent phase of life between youth and adulthood is settled. It was first mentioned in 1968 by Kenneth Keniston for the American youth, in the German-speaking area it was used more and more since the late 1980s.
Postadolescence is characterized by so-called status inconsistencies , such as B. financial independence while remaining at home. Terms like nesting or fleeing nest are used for young people in this phase, which is usually between 18 and 29 years of age. What is significant for this phase is the disintegration of various aspects that are considered to be fundamental to adult status (financial independence, partnership, own household, employment, participation in social and political life). There are thus close relationships between this social-scientific classification and developmental psychological concepts ( Erikson ), which consider the status passages to be mastered by people to be important for the development of a person's own identity.
The increasing tendency towards postadolescence in the last few decades can be attributed to the increasing extension of school time and an increase in the student rate. The study phase in particular represents an “in-between world” in which a relatively high level of independence is often characterized by a low burden of responsibility and financial dependency.
literature
- Martina Gille, Sabine Sardei-Biermann, Wolfgang Gaiser, Johann de Rijke: Adolescents and young adults in Germany. Living conditions, values and social participation of 12 to 29 year olds . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3531151576
- Klaus Hurrelmann : Life Phase Youth: An Introduction to Social Science Youth Research . 9th edition Weinheim 2006, ISBN 978-3779914808
- Heinz Reinders : Youth: Time out? To shape adolescence as a moratorium . VS Verlag , Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 381003987X
- Rainer K. Silbereisen , Lazlo A. Vaskovics, Jürgen Zinnecker (eds.): Being young in Germany. Adolescents and young adults 1991 and 1996 . Leske & Budrich , Opladen 1996, ISBN 3-8100-1681-0
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kenneth Keniston: Young radicals. Notes on admitted youth . New York: Harvest 1968
- ^ Social Relationships in the Life Course: Textbook of Social Development . Ulrich Schmidt-Denter, BeltzPVU, 2005, p. 161 ( ISBN 3621275630 )
- ^ Educational Success and Migration: Biographies of Young Women in the Immigration Society . Merle Hummrich, VS Verlag, 2002, p. 105 ( ISBN 3810034290 )