Emerging Adult Relationships

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The most distinct feature of relationships between emerging adults, their parents, and their best friends provides an important source of support and well-being that involves longevity which expands across their lifetime that significantly influences in his or her social environment. At the transition to adulthood, parents have 18 years of shared history between child-rearing, which includes the stresses and strains, to shape their relationships and parental sensitivity determines much of the emerging adult personality development (Ahmed & Brumbaugh, 2014). Involvement between young adults and their parents does not appear to be detrimental, feelings of ambivalence were evident at the transition to adulthood, but the relationship involves …show more content…

Young adult is recognized as a time of life in which they mature and explore not just who they are, but who they want to be with. Young people in their late teens to mid-twenties experience important changes and normally must make crucial decisions regarding love and work. People’s social lives often expand during this time in which to examine how ongoing parental and friendship relationships will differentially influence their perceptions in newly acquired relationships including romantic partners (Ahmed & Brumbaugh, …show more content…

Therefore young adults may feel and act similarly in different relationships with new people which influence how they interact with others over a lifetime due to the transference of their early attachments from their family, close friends and romantic partners (Ahmed & Brumbaugh, 2016). Romantic partners demonstrate the important effect on attachment security for emerging adults, and around their late twenties, security is more influenced by romantic than by parental interactions. Romantic partners serve as a new foundation for attachment needs but on the other hand, the exception would be emerging adults who do not acquire long-term romantic partners during their life period will rely on other attachment figures instead (Ahmed & Brumbaugh,

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