Oh, grow up! generational grumbling and the new life stage of emerging adulthood-commentary on trzesniewski & donnellan (2010)

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 89-92

  Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emerging adulthood; generation; optimism; self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349299747     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691609357016     Document Type: Article

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