TY - CHAP
T1 - Relationship fluidity
T2 - The changing nature of intimacy for emerging adult women
AU - Brown, Megan Lindsay
AU - Krysik, Judy
AU - LaMendola, Walter
AU - Sinha, Drishti
AU - Reed, Lauren
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by IGI Global.
PY - 2019/11/29
Y1 - 2019/11/29
N2 - Emerging adults are persistent users of information and communication technology (ICT), with young women between 18-29 being the highest users of ICT in the United States. Relatively little research has investigated how young women internalize experiences of emerging adulthood in the context of their development, and especially intimate relationships. Using qualitative interviews with young adult women, this chapter will explore how high ICT use mediates the developmental tasks of forming an adult identity and intimate relationships. Emerging adult women (18-29) who were high users of ICT (N=22) described their user habits and discussed their developmental trajectories and experiences. Findings demonstrated that identity and intimacy are still pertinent developmental tasks for emerging adults but have changed in nature allowing a fluidity that challenges the bounds of traditionally developmental theories.
AB - Emerging adults are persistent users of information and communication technology (ICT), with young women between 18-29 being the highest users of ICT in the United States. Relatively little research has investigated how young women internalize experiences of emerging adulthood in the context of their development, and especially intimate relationships. Using qualitative interviews with young adult women, this chapter will explore how high ICT use mediates the developmental tasks of forming an adult identity and intimate relationships. Emerging adult women (18-29) who were high users of ICT (N=22) described their user habits and discussed their developmental trajectories and experiences. Findings demonstrated that identity and intimacy are still pertinent developmental tasks for emerging adults but have changed in nature allowing a fluidity that challenges the bounds of traditionally developmental theories.
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U2 - 10.4018/978-1-7998-1063-6.ch003
DO - 10.4018/978-1-7998-1063-6.ch003
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85101946845
SN - 9781799810636
SP - 39
EP - 61
BT - Recent Advances in Digital Media Impacts on Identity, Sexuality, and Relationships
PB - IGI Global
ER -