This is a list of website that pertain to emerging adulthood. If you would like to suggest other website or publications to be added to the list, please contact Jennifer Tanner at jennifer.tanner@simmons.edu. 

APA (American Psychological Association) Division 20: Adulthood and Aging
http://aging.ufl.edu/apadiv20/apadiv20.htm
This is the site for the APA Division 20 on adulthood and aging. This site contains some information related to Emerging Adulthood (although most of the information is about older adults).


James Cote's website
http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/sociology/cote.html
This site contains a publication list of James Cotes's work on sociology and youth (adolescents and young adults) with a specific emphasis on identity.

Additional links to websites concerning young adulthood and identity:

http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/sociology/identity/index.htm
http://srif.sdstate.edu/ 


Developmental Psychology Image Bank Early Adulthood
MacGraw-Hill
http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/devel/ibank/early-a.htm
This website contains visual descriptions of 6 topics relevant to the early adulthood: cognitive stages of development, life contour of work, Sternberg's triangle of love, single-parent families with children under 18, death rates, and the proportion of women 20-40 who have not yet given birth.

This is a great website to include in a course on emerging adulthood.


Early Adulthood
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d46/psy/dev/early_adult/
This website, developed by Mesa Community College's Department of Psychology, provides ideas, summaries and links to other websites related to this stage of human development, early adulthood.


Forum for Youth Investment
http://www.forumforyouthinvestment.org/issues/policyresources.htm
The Forum for Youth Investment recently completed a publication on State Youth Policy which includes emerging adults (18-24) within its scope.


Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas
Contains reports from a study of alcohol use and other risk behaviors, involving 15,000 students at 140 colleges in 40 states.


Independent Research Group on The Demography of Early Adulthood
Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany
http://www.demogr.mpg.de/general/structure/division2/irg-ea/
The research group focuses on the transition to adulthood, family formation, and the demography of life course. The main approach is to describe and explain the dynamics of family and household formation in European countries through empirical studies. This website contains a list of publications on these topics.


The International Bulletin of Youth Research (IBYR) http://www.alli.fi/youth/research/ibyr/
This is a link to The International Bulletin of Youth Research (IBYR),

Serving members of the International Sociological Association (ISA)

Research Committee on Sociology of Youth (RC34). This site serves as a hub for information on International Youth Issues and Research, edited by James Cote (see above).


International Sociological Association:
Research Committee on the Sociology of Youth
http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/rc34.htm
The aim of this committee is to contribute to the development of theory and practice of youth sociology and youth research on an international level, uniting professional knowledge, scientific consciousness, and social commitment of its members to work on problems and issues of youth.


University of Jena, Department of Developmental Psychology
http://www.uni-jena.de/svw/devpsy/projects/start_e.html
This website contains links to several papers produced by academics at The University of Jena on young adults and young adult development.


Johns Hopkins Population Center
Popctr.jhsph.edu/publications
This website contains several working papers from a demographic perspective focusing on issues related to young adult transitions, i.e., education, employment, transition to marriage, transition to parenthood. Also, some of Andrew Cherlin's work (i.e., parental divorce and outcomes during young adulthood, WP 95-04) on young adults can be found here.


MacArthur Network on Transitions to Adulthood
http://www.macfound.org/research/hcd/hcd_21.htm
Frank Furstenberg is the Chair of this network on the Transition to Adulthood. This MacArthur announcement links to the Network site (http://lexis.pop.upenn.edu/transad/NTA.htm)


MacGraw-Hill: Web Resources on Early Adulthood
http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/devel/common/earlyadulthood.htm Offers links on the following 4 topics: Physical Development, Social, and Cognitive Development, Faculty Resources, Student Resources


Michigan Study of Adolescent Life Transitions (MSALT)
http://www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu/msalt/
This web site is home to the MSALT study which has followed a sample of over 2,000 5th and 6th graders into their 29th year. The site contains links to research based on this longitudinal study, as well as information about how to obtain the data, and links to the measures and complete surveys on which this project is based.


Monitoring the Future
http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/
Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults.


Murray Research Center at Radcliffe
http://www.radcliffe.edu/murray/index.html
The Murray Research Center archives many longitudinal studies that have involved data collections prior to, during, and post-young adulthood. Students and researchers may apply to use the data archives. In addition, individual studies contain lists of the measures used to assess young adults from different perspectives at different historical periods. 


National Marriage Project
http://marriage.rutgers.edu
This is the link to the website for the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University. The site contains abundant research and information about love, sex, and marriage relevant to emerging adulthood.


National Study of Youth and Religion http://www.youthandreligion.org/resources/bibliography.html
This site contains a thorough annotated bibliography on the topic of youth and religion. There is a link that provides the viewer with references and annotations specifically on religion in regard to college students and young adults specifically.


Nordic Youth Research Information http://www.alli.fi/nyri/index.htm
The site says it provides information for scholars interested in youth research in Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, & Sweden).


Population Reference Bureau
www.prb.org.
Contains up-to-date statistics on a variety of topics related to EA, including education, employment, cohabitation, marriage, and childbearing also, www.ameristat.org

co-sponsored by Population Resource Bureau 


RAND
www.rand.org
Contains reports on young adult health and risk behaviors, i.e., smoking and substance use and high risk health behaviors.


Simmons Longitudinal Study
Simmons College, Boston, MA
www.simmons.edu/gssw/sls/publications.html
Contains a list of publications from the Simmons Longitudinal Study which has focused on development and adaptation of a community sample of now 30-year-old adults, over 8-points in the life span including adolescence (age 15), emerging adulthood (18, 21, 26), and true adulthood (30).


Social Development Research Group
(University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.)
http://www.sdrg.org
The Social Development Research Group (SDRG) is a nationally recognized, interdisciplinary team of researchers united in a common mission to understand and promote healthy behaviors and positive social development among children, adolescents, and young adults. This website contains a publication list and updates on prevention and intervention strategies aimed to promote positive youth and young adult development. 


Transition to Adulthood Project, University of Calgary
http://www.soci.ucalgary.ca/fypp/transition_to_adulthood_project.h
This project is carried out in collaboration with Dr. Elizabeth Fussell at the University of Tulane and Professor Frank F. Furstenberg at the University of Pennsylvania. It is part of the MacArthur Research Network on the Transition to Adulthood. Some of the questions that this project is addressing are:  How do patterns of time use change with young people's transition to adulthood? What are the cross-national differences in the timing and sequence of the transition to adulthood?


Youth Development Study (YDS)
www.soc.umn.edu/research/yds_list.htm
A list of publications from the Youth Development Study at the University of Minnesota (directed by Jeylan Mortimer), a longitudinal study that began when the participants were 14 years old and is now following them through emerging adulthood.