1. ALARGAMIENTO DE LA JUVENTUD E IDENTIDAD: UN ESTUDIO DE LOS PROCESOS DE TRANSICIÓN A LA VIDA ADULTA DE JÓVENES EN BRASIL Y ESPAÑA.
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Nascimento Coelho, Raquel and Álvaro Estramiana, José Luis
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IDENTITY (Psychology) , *YOUTH , *GROUP identity , *ADULTS , *AGING , *MATURATION (Psychology) , *AGE (Psychology) - Abstract
In this paper we investigate the relationship between youth prolongation in Brazilian and Spanish youngsters and the identity construction processes of these individuals. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 50 young men and women aged 25 to 29 years, half of them from Madrid/Spain and the other half from Fortaleza/Brazil. The interviews were recorded and transcribed, the speeches were organized with the Atlas-ti program through a semantic content analysis. We assume that the postponement of the thresholds of transition to adulthood leads to new experiences, discourses and meanings of "being young", creating a new ideal-typical model of "prolonged youth" and turning it into a possibility of identification for a significant group of young people. In Spain, the youth prolongation is a much more pronounced and evident phenomenon than in Brazil. However, the movement towards a youth prolongation, especially concerning the "feeling younger for longer" is also a trend among young Brazilians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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