Article Title
Document Type
Transitions ACR
Publication Date
2020-12-09
DOI
10.7191/pib.1161
Abstract
The transition from college to career includes many challenges, such as adjusting to a professional environment, the high costs of student loan repayment and independent living, and changes in social support networks. Many of these challenges affect a young person’s emotional wellbeing; however, limited attention has been paid in the literature or at the practice level to the emotional wellbeing of college graduates as they transition from college to career. To address this underrecognized issue, investigators from The Jed Foundation (JED), a leading nonprofit organization with a mission to protect the emotional health and prevent suicide among teens and young adults, and the Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research (Transitions ACR) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School collaborated on a study to better understand the experiences of young adults during the college-to-career transition and how these experiences effect emotional wellbeing.
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Subject Area
Employment, Transition Age Youth
Keywords
Employment, college, young adults, mental health, mental health condition, transition age youth, job, work, career, survey, Jed Foundation, recent college graduate, college senior, employers, Harris Poll, Jed
Repository Citation
Golden L, Moser J, Vella-Riplee A, MacPhee J, Schwartz V, Levin L, Biebel K. Adulting Is Hard: Understanding the College-to-Career Transition and Supporting Young Adults’ Emotional Wellbeing. Psychiatry Information in Brief 2020;17(21):1161. https://doi.org/10.7191/pib.1161. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/pib/vol17/iss21/1
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