Jeffrey Jensen Arnett

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is a Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 2000 he proposed the theory of emerging adulthood to describe development from age 18 to 29, and since then it has become a thriving international field. He was the Founding President of the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood and served as its first Executive Director.

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is a Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 2000 he proposed the theory of emerging adulthood to describe development from age 18 to 29, and since then it has become a thriving international field. He was the Founding President of the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood and served as its first Executive Director. See less