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adult

1. a mature fully grown animal or plant
2. Law a person who has attained the age of legal majority (18 years for most purposes)
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Duke University researchers found that children with mental health problems like depression, anxiety/behavioural problems were six times more likely than those with no psychiatric problems to have difficulties in adulthood.
Childhood Mental Health Issues Linked To Adult Woes
The burden is then later seen in adulthood, when these problems become costly public health and social issues.
Success in Adulthood Linked to Childhood Psychiatric Health
Subjects were measured for psychosocial factors - such as socioeconomic factors, emotional family environment, parental health behaviors, stressful events, self-regulatory behavior, and social adjustment - at baseline, and ideal cardiovascular health was measured in adulthood 27 years afterward.
Early psychosocial factors influence adult CV health
Of special note is Saperstein's practical observations and advice founded upon his own Asperger's affected transition into adulthood.
Getting a Life with Asperger's
In the smaller sample, volunteers who entered adulthood in the worst economic climate scored an average of 2.
Recessions take a lasting toll on narcissism: hard economic times deflate young adults' self-regard for many decades
The difference between them and the non-college-educated with regard to the percentage of births within marriage is so striking as to suggest a very different experience of early adulthood.
Most millennial moms who skip college have kids without marrying
As nonreligious people, we reject the definition of adulthood as stating an adult acceptance of one's religion, or knuckling under to pressure to do so.
Imposter syndrome, and what it means to be an adult
However, all groups showed signs of having difficulty forming social relationships, particularly when it came to maintaining long-term friendships or good ties with parents in adulthood, and were more than twice as likely to have difficulty in keeping a job, or commit to saving, and as such displayed a higher propensity for being impoverished in young adulthood.
FULL IMPACT OF BULLYING REVEALED IN NEW STUDY; Uni finds childhood trauma scars adult lives
The finding contradicts long-held assumptions that financial independence, completing college or even getting married are the ultimate markers of adulthood.
Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults Findings Released:
Arrested adolescent offenders; a study of delayed transitions to adulthood.
Arrested adolescent offenders; a study of delayed transitions to adulthood
It has also been shown to help prevent allergic reactions to foods and prevent adulthood diseases such as hypertension and diabetes.
Breastfed babies have a lower risk of major depression in adulthood
Asperger Syndrome in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians covers issues of diagnosis and psychosocial issues, plus different kinds of interventions for Asperger's in adulthood, and blends the authors' combined clinical expertise with publish research to provide a multidisciplinary approach to assessment and treatment options.
Asperger Syndrome in Adulthood

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