Some of the anxiety and frustration that many young adults are experiencing today may be caused by feelings of being caught between opposing forces, some of which pressure them to accelerate their maturation and assume adult responsibilities earlier, while others strive to hold them back, according to a new paper by scholars at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Anxiety felt by today’s young adults may be due to conflicting pressures to hurry up—and wait
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