The purpose of this study is to make comparison among university students, high school students and nonstudent groups according to evaluation of themselves as adult, identity dimensions and risk taking behavior. The research group consisted of 506 ( 235 female, 271 male) participants. 175 of them are high school students, 182 university of them are students and the 154 are nonstudents. To collect data The Dimensions of Identity Development Scale and Adolescent Risk-Taking Questionnaire were used. To analyze data One-way ANOVA test was used. According to results, there are significant differences among high school sdudents, university students and nonstudents groups. The results also revealed that nonstudent group didnt showed charecteristic of emerging adulthood period.
Key words: Emerging adulthood, Identity development, Risk taking, University
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