Jeffrey Jensen Arnett

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is a Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has also taught at the University of Missouri. During 2005 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the Founding President of the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (SSEA) and author of the book Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties; the 2nd edition was published in 2015 by Oxford University Press. He is also co-author (with Lene Jensen) four textbooks, including the most widely used textbook on adolescence, Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach (2023, Pearson Education, 7th edition). Arnett has two children, twins Miles and Paris, born in 1999, and his wife, Lene Jensen, is also a professor at Clark. He has appeared on television and frequently in print media, including a cover story in the New York Times Sunday magazine in August, 2010. For more information, see www.jeffreyarnett.com.