ABSTRACT
Young adults are fast-moving targets. Their lives develop, change course and shift at a rapid pace. This chapter sketches the relationships of different facets of young adults' personal theologies with their concurrent educational, vocational, relational and religious experiences, and with their psychological dispositions and attitudes. It provides a picture of the ways in which personal theologies connect with the concurrent day-to-day experiences and attitudes of emerging adults in their quickly changing and developing lives. Employment patterns and experiences also varied with worldview. Dating and dwelling patterns were similar between young adults with negative and positive worldviews but differed significantly for those with mixed or ambivalent worldviews. Young adults with different worldviews also differed in some psychological dispositions such as motivation and self-efficacy. In tension with the patterns of religiosity, it is intriguing that humanists reported the lowest sense of self-efficacy. Social capital continued as a ubiquitous background force that shaped both worldview and educational opportunities and choices.
