ABSTRACT
The children whose development is reported are also increasingly more likely to be living outside the United States. Exact figures on international representation in research on adolescence are currently lacking, but there is a growing realization that some aspects of development may proceed with different trajectories in different environments. Comparative work within Europe and between European cultures and the United States, however, should never represent the end point of cross-cultural research on adolescence. An important demographic feature of emerging adulthood is that there is a great deal of variability and instability. A process of globalization is effectively taking place in the sense that the experience of adolescence around the world has increasingly become more homogeneous as a result of widespread schooling.
