Young Disabled Adults Facing Developmental Tasks and Life Choices – In Search of Daily Life Quality
Young Disabled Adults Facing Developmental Tasks and Life Choices – In Search of Daily Life Quality

Summary/Abstract: Emerging adulthood, in numerous individual biographies,also in the case of disabled people, is the time of permanentneed for self-actualisation and time of verifying one’ssubjective vision of “being an adult,” i.e. being responsiblefor one’s own decisions, pursuing professional andeconomic independence. Due to developmental acceleration,sociological shift in terms of undertaken roles andrealized developmental tasks as well as their moratoriumlinkeddelays, it is also the time conducive to educationalactivity. This psychological time of a young person, itscourse and specificity depend, to a large extent, on numerous(micro-, mezo- and macro-) conditions of family lifeand social life in today’s world which is more competitiveand less predictable than it used to be for generation ofthe late 1990s. All of these factors contribute to the factthat maturing to adulthood seems to be a state which isharder to achieve nowadays. It is displayed in the form ofdelaying the moment of taking up a job or other importantdecisions in family and relationship contexts.The study aims to present the selected aspects of dailylife of disabled young adults, described in the context ofdevelopmental tasks of this period and considering theperspective of investment in relationships, developmentof one’s own resources, pursuing education and enteringthe job market which are all, from a temporal perspective,a chance of complementing one’s own identity.

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