Photo of Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., professor in Kent State’s Department of Psychological Sciences within the College of Arts and Sciences

Writer Ethan Bauer explores a phenomenon called the “quarter-life crisis” in a piece that appears in the January/February 2023 issue of Deseret Magazine. He explains that psychologists and 25-year-olds have been thinking (and half-joking) about the quarter-life crisis, to different degrees and under different names, since the mid-20th century. The quarter-life crisis is not rigidly defined as realizing that you haven’t found the right partner yet or that you’re not advancing in your career as quickly or easily as you had hoped. Instead, the author explains, the quarter-life crisis is broade...

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