Perceptions of Adulthood Survey Data

This dataset contains cross-sectional survey data from 722 UK residents aged 18-77 years. The data were collected on Prolific in June-July 2022 for a project exploring perceptions of adulthood in the UK. The aims of the project were to assess at what age participants felt like adults, whether they had positive or negative attitudes towards adulthood, and the markers that they use to define adulthood, and explore whether these perceptions of adulthood varied with age, gender, or SES.

Measures include: demographic characteristics (age, gender, level of education, income, relationship status, employment status, parent status), the subjective adult status scale (whether participants consider themselves to be adults or not; Wright & von Stumm, 2024), age at which participants felt like adults, the attitudes towards adulthood scale (whether participants think adulthood is a positive or negative time of life; Wright & von Stumm, 2024), valenced words (whether participants associate positive or negative words with adults), the revised markers of adulthood scale (markers that participants associate with adulthood; Norman et al., 2022), and the CARES scale (psychosocial markers that participants associate with adulthood; Wright & von Stumm, 2024).