Data Sources and Literature Search
A systematic search of the literature was conducted employing the Web of Science (core collection), SocINDEX, and PsycINFO on material dated between 2000 and October 2017, inclusively. The search strategy used in all databases integrated the following search terms (limited to the title): (“emerging adult*” OR “young adult*” OR “transition to adulthood” OR “adolescence to adulthood” OR “college students”) AND (“famil*” OR “parent*” OR “grandparent*” OR “sibling*”). As Arnett’s emerging adulthood theory first appeared in 2000, this became the year at which the range of searches began. In addition to date of publication, the search was limited to documents in English. Together with the electronic searches, the bibliographical references from the final selected records were manually examined to identify other relevant studies for the present review.