Moderate Quarter Life Crisis Dominates Emerging Adult Students
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Abstract
General Background: Quarter Life Crisis represents an emotional crisis commonly experienced during emerging adulthood, characterized by anxiety, self-doubt, and uncertainty regarding identity, career, and interpersonal relationships. This phenomenon is particularly salient among university students transitioning from adolescence to early adulthood. Specific Background: Prior studies have documented the prevalence of Quarter Life Crisis among early adults; however, descriptive evidence detailing categorical levels and gender-based distribution remains limited. Knowledge Gap: Existing research has not comprehensively described the frequency distribution of Quarter Life Crisis categories across demographic characteristics, particularly sex, nor provided detailed statistical profiling within a large student sample. Aims: This study aimed to describe the level of Quarter Life Crisis among undergraduate students aged 18–25 years at Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo. Results: Using a quantitative descriptive design with stratified random sampling (n = 368) and a 21-item Quarter Life Crisis Scale (α = 0.92), findings revealed that 75.543% of students were categorized at a moderate level, 13.315% at a high level, and 11.141% at a low level. Both male and female students were predominantly classified in the moderate category, although total scores were slightly higher among females. Novelty: This study provides a detailed categorical and demographic breakdown of Quarter Life Crisis levels within a balanced gender sample using JASP-based descriptive statistics. Implications: The predominance of moderate levels indicates the need for preventive psychological support and self-regulation strategies to mitigate emotional distress during emerging adulthood in higher education contexts. Highlights: The Majority of Respondents Were Classified Within the Middle-Level Category (75.543%). Female Participants Obtained Slightly Higher Cumulative Scores Than Males. A Smaller Proportion Exhibited Elevated Conditions (13.315%) Compared With Lower-Level Classification (11.141%). Keywords: Quarter Life Crisis, Emerging Adulthood, University Students, Descriptive Statistics, Gender Differences
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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