Studies in adolescent values
Cyril Simmons
2134/10562
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/thesis/Studies_in_adolescent_values/9630446
The studies submitted here, which were published between 1983 and 1999,
treat the period of 'growing up' commonly known as adolescence, as a developmental
transition or series of transitions between childhood and adulthood through which
most young people successfully pass. The studies utilise an open-ended questionnaire
which enables young people to create their own responses to ID prompts concerning
their ideals and least ideals, most and least preferred companions, use of solitude,
summum bonum, most and least desired outcomes and nascent philosophies. The
studies, which are divided into four sections, are preceded by an introduction which
identifies the four main objectives specified by university regulations. The introduction seeks to explain the common theme of the papers; to explain
the methodology; to place the articles in a theoretical context and to suggest future
directions for the research.
The sections comprise papers on research projects in (a) the United Kingdom,
(b) France, Austria, Switzerland and Germany, (c) Japan, (d) Saudi Arabia, Israel and
the United States. The final chapter is in the form of a reprise. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data reveals striking similarities
between young people of different nations (eg the importance of same-age friends
during middle adolescence) and also significant differences (eg the summum bonum is
the family for the English, serving Allah for the Saudi Arabians and education for the
Japanese and Israeli-Arabs).
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Adolescence
Values
Self-report
Open-ended questionnaire
Qualitative data
Quantitative data
Cross-cultural research
Japan
Saudi-Arabia
Arab-Israel
Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified