Attitudes of Late Adolescents and Their Parents toward Contemporary Issues
- 1 February 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 30 (1) , 239-244
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1972.30.1.239
Abstract
161 college students in their late adolescent years ( Mage = 20.7 yr.) and a sample of 100 of their parents ( Mage = 48.9 yr.) completed a 36-item questionnaire containing items pertaining to such contemporary topics as drug use, sexual behavior, religion, and civil rights. Significant differences in attitude between the generational groups obtained on 86.1% of the items. The differences appeared to reflect intensity of attitudes rather than direction. Insofar as attitudes toward the assessed contemporary issues are concerned, it was concluded that evidence of a basis for a generation gap was found with this sample.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- College Students' Attitudes toward Contemporary IssuesPsychological Reports, 1971
- Attitudes of Adolescents and Adults toward Contemporary IssuesPsychological Reports, 1971