Adolescents’ Future Orientation in Time and Place: The Case of the Israeli Kibbutz

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Seginer ◽  
Ronit Schlesinger
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Military Service ◽  
High School Seniors ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
Urban Boys ◽  
Israeli Kibbutz ◽  
Over Time

This study examined the effect of changing social circumstances on adolescents’ future orientation. Focusing on the recent kibbutz crisis, the future orientation of two cohorts of kibbutz and urban boys and girls ( N 438) who were high school seniors in 1984 and 1992 was analysed. Results partly supported cohort, gender, and cohort by setting effects in adolescents’ future orientation, indicating that: (1) the 1992 cohort invested more in constructing prospective domains pertaining to adulthood ( work and career, marriage and family) and less in military service; (2) the tendency of Israeli adolescents to construe a sex-typed future orientation was stable over time; and (3) that the 1992 kibbutz cohort increased its investment in work and career more than did the 1992 urban cohort. Results were explained in terms of the adaptability of adolescent future orientation to changing social circumstances, and in terms of Heckhausen’s (1977) principle of least necessary expenditure.

Social Milieu and Future Orientation: The Case of Kibbutz vs. Urban Adolescents

1988 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Seginer
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Urban Adolescents ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Social Milieu ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Israeli Kibbutz

This study examines the effect of one social milieu factor (Israeli kibbutz vs. urban lifestyle) on adolescents' future orientation. Responses of 114 kibbutz and 112 urban adolescents to an open-ended future orientation questionnaire are grouped into nine life domains: school and matriculation, military service, higher education, work and career, marriage and family, self, others, collective issues, and community service. Analysis shows that, overall, kibbutz adolescents express fewer hopes for the future (lower hopes salience), and their image of hopes for the future is somewhat less detailed and concrete (lower hopes specificity). These tendencies are especially manifested in domains pertaining to transition to adulthood (military service, higher education) and adulthood (work and career, marriage and family) roles. Results are examined in light of prospective cognitive appraisal (Lazarus & Launier, 1978). This prompts a proposition that the relationship between adolescents' prospective appraisal and future orientation has an inverted U-shape. Following on from Trommsdorff and Lamm (1980) it is also suggested that the future orientation model be expanded and also include intrapersonal factors derived from expectancy x value models (Heckhausen, 1977).

scholarly journals How Do High School Seniors See Their Future? Parental and Peer Influences on Their Personal and Professional Plans

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihai-Bogdan Iovu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Seniors ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Peer Influences ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Future Planning ◽  
Career Option ◽  
The Future ◽  
Starting A Business

AbstractStatement of problem: Future orientation is a multidimensional and multistage phenomenon. Studies have indicated that how adolescents anticipate and plan for their future is greatly influenced by the particular context in which they are placed, but most of the research in this area has been conducted with adolescents from western cultures. Aim: This study examined the personal (getting married, moving with the partner, having a child) and professional (having a job, starting a business) future planning of adolescents in contemporary Romania and its relation with adolescents’ background and with parents and friends support. Method: We administered a questionnaire measuring their future orientation and support from parents and friends to 3524 high school seniors from Romania. Results: Adolescents’ personal future planning varies across different life domains. Females were more likely to plan moving with the partner and getting married, while males were more likely to plan a career option. Family had an effect on professional plans, but the effect is negative, while friends were positive associated with all the future planning

scholarly journals Regional Effects of Perceived Risks of Harm on Cigarette Smoking among U.S. High School Seniors: Evidence from Monitoring the Future

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (17) ◽  
pp. 9120
Author(s):  
Jorge Medina
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
High School Seniors ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Fixed Effects Model ◽  
Perceptions Of Risk ◽  
Regional Effects ◽  
The Future ◽  
Monitoring The Future

Overall, there has been an increasing trend in the perceived risk of harm from smoking among U.S. high school seniors. However, these perceptions of risk have been falling in recent years. This study uses regional-level panel data from the Monitoring the Future survey and a fixed effects model to estimate the effect of perceived risk on three regional measurements of smoking behavior: consumption, lifetime prevalence, and daily smoking prevalence. Elasticity measurements at regional levels show that an increase in perceived risk decreases these regional measurements of smoking behavior. Moreover, the results show that, at regional levels, these measurements of smoking behavior are more responsive to changes in the perceived risk associated with smoking than to changes in the price of cigarettes.

Alcohol Control Policies and Youth Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from 28 Years of Monitoring the Future

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher S Carpenter ◽  
Deborah D Kloska ◽  
Patrick O'Malley ◽  
Lloyd Johnston
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
High School Seniors ◽  
Drunk Driving ◽  
Heavy Episodic Drinking ◽  
Reduced Form ◽  
The Future ◽  
Monitoring The Future ◽  
Historical Comparative

Abstract We provide the first historical comparative analysis of the effects of Minimum Legal Drinking Ages (MLDA), beer taxes, and "Zero Tolerance" (ZT) underage drunk driving laws on the drinking behaviors of high school seniors using confidential area-identified data from the 1976-2003 waves of the Monitoring the Future (MTF) Surveys. We estimate reduced form models of drinking participation and heavy episodic drinking that account for state and year fixed effects. Our findings confirm that nationwide increases in the MLDA in the late 1970s and 1980s and adoption of ZT laws in the 1990s both significantly reduced alcohol consumption by high school seniors, with larger effects for the MLDA than for ZT laws. Higher beer taxes are also estimated to reduce youth drinking participation. Overall, the results confirm that a variety of types of government intervention can have important effects on youth alcohol consumption.

scholarly journals YOUTH’S FUTURE ORIENTATION AND WELL-BEING: MATERIALISM AND CONCERNS WITH EDUCATION AND CAREER AMONG TURKISH AND NORWEGIAN YOUTH

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salman Türken ◽  
Hilde Eileen Nafstad ◽  
Joshua Marvle Phelps ◽  
Rolv Mikkel Blakar
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Font Size ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Future ◽  
Political Economic

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 42pt 36pt;"><span style="color: #131413; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Youths’ well-being and subjectivity are strongly related to prevailing political, economic, and social conditions. Neoliberalism has extensively permeated societies worldwide, changing the way individuals, especially youth, make sense of their surroundings and themselves. There is thus an increasing need to investigate how youth subjectivities are influenced in contemporary societies that are under the influence of neoliberalism. Through an analysis of the future orientation of youth, we can investigate discourses that shape youth subjectivities. In this study, we perform a Foucauldian discourse analysis of the future orientation of youth — high school students, from two national contexts, Turkey and Norway — who were asked to write an essay on their personal futures. We investigate what dominant discourses are revealed in the youths’ writings and how they may influence their subjectivities and well-being. We detail two frameworks of discourses, one pertaining to materialism and the other pertaining to education and career, that our participants drew upon in their writings. We relate these discourses to neoliberalism and discuss the extent to which youth constitute themselves as neoliberal subjects of their respective societies. We discuss how these discourses may also be related to their well-being in diverse ways.</span></p>

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