Searching for the future in different environments: A comparison of Australian, Finnish and Israeli adolescents' future orientations, explorations and commitments

1994 ◽  
pp. 219-238
Author(s):  
Jari-Erik Nurmi ◽  
Rachel Seginer ◽  
Millicent E. Poole
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Future Orientations

scholarly journals PAAUGLIŲ ATEITIES ORIENTACIJŲ YPATUMAI: LYČIŲ SKIRTUMAI

Psichologija ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
Jolanta Sondaitė
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Reflective Thinking ◽  
Future Goals ◽  
The Future ◽  
Attribution Questionnaire ◽  
Future Orientations

Šiame straipsnyje tiriamos vaikinų ir merginų ateities orientacijos, kurias sudaro ateities tikslai, baimės ir strategijos. Tyrime dalyvavo 298 paaugliai nuo 14-17 metų. Tyrimo rezultatai atskleidė tam tikrus lyčių ateities orientacijų ypatumus. Mūsų tyrimo rezultatai rodo, kad Lietuvos merginų ir vaikinų ateities orientacijos iš dalies atitinka tradicinius lyties vaidmeniui keliamus reikalavimus, tačiau merginos yra labiau orientuotos į išsilavinimą (dažniau kelia ateities tikslus, susijusius su išsilavinimu) negu vaikinai. Vaikinai dažniau negu merginos mini ateities tikslus, susijusius su nuosavybe ir turtu, negu merginos. Merginoms būdinga didesnė orientacija į tarpasmeninius santykius negu vaikinams, jos dažniau mini ateities baimes, susijusias su vedybomis ir šeima, santykiais su draugais ir ryšiais su tėvais ir kitais šeimos nariais. Taip pat merginos dažniau mini ateities baimes, susijusias su išsilavinimu ir "kitais" dalykais negu vaikinai. Merginos labiau taiko funkcionalias kognityvines strategijas pasiekimo srityje ir socialinėje srityje negu vaikinai, išskyrus pesimizmą socialinėje srityje, kuris yra būdingesnis merginoms negu vaikinams. ADOLESCENT‘S FUTURE ORIENTATIONS: GENDER DIFFERENCESJolanta Sondaitė Summary This study examines gender differences in future goals, hopes, fears and strategies. The subjecs are 298 adolescents of the age 14-17. Methods used are Future Hopes and Fears Questionnaire and the Strategy and Attribution Questionnaire. The results showed significant differences between boys and girls future hopes and especially fears. The girls more often than boys included education in their hopes for the future. The boys more frequently than girls included property-related issues in their hopes for the future. The results further showed that girls mentioned more frequently concerns and feares related to education, marriage/family, friends, relationship to parents and other things compared to boys. The girls apply more often than boys seeking social support, reflective thinking, master orientation in an achievement situation and success expectation, master-orientation and pessimism in an affiliative context.

Young-adults NEET in Italy: orientations and strategies toward the future

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 150-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Gaspani
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Orientations

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relation with the future of young-adults Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) in Italy. The study of temporal experiences allows to understand how subjects represent their own condition and construct their biographies in an age of uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach The study follows a qualitative approach to allow participants to express their own experiences and representations through narratives. The 12 cases considered are illustrative of the different orientations detected in the group of 36 young people involved in the research. Findings Young-adults NEET have problems in acquiring a recognized social status and in designing future orientations. The difficulties to project themselves in time hinder the attainment of a sense of biographical continuity as well as the process of identity construction, which tends to be increasingly detached from the planning sphere. Originality/value The study adds to the literature on the issue of young people NEET, contributing to differentiate the social conditions of this group by referring to their experiences, social belongings and resources. The analysis sheds new light on the agency of young people, that conceive biographical strategies in relation to the scenarios they envisage.

scholarly journals Rethinking African Futures after COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 000203972110035
Author(s):  
Detlef Müller-Mahn ◽  
Eric Kioko
Keyword(s):  
African Studies ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
Future Orientations ◽  
The Impact

This article focuses on the impact of COVID-19 in Africa, describes its effects for ongoing research, and asks how it may impact African studies. In Africa, as elsewhere in the world, the pandemic is changing the way people think about the future. The crisis gives rise to a feeling of uncertainty, while casting doubt on future orientations based on forecasts and planning. This scepticism does not concern the African continent alone, but it is here that the call to open a fresh perspective on the future is expressed most emphatically. COVID-19 reinvigorates the question of how African futures are imagined and shaped in relation to the world at large. Against this backdrop, this article suggests three areas where future-oriented African studies should be revised in response to the current crisis – namely, how to incorporate uncertainty, how to decolonise understandings of African futures, and how to translate these considerations into research practice.

scholarly journals Future Child: Pedagogy and the Post-Anthropocene

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Lakind ◽  
Chessa Adsit-Morris
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Future Child ◽  
Future Orientations

For many, the Anthropocene foreshadows the apocalypse: a fertile terrain to speculate about the future, which can displace the now. We aim to reconceptualize this era, drawing inspiration from those working to imagine possible eras for the post-Anthropocene—imaginaries that do not deny the material histories and urgencies of the present. In particular, we seek to transform the ways children are figured in this epoch. In this conceptual essay, we (re)consider the Anthropocene, explore how figurations of the child tap into environmental futurism, and call for a pedagogy of the post-Anthropocene which rejects future-orientations that negate children as bearers of their own experience and agents of their own purpose.

scholarly journals Levels of intersecting temporalities in young men’s orientation to the future. A cross-national case comparison

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 659-680
Author(s):  
Ann Nilsen
Keyword(s):  
Historical Time ◽  
Philosophy Of Time ◽  
Family Time ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
The Future ◽  
Case Comparison ◽  
Future Orientations ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Case Based ◽  
Cross National

Inspired by G.H. Mead’s philosophy of time and his focus on the present as the site of interpretation of past experiences and thoughts about the future, this paper makes cross-national comparisons between four cases of young Norwegian and British men. The method is case-based biographical analysis. Levels of biographical time, family time and historical time intersect in young men’s orientation to the future in a present set in the current contexts of Norway and Britain. The overarching question addresses if and how timing at the biographical level, related to family time and resources, harmonise with features of opportunity structures in the national contexts. Two typologies are identified: those whose future orientations correspond with standards for ‘successful’ trajectories are named confident continuity while cautious contingency characterises the orientation of those whose biographical timing of transitions is not in synchrony with family time nor with standards in the current opportunity structure.

On the Future of Death: Some Images and Options

1973 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kastenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
National Character ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Many ◽  
Future Orientations ◽  
Relationship Of

Voices of the past insist that we have no significant options with respect to death. Voices of the future protest that the past does not hold the future captive and some even proclaim the eventual technological conquest of death. This paper offers a dialogue between past and future orientations toward death, taking as focus the question: is suicidology absurd? Some major dimensions of our culture's death system are discussed. The tendency to regard death as an individual and discrete event is contrasted with the mass processing of death (and life), and the many ways in which death-related dimensions permeate daily life. A narrow suicidology could play into some of the more dubious aspects of our national character, while an enlightened suicidology could increase our options and emphasize the inner relationship of every human being to the mortality of himself and others.

International determination of the total motion of the pole

1961 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Wm. Markowitz
Keyword(s):  
Secular Motion ◽  
The Future

A symposium on the future of the International Latitude Service (I. L. S.) is to be held in Helsinki in July 1960. My report for the symposium consists of two parts. Part I, denoded (Mk I) was published [1] earlier in 1960 under the title “Latitude and Longitude, and the Secular Motion of the Pole”. Part II is the present paper, denoded (Mk II).

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