Expressed Values of Senegalese Adolescents
With the help of a questionnaire given to 727 secondary school students (215 girls and 512 boys) we have tried to investigate the main life goals of Senegalese adolescents. These long-term objectives are classified according to Glicksman and Wohl's (9) criteria. They belong in decreasing order of importance to the following categories: economic success and security, social concern, family, vocation, and “marriage and children.” The life goals of American subjects appear in general more self-centered than those of our Senegalese adolescents. Less often than boys, girls mention goals of social concern and criticism, yet they mention marriage and children more often than boys. Younger subjects are less concerned with “economic success” than older ones. Socio-economic status seems irrelevant.