Generational Continuity: Intergenerational Transmission of Social Attitudes
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Authors
Loesch, Anne E.
Issue Date
1996
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Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
The present study investigated the complex issue of generational continuity and the
transmission of social attitudes. Three hundred and fifty-six first-year students at
Kalamazoo College and 366 of their parents were surveyed regarding their social attitudes.
The hypotheses which related to the continuity and discontinuity between parent and
child generations were evaluated according to emotional closeness of the family, gender of
the parent and the child, political preferences and religiosity, familial stress, liberalness of
each generation, and generational homogeneity. In general, the average correlation between
mothers and students (r = .20, p < .05) was less than the correlation between fathers and
students (r = .24, p < .05). The findings supported some of the hypotheses pertaining to
the similarity of mothers and students, families who have experienced crises, and the
liberalness of the students, but the hypotheses concerning the similarity of emotionally
close families and the variation intragenerationally were contradicted. Overall, the present
research echoed the complexity of previous generational research.
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iii, 44 p.
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