“Do Not Leave Your Values at Home”: A Study of Value Orientations of Italian Emerging Adults and Their Parents

The aims of this work, involving a convenience sample of 184 emerging adults and both their parents, recruited in universities and worker cooperatives and factories located in northern Italy, were to: (a) compare the emerging adults’ and their parents’ values to uncover gender an...

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Autores principales: Alfieri,Sara, Barni,Daniela, Rosnati,Rosa, Marta,Elena
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Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 2014
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-222820140002000112016-10-24“Do Not Leave Your Values at Home”: A Study of Value Orientations of Italian Emerging Adults and Their ParentsAlfieri,SaraBarni,DanielaRosnati,RosaMarta,Elena value similarities emerging adults gender generations Italy The aims of this work, involving a convenience sample of 184 emerging adults and both their parents, recruited in universities and worker cooperatives and factories located in northern Italy, were to: (a) compare the emerging adults’ and their parents’ values to uncover gender and generational specificities, (b) measure value similarities between each emerging adult and his/her parents and between the two parents, and (c) examine the importance of family relationship quality as accounting for value similarities. Participants filled out the Portrait Values Questionnaire and the Network of Relationship Inventory (3 subscales). Through ANOVAs, correlations, and dominance analyses, the results revealed gender-related and intergenerational differences in the importance attributed to values. Within family dyads, on average, a moderate degree of similarity was found between each emerging adult’s value profile and his/her own father’s and mother’s value profiles, but lower than those between father and mother. The family relationship quality explained only a small proportion of variance of parent-child value similarities and slightly larger of mother-father value similarity. Implications of the results for transmission of values and their possible development are discussed.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de ChilePsykhe (Santiago) v.23 n.2 20142014-11-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-22282014000200011en10.7764/psykhe.23.2.562
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topic value similarities
emerging adults
gender
generations
Italy
spellingShingle value similarities
emerging adults
gender
generations
Italy
Alfieri,Sara
Barni,Daniela
Rosnati,Rosa
Marta,Elena
“Do Not Leave Your Values at Home”: A Study of Value Orientations of Italian Emerging Adults and Their Parents
description The aims of this work, involving a convenience sample of 184 emerging adults and both their parents, recruited in universities and worker cooperatives and factories located in northern Italy, were to: (a) compare the emerging adults’ and their parents’ values to uncover gender and generational specificities, (b) measure value similarities between each emerging adult and his/her parents and between the two parents, and (c) examine the importance of family relationship quality as accounting for value similarities. Participants filled out the Portrait Values Questionnaire and the Network of Relationship Inventory (3 subscales). Through ANOVAs, correlations, and dominance analyses, the results revealed gender-related and intergenerational differences in the importance attributed to values. Within family dyads, on average, a moderate degree of similarity was found between each emerging adult’s value profile and his/her own father’s and mother’s value profiles, but lower than those between father and mother. The family relationship quality explained only a small proportion of variance of parent-child value similarities and slightly larger of mother-father value similarity. Implications of the results for transmission of values and their possible development are discussed.
author Alfieri,Sara
Barni,Daniela
Rosnati,Rosa
Marta,Elena
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Barni,Daniela
Rosnati,Rosa
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title “Do Not Leave Your Values at Home”: A Study of Value Orientations of Italian Emerging Adults and Their Parents
title_short “Do Not Leave Your Values at Home”: A Study of Value Orientations of Italian Emerging Adults and Their Parents
title_full “Do Not Leave Your Values at Home”: A Study of Value Orientations of Italian Emerging Adults and Their Parents
title_fullStr “Do Not Leave Your Values at Home”: A Study of Value Orientations of Italian Emerging Adults and Their Parents
title_full_unstemmed “Do Not Leave Your Values at Home”: A Study of Value Orientations of Italian Emerging Adults and Their Parents
title_sort “do not leave your values at home”: a study of value orientations of italian emerging adults and their parents
publisher Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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