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| Young generation attitudes towards the older generation | | Author(s) | Ida Hojnik-Zupanc, Ivanka Rupert |
| Journal title | BOLD, vol 9, no 2, February 1999 |
| Publisher | International Institute on Ageing (United Nations - Malta), February 1999 |
| Pages | pp 17-23 |
| Keywords | Children ; Schoolchildren ; Adolescents ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Family relationships ; Qualitative Studies ; Yugoslavia. |
| Annotation | To learn about intergenerational relationships in Slovenia, this qualitative study involved three groups of the young generation expressing their attitudes towards the old generation: 50 children under school age; 58 school-age children; and 51 secondary school students. The first group gave oral answers to the question, "Who are grandfather and grandmother?". The other two groups wrote essays titled "Who are my grandparents through my eyes?". The first two groups valued the intergenerational relationship mainly for material things and emotional relationships, and found grandparents as a source of wisdom and a life model worth imitating. School-age children, though, have criticised moral values given them by grandparents. Teenagers in late adolescence have evaluated the relationships between the generations in a family based on an emotional attitude; the presence of intergenerational tension is a normal result of the socialisation process. However, a healthy intergenerational relationship within the family - which means a mutual critical and helpful relationship - influences the attitudes of the younger generation toward the older generation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990525220 A |
| Classmark | SBC: SBM: SC: TOB: DS:SJ: 3DP: 7AL |
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