Parent-University Student Agreement on Religious and Nonreligious Issues

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ID2514096
AutoresBruce Hunsberger (autor correspondente)
Ano1985
Volume24
Fascículo3
Páginas314
Data de publicação1985-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-8294 • E-ISSN: 1468-5906
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1385820
OpenAlexW2321346361
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas37
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Some controversy has evolved with respect to the supposed existence of a gap, a kind of organized rebellion against parents by their teenagers, one component of which supposedly involves considerable discrepancy between teenagers' attitudes and those of their parents. Some researchers have concluded that there is in fact a generation gap (Friedenberg, 1969; Thomas, 1974); others that parents and children tend to agree at least moderately on a variety of attitudinal issues (Boshier, 1973; Coleman, 1978); others that attitudinal differences which do appear are relatively minor and reflect contrasts in intensity rather than attitude direction (Lerner & Spanier, 1980); and still others have quite emphatically rejected the notion of a substantial generation gap (Coopersmith, Regan & Dick, 1975). Part of the discrepancy may arise from the fact that parent-child agreement may vary from one issue to another. For example, Bengtson and Troll (1978) suggested that agreement should be highest on religious attitudes with decreasing agreement on issues relating to politics, work-achievement orientation, and sex roles and sexual behavior. In addition, Caplovitz and Sherrow (1977) concluded that parent-child disagreement on religious attitudes goes hand-in-hand with disagreement on nonreligious issues, a claim that has been disputed by Hunsberger (1980). Thus, the present study examined parentoffspring attitudinal agreement in the context of different issues, but particularly regarding religious orientation. Also, previous research (Bengtson & Troll, 1978) has indicated that late adolescent children tend to exaggerate differences between themselves and their parents, while parents tend to minimize these differences. If this is true, one might expect that parents of children who have had major shifts from the parental orientation would be poorer predictors of their children's attitudes within that realm. This possibility was also examined in the present project by comparing trends for apostates and nonapostates

Agreement · Linguistics · Sociology · Philosophy · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Religious studies

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