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Changes in Young Europeans’ Values During the Global Financial Crisis

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ID21209751
AuthorsFlorencia M Sortheix (0000-0001-9383-4204, University of Helsinki, corresponding author), Peter Parker (0000-0002-4604-8566, Australian Catholic University), Philip D Parker (Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), Clemens M Lechner (GESIS—Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim, Germany), Cailin Lechner (0000-0003-3053-8701, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences), Shalom H Schwartz (0000-0003-2673-9332, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Year2019
Volume10
Issue1
Pages15-25
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Psychological and Personality Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1948-5506 • E-ISSN: 1948-5514
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1948550617732610
OpenAlexW2762513260
LanguageEN
Citations received50
References cited41

We investigate the impact of the global financial crisis (GFC) on the personal values of youth and young adults (age 16–35 years) from 16 European countries. Using time series cross-sectional data from seven waves (2002–2014) of the European Social Survey, we examined (1) whether the GFC led to value shifts between cohorts of young people and (2) whether welfare state provision moderate the expected value shifts. Multilevel analyses showed that, following the GFC, the importance of security, tradition, benevolence, and, to a lesser extent, conformity values increased. In contrast, hedonism, self-direction, and stimulation values decreased. In line with our moderation hypothesis, power, and, to a lesser extent, achievement values increased following the GFC in countries low on welfare expenditures but decreased in countries high on welfare expenditures. Contrary to expectations, increases in tradition and benevolence values were more pronounced in high-welfare countries

Conformity · Demographic economics · Economics · European Social Survey · Financial crisis · Hedonism · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Moderation · Multilevel model · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Welfare · Welfare state · World Values Survey · Cultural Differences and Values · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology

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