Is Parent-Child Conflict What We Mean by the Generation Gap
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4393219 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lillian E Troll (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 347 |
| Publication date | 1972-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Family Coordinator (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-7214 • E-ISSN: 2325-5501 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/582882 |
| OpenAlex | W326596594 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 4 |
A few years ago, we reported some findings on similarities in values and other personality characteristics between college students and their middle-aged parents. (Troll, Neugarten, and Kraines, 1969) On the basis of those data, and the findings of others since (Bengtson, 1970; Thomas, 1971; Haan, 1971), it appears that we need to be more cautious in generalizing about a generation gap than we originally were. There was more similarity in basic values such as dedication to causes, humanitarianism, conventional moralism, and intellectualism between the two generations in the family than between the various college students in the same generation. Furthermore, while we were interviewing the respondents in that study, we were surprised by the basically friendly and even admiring attitudes toward each other held by the college students and their parents-even within the half of the sample that were left-wing student activists. Not only were the youth failing to live up to the stereotype of family rebels, but also their parents were remarkably undisturbed by their children's putative rebellion against them. Instead, many of them expressed satisfaction and pride in their children's political and social activities and only worried in a shamefaced way that they might get hurt in the process of doing what was right. So far as ideological or basic values were concerned, conflict would not be between parents and children but between one group of parents and their
Developmental psychology · Family values · Generation gap · Ideology · Interview · Morality · Personality · Political science · Politics · Pride · Stereotype (UML) · Aging and Gerontology Research · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1973 - 1987 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |