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Dutch youth in transition to adulthood: differential changes in their political and sociocultural values since the 1970s

Dutch youth in transition to adulthood: differential changes in their political and sociocultural values since the 1970s

Authors :
Van Snippenburg, Leo B.
Vettehen, Paul G.J. Hendriks
Source :
Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Oct, 1992, Vol. 21 Issue 5, p573, 19 p.
Publication Year :
1992

Abstract

In past decades, the postadolescents (i.e., the young who have not yet entered the labor market or established stable partnership bonds, but have already left the parental home, and as a consequence, are not acknowledged as genuine adults in a social sense) were well known for their relatively libertarian sociopolitical value orientations. The main question in this research is, do contemporary postadolescents still foster these relatively libertarian orientations, despite their experiences with the socioeconomic decline and worsening labor-market prospects in the first half of the 1980s? Analyses of Dutch data revealed, that until the 1980s, postadolescents were more libertarian and more postmaterialistic than their young adult peers who had already entered the labor market and engaged in stable partnership bonds. The difference in postmaterialism, however, appeared not to be resistant to the recent socioeconomic stagnation.

Details

ISSN :
00472891
Volume :
21
Issue :
5
Database :
Gale General OneFile
Journal :
Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsgcl.13582021