Psychological Development and Education ›› 2001, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (3): 28-32,39.

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Adolescents’ Sense of Family Obligation in Urban and Rural Areas

  

  • Online:2001-07-15 Published:2001-07-15

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Abstract: Questionnaires of Family Obligation were employed in a sample of 711 adolescents of grade 1 and 3 of high schools in both urban and rural areas of Shandong Province of China,in an effort to explore the characteristics of adolescents' family obligation.The results indicated:(1) In general,adolescents possessed relatively strong values of family obligation.(2) Rural adolescents possessed higher expectations for future support to their families than urban adolescents.Female adolescents possessed higher expectations for both current and future assistance to their families and placed more importance upon familial respect than male adolescents.Adolescents as only children had similar expectations for assisting and respecting their families with their peers with siblings.(3) Adolescents possessed greater expectations for both current and future assistance to their families than did their parents.

Key words: sense of family obligation, current assistance, respect for family, future support

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  • B844.2

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