Young people’s aspirations for education, work, family and leisure

McDonald, Paula; Pini, Barbara; Bailey, Janis; Price, Robin

doi:10.1177/0950017010389242

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“…Consistent with other Australian samples (Johnstone & Lee, ; McDonald et al, ; Thompson & Lee, ), respondents overwhelmingly indicated a wish to replicate traditional, socially conservative adult lifestyles in the future. Both men and women indicated that they would like to be employed, mostly full‐time and mostly in professional or skilled occupations, to be married, to be parents, and to have high levels of education.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 64%

Stagnant or Successful, Carefree or Anxious? Australian University Students' Goals and Beliefs About Adulthood and Their Current Well‐being

Lee

2016

Australian Psychologist

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Objective This article questions an assumption that modern young adults are unwilling to grow up, do not wish to take on traditional adult roles, and experience their current lives as carefree. Goals and beliefs for adulthood, and current mental health, were assessed. Methods A total of 518 Australian university students aged 18–25 (73% female, mean age 19 years, 72% Australian born) completed surveys of their goals for age 40, the goals they believed significant others held for them, and their views of life now and in the future, as well as standard assessments of mental health and well‐being (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale 10; Goldberg anxiety subscale, Life Orientation Test—Revised, Perceived Stress Scale, and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support). Results Students overwhelmingly aspired to “traditional” adult roles: over 90% wanted to be married, with children, and to be in paid employment. Their highest priorities were finishing education, finding a life partner, and finding satisfying work. They generally selected positive adjectives to describe their futures, but selected negative adjectives to describe their current lives, and reported high levels of depressive symptoms, anxiety, and stress. Conclusions Findings suggest that these modern young adults are not leading carefree lives, nor are they reluctant to “grow up.” Aspirations for family and employment, coupled with positive views of the future, are encouraging, while high levels of depressive symptoms, anxiety, and stress are cause for concern. Clinical responses to young people need to acknowledge instability that can result from spending extended periods of time “in‐between.”

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 64%

Stagnant or Successful, Carefree or Anxious? Australian University Students' Goals and Beliefs About Adulthood and Their Current Well‐being

Lee

2016

Australian Psychologist

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“…This exemplifies the fact that the individual's decisions do not depend solely on their attitudes and cultural background but "it must be acknowledged that the new economy is failing to create long-term employment stability for a significant number of young people" (Furlong 2006: 567). Discontinuous trajectories can be the outcome of structural constraints among the less favoured and not only the expression of choice (McDonald et al 2011). Therefore, an approach which is more sensitive to societal transformations and social inequalities is needed to study the NEET phenomenon.…”

Section: Youth Trajectories Individual Choice and Welfare Regimementioning

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A Brute Indicator for a NEET Case: Genesis and Evolution of a Problematic Concept and Results from an Alternative Indicator

Serracant

2013

Soc Indic Res

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This article analyses the NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) concept and related indicators and its effects on both youth policies and the perception of young people. It is argued that a "weak version" of social exclusion is often used to explain the phenomenon. This leads both to defective policies (as a "victim blaming" approach tends to be developed instead of structural policies) and to the negative labelling of the NEET young people (as research and policies tend to focus on the individual's deficits and thus associate them with negative values). An alternative indicator is proposed, aimed at reducing the heterogeneity of the situations the concept includes and focus on the core NEET group. This restricted concept centres on those individuals who do not seem to have any objective impediment to study or work. Figures are calculated for the Spanish region of Catalonia and results show a lower proportion of people in a NEET situation; that the NEET rates for young people and adults are similar; that the phenomenon is not new; and confirm that it is related to the risk of social exclusion. These results reinforce the need for an approach which is more sensitive to inequalities to improve our understanding of the NEET population and to avoid the stigmatisation of individuals, generations and countries.

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“…c) Out-group and dissociative group identification and evaluation According to the theory of gendered prejudice McDonald [92], men's prejudice can be defined by aggression and dominance over groups, whereas women's prejudice can be defined by wariness and fearfulness of out-groups, mainly with regard to men as their out-group. Further, Locke, K.D.…”

Section: The Role Of Social Projectionmentioning

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Triadic Gender Effect on the Susceptibility to Gender Bias and Ageism; and Its Subsequent Effect on Product Preference in C2C-Encounter

Kirkole¹,

Wu²

2017

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This research proposes, the triadic gender effect (TGE) on gender based difference in consumer's susceptibility to social influence during the customer-to-customer (C2C) encounter and its subsequent influence on preferences for products perceived as being associated with the other consumer in buying context. It further investigates the role of ageism and gender bias on the stereotypic effect of the group category of the other consumer. We conduct two studies showing that, due to the gender differences in self-construal, information processing and social cognitive projection; men and women differ in the categorization and evaluation of groups based on gender and age. It further leads to the difference in the preference for the products perceived as being symbolically associated with the respective group members. In particular, women use a local approach, and draw more categories based on gender and age than men, who use a global approach and focus on larger groups. Additionally, women show a greater positive association with in-groups than do men; hence there is a more positive effect of in-group on women's product preference than on men's product preference. By contrast, men show a greater negative association with out-groups and dissociative groups than females; thus, there is a stronger negative effect of out-groups and dissociative groups on men's product preference. Overall women show greater positive association with groups than do men. The results show significant effect of gender bias and ageism in C2C encounter.

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Young people’s aspirations for education, work, family and leisure

Cited by 55 publications

References 31 publications

Stagnant or Successful, Carefree or Anxious? Australian University Students' Goals and Beliefs About Adulthood and Their Current Well‐being

Stagnant or Successful, Carefree or Anxious? Australian University Students' Goals and Beliefs About Adulthood and Their Current Well‐being

A Brute Indicator for a NEET Case: Genesis and Evolution of a Problematic Concept and Results from an Alternative Indicator

Triadic Gender Effect on the Susceptibility to Gender Bias and Ageism; and Its Subsequent Effect on Product Preference in C2C-Encounter

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