عنوان

Adolescents' Values and Value Based Reasoning in Intercultural Dilemma Situations

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LA115833

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Title Proper

Adolescents' Values and Value Based Reasoning in Intercultural Dilemma Situations

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[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Kathrin Brodbeck, Aristide Peng, Taylor Christl, et al.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

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Values and religious orientations are traditionally considered as fostering guidelines for individual life perspectives and choices. The present paper attempts to find out whether this is still true for Swiss adolescents. Hedonism, benevolence, self-direction and universalism are their preferred values, as data from a survey of 748 adolescents (aged 12-16) shows, tradition and conformity the least important. 25 of the surveyed adolescents were selected for an interview and confronted with the story of a young Muslim woman who has to decide whether she wants to wear a headscarf at school or not. The adolescents activate general knowledge about comparable situations in order to find a solution for the dilemma and they also refer to value-oriented rationales. Only five of ten possible values were used (universalism, benevolence, self-direction, tradition, conformity), self-direction being the most important value. Although the dilemma could be understood as a religious dilemma, adolescents rarely refer to religious concepts when discussing it. Values and religious orientations are traditionally considered as fostering guidelines for individual life perspectives and choices. The present paper attempts to find out whether this is still true for Swiss adolescents. Hedonism, benevolence, self-direction and universalism are their preferred values, as data from a survey of 748 adolescents (aged 12-16) shows, tradition and conformity the least important. 25 of the surveyed adolescents were selected for an interview and confronted with the story of a young Muslim woman who has to decide whether she wants to wear a headscarf at school or not. The adolescents activate general knowledge about comparable situations in order to find a solution for the dilemma and they also refer to value-oriented rationales. Only five of ten possible values were used (universalism, benevolence, self-direction, tradition, conformity), self-direction being the most important value. Although the dilemma could be understood as a religious dilemma, adolescents rarely refer to religious concepts when discussing it.

Date of Publication

2011

Physical description

157-179

Title

Journal of Empirical Theology

Volume Number

24/2

International Standard Serial Number

1570-9256

Subject Term

adolescents

Subject Term

dilemma

Subject Term

mixed method study

Subject Term

religiosity

Subject Term

Schwartz's value theory

Aristide Peng

Christoph Käppler

Christoph Morgenthaler

Kathrin Brodbeck

Sabine Zehnder

Taylor Christl

Call Number

10.1163/157092511X603974

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[Article]

275578

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