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Youths' outlook on the future: A past-present comparison

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Gillespie and Allport's descriptive data (1955) on attitudes and values of youth 20 years ago afforded a comparison with a presentday sample of 320 undergraduates at The Univeristy of Texas at Austin. Items for the original questionnaire (Youth's Outlook on the Future) were combined with other measures (Locus of Control, Dogmatism, and Conservatism scales) for the purpose of replicating the original study and expanding the scope of the comparison. A breakdown of the present group into activists and nonactivists yielded significant differences within the present sample as well as between samples. In general, the trend appeared to be toward less conservatism and traditionalism in moving from past to present nonactivist to present activist. Within the present sample, activists were also more oriented toward the present while nonactivists were more oriented toward success and prestige in the future.

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  1. Douglas A. Kleiber

    Present address: Center for Improvement of Undergraduate Education, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

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  1. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

    Douglas A. Kleiber

  2. Department of Educational Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

    Guy J. Manaster (Associate Professor)

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Received A.B. from Cornell University in 1969; candidate for Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. Major interests are higher education and post-adolescent personality development.

Received A.B. from Columbia University in 1959; received Ph.D. from The University of Chicago in 1969. Member of the Committee on Human Development in 1969. Major interests are adolescent and post-adolescent development; integration, acculturation, and minority groups; and cross-national research.

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Kleiber, D.A., Manaster, G.J. Youths' outlook on the future: A past-present comparison. J Youth Adolescence 1, 223–232 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537920

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