Implied social mobility and its effect upon late adolescent perception of parent-child personality evaluation

• Main Author: James, Jeanne A.
• Format: Others
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1973
• Subjects: Personality assessment of teenagers; Parent and child; Social mobility; Social classes; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1795; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2794&context=uop_etds

The general purpose of this study will be an exploration of the relationships between the self-descriptions of late adolescents, their perceptions of how they think their like-sexed parents would describe them, their social class of origin, and the degree of their implied social mobility. The present study specifically investigates the proposition that as the late adolescent implies an attempt to change his social lass of origin (as measured by Hollingshead’s Two Factor Index of Social Position by obtaining more education and aspiring to a different occupation than his parents) the tested implication is that he feels his parents’ perceptions of him become different form his own, (as measured in both cases by the Adjective Check List developed by Gough and Hielbruner (1965)). Furthermore, this difference will be greater than that perceived by those who are non-mobile. A secondary objective of the study will be to attempt to gain some insight into the nature of social classes in our society. As will be seen in the review of the literature, there are many theories regarding this issue. Two of the most prominent to be discussed will be class specific versus common values orientations. This study will attempt to see which of these two theories the type of data collected for this study will support.