Adolescents' orientation toward the future: Sex role differentiation in a sociocultural context

摘要: The present study examines sociocultural variations of gender differences reflected in the future orientation Israeli Jews and Arabs as cases modernity vs. transition to modernity, respectively. One hundred twelve Jewish adolescents (61 males 51 females) 116 Arab (67 49 females), all high school seniors a college-bound program, responded an open-ended questionnaire listed their hopes fears for future. These responses were categorized into eight life domains (school matriculation, military service, higher education, work career, marriage family, self, others, collective issues) each domain was analyzed terms salience (i.e., importance interest, assessed by number pertinent statements) specificity extent detail concreteness, rated on 1–3 scale). Results supported hopothesized instrumental-expressive division between females primacy education females. Analysis employing U. Bronfenbrenner's (The Ecology Human Development: Experiments Nature Design, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979) ecological model development suggests that these are sustained developmental settings adolescents.