Adolescent conceptions of the homeland: A cross-cultural study |
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Authors: | Owen Egan J Kevin Nugent |
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Institution: | 1. the Educational Research Centre, St. Patrick's College, Dublin 9, Ireland 2. Boston University School of Nursing, USA 3. Child Development Unit, Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA 4. Harvard Medical School, USA
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Abstract: | Irish (135) and United States (123) subjects, aged from 8 to 17 years, wrote essays on their respective homelands. A content analysis revealed that American subjects, as they grow older, identify the homeland increasingly with its political ideals, while Irish subjects identify theirs with certain psychological ideals which they associate with the rural culture and landscape. Irish essays tended to be longer and more varied, and they showed a higher level of affective development. Profiles of the homeland on 7 semantic differential scales showed the break-up of a halo effect in the Irish sample. Adolescents in both countries showed a transition from concrete to abstract topics with age. The implications of these findings for research on the adolescent self-image are discussed. |
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