Adolescents' Conceptions of National Wealth Distribution: Connections with Perceived Societal Fairness and Academic Plans

Autor/inn/en	Arsenio, William F.; Willems, Chris
Titel	Adolescents' Conceptions of National Wealth Distribution: Connections with Perceived Societal Fairness and Academic Plans
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 53 (2017) 3, S.463-474 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000263
Schlagwörter	Adolescent Attitudes; Justice; Academic Aspiration; Interviews; Social Systems; Laws; Value Judgment; Age Differences; High School Students; Hispanic American Students; African American Students; Regression (Statistics); Social Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gerechtigkeit; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Social system; Soziales System; Law; Recht; Werturteil; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Hispanoamerikaner; African Americans; Afroamerikaner; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung
Abstract	This study examined mostly lower-middle-income Latino (37%) and African American (33%) adolescents' (N = 90, M[subscript age] = 15.90) conceptions of how U.S. wealth is and ought to be distributed, and whether these judgments are related to adolescents' views about societal and legal fairness and their immediate academic plans. Individually administered multipart interviews assessed conceptions regarding (a) actual and ideal U.S. wealth distribution and related "Rawlsian" judgments, (b) social system and legal fairness, and (c) adolescents' near-term life goals. Overall, adolescents underestimated actual levels of U.S. wealth inequality while also preferring a more egalitarian distribution than was believed to exist. Adolescents' wealth-related reasoning was mostly unrelated to other societal or personal judgments, whereas societal and legal fairness judgments were related to personal academic plans. Although adolescents had generally negative views of societal and legal fairness, having more positive fairness conceptions was related to a greater emphasis on academic plans. Compared with their younger peers, older adolescents preferred somewhat more wealth inequality for motivational and economic reasons and preferred living in a society with some inequality. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01