Family Values Across Generations: Gender Roles
Faculty Mentor(s) Name(s)
Tsu-Ming Chiang
Abstract
Family values base the importance of what kind of environment a household has and how it functions. These guiding principles help individuals and families to make choices. With strong family values it helps others to be resilient and to adapt. For example, family values seem to serve as a psychological protection against negative emotional experiences (Patel et al., 2022) These values differ from family to family and change over time. A 2021 study reflects how family values change throughout the multitude of generations. This study assessed the differences of Generation Z and Generation Y (millennials) in terms of the way they view marriage, parenting, and family relationships. A comparative analysis supported the idea that Generation Z and Generation Y have both similar and different views on family values. Generation Z in comparison to Generation Y, for example, accept the idea of cohabitation between partners and getting married late in life. Moreover, in Generation Z, a shift away from a patriarchal family type is occurring, in which now more egalitarian family types are seen. This means there is a healthy balance between both partners professionally and in their family life. Additionally, Generation Z valued self-development and individuality (Grigoryeva & Khakimova, 2021). Over a multitude of generations, family values have gone through various paradigmatic shifts due to various aspects. Another example of how family values have changed is in the parent-child relationship. A family is to be understood as a very complex, dynamic, but a family is also a unit. A 2015 empirical study suggests that families may impose their values and may succeed in making their children articulate them, but it doesn’t always mean the young learners will live out those values when they are out of the learning environment. In turn, their results indicate that internalized family values of young people are not necessarily identical to parent’s personal values (Ilisko et al., 2015). Therefore, it is important to examine the relationship between the differing family values and the generations involved. Looking further, gender roles seem to contribute a part in accepting or not accepting family values as well. In the past, family values interconnected with what each gender role provided in the home. A study explains that the duties men and women had in the past are not the same as in the present, meaning women have more opportunities to focus on themselves as opposed to being the anchor for a family (Smith 1997). In this study we intend to determine whether each generation's beliefs on family values and gender roles differ from one another. We hypothesize that the younger generation are less open to accepting traditional family values and conforming to gender roles. To obtain this data, a self report survey will be conducted through SONA systems and be completed by GCSU college students.
Start Date
27-3-2024 9:00 AM
End Date
27-3-2024 9:50 AM
Location
Magnolia Ballroom
Family Values Across Generations: Gender Roles
Magnolia Ballroom
Family values base the importance of what kind of environment a household has and how it functions. These guiding principles help individuals and families to make choices. With strong family values it helps others to be resilient and to adapt. For example, family values seem to serve as a psychological protection against negative emotional experiences (Patel et al., 2022) These values differ from family to family and change over time. A 2021 study reflects how family values change throughout the multitude of generations. This study assessed the differences of Generation Z and Generation Y (millennials) in terms of the way they view marriage, parenting, and family relationships. A comparative analysis supported the idea that Generation Z and Generation Y have both similar and different views on family values. Generation Z in comparison to Generation Y, for example, accept the idea of cohabitation between partners and getting married late in life. Moreover, in Generation Z, a shift away from a patriarchal family type is occurring, in which now more egalitarian family types are seen. This means there is a healthy balance between both partners professionally and in their family life. Additionally, Generation Z valued self-development and individuality (Grigoryeva & Khakimova, 2021). Over a multitude of generations, family values have gone through various paradigmatic shifts due to various aspects. Another example of how family values have changed is in the parent-child relationship. A family is to be understood as a very complex, dynamic, but a family is also a unit. A 2015 empirical study suggests that families may impose their values and may succeed in making their children articulate them, but it doesn’t always mean the young learners will live out those values when they are out of the learning environment. In turn, their results indicate that internalized family values of young people are not necessarily identical to parent’s personal values (Ilisko et al., 2015). Therefore, it is important to examine the relationship between the differing family values and the generations involved. Looking further, gender roles seem to contribute a part in accepting or not accepting family values as well. In the past, family values interconnected with what each gender role provided in the home. A study explains that the duties men and women had in the past are not the same as in the present, meaning women have more opportunities to focus on themselves as opposed to being the anchor for a family (Smith 1997). In this study we intend to determine whether each generation's beliefs on family values and gender roles differ from one another. We hypothesize that the younger generation are less open to accepting traditional family values and conforming to gender roles. To obtain this data, a self report survey will be conducted through SONA systems and be completed by GCSU college students.