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Recession led teens to focus more on social problems, environment, psychologists report
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/great-recession-led-teens-to-focus-247276.aspx[font face=Serif][font size=5]Recession led teens to focus more on social problems, environment, psychologists report[/font]
By Beth Downing Chee and UCLA Newsroom July 11, 2013
[font size=3]During the Great Recession, high school students in the U.S. became more concerned about others and the environment, psychologists at UCLA and San Diego State University report in a new study.
The research, published July 11 in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, focused on survey data collected on high school seniors during three time periods: the global recession (2008–10), just before the recession (2004–06) and the earliest period for which data were available (1976–78).
The study authors found that high school students' concern for others declined significantly between 1976–78 and 2004–06, then rebounded by the period of the Great Recession. Compared with high school students who graduated in the years just before the recession, students who graduated during the recession were more concerned for others, more interested in social issues and more interested in saving energy and helping the environment.
For example, 63 percent of recession-era 12th graders said they made an effort to turn down the heat at home to save energy, compared with 55 percent in the pre-recession period; 30 percent of recession-era students said they thought often about social problems, compared with 26 percent of pre-recession students; and 36 percent said they would be willing to use a bicycle or mass transit to get to work, up from 28 percent just before the recession.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550613495419 (Doesn’t work yet)
By Beth Downing Chee and UCLA Newsroom July 11, 2013
[font size=3]During the Great Recession, high school students in the U.S. became more concerned about others and the environment, psychologists at UCLA and San Diego State University report in a new study.
The research, published July 11 in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, focused on survey data collected on high school seniors during three time periods: the global recession (2008–10), just before the recession (2004–06) and the earliest period for which data were available (1976–78).
The study authors found that high school students' concern for others declined significantly between 1976–78 and 2004–06, then rebounded by the period of the Great Recession. Compared with high school students who graduated in the years just before the recession, students who graduated during the recession were more concerned for others, more interested in social issues and more interested in saving energy and helping the environment.
For example, 63 percent of recession-era 12th graders said they made an effort to turn down the heat at home to save energy, compared with 55 percent in the pre-recession period; 30 percent of recession-era students said they thought often about social problems, compared with 26 percent of pre-recession students; and 36 percent said they would be willing to use a bicycle or mass transit to get to work, up from 28 percent just before the recession.
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http://spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/07/10/1948550613495419.abstract