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20 Scandinavian Youth View the Future: A Preliminary Report of a Large Questionnaire Survey
20 Scandinavian Youth View the Future: A Preliminary Report of a Large Questionnaire Survey
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National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. Scandinavian Youth View the Future: A Preliminary Report of a Large Questionnaire Survey MAGNE RAUNDALEN, PH.D., and OLE JOHAN FINNOY University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Several recent studies have asked children to rank the most pressing problems of the world and to list their feelings about the future.
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These youths viewed efforts of the United Nations, UNICEF, Red Cross, and Save the Children Fund as peace work with which they felt a bond. Generally, children who were active or whose parents were active with international organizations such as these expressed more optimistic attitudes about the future.
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The pessimism encountered in our survey raises questions about how the media, schools, and parents present the world to children. The survey also suggests that working with international organizations to promote peace and justice is one strategy for allaying fears and increasing optimism among children.
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We started win the category "optimism" at one end of Me spectrum and the category "pessimism" at We over. TABLE 1 Ranking of Problems About the Future Average Rank Problem Ranking 1 Nuclear Weapons 2.31 2 Unemployment 3.84 3 Drugs 4.08 4 Pollution 4.87 5 Scarcity of food 4.88 6 Russia 5.48 7 World population growth 6.44 8 United States 6.71 9 Genetic and medical experimentation 7.55 10 Bringing up children 8.18
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First, we calculated the average ranking of all 10 problems (Table 1~. The nuclear weapons issue was clearly given the lowest numerical value, indicating that it generally was ranked high as a problem.
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Girls ranked nuclear weapons, unemployment, and bringing up children as the number one future problems slightly more often than did boys. Table 3 shows differences by age in the ranking of the number one future problems of nuclear weapons, unemployment, and drugs.
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They vary in specificity that is, some only use the word "future," whereas others also use formulations about problems and threats. Furthermore, there are more specific surveys in which children are asked their views about local problems and especially the use of nuclear weapons or the risk of comprehensive nuclear war.
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This group comprises those who express strong aggression in the description of their future perspective. The aggression is directed toward the destruction of nuclear weapons and against the generation who they say is "playing with our future." 5.
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They associated the spread of nuclear weapons with the risk of revenge and terrorism being directed against us from the third world. These children also tend to be knowledgeable about the United Nations and the disarmament talks.
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