Intergenerational Conflict Research Articles

Millennials Versus Boomers: An Asymmetric Pattern of Realistic and Symbolic Threats Drives Intergenerational Tensions in the United States.

Intergenerational conflict appears frequently in American public discourse, often framed as clashes between Millennials and Baby Boomers. Building on intergroup threat theory in an exploratory survey, a preregistered correlational study, and a preregistered intervention (N = 1,714), we find that (a) Millennials and Baby Boomers do express more animosity toward each other than toward other generations (Studies 1-3); (b) their animosity reflects asymmetric generational concerns: Baby Boomers primarily fear that Millennials threaten traditional American values (symbolic threat) while Millennials primarily fear that Baby Boomers's delayed transmission of power hampers their life prospects (realistic threat; Studies 2-3); (c) finally, an intervention challenging the entitativity of generational categories alleviates perceived threats and hostility for both generations (Study 3). These findings inform research on intergroup threat, provide a theoretically grounded framework to understand intergenerational relations, and put forward a strategy to increase harmony in aging societies.

New value creation and family business sustainability: Identification of an intergenerational conflict resolution strategy

Unresolved tensions frequently lead to the failure of family businesses. Parents and their children should be able to work together to resolve protracted problems. This study intends to explore the intergenerational conflict resolution strategy in an effort to develop new family business values and ensure the sustainability of family enterprises. The respondents in this study were 152 family business owners in Eastern Indonesia. The analysis used is PLS-SEM. The results of this study indicate that creating new value requires three intergenerational conflict resolution strategies: intergenerational collaboration, accommodation, and forcing. The results of this study also show that a family business that is able to create new value will be able to have an impact on the sustainability of the family business. This study contributes to the Thomas-Kilmann conflict mode approach, wherein the Thomas-Kilmann conflict mode instrument method leads to the creation of new values and sustainability in family enterprises.

Intergenerational Integration in Community Building to Improve the Mental Health of Residents-A Case Study of Public Space.

This study defined intergenerational integration in communities at a theoretical level and verified whether a series of measures could facilitate negotiation and communication between community residents and other stakeholders to generate a positive and healthy community environment and gradually improve intergroup relations. Specifically, we applied community psychology and used Hongqiao New Village in Shanghai, China, as a research site to explore intergenerational conflict in public community spaces. The research was divided into two stages: an input stage and an output stage. In the input stage, participatory research and tea parties were used to deeply explore residents' public space requirements. In the output stage, we tested the validity of the theory by using the Intergenerational Attitude Scale to investigate whether the intergenerational relationships were changed by the co-creation intervention. The results showed that the intervention caused a decrease in the incidence of conflict between residents using the square and caused some children to join the older groups in their activities. We thus propose a theoretical system model of intergenerational integration strategies that incorporates elements of integration, disagreement, and synergy in intergenerational interactions. Overall, this paper provides new ideas for building a community environment that supports mental health and improves intergenerational relationships and social well-being.

Underlying Causes of Intergenerational Conflict Between Parent-Child Age Bands in Multan City, Pakistan: A Comparative Study

The present study was designed to find out the underlying causes of intergenerational conflict between parents and their teenage children in Multan city, Pakistan. The escalated dispute between the Boomer and X generations originated due to abridged connectivity, inadequate emotional ties, and modified socialization patterns. A cross-sectional survey research design was used to determine the comparison of opinions between the parent-child age cohorts. A sample size of n1=202 parents and n2=410 unmarried teenage children from n=120 families were selected from the two towns of the study vicinity. The data was analyzed through simple linear regression analysis in SPSS version-21. From the results, it was evident that inadequate appreciation and affection induced the highest magnitude of parent-child conflict i.e. 50.3%. Furthermore, three other significant indicators of the intergenerational conflict between the two generations were i) lack of time spent (44.2%) ii) ineffective communication (49.1%) and iii) devaluing each other and non-fulfillment of commitment (36.1%). The concluding remarks unveiled that the parents and children were bound by the unbending and inflexible ideology of “Me on the right path.” This stubborn approach unable these two generations to understand and respect each others “privacy” “new normative trends” and “emerging needs of the modernized world.” The solidarity and relational ties between the two age allies could be augmented through understanding, forgiveness, acceptance, appreciation, commitment, adequate time spent, effective communication, and cognitive restructuring.

The Other Dilemma in Everything I Never Told You

Everything I Never Told You tells a story about the crisis faced by an American transracial family. Focusing on the death of second daughter Lydia, the novel discusses social problems from the aspects of race, gender, and intergenerational conflicts. This paper analyzes the predicament of the other identity caused by race and gender from the perspective of post-colonialism, explores the real causes of the family crisis, and interprets the efforts made by family members to resolve conflicts. Meanwhile, this paper attempts to take Lydia’s tragedy as a warning to reduce misunderstanding and disharmony in family and social communication under multicultural background.

Contesting gender: young women and feminist generations in gender-based violence services

ABSTRACT Activism and service provision around gender-based violence (GBV) are often young women’s first entry point into feminist movements. Definitions of gender and GBV, however, are increasingly contested within feminist spaces, with often exclusionary consequences for how survivors of violence are supported. Drawing on the findings of online and in-person interviews and ethnographic fieldwork in Serbia and Italy, this article documents young activists’ efforts to broaden the category of gender within feminist organizations and questions whether the frame of feminist generational conflict, prevalent both in the literature and in public discourse, can explain the ensuing tensions. It argues that narratives of generational conflict, despite being frequently deployed by activists themselves, obfuscate a genuine struggle to redefine the subject of feminism and extend feminist solidarity to trans women and other marginalized groups. Different feminist praxes, as seen in the two case studies, can either trigger acts of generational disidentification and disengagement or foster spaces of intergenerational exchange and discussion. Paying attention to the work that intergenerational conflict narratives are doing, and the work they are preventing, can help uncover and explicitly address the tensions currently permeating feminist spaces towards a more inclusive and expansive feminism.

Incorporating Culture into The Treatment of Substance Use Disorder: A Narrative Review

IntroductionCulture is defined by the shared beliefs, attitudes, values, and practices of a particular group of people which can influence their behaviour and social interactions, including the use of substances.ObjectivesThe aim of this review is to identify the evidence of cultural competence in the treatment of people with substance use disorder (SUD) and encourage the professionals and organizations to take cultural context into account.MethodsNarrative review about the topic, using PubMed/Medline database. MeSH terms: “culture”, “cultural competence”, “addictions”, “substance use disorder”.ResultsStudies show that culture can either be a catalyst for SUD or play a protective role. However, other factors may also play a large role in client’s response substance use and the development of SUD. Acculturation and generational differences can also impact SUD treatment, especially when intergenerational conflict causes stress that leads individuals to engage in risky behaviours. Thus, treatment for SUD has to be sensitive to cultural differences and professionals should provide culturally based approaches. Culturally targeted practices have been linked to greater outcomes, better therapeutic alliance, less dropouts and consequent increased retention in the treatment. These practices include matching clinicians and clients on linguistic and cultural backgrounds as well as being mindful of the impact of culture on client’s experience of SUD. Providing therapy and materials in the client’s language, knowledge, understanding and appreciation for cultural perspectives, involving the family and community and training therapists, are some of culturally competent practices used. These strategies involve knowledge, creativity, and experience.ConclusionsCultural competence seems to be a valuable tool for healthcare professionals working in a multicultural context, particularly with people with SUD. Unfortunately, the lack of supporting evidence limits the validity of any particular model of cultural competence. Future methodologically research is necessary in order to provide quality cultural competence models for people with SUD.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared

Young generations attitudes towards aging population

Older adults, those above 65-years-old, are an exponentially growing population in China, raising concerns around the well-being of this social group. In particular, there are intergenerational conflicts between young teens and older adults, characterized by increased prejudice, stereotypes, and ageism. Drawn upon social contact theory, this study explores these negative intergroup attitudes towards the elders as a function of intention to interact with elders in China but also investigated a possible means to promote positive intergroup relationships (i.e., reading heterogeneous stories about elders on social media). A total of 84 Chinses teenagers aged 11-14 years old were recruited. Findings suggested that children with a lower frequency of contact with elders tend to show higher perceived threats and reported more agism. Moreover, the proposed stories about elders did not necessarily alter these teens attitudes towards elders. Theoretical and practical cautions were discussed based on these findings.

Age and Workplace Ageism: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

ABSTRACT The increase of older workers has resulted in more diversified demographics with a wide spectrum of employees’ ages. This change calls for a better understanding of intergenerational conflict, in particular ageism. This study aimed to synthesize study findings on workplace ageism by examining the relationship between ageist attitudes and chronological age. A systematic literature review was conducted in accordance with PRISMA; then, 15 studies were included. The results of an intercept-only meta-regression model, using robust variance estimation with a random-effects approach, showed that an increase in workers’ age had a significant negative association with the severity of their workplace-based ageist attitudes: b = −.159 (95% CI: −.21, −.11). Thus, the younger the workers, the more severe their ageist attitudes toward others in different age groups in the workplace. The findings offer implications for occupational social work practice in terms of priority in anti-ageism education and training among different age groups.

Confrontation between Believers and Young “Godless” as a Factor of Intergenerational Rift in Russian Village in 1920s

The relationship between representatives of the generations of the “revolutionary turning point” (born at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries) and “children of the revolution” (those whose childhood fell on the first post-revolutionary fifteen years) is analyzed. The role of the young “godless” of the 1920s in the evolution of the moral state of the peasant “fathers” is studied. The role of the young “godless” of the 1920s in the evolution of the moral state of the peasant “fathers” is studied. Attention is paid to the theoretical substantiation of the role of the pioneers in the formation of the “new man”, their practical efforts in this direction and the reaction of the peasantry. It is shown that the spiritual heritage, which, according to the rules of continuity of development, the generation of the “revolutionary turning point” was called upon to pass on to its successors, in real life was rejected by active representatives of the younger generation. The confrontation between young “godless” and adherents of traditional religions significantly influenced the strengthening of the intergenerational rift in the Russian village. An analysis of the experience of forming the foundations of the pioneer movement and identifying the causes of the exacerbation of intergenerational conflict in the Russian countryside (including children’s anti-religious activities) are of particular relevance in connection with the search for a model of education that meets the modern demands of the state and society.

Accounting for Future Generations in Energy Ethics: The Case for Temporalized Ethical Matrices

ABSTRACT Accounting for future generations is central in energy ethics and the ethical matrix can be used to reveal ethical impacts on them. However, the way it integrates future generations is questionable. The aim of this paper is to show why this tool does not consider ethical impacts on future generations appropriately and to propose a novel temporalized framework, which characterizes future people according to temporal, spatial and role features. By stimulating the disclosure of intergenerational conflicts, this temporalized matrix provides support for a more nuanced overview of ethical impacts across generations, crucial in the field of energy ethics.

A Study on Chinese Audience's Receptive Behavior towards Chinese and Western Cultural Hybridity Films Based on Grounded Theory-Taking Disney's Animated Film Turning Red as an Example.

For a long time, Chinese audiences have not had a high opinion of hybrid Chinese and Western movies. However, the unanimous praise for Turning Red in China se ems to have reversed this situation. In order to verify whether the attitudinal behavior of Chinese audiences toward the film's hybridization of Chinese and Western cultures has changed, this study collected textual materials reflecting the Chinese audience's receptive attitudes toward the film: Douban reviews, short reviews, questionnaires and Mtime.com reviews. Through a grounded study of 664,312 words, a total of 16 initial categories and four main categories were obtained. Finally, a cognitive-emotional-attitudinal mechanism model was formed to explain the audience's receptive behavior process. The study found that Chinese audiences' positive reception of Turning Red comes more from the fact that the film touches on personal emotions and focuses on a series of issues such as growing up, family, and gender, with intergenerational conflict as the core. The audience achieves self-projection and empathy while watching the film, rather than recognizing the Chinese culture presented therein. On this basis, the research further found that the internal structure of the current cultural hybridity has not changed greatly. The reason audiences do not give a high evaluation of cultural hybridity films lies in the lack of conscious distinction between the hybridity culture and the local culture. At the same time, in terms of cross-cultural creation, we should abandon the blind pursuit of cultural symbols, take root in cultural soil and then pay attention to more specific problems. This study reveals that the key factor affecting the audience's receptive behavior toward cultural hybridity films is not necessarily the performance of local culture, which is of great significance for establishing new evaluation criteria.

Micro-Household Human Capital Investment Decisions and a Simulation Study from the Intergenerational Conflict Perspective.

Education is highly valued in Asian families. However, as family members age, competition for intra-family resources affects children's actualization in the family, which impacts the family's future capital. However, most existing studies have interpreted the family's intergenerational conflicts in terms of care services for older adults, and few have analyzed and simulated intra-family competition based on the intergenerational conflict. This study introduces a multi-agent simulation approach to observe micro-households' educational investment choices under the dual pressures of retirement and childcare. This measure captures households' investment choices and provides a decision basis for given households. Using data from the China Family Panel Study for 2014, 2016, and 2018, we explore the impact of these dual pressures on household educational expenditures and their differences across urban and rural areas, household aging, and income samples. We also simulated the micro-households' investment choices under these dual pressures to observe that these pressures reduce investments in educational human capital in these "sandwich-like" households. The simulation results suggest that households with high childcare stress invest more in education than those with a high retirement burden. Moreover, income growth can mitigate the dual stress "crowding-out" effect on education, which is most pronounced in low-income, high childcare-stress households.

Development of the Adolescents’ Communicative Culture in the Context of Digitalization of Additional Education

In the era of digitalization of education and economy and the development of artificial intelligence, adolescents appear highly competitive compared with other generations in understanding digital technologies, acquiring expertise, and mastering modern means of communication, which normally causes intergenerational conflicts and the loss of an adult’s personal and functional authority. The aim of this research was to develop and test a model for developing adolescents’ communicative cultures in an institution of additional education. The research emphasizes the significance of personality-oriented, interactive-communicative, and cultural approaches and conducts a comparative analysis of the sources. Methodologically, the study relies on a quantitative method with primary sources. Besides, the findings of the study contribute to the existing limited stress on the importance of adolescents’ communicative cultures from the perspective of the digitalization of additional education. The study finds that the use of digital options in education has reduced social interaction among students. However, the students prefer to use digital methods of learning as they find them more convenient for communication. Therefore, the digital communication culture has high potential in the educational sector. The findings are novel as this study is one of the few recent studies that examined how communicative culture has transformed due to digital means in education. Doi: 10.28991/ESJ-2022-SIED-019 Full Text: PDF

Development of the Adolescents’ Communicative Culture in the Context of Digitalization of Additional Education

In the era of digitalization of education and economy and the development of artificial intelligence, adolescents appear highly competitive compared with other generations in understanding digital technologies, acquiring expertise, and mastering modern means of communication, which normally causes intergenerational conflicts and the loss of an adult’s personal and functional authority. The aim of this research was to develop and test a model for developing adolescents’ communicative cultures in an institution of additional education. The research emphasizes the significance of personality-oriented, interactive-communicative, and cultural approaches and conducts a comparative analysis of the sources. Methodologically, the study relies on a quantitative method with primary sources. Besides, the findings of the study contribute to the existing limited stress on the importance of adolescents’ communicative cultures from the perspective of the digitalization of additional education. The study finds that the use of digital options in education has reduced social interaction among students. However, the students prefer to use digital methods of learning as they find them more convenient for communication. Therefore, the digital communication culture has high potential in the educational sector. The findings are novel as this study is one of the few recent studies that examined how communicative culture has transformed due to digital means in education. Doi: 10.28991/ESJ-2022-SIED-019 Full Text: PDF

Home is where the hate is: gender, race, class and the domestic abuse plotline in fiction and on screen

ABSTRACT The article examines the representation of domestic violence in the novel and screen versions of The Girl on the Train and series 1 and 2 of Big Little Lies. It argues that in the last five years there has been a boom in depictions of domestic abuse, ranging from radio and soap operas, such as The Archers and Eastenders, to the “glossy” screen productions examined in the article. This reflects fourth-wave feminist interest in hidden forms of gendered violence and the extension to existing laws on intimate partner abuse in the US and UK. This article argues that, while the popular female-authored domestic crime novels that The Girl on the Train and Big Little Lies are based on highlight economic disadvantage and patriarchal privilege as factors determining domestic abuse, the screen adaptations veer towards an emphasis on individual couple dynamics and victim-blaming. It focuses particularly on sexism and racism in the second series of Big Little Lies. Written by veteran Hollywood screenwriter David E. Kelley along with high-profile white female stars, the series shifts emphasis away from gendered violence and towards intergenerational female conflict by blaming domestic violence on two older female figures, one of them an African-American woman.

Rethinking the ‘Barren’ Decades of Women’s Movement in Turkey: Collective Memory and Intergenerational Conflicts

Feminist historiography in Turkey has long dismissed the period between the 1930s and 1980s as the ‘barren period’ of the women’s movement. To understand the diverse and conflicted genealogies of Turkey’s feminism(s), we argue, it is necessary to critically engage with the notion of the ‘barren period.’ In the 1950s, ‘the discourse of indebtedness’ to Atatürk and the gender project of Kemalism became hegemonic through production of collective memory in which the women’s movement participated. Haunted by the radical struggles of Ottoman and early Republican feminists for equality, the mid-twentieth century women’s movement selectively remembered them in shaping this memory. Beginning in the second half of the 1960s, younger generations of women began to question women’s movement’s agendas and actions. This article focuses on two issues where the intergenerational conflict was particularly evident: (Anti-)veiling and (anti-)communism. These themes reveal that the discourse of indebtedness was unsustainable by the second half of the 1960s, when new political agencies emerged that did not assume the privileged saviour role of the women’s movement or positioned themselves as victims to be rescued. While the established women’s movement gradually acknowledged the history of radical autonomous struggle of Ottoman and early Republican feminists and their suppression by the early Republican regime, deep political and ideological rifts hindered the communication and transmission of this history to a new generation of women in the mid-1960s.

Letter to the Editor: Intergenerational Conflicts between Young and Older Adults: May the Cinema of Pasolini Help Us?

Letter to the Editor: Intergenerational Conflicts between Young and Older Adults: May the Cinema of Pasolini Help Us?

Ramifications of Decisions: A Study of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's, Before We Visit the Goddess

Diasporic writing is an attempt to express the predicaments of immigrants as they land in an alien land. Migration both forced and voluntary resulted in the feelings of dislocation, alienation and confusion as they are made victims of discriminations based on race, culture, religion and language. Diasporic writers have attempted to express some of the inexplicable problems of immigrants. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni as a diasporic writer focuses on the trajectory of immigrants and the trauma of being in exile. Her novels explore the problems of settlement, fractured identity, immigrant experiences, and multi-cultural society, intergenerational and cross cultural conflicts and ramification of decisions from female protagonists. Ramification of decisions continues to shape literature in time immemorial. Serious decisions taken by characters develop the plot as well as make narration interesting. Decision making is actually a cognitive process that result in a selection of belief among other alternative possible actions. The consequences of decisions are to be focused because failing decisions may lead to complications, challenges that would turn someone’s life upside down. Divakaruni picturizes adventurous characters who always find possibilities to shine in their lives by breaking their shackles. Her characters would take venturesome decisions especially when they are in a complex situation. The author motivates her immigrant readers by projecting challenges to the characters and shows ways to overcome the situation. In her novel, Before We Visit the Goddess, three generations of women who take significant decisions that bring drastic change in their lives that result in their quest for identity. This paper highlights the gradual development of characters from stepping out from their homeland to facing challenges and establishing an identity in an alien land. This paper is an attempt to explore how the characters with ramifications of decisions, several distractions and different dreams, figure out their identity and continue to evolve.

Peasant generation of the “revolutionary turning point”: beginning of its formation

Importance. The study of “revolutionary turning point” generation allows to penetrate into the inner world of people of revolution and civil war era. Of particular interest is the initial stage of formation of representatives of this generation, which occurred during the first revolution of 1905–1907. Research methods. Of all the groups of youth, peasant youth is the least studied – in considerable part due to the limited source base. The formulation of conclusions and observations is possible only on the basis of a representative database on the social activity of peasants and sources of personal origin. Analytical and historical-statistical methods were used in the research. Results and Discussion. On the basis of a complete collection of sources on the Orenburg goevernorate and its analysis, it became possible to challenge the opinion about the universality of statements common in the literature about the increase in the consciousness of peasant youth and the manifestation of intergenerational conflicts in the period under review. At the same time, the facts indicate the beginning of this process. Conclusion. The observations made do not pretend to be universal, but allow us to imagine the similarity of the conditions and capabilities of the governorate under review with other, also adjacent ones. Large territories, weak communications, along with other characteristic features of the outskirts created additional difficulties for the political education of rural youth. Therefore, the manifestations of peasant activity are valuable not only and not so many cases, but by fixing qualitative changes in the peasant consciousness. The study of the views of peasant youth during the revolution and the Civil War requires an appeal to the beginning of such formation.