TY - JOUR
T1 - Children's economic socialization
T2 - Summarizing the cross-cultural comparison of ten countries
AU - Leiser, David
AU - Sevón, Guje
AU - Lévy, Daphna
N1 - Funding Information:
* The comments of of Paul Webley on this report and his extensive contribution to the entire project is gratefully acknowledged. This research was partly supported by a grant from the Hubert Humphreys Center for Social Ecology, Israel.
PY - 1990/1/1
Y1 - 1990/1/1
N2 - This paper summarizes the cross-cultural study of economic socialization detailed in the previous papers in this issue. The sample was drawn from 10 countries: Algeria, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Israel (town and kibbutz), Norway, Poland, West Germany, and Yugoslavia and administred to children age 8, 11 and 14. The topics covered were: (a) understanding who decides what, and why (prices, salaries, savings and investment, the mint); (b) reasoning: how well do children appreciate the consequences of economic events of national dimension; (c) attitudes: how do they account for the economic fate of individuals. In addition to the tabulation of answer types to individual questions, we subjected the data in each main part of the questionnaire to a Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS) analysis. The progression with age is clear and in line with previous investigations in various countries. The differences between countries are harder to interpret and reasons for this are discussed.
AB - This paper summarizes the cross-cultural study of economic socialization detailed in the previous papers in this issue. The sample was drawn from 10 countries: Algeria, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Israel (town and kibbutz), Norway, Poland, West Germany, and Yugoslavia and administred to children age 8, 11 and 14. The topics covered were: (a) understanding who decides what, and why (prices, salaries, savings and investment, the mint); (b) reasoning: how well do children appreciate the consequences of economic events of national dimension; (c) attitudes: how do they account for the economic fate of individuals. In addition to the tabulation of answer types to individual questions, we subjected the data in each main part of the questionnaire to a Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS) analysis. The progression with age is clear and in line with previous investigations in various countries. The differences between countries are harder to interpret and reasons for this are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/0167-4870(90)90038-B
DO - 10.1016/0167-4870(90)90038-B
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0011718651
SN - 0167-4870
VL - 11
SP - 591
EP - 614
JO - Journal of Economic Psychology
JF - Journal of Economic Psychology
IS - 4
ER -