The Effect of Parenting on Future Orientation

Until recently, research on adolescents’ future orientation was mainly concerned with macrosystemic effects. Researchers contrasted the future orientation of Singapore and Australian, Indian and American, Israeli Arab and Jewish adolescents, working class and middle class adolescents, native-born and new immigrants, kibbutz and urban raised youth. Underlying this research interest has been an assumption that macrosystemic forces consisting of cultural beliefs, attitudes, values, and adult role expectations serve as building blocks for the construction of adolescent future orientation and thus make socio-cultural settings a viable issue in the study of future orientation.