La trasmissione dei valori in tre generazioni familiari: lo studio dell'effetto stereotipico.

[Autom. eng. transl.] The transmission of values between parents and children plays a social role of primary importance, since the sharing and continuity of values between generations are key conditions for the stability of society (Trommsdorff, Mayer and Albert, 2004). The family and the social context represent the main sources in the process of acquisition of values by the new generations. Although recognized on a theoretical level, the interaction between family and social belonging has been little taken into consideration by research (Knafo and Schwartz, 2009): the few empirical studies on the subject are mainly aimed at identifying which source has the greatest impact on the value choices of single, assuming a relationship of "antagonism" between them. Less numerous are the researches aimed at investigating a specificity, in the sense of uniqueness, linked to the family belonging that is confronted, not necessarily in opposition, with the social. The specificity of influenza is a theme dear to studies on interpersonal perceptions, which have proposed various strategies for its quantification. Among these strategies, the best known is that of Kenny and Acitelli (1994), who introduced the concept of stereotypical effect: this effect refers to the subject's tendency to respond in a typical, socially shared way (this is what, for example , joins in the answers a teenager to any other teenager or an adult to any other adult). It must be distinguished from the degree of unique similarity, which binds two subjects in their respective perceptions. Re-read with reference to the transmission of values, this unique similarity could be understood as that surplus of values that the family is able or not to create and to ensure that it is shared by its members. The general objective of the present study is to measure the similarity, assumed as an indicator of the results of the transmission, between the value priorities of parents and children, distinguishing the two components (unique and stereotypical) that contribute to determining the entity. The assumed perspective is multigenerational: in fact, 381 families participated in the research, consisting of an adolescent child (46.2% male; average age = 17.01 years), a father and a mother; for 257 families the data of the grandparents are also available. For the detection of personal values, the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ) was administered to each subject (Schwartz, 2005). Data analysis is still ongoing.