Adolescent Alienation: its correlates and consequences
Titel:
Adolescent Alienation: its correlates and consequences
Auteur:
Williamson, Iain Cullingford, Cedric
Verschenen in:
Educational studies
Paginering:
Jaargang 24 (1998) nr. 3 pagina's 333-343
Jaar:
1998-11
Inhoud:
This research is into the experience of alienation amongst British adolescents. The study had three major aims: firstly to investigate potential differences across various dimensions of alienation on the basis of gender, ethnicity and religion. Secondly, to establish a relationship between alienation, self-esteem and selected undesirable school behaviours. Finally, there is an attempt to evaluate the use of alienation scales as a research tool in education. The study involved 254 participants aged between 13 and 15 years attending large, multi-ethnic comprehensives. The findings show that reported levels of alienation were influenced by religious orientation but only minimally by gender or ethnicity per se. Reported alienation negatively correlated with self-esteem but was positively associated with truancy, exclusion and disruptive behaviour. The authors conclude that, whilst alienation remains a useful concept for educational research, it is unhelpful to see it as an inevitable consequence of deprivation or membership of certain social groups.
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