9/11 Impact on Teenage Values

Did the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. cause the values of teenagers in the U.S. to change? Did their previously important self-esteem and self-actualization values become less important and their survival and safety values become more important? Changes in the values of teenagers...

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Published in:	Journal of business ethics Vol. 69; no. 4; pp. 399 - 421
Main Authors:	Murphy, Edward F., Woodhull, Mark D., Post, Bert, Murphy-Post, Carolyn, Teeple, William, Anderson, Kent (Andy)
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht Springer 01-12-2006 Springer Nature B.V
Series:	Journal of Business Ethics
Subjects:	11 Impact Academic degrees Adolescents Aeronautics Attitudes Aviation Behavior Business ethics Consumer attitudes Cultural values Customers Economic impact analysis emotional or traumatic events Employees Friendship High school students Impact analysis Job satisfaction Managers National security Peacetime Post traumatic stress disorder Research studies School districts School superintendents Secondary school students Secondary schools Self esteem Self-actualization September 11 September 11 terrorist attacks-2001 Social psychology Students Teacher education teenage values Teenagers Terrorism U.S.A value change Values War Youth United States > US USA, New York USA, California, San Francisco
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Summary:	Did the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. cause the values of teenagers in the U.S. to change? Did their previously important self-esteem and self-actualization values become less important and their survival and safety values become more important? Changes in the values of teenagers are important for practitioners, managers, marketers, and researchers to understand because high school students are our current and future employees, managers, and customers, and research has shown that values impact work and consumer-related attitudes and behaviors. Further, studies that compared higher to lower performing for-profit and not-for-profit companies have found that higher performing organizations had strong values that permeated their organizations [Collins J. C., and J. I. Porras: 1994, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (New York, Harper Business); O'Reilly, C. A. and J. A. Chatman: 1996, in B. M. Staw and L. L. Cummings (eds.), Research in Organizational Behavior, vol. 18 (JAI Press, Greenwhich, CT), pp. 157-200; O'Reilly, C. A.: 1989, California Management Review 31(4), 9-25; Posner, B. Z., and W. H. Schmidt: 1996, Public Personnel Management, 25(3), 277-298; Rousseau, D.: 1990, Group and Organization Studies 15(4), 448-460; Schein, E. H.: 2004, Organizational Culture and Leadership. San Francisco, Jossey Bass)]. While one study of adults found value changes, no known studies have explored if the values of teenagers also changed post-9/11. This study filled that research gap by exploring the values of a random sample of 1000 U.S. teenagers in grades 9 to 12 pre- and post-9/11, using a demographic questionnaire and the Rokeach Value Survey. The research results indicated that teenage survival, safety, and security values (a world at peace, freedom, national security, and salvation) increased in importance while their self-esteem and self-actualization values (a sense of accomplishment, inner harmony, pleasure, self-respect, and wisdom) decreased in importance, mirroring the changes for adults. The meaning of these findings for practitioners, managers, marketers and researchers was discussed.
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ISSN:	0167-4544 1573-0697
DOI:	10.1007/s10551-006-9098-1