Familism, filial piety and consciousness for supporting their parents among adolescent, middle, and old generation

가족주의 가치관과 효 및 부모부양의식의 세대별 비교연구 -노년, 중년, 청년층을 중심으로-

The purpose of this study is to investigate how much traditional family ethics exist in morden society. For this goal, I have analyzed norm consciousness of the family among adolescent, middle and old generation. In this research, three kinds of questionnaire were used and the data were obtained from 1,661 samples of three generation groups living in Gyengnam area. The major findings obtained from this study are as follows: First, the filial piety and consciousness for supporting their parents were not changed at all in traditional family ethics. The filial piety and consciousness for supporting their parents are the most important family concepts without showing any difference in generation-gap in modem society. Second, the decreasing traditional norm consciousness of family was familism value. Specialty the familism value becomes weaker from old to younger generation. Third, the filial piety and familism value were shown to be the important factors to support their parents. These concepts showed same trends without showing generation-gap.