This study examines the effect of one social milieu factor (Israeli kibbutz vs. urban
lifestyle) on adolescents' future orientation. Responses of 114 kibbutz and 112
urban adolescents to an open-ended future orientation questionnaire are grouped into
nine life domains: school and matriculation, military service, higher education,
work and career, marriage and family, self, others, collective issues, and community
service. Analysis shows that, overall, kibbutz adolescents express fewer hopes for
the future (lower hopes salience), and their image of hopes for the future is
somewhat less detailed and concrete (lower hopes specificity). These tendencies are
especially manifested in domains pertaining to transition to adulthood (military
service, higher education) and adulthood (work and career, marriage and family)
roles. Results are examined in light of prospective cognitive appraisal (Lazarus
& Launier, 1978). This prompts a proposition that the relationship between
adolescents' prospective appraisal and future orientation has an inverted U-shape.
Following on from Trommsdorff and Lamm (1980) it is also suggested that the future
orientation model be expanded and also include intrapersonal factors derived from
expectancy x value models (Heckhausen, 1977).
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