摘要
The study revealed similarities in attitudes towards freedom,responsibility,and society by comparing the responses of 47 undergraduate students from Kyrgyzstan and 47 undergraduate students from the United States using the method of semantic differential(Kagan,1991;Osgood,Tannenbaum,&Suci,1957/1975)and the original Concept Questionnaire.The results of the study emphasize the universality of the values of freedom and responsibility,and the attitude towards society indicates the adaptive strain characteristic of late adolescence period.
基金
inspired by the experience of designing and teaching interdisciplinary course“Individual Freedom and Social Responsibility:A Comparative Perspective”at the American University of Central Asia in fruitful collaboration with Dr.Ellen Hurwitz and Mary Bernadette Conde to whom we express our gratitude.We thank the Christian A.Johnson Endeavor Foundation for funding the development of this course.The authors thank the United States Agency for International Development(USAID)for the grant provided for this study.We also thank the American University of Central Asia for providing a travel grant for research meeting.We thank Brigette Adams for her invaluable support for editing this article.
