FUTURE EXPECTATIONS AND SELF-SYSTEM OF AD OLESCENTS

Empirical results concerning an importance of various future expectati ons and a self-system of adolescents are included in this article. A S cale of Future Expectations, Identity Style Inventory, Self Modalities Inventory, and Self-Esteem Scale were presented to 445 adolescents (a ge from 13 to 18 years). The most of possible future goals were assess ed as important. Gender and age differences were found. Concerning the ir future life, girls reported a higher importance of good interperson al relationships and family, boys asserted the importance of their own social prestige and their own career. Younger adolescents reported hi gher importance of career and family life, older presented higher impo rtance of future leisure time. The various aspects of adolescents self -system are related to five more general domains of future expectation . The level of self-esteem, gender and age of adolescents predicted th e importance of social prestige. Informational and normative styles of identity, as well as importance of self-assessment according to autho rities and importance of ideal self according to parents were related to future prosocial orientation. The importance of future family life was not predicted from adolescents self-system. Future leisure time wa s positively related to high importance of self-assessment according t o peers. The relationships between future leisure activities and self- assessment according to parents were negative. The importance of basic values (health, career, and money) was predicted from the importance of self according to parents and from normative oriented identity styl e.