Transferuri valorice si atitudinale transgenerationale in Romania post-comunista

Our paper has grouped the conclusions of research organized between 2002-2010 on 1841 subjects from different generational strata in contemporary Romania. The investigation realized on representative samples has made on three age groups, conventionally designated as ‘generations’: ‘50th generation’ (subjects socialized in communism, profoundly integrated in the ‘old world’), ‘35th generation’ (subjects secondary socialized in communism, social integrated in the ‘old world,’ which obtain in present an influent symbolic position in the social network), and the ‘20th generation’ (subjects social nonintegrated before 1989, which preserve a neutral memory about the pre-revolutionary period and assumes today a strategies of social integration in a totally different social reality). The applied psychological instruments assess the following dimensions: independence-interdependence (Singelis); self-esteem (Rosenberg); locus of control (Rotter); self-determination (Sheldon, Ryan, Reis); and the values matrix provided by Schwartz Value Inventory, combining a quantitative methodology (trough the above instruments) with a qualitative one (oral history interviews). Our study is focused on the two concurrent hypotheses: the attitudinal changing hypothesis (the change of fundamental social attitudes) and the la longue durée” hypothesis (the persistence of fundamental social attitudes), examining the practical consequences of confirming la longue durée” hypothesis. At the same time, we have briefly configured the identitary portrait of one of the most traumatic generation for the communist period (‘decre eii’, ‘the children of the Decree’ 770/1967 – the Ceausescu’s decree for interdiction abortion), underlining the presence of a transgenerational axiological and attitudinal patterns, characterized by low level of social commitment and assistential values.