{"title":"Personal and collective future thought in times of uncertainty","authors":"Hadar Hazan , Victoria Hui , Christian S. Chan","doi":"10.1016/j.futures.2024.103380","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Hong Kong's 2019 protests sparked public concern about the city's future. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between Hong Kong residents' personal futures (PF) and their perceptions of the city's collective future (CF), and how these views connect to well-being and career decisions. We surveyed 266 Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong residents aged 18–64. Our findings revealed a weak positive correlation between PF and CF, with PF being generally more positive. Stronger views on both PF and CF were linked to better well-being. Interestingly, positive PF (but not CF) predicted higher career decisiveness. Importantly, the strength of the PF/CF association was greater for those who strongly identified with Hong Kong. Our results suggest that even amidst social unrest, individuals may retain optimism about their personal futures while holding a less optimistic view of their city's collective future, and these views can influence career decision-making.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48239,"journal":{"name":"Futures","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 103380"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Futures","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328724000636","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Hong Kong's 2019 protests sparked public concern about the city's future. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between Hong Kong residents' personal futures (PF) and their perceptions of the city's collective future (CF), and how these views connect to well-being and career decisions. We surveyed 266 Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong residents aged 18–64. Our findings revealed a weak positive correlation between PF and CF, with PF being generally more positive. Stronger views on both PF and CF were linked to better well-being. Interestingly, positive PF (but not CF) predicted higher career decisiveness. Importantly, the strength of the PF/CF association was greater for those who strongly identified with Hong Kong. Our results suggest that even amidst social unrest, individuals may retain optimism about their personal futures while holding a less optimistic view of their city's collective future, and these views can influence career decision-making.
期刊介绍：
Futures is an international, refereed, multidisciplinary journal concerned with medium and long-term futures of cultures and societies, science and technology, economics and politics, environment and the planet and individuals and humanity. Covering methods and practices of futures studies, the journal seeks to examine possible and alternative futures of all human endeavours. Futures seeks to promote divergent and pluralistic visions, ideas and opinions about the future. The editors do not necessarily agree with the views expressed in the pages of Futures
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