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FakultasEkonomiUniversitasPelitaHarapan Tangerang
2)
LPPMUniversitasPelitaHarapan Tangerang
1)
e-mail: sabrinasihombing@gmail.com
2)
e-mail: rudy.pramono@uph.edu
Abstract
The concept of value is an important concept for many disciplines such as psychology, sociology,
consumer behavior, and others. Values are principle foundation of the people behavior. Specifically, values
provide guidelines to live in and how to behave in a society. Many researches have conducted to predict the
relationship between values and behavior. However, little research has been devoted to understand current
Indonesian youth values. One research conducted by Sihombing (2014) found 9 dimensions of Indonesian youth
values: mutual assistance, religion, democracy, kinship, hospitality, western culture, religious fanaticism,
selfish, and corruption.Corruption is the most problem that Indonesian people face nowadays. Moreover,
corruption increase highly and complicated. Not only that, corruption in Indonesia is like evolution and
regeneration.
Youth is one of the greatest assets of any nations as agent of change. Specifically, youth have
important roles in fighting corruption. This study aims to explore why some Indonesian youth hold corruption
as their values by understanding one important factor, i.e. mass media, which affects youth values. This study
also proposes a model that describes the relationship between mass media, youth values, and life style.
I.
Introduction
II.
Literature review
Values
Value is a word perceived differently
varies by many people. Some people may
think that value is associated with
numbers. Some people may refer value as
related to price and quality while others
may refer value as a standard of judging
something such as judging self and others
behaviors.
Value is a central concept in the social
sciences and has been employed across all
social science disciplines such as
anthropology, sociology, political science,
organizational
behavior,
marketing,
consumer behavior, and others (Schwartz,
2006; Vinson et al., 1977). The term value
is a generic one and has a number of
definitions (Fritzshe & Oz, 2007; Rohan,
2000; Rokeach& Ball-Rokeach, 1989).It
can be stated that no consensus in the
literature about the definition of value
(Gursoy et al., 2013; Narasimhanet al.,
2010; Lan et al., 2009; Lombaert, 2003;
Meglino&Raylin, 1998).This research
applies personal values as personal beliefs
that guide the way people to select actions,
evaluate people and events, and explain
their actions and evaluations (Schwartz,
1999).
As a personal beliefs, values are an
integral part of human life (Yuan & Dong,
2006; Klamer, 2003). Human being is a
social animal, therefore value is the core
element in socialization process which
guides people to live in a society in a
normal and acceptable behavior (Yuan &
Dong, 2006; Blackwell et al., 2006).
Furthermore, value is an indicator for
human practice which provides an internal
reference to select and justify behavior
(Yuan & Dong, 2006; Fraj & Martinez,
2006).
Values are beliefs about what is desirable
and undesirable, right and wrong,
acceptable and unacceptable, and good
and bad (Okafor, 2014; Gursoy et al.,
2013).Schwartz (2006) identifies six main
important features of values. Those
features are as follows:(1) values are
beliefs linked inextricably to affect, (2)
values refer to desirable goals that motivate
action, (3) values transcend specific actions
and situations, (4) values serve as standards
to guide the selection or evaluation of
behavior, people, and, (5) values are
ordered by importance relative to one
another, and (6) the relative importance of
multiple values guides action.These six
features show that values as desirable,
trans-situational
goals,
varying
in
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importance,that provide
principles in peoples lives.
guiding
Country
United Kingdom*
Values
singularity, difficult to express feelings, not tactile
France*
Italy*
Spain*
Germany*
America**
achievement
and success, activity, efficiency and practicality,
progress, material comfort, individualism, freedom, external
conformity, humanitarianism, youthfulness, fitness and health
Australia***
China****
Thailand*****
Malaysia*****
Indonesia******
harmony,democracy,
Sources: * Evans et al., (2009) **Schiffman and Kanuk (2010,*** Blackwell et al. (2006), ****Sian et al.
(2007),******Komin (1995, in Rachman, 2007),*** ***Sihombing (2013)
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Birth years
Generation Y
(Echo boomers, Millennials, Why
Generation, Net Generation, Gen Wired,
We Generation, DotNet, Ne(x)t
Generation, Nexters, First Globals, iPod
Generation, iYGeneration)
1981 2000
Current age
15 34
View of technology
Employ it
Communications media
Internet
Picture phones
E-mail
Major influences
Music
Media & sport stars
Grunge
Money is...
Todays payoff
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Formative experiences
Globalization
Internet access made available
World Trade Center, Pentagon attacked
Core values
Achievement
Avoid consumers
Civic duty
Confidence
Diversity
Extreme fun
High morals
High tolerant
Hotly competitive
Like personal attention
Socialability
Members of global community
Extremely techno savvy
Extremely spiritual
Now!
Optimism
Realism
Street smarts
formergovernmentofficialssuch
asformerministers, governors, regents,
mayors and others imprisoneddue to
corruption.Corruption
flourishes
in
Indonesia and there is no sanction from
Indonesian government and society to
punish corruptor to make them afraid.
Corruptor still can do anything they like
from the prison such as having a special
places to live and going outside the prison
with for personal reasons.
Corruption in Indonesia has become a
systemic phenomenon and deeply rooted
as
socio-political
problem
rooted.
Corruption is not only in urban areas but
also in rural areas and looks normal in
people daily life. Corruption activities
include
petty
corruption
(i.e.,
thecorruptions which are done on the small
scale) to systematic corruption. Corruption
also include people in many range of age.
Specifically, Indonesian corruptors are
becoming younger. In one decade ago,
corruptor in Indonesia are about 45-50
years old. However, Indonesian corruptors
nowadays are people with younger age
such as Nazarudin and Angelina Sondakh
from Democrat Party and FadhRafiq from
Golkar Party. Those young politicians
were in their age of 27 to 35 when they
were arrested (Kompas, 2013). It can be
Country
Singapore
Brunei Darussalam
Malaysia
Thailand
Philippina
Indonesia
Vietnam
Myanmar
CPI
Score
(2012)
87
55
49
37
34
32
31
15
Rank
5
46
54
88
108
118
123
172
CPI
Score
(2013)
86
60
50
35
36
32
31
21
Rank
5
38
53
102
94
114
116
157
CPI
Score
(2014)
84
NA
52
38
38
34
31
21
Rank
7
NA
50
85
85
107
119
156
Source: www.transparency.org(2015)
City
Jakarta
Youth Perception
toward Integrity and
Corruption
(2013)
Aceh, Kupang, Surabaya
Sample size
Results
Youth Perception
toward Corruption
(2014)
Jakarta
933
old)
(17-21
years
85%
of
youth
perceived coruption
in Indonesia was
worst compared to
2013.
Youth believes that
money is important
factor that can make
many things easier.
Youth do not make
reports when they
confronted
with
corrupt act because
(1)
reports
on
corruption are not
effective and (2)
afraid that there will
be negative effects to
them.
Almost half of
respondents (47%) not
make reports when they
confronted with corrupt
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Mass media
Mass media is any form of communication
that simultaneously reach a large number
of people, including but not limited to
radio, television, newspapers, magazines,
billboards, films, books, and the internet
(Okafor, 2014). Mass media can be
divided in two types: traditional and new
media. Traditional media consists of
channels where all receivers receive the
same one-way messages from sender. On
the other hand, new media are online
channels, social networks, and mobile
electronic
devices
(Schiffman
&
Wisenblit, 2015).
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Figure 1. The relationship between mass media, youth values, and youth lifestyle
Mass Media
Youth Values
P1
Youth Lifestyle
P2
P3
III. Conclusion
Proposition 1: there
relationship between
youth values.
Proposition 2: there
relationship between
youth lifestyle.
Proposition 3: there
relationship between
youth lifestyle
is a significant
mass media and
is a significant
youth values and
is a significant
mass media and
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