International Journal of New Developments in Education, 2024, 6(2); doi: 10.25236/IJNDE.2024.060234.
Lili Lan1, Xiaofeng Wang2
1School of Business Administration, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, Shanghai, China
2Counseling and Psychological Services Center, Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China
Existing research has explored characteristics of emo subculture and its impact on youth development. However, there is little discussion has been had on the relationship between emo subcultural participation and values identification. This study investigated emo subcultural participation with a sample of 500 college students from two universities in Shanghai, China. Participants completed the Emo Subcultural Questionnaire, Participation Questionnaire, the Schwartz’ Portrait Values Questionnaire and the Chinese Values Questionnaire to explore the relationship between emo subcultural participation and students’ values. Multi-level linear regression analysis was conducted to explore the relationship between emo subcultural participation and values. The results showed that the higher the score of emo subcultural perception, the more likely the Chinese college students were to agree with values of tradition, collective responsibility, and family wellbeing, and the less likely they were to agree with values of self-direction, power, stimulation and hedonism. The higher the score of emo subcultural communication, the more participants agreed with the values of self-direction, universalism, conformity, collective responsibility, rule-abiding and self-improvement, and the less likely they were to agree with the values of power and fashion. Participation in emo subculture predicted both identification with and resistance to particular values, i.e., participants attempted to return to traditional values through emo subculture as a form of resistance to modern values, while reflecting the contradiction between collective and individual values in subcultural participation.
Youth subculture; Emo subculture; Subcultural participation; Values; Chinese college students
Lili Lan, Xiaofeng Wang. The Relationship between Emo Subcultural Participation and Values of Chinese College Students. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 2: 219-230. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2024.060234.
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