Does the Generational Conflict Exist?：Some Consideration from the Perspective of Each Generation's Attitudes toward National Budget Allocation

Abstract

This article aims to show whether generational conflict exists or not and to what extent is the conflict, if the conflict exists? The author analyzed the attitude toward national budget allocation for each generation based on the data of 1,361 males and females aged 20 and over obtained from the mail survey for 3,000 adults selected by random sampling. The results obtained from multivariate analysis of variance were as follows. There was no statistically significant difference in the attitude between generations. This means that each generation does not have profit-oriented attitudes for own generation. The author found that interaction effects of socio-economic status such as income and academic career as well as gender and feeling of economic space were significantly related to the attitude. This implies that we should pay more attention to intra-generational conflict.