A recent study by the Barna Group in a national sample of young Americans offers a new vision of who and why adolescents selected a particular model.
For the study we selected a sample of youth between the ages of 13 - to 17-year-old and were asked to identify the person most admired as a role model, as well as their parents. David Kinnaman, who directed the study, explained that the reason they decided not to include parents in the study was because for many adolescents, especially younger ones, have great respect for their parents or feel obliged to include in the list as role models.
According to the study, how adolescents see their "models" exerts a powerful influence on American cultural identity which will play a key role in the next generation of consumers, citizens and who attend church .
Once excluded parents teens mentioned the following models they most admired:
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