What do Teenagers Identify With and What They Value? The Range of Young People's Emotional Experiences: From Consumerism to National Identity

The aim of this article is to identify the emotional experiences of contemporary adolescents, revealing which societal phenomena or processes they value most. The paper presents a quantitative study aimed at identifying the various emotional experiences of Lithuanian adolescents of Lithuanian nationality studying in Lithuanian schools in Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Belarus, both national and non-national - communicative, altruistic, romantic, glorious, hedonistic - experiences. Statistical analysis of the research data showed that contemporary adolescents living both in Lithuania and in neighbouring countries have a very positive attitude towards communicative experiences, while aesthetic and romantic experiences are also important for adolescents. However, experiences related to the nation (mother tongue, history) are not particularly important for contemporary adolescents.