比爾•蓋茨獲評最具責任感的商界領袖

Bill Gates topped the business category and Oprah Winfrey and Angelina Jolie scored high marks but many Americans said they had difficulty naming a responsible leader or celebrity, according to a new poll.

Most of the 1,001 Americans questioned in the survey said they valued responsibility, but they just didn't see enough of it in other people.

"The index shows that people want more responsibility in their lives, but they're not always certain how to achieve that goal," said Kathy McManus, of Liberty Mutual Group, a global insurance company that conducted the poll.

"There's no playbook for responsibility, so increasingly we see individuals working to create their own."

Fifteen percent of people chose Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, as their top responsible business leader and eight percent named Winfrey and Jolie as their choice in the celebrity stakes.

But 33 percent said they couldn't select a celebrity that embodies responsibility and 37 percent had the same response when asked about a business leader.

More than three-quarters of the people questioned believe reality television shows have a negative impact on personal responsibility, and a similar number thought media attention on celebrity lifestyles diminished people's sense of responsibility.

When asked to rank themselves, teachers, young Americans and married couples gave themselves the highest marks for responsibility.

"Americans associate personal responsibility with family obligations and the effects of one's actions on others," the company said in a statement.

Seventy percent of Americans said they thought they had become more responsible in the past five years, while 74 percent said they believed other people had become less responsible during the same period.

"And on average, more than 70 percent of Americans believe teenagers, young adults and parents are somewhat or much less responsible than 20 years ago," it added.

一項有關責任感的最新民調顯示，比爾•蓋茨被評爲最具責任感的商界領袖，奧普拉•溫芙瑞和安吉利娜•茱麗在大衆名人之列最受好評，但很多美國民衆表示他們很難選出一個責任感強的領袖或名人。

在1001位受訪民衆中，大多數人稱自己很重視責任感，但並沒有看到幾個真正具有責任感的人。

開展該調查的全球保險公司“自由互助集團”的凱西•麥克瑪納斯說：“調查表明，人們在生活中希望承擔更多的責任，但他們往往不清楚應該怎樣去實現這一目標。”

“關於責任，沒有一個固定的模式，所以現在我們看到越來越多的人在用自己的方式履行責任。”

調查顯示，15%的人選擇微軟集團創始人蓋茨爲最具責任感的商界領袖，8%的人選擇溫芙瑞和茱麗爲最具責任感的名人。

但33%的受訪者稱他們選不出這樣的名人，在商界領袖方面，有37%的人持相同看法。

超過四分之三的受訪者認爲，電視真人秀節目對個人責任感具有負面影響，另有相同數量的人認爲媒體對於名人生活方式的過度關注減弱了人們的責任感。

在評價自己的責任感方面，教師、年輕人和已婚人士給自己的打分最高。

“自由互助集團”在一份聲明中說：“在美國人的觀念中，個人責任感與家庭責任以及如何對待他人聯繫在一起。”

70%的受訪者稱，在過去五年中他們的責任感有所增強，74%的人則認爲其他一些人在這一階段的責任感有所減弱。

聲明稱：“平均來看，超過70%的人認爲現在的青少年、年輕人和家長的責任感不如或者遠不如20年前。”