Does Family Experience Influence Political Beliefs? Relation between Interparental Conflict Perceptions and Political Efficacy in Late Adolescence

Autor/inn/en	Serek, Jan; Lacinova, Lenka; Macek, Petr
Titel	Does Family Experience Influence Political Beliefs? Relation between Interparental Conflict Perceptions and Political Efficacy in Late Adolescence
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescence, 35 (2012) 3, S.577-586 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0140-1971
DOI	10.1016/j.adolescence.2011.10.001
Schlagwörter	Personality Traits; Structural Equation Models; Conflict; Late Adolescents; Local Issues; Psychological Patterns; Political Attitudes; Parents; Longitudinal Studies; Depression (Psychology); Parent Child Relationship; Politics; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Konflikt; Halbstarker; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Eltern; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Politik; Korrelation
Abstract	The study examined the relation between adolescents' interparental conflict perceptions and their political efficacy regarding local issues. Longitudinal data (age 15 and 17) from 444 adolescents were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results showed that young people experiencing frequent interparental conflict reported an increase in depressive mood during late adolescence, which was associated with lower level of political efficacy. Moreover, adolescents who felt more efficacious when dealing with fighting parents felt more efficacious in local politics, even when controlling for personality traits and depressive mood. One possible explanation is that family perceptions generalize to politics because both contexts share certain similar features. Our results underscore that also seemingly nonpolitical experiences can matter in adolescents' civic and political development. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10