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- Title
Why Some Adolescents Are Open To Their Parents' Political Communication.
- Authors
Stattin, Håkan; Eckstein, Katharina; Amnå, Erik
- Abstract
This study examines the conditions that make adolescents open to their parents' attempts at political socialization. Based on a reformulation of the perceptual accuracy argument, that parents' messages are filtered through correct perceptions of these messages by adolescents, the study suggests that adolescents who accurately recognize their parents' high political sophistication are particularly likely to attend to and be open to their parents' political communication. This proposition was tested using cluster analysis of a sample of 505 Swedish upper-secondary students and their parents (51% girls; Mage = 16.56, SD = 0.67). The analysis yielded two clusters where adolescents correctly identified (26%) and failed to correctly identify (22%) their parents' high political sophistication, and three clusters where both parents and adolescents reported low or medium parental political sophistication (10%, 11%, and 32%). In confirmation of the hypothesis, members of the cluster group of adolescents who correctly recognized their parents' high political sophistication were particularly aware of parents' political socialization attempts and receptive to parents' political communication. Moreover, these youth considered their parents' political views as important and, accordingly, seemed to perceive their parents as political role models.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; SOCIALIZATION; ROLE models; PRACTICAL politics; PARENTING; TEENAGERS' conduct of life; COMMUNICATION; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; PARENT-child relationships; CLUSTER analysis (Statistics); HIGH school students
- Publication
Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 2022, Vol 51, Issue 11, p2235
- ISSN
0047-2891
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10964-022-01653-x