1st Edition

Understanding Adolescents’ Political Agency Examining How Political Interest Shapes Political Development

By Håkan Stattin Copyright 2024
338 Pages 77 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

338 Pages 77 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

338 Pages 77 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This ground-breaking volume shows that young people largely shape their own political development, and that to understand young people's political development, we must consider their political agency. Håkan Stattin explores the findings of an extensive longitudinal study of the political socialization of young people in Sweden from the ages of 13 to 28, which shows that, contrary to popular... Read more

Part I.  The Growth of Political Interest and Action  1. Changes in Political Interest and Civic/Political Activity  2. Plans for Future Civic Engagement  Part II.  Push and Pull of Political Interest  3. Young People's Attention to Politics  4. A Political Reputation  Part III.  Political Interactions With Parents  5. Political Interactions With Parents in Early and Mid-Adolescence  6. Political Interactions With Parents in Early Adulthood  7. Direction of Effects and Congruence Between Adolescents' and Parents' Views  8. Emotional Relationships and Transfers Across Contexts  Part IV.  "We Do Not See Things as They Are, We See Them as We Are"  9.  Projection of Life Values and Political Discussions in Families  10. Openness to Others' Influence  Part V.  Why a Person-Oriented Approach Is Needed  11. Why Some Adolescents, but Not Others, Are Open to Their Parents' Political Communication  12. Politically Interested Adolescents Are Not a Homogeneous Group  Part VI. What Have We Learned?  13. Tie the Threads Together

Biography

Håkan Stattin is Professor of Psychology at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has conducted studies in many areas of adolescent development and has received awards from the European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA), the European Association for Developmental Psychology (EADP), the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), and the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD).