Parent-youth discussions about politics from age 13 to 28
(2019) In Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 62. p.249-259- Abstract
It has been commonly assumed that post-adolescent youth have fewer political discussions with parents than do adolescents, due to transitional events in young adulthood and the emergence of new age-appropriate socializing agents, like peers, colleagues, and romantic partners. We proposed a contrasting view that post-adolescent youth have more frequent political discussions with parents due to their increased political interest over time. Using an accelerated longitudinal design (n = 4286), we found that neither transitional events nor political discussions with other socializing agents decreased political discussions with parents. The long-term developmental trajectories for political discussions with parents and youth's own political... (More)
It has been commonly assumed that post-adolescent youth have fewer political discussions with parents than do adolescents, due to transitional events in young adulthood and the emergence of new age-appropriate socializing agents, like peers, colleagues, and romantic partners. We proposed a contrasting view that post-adolescent youth have more frequent political discussions with parents due to their increased political interest over time. Using an accelerated longitudinal design (n = 4286), we found that neither transitional events nor political discussions with other socializing agents decreased political discussions with parents. The long-term developmental trajectories for political discussions with parents and youth's own political interest showed a linear increase from adolescence to young adulthood. Cross-lagged models showed that youth's political interest positively predicted political discussions with parents over time and vice-versa. These findings indicate a need to see political discussions with parents as a parent-youth bidirectional process.
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- author
- Kim, Yunhwan LU and Stattin, Håkan
- publishing date
- 2019-05-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Adolescence, Political discussions with parents, Political interest, Socializing agents, Transitional events, Young adulthood
- in
- Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
- volume
- 62
- pages
- 11 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85064716330
- ISSN
- 0193-3973
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.appdev.2019.04.001
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Funding Information: This work was supported by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond , the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences [grant number M2008-0073:1-PK ]. Publisher Copyright: © 2019 Elsevier Inc.
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- 811b0923-dab7-4995-b870-85b4d4e7c109
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author = {{Kim, Yunhwan and Stattin, Håkan}},
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keywords = {{Adolescence; Political discussions with parents; Political interest; Socializing agents; Transitional events; Young adulthood}},
language = {{eng}},
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pages = {{249--259}},
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series = {{Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology}},
title = {{Parent-youth discussions about politics from age 13 to 28}},
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doi = {{10.1016/j.appdev.2019.04.001}},
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