Cognitive-Perceptual Factors in the Political Alienation Process: A Test of Six Models.

Autor/in	Long, Samuel
Institution	Yale Univ., New Haven, CT.
Titel	Cognitive-Perceptual Factors in the Political Alienation Process: A Test of Six Models.
Quelle	(1976), (50 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Alienation; Educational Needs; High School Students; Models; Political Attitudes; Political Issues; Political Socialization; Research Problems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Entfremdung; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Analogiemodell; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Politischer Faktor; Politische Sozialisation; Forschungskritik
Abstract	The effectiveness of sex research models which measure adolescents' feelings of political alienation is investigated and discussed and a new model is formulated. The six models include life dissatisfaction, personal depreciation, critical perceptions of political reality, irrational beliefs, perceptions of political threat, and cognitive simplicity (which posits that if the individual attempts to understand the complex political system from a simplistic framework, faulty perceptions which foster feelings of political alienation occur). The sample consisted of 460 senior high school students who answered a self-administered questionnaire which included measures of all six models. Results indicate that the composite measures for the political reality, political threat, and personal depreciation models manifest almost equal influence on adolescents' feelings of political alienation. Also, the life dissatisfaction, irrational belief, and cognitive simplicity models have very little effect on political alienation. Thus, the new model, learned political helplessness, is based on the political reality, political threat, and personal depreciation models. An implication is that learned political helplessness among preadults can be prevented if the adolescent is provided with an experiential basis for believing that his efforts have an effect on the operation of his personal sociopolitical system and that threats from that system can be countered by his personal actions. (Author/KC)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01