Critical Consciousness Development and Political Participation Among Marginalized Youth

Given associations between critical consciousness and positive developmental outcomes, and given racial, socioeconomic, and generational disparities in political participation, this article examined contextual antecedents of critical consciousness (composed of sociopolitical control and social actio...

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Published in:Child development 2011-11, Vol.82 (6), p.1815-1833
Main Authors: Diemer, Matthew A., Li, Cheng-Hsien
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Action control
Adolescent
African Americans - psychology
Age Differences
Age groups
Asian Americans - psychology
Attitude
Awareness
Biological and medical sciences
Child development
Children & youth
Civic education
Civics
Consciousness
Correlation
Critical Theory
Data Collection
Democracy
Developmental psychology
Disadvantaged Youth
EMPIRICAL ARTICLES
Ethnicity
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Generation differences
Hispanic Americans - psychology
Humans
Indexes (Measures)
Interviews as Topic
Male
Marginalized people
Measurement
Modeling
Models, Psychological
Parent Child Relationship
Parents
Peer Relationship
Political Attitudes
Political Participation
Politics
Prediction
Problem Solving
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Race
Racial Differences
Self Efficacy
Social Action
Social Change
Social inequality
Social Participation
Social Support
Socialization
Socioeconomic Status
Teachers
Voter behavior
Voting
Voting Behavior
Voting behaviour
Young Adult
Young people
Youth
Youth and politics
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Summary:Given associations between critical consciousness and positive developmental outcomes, and given racial, socioeconomic, and generational disparities in political participation, this article examined contextual antecedents of critical consciousness (composed of sociopolitical control and social action) and its consequences for 665 marginalized youth's (ages 15-25) voting behavior. A multiple indicator and multiple causes (MIMIC) model examined racial, ethnic, and age differences in the measurement and means of latent constructs. The structural model suggested that parental and peer sociopolitical support predicts sociopolitical control and social action, which in turn predicts voting behavior, while controlling for civic and political knowledge, race/ethnicity, and age. This illuminates how micro-level actors foster critical consciousness and how the perceived capacity to effect social change and social action participation may redress voting disparities.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01650.x