Accounting for the association between socioeconomic status and youth political participation: A twin family study

IF 4 1区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Political Psychology Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI:10.1111/pops.12987

Alexandra Zapko-Willmes, Yannis Theocharis

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Abstract

Political participation (PP) has been found to be associated with socioeconomic status (SES) indicators, most strongly with educational attainment. At the same time, previous research has been inconclusive regarding potentially biasing effects of personality and cognitive characteristics on this association. In the present study, we investigated the association between different forms of youth PP and attained SES, taking youth's and parents' individual characteristics into account. We used data from 983 German twin families with same‐sex twin pairs of emerging adults (aged 21–25) that provided information on electoral, nonelectoral individual and collective political participation as well as on youth's and their parents relevant personality and cognitive characteristics. After adjusting for youth's and parents' individual characteristics, regression analyses showed educational attainment and household income to be solely significantly associated with emerging adults' electoral political participation. Genetically informative analyses revealed confoundedness due to shared environmental factors for electoral PP and due to genetic factors for individual and collective PP. Depending on the form of PP, the covariance between attained SES indicators and youth's PP mostly or fully overlapped with variance in political interest, general cognitive ability, and/or openness to experience. Findings are discussed against the backdrop of genotype‐environment interplay.

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社会经济地位与青年政治参与之间的关联：双胞胎家庭研究

研究发现，政治参与（PP）与社会经济地位（SES）指标有关，其中与教育程度的关系最为密切。与此同时，以往的研究并未就人格和认知特征对这种关联的潜在偏差影响得出结论。在本研究中，我们在考虑了青少年和父母个人特征的基础上，调查了不同形式的青少年PP与达到的SES之间的关联。我们使用了 983 个德国双胞胎家庭的数据，其中有一对同性双胞胎新成人（21-25 岁），他们提供了选举、非选举的个人和集体政治参与信息，以及青少年及其父母的相关个性和认知特征。在对青少年及其父母的个人特征进行调整后，回归分析表明，教育程度和家庭收入与新兴成人的选举政治参与度有显著的唯一相关性。遗传信息分析表明，选举政治参与与共同环境因素有关，而个人和集体政治参与则与遗传因素有关。根据政治参与的形式，社会经济条件指标与青少年政治参与之间的协方差与政治兴趣、一般认知能力和/或经验开放性之间的协方差大部分或全部重叠。研究结果将在基因型与环境相互作用的背景下进行讨论。

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Political Psychology Multiple-

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8.00

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期刊介绍： Understanding the psychological aspects of national and international political developments is increasingly important in this age of international tension and sweeping political change. Political Psychology, the journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, is dedicated to the analysis of the interrelationships between psychological and political processes. International contributors draw on a diverse range of sources, including clinical and cognitive psychology, economics, history, international relations, philosophy, political science, political theory, sociology, personality and social psychology.