Developing a Digital and Traditional Political Participation (DTPP) Scale for Youth: A Validity and Reliability Study

IF 1.3 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.21018/rjcpr.2023.1.351

Zafer Kuș, Michele Bertani, Loredana Ivan, Hilal Mert

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a political participation scale for youth, considering both traditional and digital political participation (DTPP). The research was conducted using 458 participants from Turkey, Italy, and Romania, aged between 15 and 29 years. Explanatory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) were performed to test the structural validity of the scale. EFA results illustrated that scale consisted of three factors and the total variance was 61.23%. These factors were labeled as “digital political support”, “traditional political support” and “digital political following”. During confirmatory factor analysis, the three-factor structure was tested, and the resulting model produced an acceptable goodness of fit The scale consists of 39 items and the reliability coefficients for each subscale vary from .92 and .95. The results show that the scale is valid and reliable to measure traditional and digital political participation of young people.

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编制青年数位与传统政治参与量表:效度与信度研究

本研究的目的是开发和验证青年政治参与量表，同时考虑传统和数字政治参与(DTPP)。这项研究调查了来自土耳其、意大利和罗马尼亚的458名参与者，他们的年龄在15岁到29岁之间。采用解释因子分析(EFA)和验证性因子分析(CFA)检验量表的结构效度。EFA结果显示，量表由3个因素组成，总方差为61.23%。这些因素被标记为“数字政治支持”、“传统政治支持”和“数字政治追随者”。在验证性因子分析中，对三因素结构进行检验，所得模型具有可接受的拟合优度。量表由39个条目组成，每个子量表的信度系数从0.92到0.95不等。结果表明，该量表能够有效、可靠地衡量年轻人的传统和数字政治参与。

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Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： The Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations welcomes high quality contributions investigating topics in the fields of mass media, communication and public relations, from theoretical, empirical and critical perspectives. The RJCPR mainly favors original and articulate research papers, but theory-focused articles, book reviews and other scientific contributions are also welcome