ABSTRACT

This study investigated the idea that youth’s perceptions of the frequency of family political discussions and of parental political support mostly derive from their own political interest, a form of projection bias. Tests were performed of whether the same bias applies to parents, and whether youth’s and parents’ perceptions of political discussions and political support overlap to only a limited extent. Multivariate multiple regression analyses, combining two age cohorts of adolescent-parent pairs (509 13-year-olds and 541 16-year-olds), supported these expectations, indicating that parents and youth live, at least in part, in different perceptual worlds. These findings explain differences in youth’s and parents’ reports of political interactions, illuminate the theoretical models indicating that family discussions determine whether or not a child is interested in politics, and show the limitations of relying solely on reports of either youth or parents when studying the influence of family political discussions on youth’s political development.

摘要

这项研究调查了这样一个观点，即青少年对家庭政治讨论频率和父母政治支持的看法主要来自他们自己的政治利益，这是一种投射偏见。测试是否同样适用于父母，以及青少年和父母对政治讨论和政治支持的看法是否仅在有限程度上重叠。多元多元回归分析，结合两个年龄组的青少年-父母对（509 名 13 岁和 541 名 16 岁），支持这些预期，表明父母和青少年至少部分生活在不同的感知世界中. 这些发现解释了青年和父母关于政治互动的报告的差异，