This study examines the conditions that make adolescents open to their parents’ attempts at political socialization. Based on a reformulation of the perceptual accuracy argument, that parents’ messages are filtered through correct perceptions of these messages by adolescents, the study suggests that adolescents who accurately recognize their parents’ high political sophistication are particularly likely to attend to and be open to their parents’ political communication. This proposition was tested using cluster analysis of a sample of 505 Swedish upper-secondary students and their parents (51% girls; Mage = 16.56, SD = 0.67). The analysis yielded two clusters where adolescents correctly identified (26%) and failed to correctly identify (22%) their parents’ high political sophistication, and three clusters where both parents and adolescents reported low or medium parental political sophistication (10%, 11%, and 32%). In confirmation of the hypothesis, members of the cluster group of adolescents who correctly recognized their parents’ high political sophistication were particularly aware of parents’ political socialization attempts and receptive to parents’ political communication. Moreover, these youth considered their parents’ political views as important and, accordingly, seemed to perceive their parents as political role models.

本研究考察了使青少年对父母的政治社会化尝试持开放态度的条件。基于对感知准确性论点的重新表述，即父母的信息是通过青少年对这些信息的正确感知来过滤的，该研究表明，准确认识到父母高度政治复杂性的青少年特别有可能关注并开放他们的父母的政治沟通。使用对 505 名瑞典高中学生及其父母（51% 的女孩；M年龄 = 16.56，SD = 0.67)。分析得出了两个集群，其中青少年正确识别 (26%) 和未能正确识别 (22%) 其父母的高度政治成熟度，以及三个集群，其中父母和青少年都报告了低或中等父母政治成熟度 (10%, 11% , 和 32%)。为证实这一假设，正确认识父母高度政治成熟度的青少年集群成员特别意识到父母的政治社会化尝试并接受父母的政治沟通。此外，这些年轻人认为父母的政治观点很重要，因此似乎将父母视为政治榜样。