How do young adults get involved in community and political life and what distinguishes
those who are engaged from those who are not? In an attempt to answer these questions …

How do young adults get involved in community and political life and what distinguishes
those who are engaged from those who are not? In an attempt to answer these questions …

Current knowledge of intraindividual longitudinal patterns of civic participation (CP) and their
predictors remains limited. As life cycle trends are showing a decline in civic/political …

Adolescence and emerging adulthood are periods in life when individuals both question
and define their place in society and form their identity. Meanwhile, active youth civic …

Civic participation is a cornerstone of civil societies and a part of positive and productive
individual development. Much is known about individual predictors of civic participation …

The study of civic and political engagement is in a period of expansion. Fifty years ago a
small number of researchers became active in political socialization research, studying …

Studies on youth participation tend to characterize youth as either active and trustful or as
passive and alienated. This cross-national and longitudinal study examines patterns of …

The purpose of this study was to examine the links between identity (statuses and
processes) and adolescent civic engagement (volunteer and political participation) …

In this research note we investigate the occurrence of citizenship concepts among
adolescents in Belgium. The analysis is based on the Belgian Youth Survey (2006), which is …

The Spencer Foundation‟ s Civic Learning and Civic Action initiative centers on several
overarching questions: What influences young people‟ s civic engagement? How and why …