TY - JOUR
T1 - Validating a Measure of Perceived Parent–Child Political Socialization
AU - Pedraza, Francisco I.
AU - Perry, Brittany N.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful for insight and comments on earlier drafts from Matt Barreto, Dan Biggers, Ben Bishin, Miguel Carreras, Loren Collingwood, Martin Johnson, Jane Junn, Jenn Merolla, Efr?n P?rez, Molly Ritchie, Nick Valentino, Nick Weller, Bryan Wilcox-Archuleta, Janelle Wong, Elizabeth Zechmeister, participants of the 2016 Southern California Political Behavior Conference, participants of the Politics of the Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium, and our thorough and thoughtful PRQ reviewers. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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© 2019 University of Utah.
PY - 2020/9/1
Y1 - 2020/9/1
N2 - A growing body of research in political science is influenced by conceptual advances in socialization theory which posit that children can influence adults’ learning across a wide range of topics. The concept of bidirectional influence describes socialization led by one’s parents and children. One outstanding need in the effort to import this concept to political socialization research is a measure that captures the influence of both parents and children. We meet this need with a measure of relative influence from both parents and children as sources for political learning. We provide evidence of measurement validity using separate samples of Asians, Blacks, Latinos, and Whites. Our findings suggest that our metric is portable across groups, and that the range of what individuals recall about their familial socialization experience includes more child-to-parent influence than existing studies suggest.
AB - A growing body of research in political science is influenced by conceptual advances in socialization theory which posit that children can influence adults’ learning across a wide range of topics. The concept of bidirectional influence describes socialization led by one’s parents and children. One outstanding need in the effort to import this concept to political socialization research is a measure that captures the influence of both parents and children. We meet this need with a measure of relative influence from both parents and children as sources for political learning. We provide evidence of measurement validity using separate samples of Asians, Blacks, Latinos, and Whites. Our findings suggest that our metric is portable across groups, and that the range of what individuals recall about their familial socialization experience includes more child-to-parent influence than existing studies suggest.
KW - bidirectional learning
KW - measurement validation
KW - political socialization
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U2 - 10.1177/1065912919850632
DO - 10.1177/1065912919850632
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85066854308
SN - 1065-9129
VL - 73
SP - 623
EP - 637
JO - Political Research Quarterly
JF - Political Research Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -