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The impressionable years hypothesis is a theory of political psychology that posits that individuals form durable political attitudes and party affiliations during late adolescence and early adulthood.
The impressionable years hypothesis proposes that individuals are highly susceptible to attitude change during late adolescence and early adulthood and that susceptibility drops precipitously immediately thereafter and remains low throughout the rest of the life cycle.
- Jon A. Krosnick, Duane F. Alwin
- 1989
Jul 10, 2018 · The defining attributes of impressionability among youths were a state where: (a) one is able to be susceptible to external stimuli; (b) one is incapable of reasonable judgement; and (c) one has a changeability to accept or modify one's attitude and behaviour. We identified antecedents, consequences, and cases of impressionability.
- Seok Hyun Gwon, Suyong Jeong
- 10.1002/nop2.170
- 2018
- Nurs Open. 2018 Oct; 5(4): 601-610.
- Abstract
- The Concept of WTSC
- Generations and Political Dispositions
- Chile as A Case of Study
- Method
- Results
- Discussion
Creating opportunities for formal and informal deliberation among citizens is a crucial aspect of democratic systems that seek to promote political participation—systems in which citizens can aspire to be part of the decision-making process and are not simply content with electing representatives (Dahl, 1989; Delli-Carpini et al., 2004; Chambers, 2...
Democracy is conceived as the political expression of a social organization in which mutual understanding is the most important form of social integration (Rojas, 2006). In a deliberative model of democracy, citizens not only voice sporadic judgments, such as voting, but also participate in the dialogue that occurs within the decision-making proces...
Existing research suggests that a major determinant of WtSC is political socialization, understood as a series of developmental processes through which individuals acquire political orientation and patterns of political behavior (Dennis & Easton, 1969). In the context of WtSC, as explained above, studies by Rojas (2012; also Rojas & Hopke, 2010) ha...
Owing to the profound political transformations experienced by Chile in the past 50 years, the recent history of that country offers a particularly appropriate context for testing the “impressionable years” hypothesis as applied to WtSC. After a scenario of increasing political polarization during the late 1960s, and in the international context of...
Data
To test the generational hypothesis as applicable to WtSC, this study used an original survey conducted in 2011 among a representative sample of the general population living in Chile’s three largest metropolitan areas: Greater Santiago, Greater Valparaíso, and Greater Concepción. Together, these areas contain 64% of the country’s adult population. The questionnaire was developed by the authors, whereas fieldwork was carried on by the School of Journalism of Diego Portales University and Feed...
Variables
To measure WtSC, the key dependent variable, we used the scale developed initially by Hayes, Glynn, and Shanahan (2005a, 2005b) and applied in Chile with success by Matthes, Hayes, Rojas, Shen, Min, and Dylko (2012). Through a set of eight questions, the scale measures individuals’ willingness to withhold their opinion from an audience perceived to disagree with that opinion. In the current study, we used a shortened version of six items, which has been used in Latin America by Rojas and othe...
To test the hypothesis that political generation predicts WtSC, we conducted an analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). This analysis allows us to determine whether there are statistically significant differences between generations on WtSC, controlling for demographic variables, authoritarian communication, and political predispositions. The results reve...
This study analyzes a relevant individual-level disposition for the proper functioning of democracy: WtSC, which refers to citizens’ propensity to suppress the expression of opinions in front of a hostile audience to those opinions. Democracy not only demands freedom of expression but also citizens who are willing to exercise this freedom and parti...
- Nicolle Etchegaray, Andrés Scherman, Sebastián Valenzuela
- 2019
impressionable years hypothesis proposes that individuals are highly susceptible to attitude change during late adolescence and early adulthood and that susceptibility drops precipitously immediately thereafter and remains low throughout the rest of the life cycle. The increasing persistence hypothesis
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- Jon A. Krosnick, Duane F. Alwin
- 10
- 1989
Examined 3 hypotheses about the relation between age and the stability of sociopolitical attitudes: (1) the "impressionable years" hypothesis, which states that the youngest adults have the least stable attitudes; (2) the "aging stability" hypothesis that attitude stability increases with age; and (3) the hypothesis that symbolic attitudes are ...
The impressionable years hypothesis proposes that individuals are highly susceptible to attitude change during late adolescence and early adulthood and that susceptibility drops precipitously immediately thereafter and remains low throughout the rest of the life cycle.
