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ERIC Number: EJ1220633
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-1088-8691
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Role of School Climate and Personality in the Development of Czech Adolescents' Political Self-Efficacy
Šerek, Jan; Machackova, Hana
Applied Developmental Science, v23 n3 p203-213 2019
This study examined the effects of school climate (open classroom and positive student relationships) and personality dispositions (shyness and need for cognition) on adolescents' political self-efficacy. Data were collected in 2014 from 1,954 Czech ninth- and tenth-graders (mean age = 15.60). A multilevel analysis showed that school-level political self-efficacy predicted self-efficacy for local politics. However, schools and classrooms were rather homogeneous in terms of students' mean political self-efficacy and students' self-reported acquisition of civic skills at school. Hence, school characteristics had only limited associations with adolescents' political self-efficacy. At the same time, students' political efficacy had a considerable association with lower shyness and higher need for cognition. These results suggest that the development of political efficacy at school goes beyond simple general influences of school environment and individual differences between students must be considered.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 9; High Schools; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Grade 10
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Czech Republic
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