Matić Bojić, Jelena and Bovan, Kosta (2024) Political knowledge of youth and their proneness to prejudice: empirical test of direct and indirect effect via right-wing authoritarianism. Citizenship, social and economics education, 23 (2). pp. 87-99. ISSN 1478-8047 (Print), 2047-1734 (Online)
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IN ENGLISH: In this paper, we explored how political knowledge related to generalised prejudice, defined as the common variance of three highly correlated specific prejudice concerning ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation. We aligned our hypotheses with the Cognitive Ability and Style to Evaluation (CASE) model, which postulates the mechanism underlying the relationship between individual-level cognitive variables and intergroup outcomes. As knowledge in its many forms correlates with and serves as a proxy of cognitive abilities, we hypothesised that political knowledge, when considered a precursor of prejudice, can be expected to act similarly to cognitive variables within the CASE model. We performed an empirical test of the hypothesised relationships on a nationally representative sample of Croatian students in their final year of secondary education (aged 17–19). As expected, there was a significant negative association between political knowledge and generalised prejudice, both direct and indirect via right-wing authoritarianism. Youth with higher political knowledge had significantly lower levels of generalised prejudice. In addition, while there were differences in the overall levels of political knowledge, right-wing authoritarianism and generalised prejudice between students attending different secondary education programmes, the pattern of relationships between these concepts was found to be stable across educational settings. --------------- IN CROATIAN: U ovom smo radu istražili odnos političkog znanja mladih i njihovih generaliziranih predrasuda, koje su definirane kao zajednička varijanca triju visoko koreliranih specifičnih predrasuda (etničke, rodne i seksualne). Istraživačke hipoteze oslanjaju se na teorijske pretpostavke modela Cognitive Ability and Style to Evaluation (CASE), koji postulira mehanizam na kojem se temelji odnos između individualnih kognitivnih varijabli i međugrupnih ishoda. Budući da je znanje u korelaciji s kognitivnim sposobnostima i služi kao njihov proxy, pretpostavili smo da političko znanje, kada se razmatra kao prediktor predrasuda, funkcionira slično kao kognitivne varijable unutar CASE modela. Empirijska provjera pretpostavljenih odnosa provedena je na nacionalno reprezentativnom uzorku hrvatskih učenika završnih razreda srednjoškolskog obrazovanja (17–19 godina). U skladu s očekivanjima, utvrđena je značajna negativna povezanost političkog znanja i generaliziranih predrasuda, izravna i neizravna, posredovana sklonošću desnoj autoritarnosti. Mladi s višim političkim znanjem su imali značajno niže razine generaliziranih predrasuda od mladih s nižim političkim znanjem. Nađene su i razlike u ukupnoj razini političkog znanja te izraženosti desne autoritarnosti i generaliziranih predrasuda među učenicima koji pohađaju različite srednjoškolske programe, no obrazac odnosa među istraživanim konceptima pokazao se stabilnim u svim obrazovnim okruženjima.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Language: English. - Title in Croatian: Političko znanje mladih i njihova sklonost predrasudama: empirijska provjera izravnog i neizravnog efekta povezanosti putem desne autoritarnosti. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Political knowledge, generalised prejudice, right-wing authoritarianism, political socialisation, youth (političko znanje, generalizirane predrasude, desna autoritarnost, politička socijalizacija, mladi) |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Depositing User: | Karolina |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jan 2024 14:12 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Sep 2024 08:43 |
| URI: | http://idiprints.knjiznica.idi.hr/id/eprint/1123 |
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