Youth Participation in Psychological Literature: A Semantic Analysis of Scholarly Publications in the PsycInfo Database.

ABSTRACT: The topic of youth participation in the public sphere has received increasing attention within recent psychological research. The literature remains somewhat fragmented between different conceptualizations varying in their specificity or broadness. The present study aims to map the current state of debate in psychology regarding youth civic and political participation and to identify the prevalent themes that characterize the research in the discipline from 1990 to 2016. A semantic content analysis with the software T-Lab was performed on a corpus of 1,777 publications retrieved from the PsycInfo database. The results highlight the increasing number of academic contributions on the topic, confirming the growing importance of the issue within psychology. The study sheds light on the spheres

SUBMITTER: Tzankova I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7871754 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature