Civic development across the transition to adulthood in a national U.S. sample: Variations by race/ethnicity, parent education, and gender.

ABSTRACT: Despite a growing understanding about civic development, we know little about whether the developmental course of civic engagement is the same across different types of civic engagement or different groups of youth. To advance developmental science in this area, we documented age-related change in community service, political interest, electoral participation, and political voice across the transition to adulthood by race/ethnicity, parent education, gender, and their interactions. National multicohort probability samples of U.S. high school seniors from the Monitoring the Future study were assessed at baseline (age 18) and followed longitudinally via self-administered mail surveys across 6 follow-up waves to age 29/30. Of the sample (N = 12,557), 51.0% were women, 11.0% were Black, 7.0% w

SUBMITTER: Wray-Lake L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8545619 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature