IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/chinre/v14y2021i5d10.1007_s12187-021-09837-w.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Longitudinal Study of the Psychosocial Effects of Political Participation by Children: the ‘Ágora Infantil’ Programme

Author

Listed:
  • Nazly Guiselly Albornoz-Manyoma

    (University of Malaga)

  • Patricia García-Leiva

    (University of Malaga)

  • María Soledad Palacios-Gálvez

    (University of Huelva)

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effect of participation-based democratic innovations on psychological empowerment and group identification of children. To do so, it analyses the impact on the participants of a participatory democracy programme for groups of schoolchildren, ‘Ágora Infantil’ (AI). Evaluation is performed via a longitudinal study carried out over two years, with pre and post quantitative measurements of the target and control group. The sample consisted of 182 boys and girls. The data were gathered via a questionnaire made up of items prepared by a group of experts for the current study based on Zimmerman’s empowerment theory (American Journal of Community Psychology, 23(5), 581–599, 1995, 2000). Items were also taken from other authors, for example affective links, which were used as an indicator to measure group identification (Gaviria et al. International Journal of Social Psychology, 30(3), 531–562, 2015). The results show that institutional political participation generates positive changes in the participants. More specifically, the children improved in the two components of psychological empowerment (intrapersonal and interactional), with an intensification of relationship links with the group (the class). These findings demonstrate the political and psychosocial importance of these participatory innovations being introduced and their medium-term effects.

Suggested Citation

  • Nazly Guiselly Albornoz-Manyoma & Patricia García-Leiva & María Soledad Palacios-Gálvez, 2021. "Longitudinal Study of the Psychosocial Effects of Political Participation by Children: the ‘Ágora Infantil’ Programme," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 14(5), pages 2083-2096, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:chinre:v:14:y:2021:i:5:d:10.1007_s12187-021-09837-w
    DOI: 10.1007/s12187-021-09837-w
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12187-021-09837-w
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s12187-021-09837-w?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. André Pirralha, 2017. "Political Participation and Wellbeing in the Netherlands: Exploring the Causal Links," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 12(2), pages 327-341, June.
    2. Winston W. Chang, 2018. "Brexit and its economic consequences," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(9), pages 2349-2373, September.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Matthias Lühr & Maria K. Pavlova & Maike Luhmann, 2022. "They are Doing Well, but is it by Doing Good? Pathways from Nonpolitical and Political Volunteering to Subjective Well-Being in Age Comparison," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 23(5), pages 1969-1989, June.
    2. Calvin Lam & Christian S. Chan, 2024. "A text mining and machine learning study on the trends of and dynamics between collective action and mental health in politically polarized online environments," Journal of Computational Social Science, Springer, vol. 7(2), pages 1379-1401, October.
    3. Banta Viorel-Costin, 2022. "The Simplification Model Of Logical Sourcing – Quota Arrangement - For A Multinational Company – Using Sap, Ai And Rpa. A Case Study," Annals - Economy Series, Constantin Brancusi University, Faculty of Economics, vol. 1, pages 195-200, February.
    4. Gabriele Prati, 2022. "The Relationship Between Political Participation and Life Satisfaction Depends on Preference for Non-Democratic Solutions," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 17(3), pages 1867-1881, June.
    5. Philip Mayer & Christopher Stephen Ball & Stefan Vögele & Wilhelm Kuckshinrichs & Dirk Rübbelke, 2019. "Analyzing Brexit: Implications for the Electricity System of Great Britain," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(17), pages 1-27, August.
    6. Yingying Sun & Yue Zhang, 2019. "Who Is Happier in China? Exploring Determinant Factors Using Religion as a Moderator," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(22), pages 1-17, November.
    7. Ken Ka-wo Fung & Chao-Lung Liu & Ming-Lun Chung, 2022. "Bowling Alone in Taiwan? Political Trust and Civic Participation of Taiwanese and Their Appraisal of Liberal Democracy and Personal Wellbeing," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 159(3), pages 1085-1102, February.
    8. Matthew Smith & Yasaman Sarabi, 2021. "UK trading patterns within and between regions in the automotive sector—A network analysis," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 44(2), pages 510-529, February.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:chinre:v:14:y:2021:i:5:d:10.1007_s12187-021-09837-w. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.