Aging and susceptibility to attitude change.
Aging and susceptibility to attitude change.
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DOI：
10.1037//0022-3514.57.3.416
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发表时间：
1989-09
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
J. Krosnick;D. Alwin
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作者：
J. Krosnick;D. Alwin
测试了两个关于年龄和态度变化易感性之间关系的假设。易感年龄假说认为，个体在青春期晚期和成年期早期对态度的变化非常敏感，此后敏感度立即急剧下降，并在生命周期的其余部分保持较低水平。越来越持久的假说提出，人们在一生中逐渐变得对变化更具抵抗力。结构方程模型被应用于1956-1960、1972-1976和1980年全国选举小组研究的数据，以估计政治态度的稳定性和测量的不可靠性。研究结果支持“敏感年份”假说，反驳了“持续性增长假说”。在66至83岁的人中，态度报告的长期一致性的下降被发现是由于他们报告中的随机测量误差增加，而不是由于态度改变的增加。
Two hypotheses about the relation between age and susceptibility to attitude change were tested. The impressionable years hypothesis proposes that individuals are highly susceptible to attitude change during late adolescence and early adulthood and that susceptibility drops precipitously immediately thereafter and remains low throughout the rest of the life cycle. The increasing persistence hypothesis proposes that people become gradually more resistant to change throughout their lives. Structural equation models were applied to data from the 1956-1960, 1972-1976, and 1980 National Election Panel Studies in order to estimate the stability of political attitudes and unreliability in measures of them. The results support the impressionable years hypothesis and disconfirm the increasing persistence hypothesis. A decrease in the over-time consistency of attitude reports among 66- to 83-year-olds was found to be due to increased random measurement error in their reports, not to increased attitude change.