Critical Hopefulness Among Urban High School Students
Critical Hopefulness Among Urban High School Students
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DOI：
10.1007/s10964-018-0889-3
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发表时间：
2018-08-01
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4.9
通讯作者：
Lardier, David T., Jr.
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作者：
Christens, Brian D.;Byrd, Kymberly;Lardier, David T., Jr.
心理赋权包括青年公民和社会政治发展的几个关键方面。大多数研究都集中在心理赋权的情感成分上，这需要对自己参与和领导社区变革努力的能力产生习得的希望。很少有研究评估社会权力如何运作的批判性意识——心理赋权的认知成分。这两个组成部分的汇合被称为关键的希望。这两个组成部分之间存在着复杂的关系，之前的研究发现，相对较小比例的参与者报告说，他们既有高度的批判意识，同时又对自己在社会政治领域施加影响的能力充满希望。目前对美国东北部城市高中生（n = 389，其中53.5%为女性）的研究根据心理赋权的这两个组成部分来调查异质性。进行了潜在类聚类分析，出现了七个不同的参与者组。被认为是西班牙裔/拉丁裔的学生更有可能被归类为表现出批判性希望的概况组。心理赋权组在自我报告的社区心理意识、公民参与和社会正义取向水平上存在差异。此外，与之前对成年人的研究相比，这个整体样本中更大比例的人被划分为表现出批判性希望的群体。这些发现为让年轻人参与公民生活和促进社会政治发展的努力提供了有益的见解。
Psychological empowerment encompasses several key aspects of youth civic and sociopolitical development. Most research has focused on psychological empowerment's emotional component, which entails learned hopefulness about one's own ability to participate in and lead community change efforts. Fewer studies have assessed critical awareness of how social power operates-psychological empowerment's cognitive component. The confluence of these two components has been termed critical hopefulness. A complex relationship exists between these two components, and previous research has found relatively small proportions of participants reporting both high levels of critical awareness and simultaneously high levels of hopefulness about their ability to exert influence in the sociopolitical domain. The current study of urban high school students in the Northeastern U.S. (n = 389; 53.5% female) investigates heterogeneity according to these two components of psychological empowerment. Latent class cluster analyses were conducted and seven distinct groups of participants emerged. Students identifying as Hispanic/Latinx were more likely to be classified into a profile group exhibiting critical hopefulness. Differences were observed between psychological empowerment profile groups on self-reported levels of psychological sense of community, civic engagement, and social justice orientation. Furthermore, a larger proportion of this overall sample was classified into groups that exhibited critical hopefulness than in a previous study of adults. These findings provide useful insights for efforts to engage young people in civic life and to promote sociopolitical development.