Childhood Skill Development and Adult Political Participation
Childhood Skill Development and Adult Political Participation
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DOI：
10.1017/s0003055417000119
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发表时间：
2017-08-01
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
Holbein, John B.
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作者：
Holbein, John B.
最近的儿童发展研究表明，儿童发展的社会心理或非认知技能，包括自我调节和融入社会环境的能力，对学校及以后的成功至关重要。这些在童年时期学到的技能对成年人的政治行为（如投票）也很重要吗？在这篇文章中，我使用了一个独特的以学校为基础的20年实地实验，以探讨早期发展心理社会技能的儿童是否比那些没有的儿童更有可能在成年后投票。匹配主题的选民档案，我表明，这种干预有一个显着的长期影响的政治参与。这些结果强调需要更好地了解童年经历如何塑造以后的公民行为。在这一关键时期，孩子们可以被教导不明确的政治，但仍然是至关重要的，技能，使他们在成年后走向政治参与的道路。
Recent child development research shows that the psychosocial or noncognitive skills that children developincluding the ability to self-regulate and integrate in social settingsare important for success in school and beyond. Are these skills learned in childhood also important for adult political behaviors like voting? In this article, I use a unique school-based 20-year field experiment to explore whether children who develop psychosocial skills early on are more likely to vote in adulthood than those who do not. Matching subjects to voter files, I show that this intervention had a noticeable long-run impact on political participation. These results highlight the need to better understand how childhood experiences shape civic behaviors later in life. During this critical period, children can be taught the not explicitly political, but still vital, skills that set them on a path toward political participation in adulthood.