Political Interest, Political Efficacy, and Media Usage as Factors Influencing Political Participation in Hospital Nurses

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 342 ◽  
Author(s):  
So Yeun Jun ◽  
Il Sun Ko ◽  
Ka Ryeong Bae
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Hospital Nurses ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Factors Influencing

The Demobilizing Potential of Conflict for Web and Mobile Political Participation

2019 ◽  
pp. 1342-1361
Author(s):  
Francis Dalisay ◽  
Matthew J. Kushin ◽  
Masahiro Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Political Expression ◽  
Negative Link ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Online Political Participation

In this chapter, we expand the idea that conflict avoidance (CA) inhibits online political participation. We specifically propose that CA has a direct negative link with traditional online political participation and online political expression, and an indirect negative link with these two forms of participation when mediated by political interest and internal political efficacy. We test our propositions through analyzing data from a survey of young adult college students residing in a battleground state in the U.S. Midwest conducted during the weeks prior to the 2012 U.S. presidential election. Our results showed that CA has a direct negative association with both traditional online political participation and online political expression. CA also has a negative relationship with political interest and internal political efficacy, which in turn, are positively linked with traditional online political participation and online political expression. We discussed implications.

scholarly journals Meta-Cognition of Efficacy and Social Media Usage among Japanese Civil Society Organizations

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Tomoya Sagara ◽  
Muneo Kaigo ◽  
Yutaka Tsujinaka
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Flow Of Information

This paper examines how social media are affecting Japanese civil society organizations, in relation to efficacy and political participation. Using data from the 2017 Japan Interest Group Study survey, we analyzed how the flow of information leads to the political participation of civil society organizations. The total number of respondents (organizations) were 1285 (942 organizations in Tokyo and 343 from Ibaraki). In the analysis of our survey we focused on the data portion related to information behavior and efficacy and investigated the meta-cognition of efficacy in lobbying among civil society organizations in Tokyo and Ibaraki. We found that organizations that use social media were relatively few. However, among the few organizations that use social media, we found that these organizations have a much higher meta-cognition of political efficacy in comparison to those that do not use social media. For instance, social media usage had a higher tendency of having cognition of being able to exert influence upon others. We also found that organizations that interact with citizens have a higher tendency to use social media. The correspondence analysis results point towards a hypothesis of how efficacy and participation are mutually higher among the organizations that use social media in Japan.

scholarly journals Predicting online participation through Bayesian network analysis

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0261663
Author(s):  
Elizaveta Kopacheva
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Bayesian Network ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Online Participation ◽  
Causal Relations ◽  
Online Activism ◽  
Participation Research

Despite the fact that preconditions of political participation were thoroughly examined before, there is still not enough understanding of which factors directly affect political participation and which factors correlate with participation due to common background variables. This article scrutinises the causal relations between the variables associated with participation in online activism and introduces a three-step approach in learning a reliable structure of the participation preconditions’ network to predict political participation. Using Bayesian network analysis and structural equation modeling to stabilise the structure of the causal relations, the analysis showed that only age, political interest, internal political efficacy and no other factors, highlighted by the previous political participation research, have direct effects on participation in online activism. Moreover, the direct effect of political interest is mediated by the indirect effects of internal political efficacy and age via political interest. After fitting the parameters of the Bayesian network dependent on the received structure, it became evident that given prior knowledge of the explanatory factors that proved to be most important in terms of direct effects, the predictive performance of the model increases significantly. Despite this fact, there is still uncertainty when it comes to predicting online participation. This result suggests that there remains a lot to be done in participation research when it comes to identifying and distinguishing factors that stimulate new types of political activities.

scholarly journals From Political Interest to Participation in EU-related Actions: The Mediating Role of European Identity and Political Efficacy

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Vassilis Pavlopoulos ◽  
Dimitra Kostoglou ◽  
Frosso Motti-Stefanidi
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Online Participation ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
Youth Citizenship ◽  
The Eu

European youth’s civic engagement and political participation in EU-related issues is a timely imperative. Research findings on youth citizenship range from political apathy to alternative forms of participation, although theoretical evidence remains poor. This study is based on empirical data from the Greek contribution to the European program CATCH-EyoU (Horizon 2020), aiming to explore different forms and predictors of youth’s civic engagement and political participation on EU-related issues. Based on social psychological theoretical background, we assumed that the expressed political interest for the EU translates to specific forms of action. Identification with the EU and perceived political efficacy/alienation were expected to mediate the above relationship. The sample consisted of 749 young adults aged 18-27 (M = 22.2, 50.7% women, 89.7% Greek citizens, 72% university students, 75.5% employed). In addition to voting, four components of political participation and civic engagement were studied, namely conventional participation (in support of political parties and goals), activism (acts of protest against the authorities), online participation (social networks), and volunteering (non-profit actions). Mediation analyses showed that the relationship between political interest and participation can be explained by different mechanisms: The sense of belonging in the EU lead to more frequent electoral participation, but to less activism and online participation. On the contrary, EU identity exploration and reconsideration contributed to increased conventional participation. Political efficacy seemed to promote activism and online participation, while political alienation tended to decrease activism. These findings reveal the multiple connotations of youth’s politicalparticipation regarding EU issues.

scholarly journals The Emotional Costs and Benefits of Politics: Implications for Adolescent Political Development

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Oosterhoff ◽  
Lauren Alvis
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Political Empowerment ◽  
Ecological Momentary

Political involvement is accompanied by a range of positive and negative emotional experiences, including stress, sadness, anger, regret, purpose, and empowerment. These experiences may be especially potent during adolescence when youth are forming political opinions and are becoming more integrated within the political system. Little research has examined adolescents’ political emotional experiences and how these experiences are connected with concordant and future political engagement. Using an ecological momentary assessment design, this study tested cross-sectional and longitudinal within-day associations between adolescents’ political emotional costs and benefits and political engagement. Participants (N=291, Mage=16.09) completed four assessments of political emotional experiences (stress/sadness, anger, regret, empowerment) and multiple forms of political engagement (intent to protest, intent to vote, political interest, political efficacy, political participation) across one day. Greater political empowerment was cross-sectionally associated with all forms of political engagement and longitudinally associated with greater next-moment intent to vote and protest, political interest, and political efficacy. Greater political anger was associated with greater cross-sectional political interest, political efficacy, and political participation, but lower next-moment political efficacy. Greater political regret was associated with lower cross-sectional political efficacy and political interest and greater political stress/sadness was associated with greater cross-sectional intent to vote. Findings emphasize the importance of empowerment for adolescent political engagement and demonstrate nuanced connections between adolescents’ and subsequent involvement.

The Impact of Online News Consumption on Young People's Political Participation

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-31
Author(s):  
Hao Xiaoming ◽  
Wen Nainan ◽  
Cherian George
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
New Media ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Online News ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
The Impact

The informational usage of media has been identified as one of the most important factors that facilitate citizens' participation in political activities. This relationship becomes exceptionally intriguing in the 21st century, which is characterized by a growing popularity of new media, and concurrently, a decline of political and civic engagement in many societies, particularly among young people. Research findings about the link between new media usage and political participation have been inconclusive, and specific processes through which new media usage, especially the informational usage of such media, may affect political participation remain less than lucid. In this study, we propose a theoretical framework under which political knowledge and political efficacy are used to explain the possible connection between online news consumption and political participation. Through a survey of university students in Singapore, this study shows that the young people's consumption of online news is directly related to both online and offline political participation. At the same time, the consumption of online news is also indirectly related to online and offline political participation via political efficacy. Political knowledge, however, is found to be a mediating factor between online news consumption and online political participation but not offline political participation. This study not only allows us a more holistic view of the impact of online news on young people's political and civic engagement but also contributes to the existing literature on the relationship between news consumption and political participation by incorporating both online and offline political activities in the proposed theoretical model.

Conflict as a Barrier to Online Political Participation?

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Dalisay ◽  
Matthew J. Kushin ◽  
Masahiro Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Political Expression ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Online Political Participation

This study extends understanding of conflict avoidance's (CA) potential of inhibiting online political participation. Specifically, the authors examine whether CA has a direct negative relationship with traditional online political participation and online political expression, and an indirect negative relationship with these two forms of participation as mediated by political interest and internal political efficacy. A survey of young adult college students living in a U.S. Midwestern battleground state was conducted weeks prior to the 2012 U.S. presidential election. Results showed that CA has a direct negative relationship with both traditional online political participation and online political expression. Also, CA is negatively associated with political interest and internal political efficacy, which in turn, are positively associated with traditional online political participation and online political expression. Implications are discussed.

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