Abstract

TINTAYA ORIHUELA, Meir Álvaro  and  CUETO SALDIVAR, Rosa María Luisa Martina. Psychosocial factors associated with unconventional political participation in a sample of young citizens in Lima, Peru. Revista de Psicología [online]. 2021, vol.39, n.2, pp.933-1004. ISSN 0254-9247.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18800/psico.202102.015.

Young Political Participation (PP) has been limited in a representative domain, and young Peruvians has been cataloged as politically disinterested and apathetic with their civic commitment to society, without inquiring about other types of political participation. Thus, from psychosocial approach, two studies were conducted: the first seeks to (1) explore the typology, attributions and motivations of PP; (2) the second study analyzes the relationships between socio-cognitive factors (Political Knowledge, Political Interest, and Political Efficacy), attitudes (Political Trust and Political Cynism), and emotions linked to no-conventional PP in a sample of 18-25-year-old people of Lima, Peru. In the first study, 8 interviews were conducted with young people affiliated to civil organizations, whose responses were analyzed from a thematic analysis approach. From these qualitative results, three main themes were identified: (1) a conception of political participation, (2) the motives for political participation, (3) the risks and limitations of political participation. In case of the second research, 132 youths participated in Lima through an online survey, which was submitted to correlational analyses, multiple regressions and path analysis. These results suggest two types of no-conventional PP: an contentious PP and civic-expressive PP, also both the political cynism and the political efficacy, mediated by political interest, has a clear effects on civic-expressive PP. Implications and importance of results were discussed in relation to human development, involvement and construction of citizenship among young Peruvians.

Keywords : political psychology; political participation; political interest; political efficacy; citizenship.

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