Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, L. go Frà Gemelli, 1, 20123 Milano, Italy.
J Adolesc. 2012 Jun;35(3):497-507. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2011.08.013. Epub 2011 Sep 19.
The present study examines the antecedents of social action (Snyder & Omoto, 2007), understood as voluntary action and political action, by operationalizing Penner's constructs (2004). We affirm the essential homogeneity between these two forms of social action and their antecedents. The study has a twofold aim: 1) testing the identified antecedents on the volunteer participants by means of discriminant analysis, and 2) testing the same variables on youth engaged in politics. Participants were 706 young people - engaged and not engaged - distributed throughout Italy - aged 19-29 (M=22.36, SD=1.10). The instrument used was a self-report questionnaire. The findings reveal that several variables discriminate between engaged and not engaged youth. They also show the presence of several areas of overlap between variables considered in the engaged groups (political and voluntary action).
本研究考察了社会行动的前因（Snyder 和 Omoto，2007），即自愿行动和政治行动，通过操作 Penner 的建构（2004）。我们肯定这两种形式的社会行动及其前因之间的基本同质性。该研究有两个目的：1）通过判别分析测试志愿者参与者的确定前因，2）在参与政治的年轻人中测试相同的变量。参与者是分布在意大利各地的 706 名年轻人-参与者和非参与者-年龄在 19-29 岁之间（M=22.36，SD=1.10）。所用的工具是一份自我报告问卷。研究结果表明，有几个变量可以区分参与者和非参与者。他们还表明，在考虑的变量中存在几个重叠领域（政治和志愿行动）。
