Civic Development of 9th through 12th-Grade Students in the United States: 1996

摘要

This report provides an extensive picture of factors often thought to be associated with promoting good citizenship among youth. In particular, it focuses on the civic development of 9th- through 12th-grade students. Broadly speaking, student characteristics, family influences, the role of schools, media factors, and the possible benefits of participation in community service activities are related to civic development. Initial analyses study how these factors relate to civic development in isolation from one another while the latter part of the report studies their relationship to civic development in conjunction with one another.