Given these findings, the common descriptor "alienated youth" might well be replaced with the notion of "systemic rejection," since these adolescents, though manifesting feelings of political alienation and a willingness to change the system through violence, have not really withdrawn from the political system. (Author)

Results of a study to determine adolescents' feelings of political alienation are reported. The study measures: powerlessness, discontentment, cynicism, detachment, hopelessness, elitism, and democratic deficiency. Results of the random sample of 269 high school students indicate high levels of alienation. (KC)

Examines adolescents' attitudes toward the sociopolitical system and violence directed at the system as well as the implications of these attitudes for the social studies curriculum. (IRT)

An investigation of a cognitive-perceptual model to measure adolescents' feelings of political alienation is reported. The model hypothesizes that fundamental to the political alienation process is a feared actual or potential loss of freedom; this process is called psychological reactance. The sample consisted of 460 senior high school students…

The effect of ideological self-identification on students' perceptions and evaluations of three academic stimulus objects is investigated. Conservative and liberal students view academic objects differently and do not use the same dimensions when describing academic objects. (Editor/LBH)

Investigates political alienation among white and black adolescents, with particular regard to feelings of political inefficacy and political distrust. Recommends additional research on alienation and suggests that future alienation models be augmented with measures of psychological reactance as well as political reality perceptions. For journal…

Analyzes the viewpoints of conservatives and liberals toward poor students through a survey of student teachers, placing special emphasis on the poverty information levels of the respondents in the study, and concluding that it is quite plausible that ideology filters information. (Author/JM)

Reports on study which investigated Black and White adolescents' political revenge attitudes, attempted to establish the concurrent validity of a political revenge measure, and tested a model of political revenge antecedents. (MK)

The effectiveness of sex research models which measure adolescents' feelings of political alienation is investigated and discussed and a new model is formulated. The six models include life dissatisfaction, personal depreciation, critical perceptions of political reality, irrational beliefs, perceptions of political threat, and cognitive…

Student attitudes and the educational consequences of the introduction of controversial course materials into the social studies curriculum are explored. (Author/DE)

This study is concerned with adolescents' response levels on seven measures of political alienation: powerlessness, discontentment, cynicism, detachment, hopelessness, elitism, and democratic deficiency. Using a random sample of 269 Hartford, Connecticut high school students surveyed in May 1976, political alienation levels are found to be…

In a May 1976 study of 269 Hartford, Connecticut high school students, four fundamental questions were investigated. First, what is the source of responsibility for the present state of the political system? Second, using a four-dimensional attributional scheme to measure such responsibility, what is the underlying structure of such attributed…

Reports a study of the relationship between teacher-candidates' sociopolitical ideologies and their attitudes toward poverty and the disadvantaged among 591 undergraduate students of education at Indiana University and Southern Illinois University in the winter of 1971. (Author/JM)

The extent to which black and white adolescents justify the use of political violence to gain desired ends, and the extent to which they express behavioral intentions to engage in such violence to achieve political objectives are examined and compared. (Author/AM)

Compared the academic perceptions and beliefs of liberal and conservative college students (N=460). Analysis of survey results showed liberals demanded more student participation and espoused more academic alienation. Liberals also evaluated the university academic environment more critically and perceived greater real-ideal discrepancies in…