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Political and Attributional Responses of the Young Short-Term Unemployed

Bibliographic Data

ID7352011
AuthorsG M Breakwell (0000-0002-2002-5681, corresponding author)
Year1986
Volume7
Issue3
Pages575-575
Publication date1986-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-895X • E-ISSN: 1467-9221
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2307/3791257
OpenAlexW2085686966
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited8

This study investigated the political responses of young people to unemployment and the ways in which they explain their own and other people's unemployment. These young people proved both disinterested in and disillusioned with traditional political forms of expression but were convinced of the possibility of violent social change and claimed to be willing to engage in it. If unemployed for a very short time they explained their own unemployment in terms of the failure of the system to provide jobs and the unemployment of others in terms of personal inadequacies. If unemployed for longer periods, they tended to engage in self-blaming attributions, claiming their own joblessness to be due to personal inadequacies. The relation of political responses to attributional strategies is discussed and the problems inherent in the methodology are suggested

Attribution · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Politics · Term (time · Unemployment · Employment and Welfare Studies · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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Unique citing works12
Citations per year0,31
Citation span1987 - 2026 (40)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 12
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