TY - JOUR
T1 - Literacy proficiency and political information seeking in the U.S.
AU - Saal, Leah Katherine
AU - Perry, Kristen H.
AU - Yamashita, Takashi
AU - Punksungka, Wonmai
AU - Shaw, Donita
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - This quantitative exploratory study is the first to investigate the literacy skills and political efficacy-related information seeking behavior with a secondary analysis of a nationally representative sample of older youth and adults in the United States (U.S), ages 16–74 across two PIAAC data collection cycles (2012/2014 and 2017). Over time, newspapers, magazines, TV, and books use declined, while internet use as a source for political efficacy-related information increased. Associations of literacy skill proficiency with the internet and TV were reliable between two time-points and cycles of data; however, the direction of these associations varied. Older youth and adults with greater literacy skills were more likely to seek political efficacy-related information from the internet, while those with less literacy proficiency preferred T.V.
AB - This quantitative exploratory study is the first to investigate the literacy skills and political efficacy-related information seeking behavior with a secondary analysis of a nationally representative sample of older youth and adults in the United States (U.S), ages 16–74 across two PIAAC data collection cycles (2012/2014 and 2017). Over time, newspapers, magazines, TV, and books use declined, while internet use as a source for political efficacy-related information increased. Associations of literacy skill proficiency with the internet and TV were reliable between two time-points and cycles of data; however, the direction of these associations varied. Older youth and adults with greater literacy skills were more likely to seek political efficacy-related information from the internet, while those with less literacy proficiency preferred T.V.
KW - Civic engagement
KW - Democratic education
KW - Information processing
KW - Literacy
KW - Mass media
KW - Political influences
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102071
DO - 10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102071
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85144052648
SN - 0883-0355
VL - 116
JO - International Journal of Educational Research
JF - International Journal of Educational Research
M1 - 102071
ER -