Summary:
The purpose of this research is to study the relationship between concern for the future and the political and social participation of adolescents in secondary education. It also studies how self-efficacy, both at a general level and in the field of politics, mediates the relationship of the two variables , mentioned above . The survey sample includes 551 adolescents from 15 to 18 years of age. The questionnaire of the European program CATCH-EyoU (Horizon 2020), entitled "Procedures for building an active youth policy in the European Union" (see Pavlopoulos, Kostoglou, & Motti-Stefanidi, in press), was given. Statistical data processing revealed that the mean concern of adolescents in the sample for their personal future was high, while average self-efficacy and average political self-efficacy were lower but also high. Political and social participation in general was very small. The adolescents' concern about the country's political and economic future was moderate. It also emerged that when the concern for the personal future,that the adolescent has, grows, Internet political participation tends to grow, while the growing concern about the country's future tends to reduce voluntary political participation. There was a statistically significant complete parallel mediation of personal and political effectiveness in the foreseeable impact of the online political participation in the concern of an adolescent for his personal future.
Keywords:
Adolescence, political and social participation, self-efficacy, concern for personal future, concern for the national future