Abstract
AbstractThis study examined whether there is evidence in Hong Kong and Taiwan students’ early attitudes to civic participation that suggests they will adopt radical forms of civic participation and whether civic participatory potential of students from these two Chinese societies differed in early adolescence. To achieve these purposes, we used a Rasch measurement approach to construct comparable profiles. In doing so, we adopted conceptual and empirical approaches to construct a composite indicator and then tested validity and reliability of this indicator for the two societies, respectively. Such an approach is based on the assumption that reliable and accurate measurement is essential for theorizing the results of empirical studies. The data from the 2009 International Civics and Citizenship Education Study were also used for comparing the potential participation profiles. The results suggested that the unidimensional profile has good item fit and model fit for both societies, thereby valid and reliabl...
Highlights
Like conventional forms of citizenship engagement, protest, either legal or illegal, is a common form of civic engagement in both Taiwan and Hong Kong (Cheung, 2015)
With the 15 items the civic participatory potential profile split the Taiwanese students into roughly 2 groups
The Hong Kong students are split into three groups according to the differences in their own attitudes to civic participation but these are not comparable to the attitudinal differences of their Taiwanese peers
Summary
Like conventional forms of citizenship engagement, protest, either legal or illegal, is a common form of civic engagement in both Taiwan and Hong Kong (Cheung, 2015). Student social movements in these two Chinese societies are strategically similar and active, following each in the same year and attracting worldwide attention Both deeply influenced by the Chinese Confucian tradition, Hong Kong and Taiwan have undergone clashes between traditional civic values and western democratic values in contemporary times. In these circumstances, people face tensions between the two value systems whenever and whatever social and political events occur. Other studies have found that attachment to conservative Confucian values was diminishing among youngsters in Asia (Hyun, 2001; Park & Shin, 2006) This does not necessarily contradict Kennedy, Kuang, and Chow’s (2013) finding that traditional citizenship values still exert an influence on East Asian adolescents
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