STILL BRINGING THE VIETNAM-WAR HOME - SOURCES OF CONTEMPORARY STUDENT-ACTIVISM

This study examined student activism concerning the Persian Gulf War R esults showed that students' reports of their parents' activities duri ng the Vietnam War were strongly associated with students' Gulf War-re lated activism. Other correlates of activism included attitudes toward war political consciousness, authori-tarianism, and gender-role ideol ogy. After the authors controlled for student attitudes, path analyses confirmed the direct rob of parental modeling for children activism i n opposition to and in support of the Gulf War. In addition, parents' antiwar activism indirectly influenced students' antiwar activism thro ugh authoritarianism scores and antiwar attitudes. Parents' war-suppor t activism had no such indirect effect on students' war-support activi sm; however, gender-role ideology, authoritarianism, and prowar attitu des influenced students' war-support activism. The findings support th e frequently hypothesized but seldom-studied link between parents' act ivism and children's later activism.