20.500.12556/DKUM-95810 The impact of health on voting intent among youth in nine Southeast European countries a mediation analysis on the role of political trust This study investigates the impact of personal health, measured asself-rated health, on voting intentions among youth in nine Southeast European (SEE) countries, with a focus on the mediatingrole of political trust. Using structural equation modelling (SEM), we analyse data from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) youth surveysin SEE countries. Our findings reveal that while better self-ratedhealth is positively associated with political trust in Romania and Slovenia, this relationship is not observed in other countries. Political trust significantly enhances voting intentions in all countries except Bosnia and Herzegovina. Additionally, self-rated health directly influences voting intentions positively in Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia, negatively in Romania, and shows no significant effect elsewhere. Lastly, political trust mediates the relationship between self-rated health and voting intentions only in Romania and Slovenia. Measures aimed at supporting health among youth and their political trust could lead to highervoter turnout; however, the effectiveness of such policies may vary across countries. health political participation turnout political trust youth politična participacija zdravje volilna udeležba politično zaupanje mladi true false true Taylor & Francis Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2025-10-25 03:25:17 2026-01-30 12:30:01 2026-01-31 03:16:03 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. 1-18 2025 0000-00-00 PostprintKoncna VTisku NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 2025-10-13 2025-10-22 316.334:614(497) 254594051 10.1080/14683857.2025.2576290 1743-9639 RAZ_Kirbis_Andrej_2025.pdf RAZ_Kirbis_Andrej_2025.pdf 1 120FC4AAE7A39BF04E3EC6E5D3D9E1B7 31b1e9f3b8f91f0a5dd660ba74bd3b9de3e19124ea9d72cce8e9c0a009d22f98 3e16f4d7-fdcf-11f0-8805-00155d00018d https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=202862 https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2025.2576290 0 77cb5d89-b141-11f0-b0e0-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=200181 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0