The objective of this thesis was to investigate the following aspects of citizenship competence
among grade 7 and grade 11 students: (1) civic knowledge (subject knowledge and related
cognitive skills), (2) forms of their current civic activity and behaviour, (3) forms of their
planned civic activities in adulthood, (4) social concepts, (5) political self-concept, (6) civic
commitment and (7) their perception of democracy in their schools. In addition to these
objective, the research aimed at exploring the relationship between these domains and to
comparatively analyze the results according to age, school type and gender.