TY - JOUR

T1 - Personal Values and Political Activism

T2 - A Cross-national Study

AU - Vecchione, Michele

AU - Schwartz, Shalom H.

AU - Caprara, Gian Vittorio

AU - Schoen, Harald

AU - Cieciuch, Jan

AU - Silvester, Jo

AU - Bain, Paul

AU - Bianchi, Gabriel

AU - Kirmanoglu, Hasan

AU - Baslevent, Cem

AU - Mamali, Catalin

AU - Manzi, Jorge

AU - Pavlopoulos, Vassilis

AU - Posnova, Tetyana

AU - Torres, Claudio

AU - Verkasalo, Markku

AU - Lönnqvist, Jan Erik

AU - Vondráková, Eva

AU - Welzel, Christian

AU - Alessandri, Guido

PY - 2015/2/1

Y1 - 2015/2/1

N2 - Using data from 28 countries in four continents, the present research addresses the question of how basic values may account for political activism. Study 1 (N = 35,116) analyses data from representative samples in 20 countries that responded to the 21-item version of the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ-21) in the European Social Survey. Study 2 (N = 7,773) analyses data from adult samples in six of the same countries (Finland, Germany, Greece, Israel, Poland, and United Kingdom) and eight other countries (Australia, Brazil, Chile, Italy, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine, and United States) that completed the full 40-item PVQ. Across both studies, political activism relates positively to self-transcendence and openness to change values, especially to universalism and autonomy of thought, a subtype of self-direction. Political activism relates negatively to conservation values, especially to conformity and personal security. National differences in the strength of the associations between individual values and political activism are linked to level of democratization.

AB - Using data from 28 countries in four continents, the present research addresses the question of how basic values may account for political activism. Study 1 (N = 35,116) analyses data from representative samples in 20 countries that responded to the 21-item version of the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ-21) in the European Social Survey. Study 2 (N = 7,773) analyses data from adult samples in six of the same countries (Finland, Germany, Greece, Israel, Poland, and United Kingdom) and eight other countries (Australia, Brazil, Chile, Italy, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine, and United States) that completed the full 40-item PVQ. Across both studies, political activism relates positively to self-transcendence and openness to change values, especially to universalism and autonomy of thought, a subtype of self-direction. Political activism relates negatively to conservation values, especially to conformity and personal security. National differences in the strength of the associations between individual values and political activism are linked to level of democratization.

KW - Politics

KW - political activism

KW - values

KW - cross-cultural

KW - participation

KW - Gender and Diversity

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84921000172&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/bjop.12067

DO - 10.1111/bjop.12067

M3 - Journal articles

C2 - 24602028

VL - 106

SP - 84

EP - 106

JO - British Journal of Psychology

JF - British Journal of Psychology

SN - 0007-1269

IS - 1

ER -