Basic Personal Values Underlie and Give Coherence to Political Values: A Cross National Study in 15 Countries
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In: Political Behavior, Vol. 36, No. 4, 12.2014, p. 899-930 .
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T1 - Basic Personal Values Underlie and Give Coherence to Political Values
T2 - A Cross National Study in 15 Countries
AU - Schwartz, Shalom H.
AU - Caprara, Gian Vittorio
AU - Vecchione, Michele
AU - Bain, Paul G.
AU - Bianchi, Gabriel
AU - Caprara, Maria Giovanna
AU - Cieciuch, Jan
AU - Kirmanoglu, Hasan
AU - Baslevent, Cem
AU - Lönnqvist, Jan Erik
AU - Mamali, Catalin
AU - Manzi, Jorge
AU - Pavlopoulos, Vassilis
AU - Posnova, Tetyana
AU - Schoen, Harald
AU - Silvester, Jo
AU - Tabernero, Carmen
AU - Torres, Claudio
AU - Verkasalo, Markku
AU - Vondráková, Eva
AU - Welzel, C.
AU - Zaleski, Zbigniew
PY - 2014/12
Y1 - 2014/12
N2 - Do the political values of the general public form a coherent system? What might be the source of coherence? We view political values as expressions, in the political domain, of more basic personal values. Basic personal values (e.g., security, achievement, benevolence, hedonism) are organized on a circular continuum that reflects their conflicting and compatible motivations. We theorize that this circular motivational structure also gives coherence to political values. We assess this theorizing with data from 15 countries, using eight core political values (e.g., free enterprise, law and order) and ten basic personal values. We specify the underlying basic values expected to promote or oppose each political value. We offer different hypotheses for the 12 non-communist and three post-communist countries studied, where the political context suggests different meanings of a basic or political value. Correlation and regression analyses support almost all hypotheses. Moreover, basic values account for substantially more variance in political values than age, gender, education, and income. Multidimensional scaling analyses demonstrate graphically how the circular motivational continuum of basic personal values structures relations among core political values. This study strengthens the assumption that individual differences in basic personal values play a critical role in political thought.
AB - Do the political values of the general public form a coherent system? What might be the source of coherence? We view political values as expressions, in the political domain, of more basic personal values. Basic personal values (e.g., security, achievement, benevolence, hedonism) are organized on a circular continuum that reflects their conflicting and compatible motivations. We theorize that this circular motivational structure also gives coherence to political values. We assess this theorizing with data from 15 countries, using eight core political values (e.g., free enterprise, law and order) and ten basic personal values. We specify the underlying basic values expected to promote or oppose each political value. We offer different hypotheses for the 12 non-communist and three post-communist countries studied, where the political context suggests different meanings of a basic or political value. Correlation and regression analyses support almost all hypotheses. Moreover, basic values account for substantially more variance in political values than age, gender, education, and income. Multidimensional scaling analyses demonstrate graphically how the circular motivational continuum of basic personal values structures relations among core political values. This study strengthens the assumption that individual differences in basic personal values play a critical role in political thought.
KW - Politics
KW - Basic personal values
KW - Political values
KW - Structure of political thought
KW - Value coherence
KW - Gender and Diversity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84912046548&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11109-013-9255-z
DO - 10.1007/s11109-013-9255-z
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 36
SP - 899
EP - 930
JO - Political Behavior
JF - Political Behavior
SN - 0190-9320
IS - 4
ER -