Personal Values and Political Activism: A Cross-national Study
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In: British Journal of Psychology, Vol. 106, No. 1, 01.02.2015, p. 84-106.
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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 -