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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Personal values and political activism: A cross-national study
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Michele Vecchione
  • Shalom H Schwartz
  • Gian Vittorio Caprara
  • Harald Schoen
  • Jan Cieciuch
  • Jo Silvester
  • Paul Bain
  • Gabriel Bianchi
  • Hasan Kirmanoglu
  • Cem Baslevent
  • Catalin Mamali
  • Jorge Manzi
  • Vassilis Pavlopoulos
  • Tetyana Posnova
  • Claudio Torres
  • Markku Verkasalo
  • Jan-Erik Lönnqvist
  • Eva Vondráková
  • Christian Welzel
  • Guido Alessandri
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title British Journal of Psychology
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0007-1269
Volume 106
Number 1
Page Range 84 - 106
Date 2015
Abstract Text 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.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1111/bjop.12067
Other Identification Number merlin-id:12691
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