Autoritarismo e adesão a sistemas de valores psicossociais

Abstract

ResumoO objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar as relações entre o autoritarismo e a adesão a sistemas de valores. Para tanto, utilizou-se a escala de Autoritarismo de Extrema-Direita (Altemeyer, 1981) e o Questionário de Valores Psicossociais (Pereira, Da Costa & Camino, 2005b). Com base em dados de 284 estudantes universitários de Goiânia, verificou-se que a Escala de Autoritarismo mede duas dimensões políticas: autoritarismo e tolerância. Verificou-se também que os valores religiosos estão relacionados com diminuição da tolerância, enquanto a adesão aos valores hedonistas está relacionada com o aumento da tolerância e com a diminuição do autoritarismo. Além disso, a adesão aos valores materialistas está relacionada com o aumento do autoritarismo. Esses resultados são discutidos ressaltando a importância de uma perspectiva psicossocial que leve em conta os valores contextuais como fatores importantes para a compreensão do apoio das pessoas ao autoritarismo e à democracia. Palavras-chave: autoritarismo; valores psicossociais; perspectiva psicossocial. Authoritarianism and adhesion to psychosocial values systems AbstractThe aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between authoritarianism and the adhesion to values systems. Due to that, Altemeyer's (1981; Right-wing Authoritarianism Scale and the Psychosocial Value Questionnaire (Pereira, Da Costa & Camino, 2005b) were used. The participants were 284 university students from Goiânia. The results showed that the Authoritarianism Scale was organized in two factors, named authoritarianism and tolerance. The results showed that religious values are negatively correlated to tolerance while hedonist values are positively correlated to this factor. The authoritarianism factor is negatively correlated to hedonist values and positively to materialist values. These results are discussed emphasizing the importance of adopting a psychosocial perspective, taking into account the broader context, in order to analyze political constructs as authoritarianism and democracy.

Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Factor Structure of the Brazilian Version of the Right-Wing Authoritarianism

“…The present study translated and adapted to Brazilian Portuguese the Right-wing Authoritarianism (RWA; Duckitt et al, 2010). The internal consistency indexes (Cronbach's alphas) presented were superior to those of previous studies that used different versions of the RWA in Brazil (Barros et al, 2009;Guimarães et al, 2005;Torres et al, 2007;Vilela, 2012). Furthermore the proposed factor solution explained a larger part of the variance of the scale scores than previous studies (Barros et al, 2009;Guimarães et al, 2005;Torres et al, 2007).…”

“…Although an adaptation study of RWA for Brazil has not yet been done, it was already used in the national context in an unsystematic manner (e.g. Barros, Torres, & Pereira, 2009;Cantal, Milfont, Wilson, & Gouveia, 2015;Guimarães, Torres, & de Faria, 2005;Santos, 2015;Torres, de Faria, Guimarães, & Martignoni, 2007;Vilela, 2012) both in its classical form (Altemeyer, 1988) and in its alternative form (Duckitt et al, 2010). Therefore, in order to improve the accuracy of nationally obtained results, the objective of the present study is to adapt the RWA proposed by Duckitt and collaborators (2010) to the Portuguese language and analyze their psychometric properties in the Brazilian context.…”

Avaliação de adolescentes sobre a importância de valores para a sociedade: relações com classe econômica e escolaridade dos pais

“…Os valores materialistas são os que inspiraram menos respostas de alta importância. Em termos de uma hierarquia de importância de valores, o estudo aproxima-se dos achados de Barros et al (2009) e Lins (2013.…”

Adaptation and validation of the psychosocial values questionnaire to the context of Brazilian and Portuguese teenagers

“…In addition, adherence to materialist values was found to lead to a more positive evaluation of the government's involvement in human rights, while the post-materialist values contributed to a more critical evaluation of the government's role in promoting human rights. Barros et al (2009), in a study testing the relationship between authoritarianism and values, observed that religious values were related to decrease in tolerance, while adherence to hedonist values was related to an increase in tolerance and reduction of authoritarianism. Furthermore, adherence to materialist values was related with higher levels of authoritarianism.…”