A Participatory Personality? Examining the Influence of Personality Traits on Political Participation

Lindell, Marina; Strandberg, Kim

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“…As political participation is at the heart of democracy, understanding what makes people engage in politics is a key issue for political scientists and communication scholars alike (Verba, Schlozman, and Brady, 1995). In the related literature, there is an ongoing scholarly debate on the role of personality traits as determinants of political and prosocial behavior (Cooper, Golden, and Socha, 2013;Bloeser et al, 2015;Dinesen, Nørgaard, and Klemmensen, 2014;Jennstål, Uba, and Öberg, 2020;Kline et al, 2019;Lindell and Strandberg, 2018;Margetts et al, 2015;Rasmussen and Hebbelstrup, 2016). These effects have been studied at different geographic contexts, including the Netherlands (Bekkers, 2005), Finland (Mattila et al, 2011), Venezuela and Uruguay (Mondak et al, 2011), South Korea (Ha, Kim, and Jo, 2013), India and Pakistan (Oskarsson and Widmalm, 2016), Italy (Caprara et al, 2006), and Germany (Schoen and Steinbrecher, 2013).…”

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Linking Extraversion to Collective and Individual Forms of Political Participation: The Mediating Role of Political Discussion

Huber

Goyanes

Zúñiga

2021

Social Science Quarterly

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Objectives. Scholars are increasingly investigating the role of citizens' personality in activating political behavior. We test whether extraversion is associated to collective political activities (i.e., activities that include social interaction) and individual ones (i.e., activities that do not include social interactions). Methods. We use originally collected survey data from five countries (Brazil, Korea, Russia, United States, United Kingdom). Results. We found that extraversion is positively and directly related to collective political activities in Brazil, Korea and Russia. Results show no direct relationship between individual forms of political activities and extraversion. However, political discussion fully mediates the relationship between extraversion and individual forms of political activities in all five countries. Conclusion. This study contributes to growing discussions on the role of personality traits in explaining political participation across countries, arguing that the relationship between extraversion and diverse forms of political participation are also context-driven and nourished by political discussion.

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Linking Extraversion to Collective and Individual Forms of Political Participation: The Mediating Role of Political Discussion

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Goyanes

Zúñiga

2021

Social Science Quarterly

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“…There may be another reason that members of ČSSD (a left-wing party) were higher in extraversion. Politicians were found to be higher than the population in extraversion in Italy (Caprara et al, 2003) and politically active people were found higher in extraversion in Finland (Lindell & Strandberg, 2018). ČSSD was a party that had been in power for seven years in 2005 and the delegates who were elected to represent the strongest party in a regional summit were probably close to professional politicians.…”

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Political party membership and personality characteristics in the Czech Republic (2005)

Linkov¹

2020

E-psychologie

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This paper examines the relationship between Big Five personality dimensions and membership in political parties in the Czech Republic. A total of 194 members from eight major Czech political parties filled out the NEO Five-Factor Inventory to assess the Big Five personality dimensions. The mean scores of the respondents from each party were compared to the scores of a sample of the general Czech population. The members of three right-wing parties scored lower in agreeableness and the members of one left-wing party were higher in agreeableness than the general population, which is consistent with results from other countries. The Greens scored higher in openness than the general population, which is consistent with results from Germany. Members of former governing parties, which had long been out of power, scored lower in neuroticism than the general population.

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“…Political interest is a consistent predictor of online (Lindell and Strandberg 2018) and offline discussion (Grill 2019;Lindell and Strandberg 2018). Lindell and Strandberg (2018) found that age matters for online discussion, but not offline discussion; gender does not predict either mode of discussion. Other studies find that gender predicts political discussion (Grill 2019;Song and Boomgaarden 2019) and like-minded discussion (Mondak 2010;Mondak et al 2010).…”

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“…Extraverts are more sociable and assertive, which increases the propensity to talk politics (Grill 2019;Hibbing et al 2011;Lindell and Strandberg 2018). They may prefer political discussion as a form of political participation because it is a sociable and interactive activity, as opposed to individualized activities such as signing petitions (Evans and Ulbig 2012;Lindell and Strandberg 2018). Extraverted people are also more likely to have larger social networks and a greater number of interactions within these networks (Hibbing et al 2011;Mondak 2010).…”

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The Role of Personality in Political Talk and Like-Minded Discussion

Boulianne

Koc-Michalska

2021

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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Political discussion is a key mechanism for the development of reasoned opinions and political knowledge, but online political discussion has been characterized as uncivil, intolerant, and/or ideologically homogeneous, which is detrimental to this development. In this paper, we examine the role of personality in various forms of political talk—online and offline—as well as like-minded discussion. Based on a 2017 survey conducted in the United Kingdom, United States, and France, we find that people who are open-minded and extraverted are more likely to engage in political talk but less likely to engage in like-minded discussion. Individuals who are older, less educated, introverted, and conscientious are more likely to find themselves in like-minded discussions, both online and on social media. Like-minded discussion is rare; personality, rather than ideology, predicts whether people engage in this form of political talk in online and offline modes. Our findings challenge the role of social media in the creation of like-minded discussion. Instead, we should look to the role of individual attributes, such as personality traits, which create a disposition that motivates the use of social media (and offline networks) to cultivate like-minded discussion.

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A Participatory Personality? Examining the Influence of Personality Traits on Political Participation

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Linking Extraversion to Collective and Individual Forms of Political Participation: The Mediating Role of Political Discussion

Linking Extraversion to Collective and Individual Forms of Political Participation: The Mediating Role of Political Discussion

Political party membership and personality characteristics in the Czech Republic (2005)

The Role of Personality in Political Talk and Like-Minded Discussion

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