Personality and political preferences over time: Evidence from a multiwave longitudinal study

Ekstrom, Pierce D.; Federico, Christopher M.

doi:10.1111/jopy.12398

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“…Second, the current studies are all correlational by design, and consequently, the current studies cannot rule out the possibility of reverse causation. However, past research suggests that one’s identity and personality usually precede and shape the development of intergroup attitudes and political preferences (e.g., Ekstrom & Federico, ; Jost, Federico, & Napier, ; Major et al , ). Given this, the account that far‐right extremism causes White identity and SDO is less plausible than White identity and SDO cause far‐right extremism.…”

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Whites’ racial identity centrality and social dominance orientation are interactively associated with far‐right extremism

Bai

2019

British J Social Psychol

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This paper presents evidence from five studies (total White N = 7,209) that White American’s racial identity centrality is related to self‐reported levels of far‐right extremism. Furthermore, evidence from two of the studies shows that social dominance orientation (SDO) is another robust predictor of far‐right extremism. Results also show that SDO can moderate the relationship between White identity and extremism such that the association is stronger for Whites with a higher level of SDO. Therefore, evidence suggests that the role of Whites’ racial identity centrality is particularly relevant, and SDO is an important variable that may moderate the association between Whites’ racial identity centrality and their far‐right extremism in the contemporary political era.

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Whites’ racial identity centrality and social dominance orientation are interactively associated with far‐right extremism

Bai

2019

British J Social Psychol

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“…Caprara et al, 2006; Duckitt, 2001; Leone, Desimoni, & Chirumbolo, 2012). Even though longitudinal studies have provided more consistent evidence for effects of personality traits on political preferences and other aspects of worldviews than for effects in the opposite directions (Ekstrom & Federico, 2019; Perry & Sibley, 2012; Sibley & Duckitt, 2013), genetically informative studies have suggested that most of the associations between personality traits and political preferences may be due to common genetic influences (Hatemi & Verhulst, 2015; Kandler, Bell, Shikishima, Yamagata, & Riemann, 2015). Further studies with genetically informative longitudinal designs and fine‐grained measures of personality traits, beliefs, values, and preferences are needed to provide a more complete picture of the role of genetic and environmental factors, as well causal processes within the personality system, in shaping political orientations.…”

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Beyond ‘Liberals’ and ‘Conservatives’: Complexity in Ideology, Moral Intuitions, and Worldview among Swedish Voters

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This research investigated the congruence between the ideologies of political parties and the ideological preferences (N = 1515), moral intuitions (N = 1048), and political values and worldviews (N = 1345) of diverse samples of Swedish adults who voted or intended to vote for the parties. Logistic regression analyses yielded support for a series of hypotheses about variations in ideology beyond the left–right division. With respect to social ideology, resistance to change and binding moral intuitions predicted stronger preference for a social democratic (vs. progressive) party on the left and weaker preference for a social liberal (vs. social conservative or liberal‐conservative) party on the right. With respect to political values and broader worldviews, normativism and low acceptance of immigrants predicted the strongest preference for a nationalist party, while environmentalism predicted the strongest preference for a green party. The effects were generally strong and robust when we controlled for left–right self‐placements, economic ideology, and demographic characteristics. These results show that personality variation in the ideological domain is not reducible to the simplistic contrast between ‘liberals’ and ‘conservatives’, which ignores differences between progressive and non‐progressive leftists, economic and green progressives, social liberal and conservative rightists, and nationalist and non‐nationalist conservatives.

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“…The negative correlation of openness with the preference for rightist parties was identified in many other samples as well. Americans who prefer liberalism over conservatism are more open and extraverted and less neurotic and conscientious (Cooper, Golden, & Socha, 2013;Xu & Peterson, 2017;Ekstrom & Federico, 2019;Ludeke & Rasmussen, 2016). Wang (2016) found a connection between liberal preferences and neuroticism in the United States.…”

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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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Personality and political preferences over time: Evidence from a multiwave longitudinal study

Abstract: Personality plays an important, dynamic role in the formation and change of political preferences over the course of political campaigns-a role not entirely visible in cross-sectional analyses.

Cited by 18 publications

References 48 publications

Whites’ racial identity centrality and social dominance orientation are interactively associated with far‐right extremism

Whites’ racial identity centrality and social dominance orientation are interactively associated with far‐right extremism

Beyond ‘Liberals’ and ‘Conservatives’: Complexity in Ideology, Moral Intuitions, and Worldview among Swedish Voters

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

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