TY - JOUR
TI - Personal values and political activism: A cross-national study
AU - Vecchione, M.
AU - Schwartz, S.H.
AU - Caprara, G.V.
AU - Schoen, H.
AU - Cieciuch, J.
AU - Silvester, J.
AU - Bain, P.
AU - Bianchi, G.
AU - Kirmanoglu, H.
AU - Baslevent, C.
AU - Mamali, C.
AU - Manzi, J.
AU - Pavlopoulos, V.
AU - Posnova, T.
AU - Torres, C.
AU - Verkasalo, M.
AU - Lönnqvist, J.-E.
AU - Vondráková, E.
AU - Welzel, C.
AU - Alessandri, G.
JO - The British journal of psychology
PY - 2015
VL - 106
TODO - 1
SP - 84-106
PB - John Wiley and Sons Ltd
SN - 0007-1269
TODO - 10.1111/bjop.12067
TODO - adult;  aged;  Australia;  cross-sectional study;  cultural factor;  Europe;  female;  human;  male;  middle aged;  politics;  questionnaire;  social behavior;  social psychology;  South America;  United States;  young adult, Adult;  Aged;  Australia;  Cross-Cultural Comparison;  Cross-Sectional Studies;  Europe;  Female;  Humans;  Male;  Middle Aged;  Politics;  Questionnaires;  Social Behavior;  Social Values;  South America;  United States;  Young Adult
TODO - 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. © 2014 The British Psychological Society.
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