Living in a Non‐Communist Versus in a Post‐Communist European Country Moderates the Relation Between Conservative Values and Political Orientation: A Multilevel Study |
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Authors: | Daniela Barni Alessio Vieno Michele Roccato |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Human Sciences, LUMSA University of Rome, Rome, Italy;2. Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy;3. Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy |
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Abstract: | We performed a multilevel, multinational analysis using the 2012 European Social Survey dataset (N = 41 080, nested in 20 countries) to study how living in a non‐communist versus in a post‐communist country moderates the link between individual conservative values (drawn on Schwartz's theory of basic human values) and political orientation (assessed as self‐placement on the left–right axis and attitude towards economic redistribution). The results supported the moderating role of living in a non‐communist versus in a post‐communist country in the case both of political self‐placement and of attitude towards economic redistribution, even controlling for the countries' degree of individualism, power distance and democracy. Specifically, conservative values were positively related to a rightist political self‐placement among participants living in countries without a communist past, and to a favourable attitude towards economic redistribution in countries with a communist past. The limitations, implications and future directions of this study are discussed. Copyright © 2016 European Association of Personality Psychology |
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Keywords: | conservative values political self‐placement attitude towards economic redistribution communism |
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