Personal values and political activism: A cross‐national study |
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| Authors: | Michele Vecchione Shalom H. Schwartz Gian Vittorio Caprara Harald Schoen Jan Cieciuch Jo Silvester Paul Bain Gabriel Bianchi Hasan Kirmanoglu Cem Baslevent Catalin Mamali Jorge Manzi Vassilis Pavlopoulos Tetyana Posnova Claudio Torres Markku Verkasalo Jan‐Erik Lönnqvist Eva Vondráková Christian Welzel Guido Alessandri |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy;2. Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel;3. Laboratory of Socio‐cultural Research, National Research University—Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia;4. Department of Social Sciences, Economics, and Business Administration, University of Bamberg, Germany;5. University of Finance and Management, Warsaw, Poland;6. University of Zurich, Switzerland;7. Cass Business School, City University London, UK;8. School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia;9. Department of Social and Biological Communication, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic;10. Department of Economics, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey;11. Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin‐Platteville, Platteville, Wisconsin, USA;12. Department of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile;13. Department of Psychology, University of Athens, Greece;14. Practical Psychology Department, Chernivtsy Yuri Fedkovych National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine;15. Institute of Psychology, University of Brasilia, Brazil;16. Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland;17. Faculty of Social Sciences and Health Care, Constantine the Philosopher University of Nitra, Slovak Republic;18. Institute of Political Science and Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana Universit?t Lüneburg, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Using data from 28 countries in four continents, the present research addresses the question of how basic values may account for political activism. Study (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 (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. |
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| Keywords: | political activism values cross‐cultural participation |
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