The Structure and Sources of Right–wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation
The Structure and Sources of Right–wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation
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DOI：
10.1002/per.2061
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发表时间：
2016-07
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
C. Kandler;E. Bell;R. Riemann
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作者：
C. Kandler;E. Bell;R. Riemann
右翼权威主义（RWA）和社会优势取向（SDO）是社会政治态度研究中被广泛使用的构念。本研究考察了它们的等级和相关结构（跨性别、代际和视角），以及遗传和环境因素如何导致它们的个体差异（使用不同视角和核双胞胎家庭数据）。我们发现了RWA和SDO背后的一个实质性的共同方面（超越了由社会期望的响应引起的共享的人为差异）：对下属群体的攻击。我们讨论了这方面如何有助于解释西方国家普遍报道的这两个概念之间的相关性。基于自我报告的RWA和SDO中遗传和环境成分的估计与基于同行报告的估计具有相当的可比性。当控制误差方差并考虑到分类交配时，RWA的个体差异主要是由于遗传因素，包括基因型-环境相关性，而SDO的差异主要归因于双胞胎共享或不共享的环境源。根据RWA和SDO作为描述社会态度的个体差异的基本结构的效用，以及作为其基础的遗传和环境影响的不同模式，对研究结果进行了讨论。版权所有©2016欧洲人格心理学协会
Right–wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) are widely used constructs in research on social and political attitudes. This study examined their hierarchical and correlative structure (across sexes, generations and rater perspectives), as well as how genetic and environmental factors may contribute to individual differences in them (using different rater perspectives and nuclear twin family data). We found a substantive common aspect (beyond shared artificial variance arising from socially desirable responding) underlying both RWA and SDO: aggression against subordinate groups. We discussed how this aspect could help to explain the commonly reported correlation between the two concepts in Western countries. Estimates of genetic and environmental components in RWA and SDO based on self–reports were quite comparable with those based on peer reports. When controlling for error variance and taking assortative mating into account, individual differences in RWA were primarily due to genetic contributions including genotype–environment correlation, whereas variance in SDO was largely attributable to environmental sources shared and not shared by twins. The findings are discussed in terms of the utility of RWA and SDO as basic constructs to describe individual differences in social attitudes and with respect to the different patterns of genetic and environmental influences that underlie them. Copyright © 2016 European Association of Personality Psychology