Personality and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts
Personality and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts
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DOI：
10.1017/s0003055410000031
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发表时间：
2010-02-01
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
Ha, Shang E.
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作者：
Gerber, Alan S.;Huber, Gregory A.;Ha, Shang E.
以往关于人格特质与政治态度的研究主要集中在人格特质与意识形态自我定位之间的直接关系上。然而，有理论上的理由怀疑人格特质和政治态度之间的关系(1)在不同的问题领域有所不同，(2)取决于影响政治刺激意义的语境因素。在这项研究中，我们提供了一个明确的理论框架，以制定关于这些差异效应的假设。然后，我们利用一项非同寻常的大规模全国登记选民调查的力量，研究五大人格特征与政治态度之间的关系如何在问题领域和社会背景（由种族群体定义）中有所不同。我们确认了之前关于人格和政治意识形态的一些重要发现，发现了大五种特征对经济和社会态度的影响不同的明确证据，表明大五种特征在预测意识形态方面的作用往往与教育或收入一样大，并证明了大五种特征与意识形态之间的关系在白人和黑人受访者之间存在很大差异。
Previous research on personality traits and political attitudes has largely focused on the direct relationships between traits and ideological self-placement. There are theoretical reasons, however, to suspect that the relationships between personality traits and political attitudes (1) vary across issue domains and (2) depend on contextual factors that affect the meaning of political stimuli. In this study, we provide an explicit theoretical framework for formulating hypotheses about these differential effects. We then leverage the power of an unusually large national survey of registered voters to examine how the relationships between Big Five personality traits and political attitudes differ across issue domains and social contexts (as defined by racial groups). We confirm some important previous,findings regarding personality and political ideology, find clear evidence that Big Five traits affect economic and social attitudes differently, show that the effect of Big Five traits is often as large as that of education or income in predicting ideology, and demonstrate that the relationships between Big Five traits and ideology vary substantially between white and black respondents.