Political attitudes develop independently of personality traits.
Political attitudes develop independently of personality traits.
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0118106
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发表时间：
2015
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Verhulst B
中科院分区：
文献类型：
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作者：
Hatemi PK;Verhulst B
在最近的人格和政治倾向的文献中的主要假设是，人格特质导致人们发展政治态度。相比之下，依赖传统心理学和发展理论的研究表明，大多数人格维度与政治取向之间的关系要么不显着，要么很弱。行为遗传学的研究表明，个性和政治偏好之间的协方差不是因果关系，而是由于一个共同的，潜在的遗传因素，相互影响。这些研究中相互矛盾的假设和结果尚待解决。这部分是由于依赖横截面数据和缺乏纵向遗传信息数据。在这里，使用两个独立的纵向遗传信息样本，我们研究了人格特质和态度维度的联合发展，以探索驱动这些特征之间关系的潜在因果机制，并提供了解决因果问题的第一步。我们发现，十年内的人格变化并不能预测政治态度的变化，这并不支持人们经常假设的人格特质和政治态度之间的因果关系。相反，政治态度往往比被认为是预测它们的关键人格特征更稳定。最后，我们的遗传模型的结果发现，从人格特质到政治态度的因果路径没有额外的方差。我们的研究结果与人格五因素模型的原始构建和态度形成的发展理论保持一致，但挑战了这一领域的最新工作。
The primary assumption within the recent personality and political orientations literature is that personality traits cause people to develop political attitudes. In contrast, research relying on traditional psychological and developmental theories suggests the relationship between most personality dimensions and political orientations are either not significant or weak. Research from behavioral genetics suggests the covariance between personality and political preferences is not causal, but due to a common, latent genetic factor that mutually influences both. The contradictory assumptions and findings from these research streams have yet to be resolved. This is in part due to the reliance on cross-sectional data and the lack of longitudinal genetically informative data. Here, using two independent longitudinal genetically informative samples, we examine the joint development of personality traits and attitude dimensions to explore the underlying causal mechanisms that drive the relationship between these features and provide a first step in resolving the causal question. We find change in personality over a ten-year period does not predict change in political attitudes, which does not support a causal relationship between personality traits and political attitudes as is frequently assumed. Rather, political attitudes are often more stable than the key personality traits assumed to be predicting them. Finally, the results from our genetic models find that no additional variance is accounted for by the causal pathway from personality traits to political attitudes. Our findings remain consistent with the original construction of the five-factor model of personality and developmental theories on attitude formation, but challenge recent work in this area.
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