Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior

By Jeffery J. Mondak. 2010

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Intrinsic factors affecting impulsive buying behaviour—Evidence from India (2014, background): “In general, openness, also referred to as ‘intellect’ is characterised by original, imaginative and broad interests (McCrae and Costa, 2008) and describes people who are neither rigid in their own views, nor in their expectations toward others (Mondak, 2010).”
Genetic and Environmental Transmission of Political Orientations (2013, background): “…have investigated the influence of the Big Five on political ideology (see, e.g., Carney, Jost, Gosling, & Potter, 2008; Gerber et al., 2010; Mondak, 2010; Mondak & Halperin, 2008) with the consistent findings being that openness to experience predicts a liberal ideology and…”
Moral Support: How Moral Values Shape Foreign Policy Attitudes (2014, background): “As Mondak (2010) argued about the state of personality research prior to the development of the ‘‘Big 5,’’ value researchers are confronted with a cornucopia of values from which to choose (Inglehart 1997; Schwartz 1994); the Rokeach (1973) value survey alone, for example, contains 36 different…”
Internal, External, and Government Political Efficacy: Effects on News Use, Discussion, and Political Participation (2017, background): “This mediated information about the social environment constitutes the “raw material that fuels political discussion” (Mondak, 2010, p. 94).”
Understanding the Determinants of Political Ideology: Implications of Structural Complexity (2014, unknown): “There also appears to be a robust relationship between political conservatism and personality traits such as openness to experience and conscientiousness (Carney, Jost, Gosling, & Potter, 2008; Gerber, Huber, Doherty, Dowling, & Ha, 2010; McCrae, 1996; Mondak, 2010; Thorisdottir, Jost, Liviatan, & S”
Impulsive buying tendency: Measuring important relationships with a new perspective and an indigenous scale (2016, background): “The trait “openness” is characterised by original, imagina-tive and broad interests, and is supposed to describe people who are neither rigid in their own views, nor in their expectations towards others (McCrae & Costa, 2008; Mondak, 2010).”
Personality Traits and Political Participation: Evidence from South Korea (2013, result): “Previous studies have examined the relationships between the “Big Five” personality traits and political participation in the United States (Gerber et al., 2011; Mondak & Halperin, 2008; Mondak, 2010; Mondak et al., 2010), Finland (Mattila et al.”
The Big Five Personality Traits and Attitudes towards Immigrants (2014, background): “political scientists have provided extensive evidence that personality traits are correlated with a wide range of social, political as well as economic attitudes and behaviours (Gerber et al. 2010, 2011a, 2011b; Mondak 2010; Mondak and Halperin 2008; Mondak et al. 2010).”
Personality and Legislative Politics: The Big Five Trait Dimensions Among U.S. State Legislators (2012, methodology): “8 In research on mass politics, a concern researchers have faced is that some respondents do not comprehend more complex trait descriptors such as “extraverted” and “introverted,” leading to high “don’t know” rates for some adjectives (see Mondak [2010] for a discussion). We assumed that this matter”
Personality and political orientation: Meta‐analysis and test of a threat‐constraint model. (2012, background): “These small average effect sizes are startling given the extensive research focus on the personality antecedents of political orientation that has emerged in recent years (e.g., Alford & Hibbing, 2007; Gerber, Huber, Doherty, Dowling, & Ha, 2010; Jost et al., 2003; Mondak, 2010).”
Personality correlates of party preference: The Big Five in five big European countries (2011, background): “Leaving aside studies dealing with political participation (Mondak, 2010), scholars found distinct personality profiles on the Big Five (John, 1990) to be associated with preferences for different political parties and ideologies.”
Beyond Total Effects: Exploring the Interplay of Personality and Attitudes in Affecting Turnout in the 2009 German Federal Election (2013, methodology): “Given their striving for competence, highly conscientious persons might feel more internally and externally efficacious (Huber & Rattinger 2005: 161ff.; but see Mondak 2010: 123ff.).”
Political Neuroscience: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship (2014, background): “, 2008; van Leeuwen & Park, 2009; Vigil, 2010; Weber & Federico, 2007); 6) Situational activation of existential needs to manage fear and anxiety often increases the appeal of system justification, political conservatism, and right-wing orientation (Bonanno & Jost, 2006; Burke, Kosloff, & Landau, 20”
The Big Five Personality Traits in the Political Arena (2011, background): “Other work in this vein examines the relationships between measures of (average) statewide personality and statewide party vote shares (Rentfrow et al. 2009) and the relationships between Big Five traits and self-reported partisanship in the United States (Mondak 2010, Mondak & Halperin 2008).”