Personality and Politics: Values, Traits, and Political Choice

By G. Caprara, Shalom H. Schwartz, C. Capanna, Michele Vecchione, Claudio Barbaranelli. 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Personality and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts (2010, methodology): “…and Mervielde 2000; Van Hiel and Mervielde 2004) and left-party voting (Barbaranelli et al. 2007; Caprara, Barbaranelli, and Zimbardo 1999; Caprara et al. 2006; Rentfrow et al. 2009; Schoen and Schumann 2007) in earlier research.7 As suggested in prior research demonstrating the link…”
Linking Genetics and Political Attitudes: Reconceptualizing Political Ideology (2011, background): “, 2008), offspring rearing (Bales, French, & Dietz, 2002; Hammock & Young, 2005), and openness to new experiences (Caprara et al., 2006).”
Personality and politics: The role of the HEXACO model of personality in predicting ideology and voting (2010, methodology): “Instead, Shoen and Shumann (2007) reported a positive association between Neuroticism and liberals, which in turn was not found in previous research (Caprara et al., 2006; Gosling et al., 2003).”
Personality Foundations of Ideological Divide: A Comparison of Women Members of Parliament and Women Voters in Italy (2010, methodology): “Previous studies have addressed the joint contribution of traits and values on political orientation of Italian voters (Caprara et al., 2006; Caprara, Schwartz, Vecchione, & Barbaranelli, 2008; Caprara, Vecchione, & Schwartz, 2009), relying on two established taxonomies, namely the Five-Factor Model”
The Big Five Personality Traits in the Political Arena (2011, background): “work on the relationships between personality and vote choice (Caprara et al. 2006, Schoen & Schumann 2007), as well as studies of the relationships between personality traits and vote intention (Barbaranelli et al. 2007), using European samples.”
Personality correlates of party preference: The Big Five in five big European countries (2011, background): “Given the emphasis Italy’s main center-right party puts on free-enterprise, we expect that Energy/Extraversion predicts a preference for this party (Caprara et al., 2006, 2008).”