TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Psychological variables underlying political orientations in an old and a new democracy: a comparative study between Sweden and Latvia
JO  - Scandinavian journal of psychology
A1  - Dimdins, Girts
A1  - Sandgren, Maria
A1  - Montgomery, Henry
SP  - 437
EP  - 445
VL  - 57
IS  - 5
N2  - This study examines in detail the psychological variables underlying ideological political orientation, and structure and contents of this orientation, in Sweden and Latvia. Individual political orientation is conceptualized on two dimensions: acceptance vs. rejection of social change and acceptance vs. rejection of inequality. Swedish (N = 320) and Latvian (N = 264) participants completed measures of political orientation, Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), Right Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), self vs. other orientation, tolerance for ambiguity, humanism and normativism, core political values, system justification, as well as moral foundations questionnaire and portrait values questionnaire. The results showed that the relation among the measured variables was similar in both samples. Swedish participants showed stronger endorsement of egalitarian attitudes and social values, whereas we found more self-enhancing and socially conservative values and attitudes among the Latvian participants.<br><br>© 2016 Scandinavian Psychological Associations and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0036-5564
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12314
ID  - ref1
ER  -