TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - The association between threat and politics depends on the type of threat, the political domain, and the country
JO  - Personality and social psychology bulletin
A1  - Brandt, Mark J.
A1  - Turner-Zwinkels, Felicity M.
A1  - Karapirinler, Beste
A1  - van Leeuwen, Florian
A1  - Bender, Michael
A1  - van Osch, Yvette
A1  - Adams, Byron
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Theories link threat with right-wing political beliefs. We use the World Values Survey (60,378 participants) to explore how six types of threat (e.g., economic, violence, and surveillance) are associated with multiple political beliefs (e.g., cultural, economic, and ideological identification) in 56 countries/territories. Multilevel models with individuals nested in countries revealed that the threat-political belief association depends on the type of threat, the type of political belief, and the country. Economic-related threats tended to be associated with more left-wing economic political beliefs and violence-related threats tended to be associated with more cultural right-wing beliefs, but there were exceptions to this pattern. Additional analyses revealed that the associations between threat and political beliefs were different across countries. However, our analyses identified few country characteristics that could account for these cross-country differences. Our findings revealed that political beliefs and perceptions of threat are linked, but that the relationship is not simple.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0146-1672
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167220946187
ID  - ref1
ER  -