Conservation motivation, social equality and left-right ideological preferences in Western and Eastern Europe
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Hadarics, Márton
Abstract / Description
We investigated how attitudes towards social equality can influence the relationship between conservation motivation (or openness) and personal ideological preferences on the left-right dimension, and how this relationship pattern differs between Western and Central & Eastern European (CEE) respondents. Using data from the European Social Survey (2012) we found that individual-level of conservation motivation reduces cultural egalitarianism in both the Western European and the CEE regions, but its connection with economic egalitarianism is only relevant in the CEE region where it fosters economic egalitarianism. Since both forms of egalitarianism were related to leftist ideological preferences in Western Europe, but in the CEE region only economic egalitarianism was ideologically relevant, we concluded that the classic “rigidity of the right” phenomenon is strongly related to cultural (anti)egalitarianism in Western Europe. At the same time, conservation motivation serves as a basis for the “rigidity of the left” in the post-socialist CEE region, in a great part due to the conventional egalitarian economic views.
Keyword(s)
conservation openness social equality left-right ideology European Social SurveyPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2017-05-31
Journal title
Europe's Journal of Psychology
Volume
13
Issue
2
Page numbers
336–351
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
Publication status
publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Hadarics, M. (2017). Conservation motivation, social equality and left-right ideological preferences in Western and Eastern Europe. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 13(2), 336–351. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v13i2.1334
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Hadarics, Márton
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Date of first publication2017-05-31
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Abstract / DescriptionWe investigated how attitudes towards social equality can influence the relationship between conservation motivation (or openness) and personal ideological preferences on the left-right dimension, and how this relationship pattern differs between Western and Central & Eastern European (CEE) respondents. Using data from the European Social Survey (2012) we found that individual-level of conservation motivation reduces cultural egalitarianism in both the Western European and the CEE regions, but its connection with economic egalitarianism is only relevant in the CEE region where it fosters economic egalitarianism. Since both forms of egalitarianism were related to leftist ideological preferences in Western Europe, but in the CEE region only economic egalitarianism was ideologically relevant, we concluded that the classic “rigidity of the right” phenomenon is strongly related to cultural (anti)egalitarianism in Western Europe. At the same time, conservation motivation serves as a basis for the “rigidity of the left” in the post-socialist CEE region, in a great part due to the conventional egalitarian economic views.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationHadarics, M. (2017). Conservation motivation, social equality and left-right ideological preferences in Western and Eastern Europe. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 13(2), 336–351. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v13i2.1334
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ISSN1841-0413
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1053
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1245
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v13i2.1334
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Keyword(s)conservationen_US
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Keyword(s)opennessen_US
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Keyword(s)social equalityen_US
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Keyword(s)left-righten_US
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Keyword(s)ideologyen_US
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Keyword(s)European Social Surveyen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleConservation motivation, social equality and left-right ideological preferences in Western and Eastern Europeen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue2
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Journal titleEurope's Journal of Psychology
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Page numbers336–351
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Volume13
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Visible tag(s)Version of Record