Personality, Negativity, and Political Participation
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Weinschenk, Aaron C.
Panagopoulos, Costas
Abstract / Description
Scholars have recently started to integrate personality traits into models of political participation. In this paper, we present the results of a survey experiment (N = 724) designed to test whether negative political messages differentially impact people with different personality traits. We found evidence that individuals with high scores on agreeableness were less likely, and individuals with high scores on extraversion were more likely, to report intending to participate in politics than their counterparts after being exposed to negative political messages. Agreeableness and extraversion also interacted with negative messages to influence specific intentions to make a political donation, attend a meeting, rally, or event, and volunteer for a political campaign. We also found suggestive evidence that agreeableness interacted with negativity to influence turnout intentions. The results of this study have important implications for the study of political engagement, the ways in which people interact with political information, and the practice of democratic politics.
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Big Five personality traits political participation negativity experimentPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2014-08-08
Journal title
Journal of Social and Political Psychology
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2
Issue
1
Page numbers
164–182
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PsychOpen GOLD
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Weinschenk, A. C., & Panagopoulos, C. (2014). Personality, Negativity, and Political Participation. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2(1), 164–182. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v2i1.280
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Weinschenk, Aaron C.
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Panagopoulos, Costas
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Date of first publication2014-08-08
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Abstract / DescriptionScholars have recently started to integrate personality traits into models of political participation. In this paper, we present the results of a survey experiment (N = 724) designed to test whether negative political messages differentially impact people with different personality traits. We found evidence that individuals with high scores on agreeableness were less likely, and individuals with high scores on extraversion were more likely, to report intending to participate in politics than their counterparts after being exposed to negative political messages. Agreeableness and extraversion also interacted with negative messages to influence specific intentions to make a political donation, attend a meeting, rally, or event, and volunteer for a political campaign. We also found suggestive evidence that agreeableness interacted with negativity to influence turnout intentions. The results of this study have important implications for the study of political engagement, the ways in which people interact with political information, and the practice of democratic politics.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationWeinschenk, A. C., & Panagopoulos, C. (2014). Personality, Negativity, and Political Participation. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2(1), 164–182. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v2i1.280en_US
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ISSN2195-3325
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1336
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1693
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v2i1.280
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Keyword(s)Big Fiveen_US
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Keyword(s)personality traitsen_US
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Keyword(s)political participationen_US
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Keyword(s)negativityen_US
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Keyword(s)experimenten_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitlePersonality, Negativity, and Political Participationen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue1
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Journal titleJournal of Social and Political Psychology
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Page numbers164–182
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Volume2
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