Motivational and ideological underpinnings of welfare preferences in eastern and western Europe
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Hadarics, Márton
Abstract / Description
In our study we investigated the motivational and ideological correlates of the approval of welfare services in postsocialist Central Eastern and Western Europe. In the centre of our inquiry stood how the motivations of selflessness and conventionality, along with distributional justice principles, are related to our welfare preferences beyond our rational self-interest, furthermore, how these associations depend on social-cultural circumstances. We have found that the motivational background of egalitarian economic and welfare attitudes are substantially different in the two regions. While beside of the rationalisation of self-interest, it seems to be related to selflessness-driven solidarity in Western Europe, pro-welfare and egalitarian distributional views are primarily motivated by conventionality-driven norm adherence in postsocialist countries in the form of the mechanism of postsocialist economic system nostalgia. Our results highlight the benefits of a context-specific ’motivated social cognition’ approach to ideological and political attitudes.
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motivation selflessness conventionality ideology welfare services distributional justice postsocialist economic system nostalgiaPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2016-02-29
Journal title
Europe's Journal of Psychology
Volume
12
Issue
1
Page numbers
169–190
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
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publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Hadarics, M. (2016). Motivational and ideological underpinnings of welfare preferences in eastern and western Europe. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 12(1), 169–190. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v12i1.1045
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Hadarics, Márton
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Date of first publication2016-02-29
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Abstract / DescriptionIn our study we investigated the motivational and ideological correlates of the approval of welfare services in postsocialist Central Eastern and Western Europe. In the centre of our inquiry stood how the motivations of selflessness and conventionality, along with distributional justice principles, are related to our welfare preferences beyond our rational self-interest, furthermore, how these associations depend on social-cultural circumstances. We have found that the motivational background of egalitarian economic and welfare attitudes are substantially different in the two regions. While beside of the rationalisation of self-interest, it seems to be related to selflessness-driven solidarity in Western Europe, pro-welfare and egalitarian distributional views are primarily motivated by conventionality-driven norm adherence in postsocialist countries in the form of the mechanism of postsocialist economic system nostalgia. Our results highlight the benefits of a context-specific ’motivated social cognition’ approach to ideological and political attitudes.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationHadarics, M. (2016). Motivational and ideological underpinnings of welfare preferences in eastern and western Europe. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 12(1), 169–190. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v12i1.1045
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ISSN1841-0413
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/988
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1180
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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.v12i1.1045
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Keyword(s)motivationen_US
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Keyword(s)selflessnessen_US
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Keyword(s)conventionalityen_US
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Keyword(s)ideologyen_US
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Keyword(s)welfare servicesen_US
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Keyword(s)distributional justiceen_US
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Keyword(s)postsocialist economic system nostalgiaen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleMotivational and ideological underpinnings of welfare preferences in eastern and western Europeen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue1
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Journal titleEurope's Journal of Psychology
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Page numbers169–190
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Volume12
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