The Stability of Political Attitudes and Behaviors across Adolescence and Early Adulthood: A Comparison of Survey Data on Adolescents and Young Adults in Eight Countries

This cross-sectional retrospective study on a convenience sample of 973 Greek undergraduate students examined whether the violent socialization in childhood and the criminal history in adolescence would be mediators between parents' harsh discipline and young adults' violent attitudes and behaviors (VA/B). Structural Equation Modelling indicated that both the mothers' and fathers' punitive discipline at age 10 have an indirect impact, through the mediators, on young adults' VA/B. A direct effect was also found from mothers' and fathers' punitive discipline to violence approval and from fathers' punitive discipline to antisocial personality symptoms, and corporal punishment law attitude. The findings suggest that early experiences of harsh discipline may increase the risk of adult's violence and call for multilevel prevention and intervention programs targeting both parents and children.

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Survey Data on Attitudes and Behaviors Relevant to Energy: Implications for Policy

Families and the Energy Transition ◽

10.4324/9780429265549-3 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 29-51

Keyword(s):

Survey Data ◽

Attitudes And Behaviors ◽

And Behaviors

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Political attitudes vary with detection of androstenone

Politics and the Life Sciences ◽

10.1017/pls.2019.18 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 26-37

Author(s):

Amanda Friesen ◽

Mike Gruszczynski ◽

Kevin B. Smith ◽

John R. Alford

Keyword(s):

Social Order ◽

Political Attitudes ◽

Biological Traits ◽

Primary Reason ◽

Odor Detection ◽

Attitudes And Behaviors ◽

Political Preferences ◽

Political Orientations ◽

Growing Body ◽

And Behaviors

AbstractBuilding on a growing body of research suggesting that political attitudes are part of broader individual and biological orientations, we test whether the detection of the hormone androstenone is predictive of political attitudes. The particular social chemical analyzed in this study is androstenone, a nonandrogenic steroid found in the sweat and saliva of many mammals, including humans. A primary reason for scholarly interest in odor detection is that it varies so dramatically from person to person. Using participants’ self-reported perceptions of androstenone intensity, together with a battery of survey items testing social and political preferences and orientations, this research supports the idea that perceptions of androstenone intensity relate to political orientations—most notably, preferences for social order—lending further support to theories positing the influence of underlying biological traits on sociopolitical attitudes and behaviors.

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Education and the Curious Case of Conservative Compromise

Political Research Quarterly ◽

10.1177/1065912919866509 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 106591291986650

Author(s):

James M. Glaser ◽

Jeffrey M. Berry ◽

Deborah J. Schildkraut

Keyword(s):

Political Attitudes ◽

Body Politic ◽

Democratic Governance ◽

The Body ◽

Attitudes And Behaviors ◽

Political Compromise ◽

And Behaviors ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

“Education,” notes Philip Converse, “is everywhere the universal solvent.” Whatever the ill of the body politic, many believe that greater education improves the condition. Much scholarship explores the impact of education on political attitudes and behaviors, but scholars have not examined the relationship of education to support for political compromise. This is especially topical, as compromise between parties seems harder than ever to achieve, yet compromise is necessary for democratic governance. We examine whether higher levels of education lead to support for compromise and find that education does matter, but the relationship is conditional. For liberals and moderates, more education promotes greater support for compromise. For conservatives, those with more education are not more likely to support compromise than those with less education. We argue that for conservatives, education matters for compromise support, but it also leads to better understanding of bedrock ideological principles that inhibit approval of compromise.

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