Personality traits, political attitudes and vote choice: Evidence from the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 26-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ching-Hsing Wang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vote Choice

Attitudes toward Mormons and Voter Behavior in the 2012 Presidential Election

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Hawley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Party Identification ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vote Choice ◽  
Voter Behavior ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Active Member ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

AbstractPrior to the 2012 presidential election, some commentators speculated that Mitt Romney's status as a devout and active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would undermine his presidential aspirations. Using the 2012 American National Election Survey, this study examines the relationship between attitudes toward Mormons and voter behavior in the United States in that election year. It finds that attitudes toward Mormons had a statistically-significant effect on turnout — though these effects differed according to party identification. It additionally finds that these attitudes influenced vote choice. In both cases, the substantive effects were small, indicating that anti-Mormon feelings did play a role in the 2012 presidential election, but they did not determine the final outcome.

Promoting Multicultural Personality Development: A Strengths-Based, Positive Psychology Worldview for Schools

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 2156759X0801200
Author(s):  
Joseph G. Ponterotto ◽  
David E. Mendelowitz ◽  
Ernest A. Collabolletta
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
School Counseling ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Multicultural Personality ◽  
Personality Research

This article extends the relevance of multicultural development to the Strengths-Based School Counseling (SBSC; Galassi & Akos, 2007) perspective. A relatively new construct for school counselors, the “multicultural personality” (MP), is introduced and defined. The MP is conceptualized as a cluster of narrow personality traits that can be subsumed under broader models of personality. Research has found that MP development is correlated with coping, adapting, and thriving in increasingly culturally diverse environments such as the United States. Suggestions for integrating MP development across the guiding principles of SBSC are presented.

Economic Decline, Social Identity, and Authoritarian Values in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron Ballard-Rosa ◽  
Amalie Jensen ◽  
Kenneth Scheve
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Norm ◽  
Interactive Effect ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vote Choice ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Induced Labor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Negative Effect

Abstract Why does the contemporary backlash against globalization in the United States have such a substantial authoritarian character? We argue that sustained economic decline has a negative effect on the social identity of historically dominant groups. These losses lead individuals to be more likely to want to enforce social norm conformity—that is, adopt more authoritarian values—as a way to preserve social status and this effect is greater the larger the size of other groups in the population. Central to our account is the expectation of an interactive effect of local economic and demographic conditions in forging value responses to economic decline. The article evaluates this argument using an original 2017 representative survey in the United States. We find that individuals living in relatively diverse regions facing more intense competition from Chinese imports have more authoritarian values. We further find that the greater effect of globalization-induced labor market decline in more diverse areas is also evident for vote choice in the 2016 Presidential election.

A pilot survey of personality traits of dental students in the United States

BDJ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 229 (6) ◽  
pp. 377-382
Author(s):  
Susie Goolsby ◽  
Spiro Stilianoudakis ◽  
Caroline Carrico
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
The United States ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
Pilot Survey

scholarly journals Personality traits are directly associated with anti-black prejudice in the United States

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. e0235436
Author(s):  
Chujun Lin ◽  
R. Michael Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
The United States

POLITICAL ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, TURKEY AND NORTH CYPRUS

Milletleraras ◽  
1982 ◽  
pp. 001-022
Author(s):  
Eddie J. GIRDNER ◽  
Russel EISENMAN ◽  
Sevgin AKIŞ
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
The United States ◽  
North Cyprus
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