TY - JOUR
T1 - Authoritarianism, institutional confidence, and willingness to engage in collective action
T2 - A multinational analysis
AU - Weiner, Elliot
AU - Federico, Christopher M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.
PY - 2017/3/1
Y1 - 2017/3/1
N2 - The antecedents of collective action have received considerable attention in psychology, political science, and sociology. However, few studies have addressed the extent to which individual differences in psychological needs, motives, and traits predict collective action tendencies. In the present study, we focus on an especially important individual difference: authoritarianism. We examined three key hypotheses: (1) that authoritarianism would be associated with lower willingness to engage in collective action (net of other factors known to predict protest), (2) that the negative relationship between authoritarianism and collective action would be stronger among the politically engaged; and (3) that the negative relationship between authoritarianism and collective action would be weaker among those who lacked confidence in major social institutions. Using data from three independent waves of the World Values Survey, we find cross-national evidence supporting all three hypotheses.
AB - The antecedents of collective action have received considerable attention in psychology, political science, and sociology. However, few studies have addressed the extent to which individual differences in psychological needs, motives, and traits predict collective action tendencies. In the present study, we focus on an especially important individual difference: authoritarianism. We examined three key hypotheses: (1) that authoritarianism would be associated with lower willingness to engage in collective action (net of other factors known to predict protest), (2) that the negative relationship between authoritarianism and collective action would be stronger among the politically engaged; and (3) that the negative relationship between authoritarianism and collective action would be weaker among those who lacked confidence in major social institutions. Using data from three independent waves of the World Values Survey, we find cross-national evidence supporting all three hypotheses.
KW - Authoritarianism
KW - Collective action
KW - Institutional confidence
KW - Protest
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U2 - 10.1177/0146167216686561
DO - 10.1177/0146167216686561
M3 - Article
C2 - 28903692
AN - SCOPUS:85033495592
SN - 0146-1672
VL - 43
SP - 392
EP - 406
JO - Personality and social psychology bulletin
JF - Personality and social psychology bulletin
IS - 3
ER -