The intervening role of social worldviews in the relationship between the five‐factor model of personality and social attitudes

Citations Over TimeTop 1% of 2007 papers

Abstract

The present research investigates in a student (N = 183) and a voter sample (N = 276) whether the relationships between the Five‐Factor Model (FFM) personality dimensions and social attitudes (i.e. Right‐Wing Authoritarianism [RWA] and Social Dominance Orientation [SDO]) are mediated by social worldviews (i.e. dangerous and jungle worldviews). Two important results were obtained. First, the perception of the world as inherently dangerous and chaotic partially mediated the relationships of the personality dimensions Openness and Neuroticism and the social attitude RWA. Second, the jungle worldview completely mediated the relationships between Agreeableness and SDO, but considerable item overlap between the jungle worldview and SDO was also noted. It was further revealed that acquiescence response set and item overlap had an impact on social worldviews and attitudes, but that their relationships were hardly affected by these biases. The discussion focuses on the status of social worldviews to explain social attitudes. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Related Papers

• → The causal effects of extraversion on positive affect and neuroticism on negative affect: Manipulating state extraversion and state neuroticism in an experimental approach(2006)242 cited
• → Neuroticism and extraversion as predictors of negative and positive emotional information processing: comparing Eysenck's, Gray's, and Newman's theories(2002)92 cited
• → Extraversion and Neuroticism across Cultures(1979)10 cited
• → Reporting of minor physical symptoms and family incidence of hypertension and heart disease—Relationships with personality and type A behaviour(1991)30 cited
• → Fluctuations in national levels of neuroticism and extraversion, 1935–1970(1977)24 cited