Socio-political attitudes 1975
SND-ID: snd0210-1. Version: 1.0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5878/002442
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Bo Ekehammar - Stockholm University, Department of Psychology
Research principal
Stockholm University
- Department of Psychology
Description
The central aim of the study is looking at various aspects of political perception as a function of socio-political ideology. The politically percepted objects consists mainly of political parties, party-leaders and countries. The measurement of political perception is made through multi-dimensional scaling, semantic differential and political differential. Political ideology is operationalized through party affiliation and socio-political attitude (measured with a specially designed scale). From these data some indexes are generated on the individual level for cognitive articulation and cognitive differentiation which then are related to the individual's socio-political ideology. The first part of the study contains questions about attitudes to various phenomena in society, socio-economical questions, party preferences (own, parents), education of relatives, estimation of: left-right, religiosity and extremism. The second part (where the sample is a subgroup of the first part's sample) contains the same questions plus estimations of: some Swedish politicians, countries (Sweden, USA, the Sovie
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Time period(s) investigated
1975-01-01
Variables
82
Number of individuals/objects
532
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Responsible department/unit
Department of Psychology
Research area
Political behaviour and attitudes (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Youth (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social sciences (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Social behaviour and attitudes (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Ekehammar, B., & Nilsson, I. (1985) The positivity bias: A general effect in social perception? Stockholm: Department of Psychology.
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Ekehammar, B., Sidanius, J., & Nilsson, I. (1981) Politikerförakt? En explorativ studie i politisk perception. Stockholm: Department of Psychology.
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Ekehammar, B., Sidanius, J., & Nilsson, I. (1982) Evaluative perceptions of politicians across time. Stockholm: Department of Psychology.
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