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Personality and Political Participation: The Mediation Hypothesis

verfasst von: Aina Gallego, Daniel Oberski

Erschienen in: Political Behavior | Ausgabe 3/2012

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Recent analyses have demonstrated that personality affects political behavior. According to the mediation hypothesis, the effect of personality on political participation is mediated by classical predictors, such as political interest, internal efficacy, political discussion, or the sense that voting is a civic duty. This paper outlines various paths that link personality traits to two participatory activities: voter turnout in European Parliament elections and participation in protest actions. The hypotheses are tested with data from a large, nationally representative, face-to-face survey of the Spanish population conducted before and after the 2009 European Parliament elections using log-linear path models that are well suited to study indirect relationships. The results clearly confirm that the effects of personality traits on voter turnout and protest participation are sizeable but indirect. They are mediated by attitudinal predictors.

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The sample was stratified to autonomous region and size of municipality. Municipalities were selected randomly as primary sampling units, and from those sections were selected with probability proportional to size. In the final stage a person was selected by performing a random walk through the section with quota on age and sex. The interviews were administered by an interviewer in the person's home. In the analyses that follow poststratification weights provided by the CIS are always applied. They weight for autonomous region, city size, sex, and age.

Missing data were dealt with by the full-information maximum likelihood estimator employed by Latent Gold under the assumption of missing at random (MAR). Estimation proceeded by EM iterations, after which the algorithm switched to Newton–Raphson until convergence was attained. Before iterations, 10 random sets of starting values were generated and iterated by EM. From these 10 resulting estimates the set with the highest likelihood was chosen as a starting point for iterations.

The full estimates and the Latent Gold output are available as an Online Appendix given under Supplementary material.

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Titel: Personality and Political Participation: The Mediation Hypothesis
verfasst von: Aina Gallego
Daniel Oberski
Publikationsdatum: 01.09.2012
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Political Behavior / Ausgabe 3/2012
Print ISSN: 0190-9320
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-6687
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-011-9168-7

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